Jim Loughran's short story, City of the Damned, follows Ireland’s most formidable rebel from the battlefield to Rome, tracing the life of a man who came close to breaking English rule.
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Lt. Col. Leslie Vernon Fitzpatrick and The Sherdils
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
A dark and emotionally charged production of Ghosts at the Questors Theatre.
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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
Classics for All’s latest 'moot trial' brought history’s greatest commander to the Supreme Court.
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Hadrian’s Wall: Strategic Masterpiece or Monumental Folly?
Was Hadrian's Wall built to keep out barbarians, or rather to demonstrate the power of Rome?
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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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IWD: The Press and Women’s Suffrage
Amelia Bashford
What is left to understand about the British Women’s Suffrage Movement?
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Renaissance Man in the Middle Ages, by Philip Gooden
Philip Gooden
The author of a series of Chaucerian mysteries describes the poet's early career.
Oskar Potiorek: The Most Infamous Man in History You’ve Never Heard Of,
Gavrilo Princip is notorious as the person who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but General Oskar Potiorek the key actor in its success has largely been forgotten.
Bath’s Cannon that Roar No More
As Flashman recalled at Balaclava, Wellington never lost a gun, but the Russians lost several during the Crimean War. Where did they end up?
Revolt in Cornwall
Kate Werran
In 1943 a mutiny, suppressed at the time, exposed the racial divisions in the US Military.
Meeting a Mole: George Blake, The Happy Traitor
Simon Kuper
The interview in 2012 that inspired the new biography of George Blake, the Soviet mole in MI6.
Rewriting History: Why We Need A Wider Appreciation Of World War Two
There is much to learn about the Second World War that is neglected in today's curriculum.
Sherlock Holmes versus Raffles
We all know about Sherlock Holmes, but what about Raffles?
War and Religion May Seem Unlikely Bedfellows, But History Suggests Otherwise.
The First Crusade was all about religion.
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