From the mythic to the unhesitatingly heroic, this opening extract from a history of Glasgow examines what exactly forged the city’s strong sense of self.
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Hugh O’Neill and The History Behind City of the Damned
A new 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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The World’s Reformation
Alec Ryrie
An exploration of the forgotten global ambitions of Protestantism, showing how missionaries sought to spread their faith far and wide, their patchy success an indication of the imaginative limits of early modern Europeans.
World War II with Tom Hanks – Review
The documentary series has made an impressive start, combining rarely seen footage with sharp historical insight and confident storytelling.
A Battle in Myth and Blood
Steve Tibble
Outnumbered, isolated and feared, the Assassins and the Templars became two of the medieval world’s most formidable organisations despite being on opposite sides of the crusades.
What Makes an Iconic Structure?
Steven Parissien
Britain’s truly iconic buildings are those whose architecture, symbolism and evolving histories have allowed them to transcend aesthetics and become expressions of national identity.
Norman Castles: Living Under the Norman Yoke
An overview of how early Norman castles were built, evolved, and reshaped power in England after the Norman Conquest.
Gambling with the Dead
Rory Waterman
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.
The Battle to Keep the War Moving
Philip James Day
A rediscovered wartime diary shows how the Persian Corridor supply route workedin practice. Not as strategy, but as constant repair under immense pressure.
Lichfield: England’s Third Archbishop
Rory Naismith
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.
The Writer and the Traitor
Robert Verkaik
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.
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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