From the Malayan campaign to the tense final days of Japanese rule in Singapore, the career of Lt Col “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, preserved in family papers, brings to light wartime stories of the Indian Army and the final years of the Raj.
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30 Commando and The Wizard War
During the race for wartime technology, Ian Fleming’s 30 Commando led Britain’s hunt for enemy intelligence as the Allied invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy gathered pace.
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Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Questors Theatre – A Review
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The Two Hundred Years War and the Shaping of Our World, by Michael Livingston
What we label the Hundred Years War is an example of modern periodisation, clouding the forces at play in the Anglo-French conflicts of the Medieval period. Reframing the conflict over two centuries uncover how such European rivalries prompted the era of global exploration that followed.
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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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Alexander the Great in the Dock
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Hadrian’s Wall: Strategic Masterpiece or Monumental Folly?
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Unionism & The Treaty
Ulster leader James Craig thought he had beaten Lloyd George during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
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The Vanishing Children of Paris
Anna Mazzola
In the winter of 1750 children started disappearing from the streets of Paris.
From Palestine to Persia and Back: The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
Stephen Keoghane
A new book charts the experience of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry in the Second World War and here its editor describes the campaign in the Middle East.
Mining for History Part Two
Author Derek Birks continues his look at Britain after the Romans left
Rationing and the Black Market in Paris During the War
Chris Lloyd
The crime writer examines how ordinary Parisians struggled to obtain the necessities of life under Nazi rule.
1953: The Year of Living Dangerously
Roger Hermiston
After World War Two, The Doomsday Clock was established by scientists to mark how close humanity is to nuclear annihilation, with midnight being the end of the world.
Giulia Tofana: Power & Poison
Giulia Tofana was an Italian professional purveyor of poisons, and the inventor of the deadly poison Aqua Tofana, which is named after her.
Douglas Bader’s “Big Wing” Controversy
Dilip Sarkar
The WW2 ace, famously played by Kenneth More in Reach for the Sky, was part of wider argument that went all the way to 10 Downing St.
Winston & Randolph: Father and Son
Josh Ireland
Winston Churchill had complicated relationships, none more so than with his son, Randolph
David Hume: The Greatest Historian
Julian Baggini
Hume can help us live well, but also that he was a brilliant historian, and it is for this he should be better known.
David Starkey: YouTube Sensation
The acclaimed historian is giving informative talks on his new YouTube channel.
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