In the age of Offa, a short-lived archbishopric at Lichfield (787–803) reflected the expansion and consolidation of Mercian rule, though later Canterbury sources recast it as a contentious and anomalous creation.
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The Writer and the Traitor
As the Normandy landings approached, the surprise resignation from MI6 of the author Graham Greene – a close friend of Kim Philby – cast a shadow over one of the war’s most carefully orchestrated intelligence operations.
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A Spy in the Archive: How I Pieced Together a Stay-Behind Network
The author reveals how he reconstructed Sweden’s secret Cold War stay-behind network from fragments in archives, diaries and interviews.
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Democracies vs. Authoritarian States
A never-so-timely comparison of Athens and Sparta explores whether political freedom can establish military superiority and determine the outcome of ideological conflict.
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The Writer and the Traitor
As the Normandy landings approached, the surprise resignation from MI6 of the author Graham Greene – a close friend of Kim Philby – cast a shadow over one of the war’s most carefully orchestrated intelligence operations.
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What is the Blood Price?
The novelist's latest is a departure from the Norman invasion, but what's the story behind it?
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Lichfield: England’s Third Archbishop
In the age of Offa, a short-lived archbishopric at Lichfield (787–803) reflected the expansion and consolidation of Mercian rule, though later Canterbury sources recast it as a contentious and anomalous creation.
read moreDemocracies vs. Authoritarian States
A never-so-timely comparison of Athens and Sparta explores whether political freedom can establish military superiority and determine the outcome of ideological conflict.
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Has 2026 Changed the World of Assassination?
A timely inquiry proposes that assassination today remains a fixture of statecraft as recent targeted killings continue to pervade the geopolitical sphere but rarely deliver clear strategic success.
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The Special Relationship
The 'special relationship' is often dismissed, but there is history behind it.
Civil War: Hull and the Hothams
For some Parliamentarians, the Hothams' loyalty was not always reliable, and Oliver Cromwell himself lost patience.
The Bosworth Cliff-hanger
War and Politics in August 1485. Shifting loyalties were more important than tactical brilliance.
CVHF 2023: Day 2
English and European revolution in Wiltshire, with Nazis and Beer.
CVHF 2023: Day 1
The sun shone as is traditional on Day One of the world’s greatest festival, Chalke Valley in the glorious vales of SE Wiltshire.
Beaverbrook
Kathryn S. Olmsted
The author of a new book on newspaper barons in the 1930s describes the journey from appeasement to enthusiastic supporter of the war for the most prominent.
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