A grisly Lincolnshire folktale from Holbeach tells of the gambling antics of three drunken men in a churchyard, a story that passed into local legend as an enduring warning of sacrilege, remorse, and supernatural retribution.
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The Battle to Keep the War Moving
A rediscovered wartime diary shows how the Persian Corridor supply route workedin practice. Not as strategy, but as constant repair under immense pressure.
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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.
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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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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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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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How Did the Romans Respond to the Deaths of their Emperors?
Rumour in the Roman world tended to flourish when it came to the the fate of emperors, threatening imperial stability and exposing public anxiety.
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The Battle to Keep the War Moving
A rediscovered wartime diary shows how the Persian Corridor supply route workedin practice. Not as strategy, but as constant repair under immense pressure.
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Historical Parallels
Politicians' use of history always comes back to bite them, much like the Continental System.
The Colourful Court of Oliver Cromwell
Miranda Malins
The Cromwell family was not as dour as we thought.
The Day They Pardoned Turing
The 'Alan Turing Law', passed in 2013, and the man who inspired it.
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.
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