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Andrew Roberts

Professor Andrew Roberts read History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, from where he is an honorary senior scholar and PhD. He appears regularly on TV and radio and writes articles and reviews for several British and American newspapers.

Andrew Roberts

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Paul Strathern

Paul Strathern was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.

Paul Strathern

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Generalship from Marlborough to Wellington

The acclaimed historian writes about the art of generalship among key British leaders of the long 18th century.

Jeremy Black

Never easy, the assessment of generalship becomes more difficult when you go back in time and the sources are less extensive. All-too-often the discussion becomes that of battles lost and won as in Hannibal must be good because he won at Cannae or Napoleon at...

Nicholas Crane on Latitude

Nicholas Crane is interviewed about his new book, Latitude

Nicholas Crane

Nicholas Crane, welcome to Aspects of History. Many congratulations on the book. We had a few questions for you. Why did you decide to write Latitude now? It’s an irresistible mix of human fortitude, science and exploration, a story for our times. To what extent could...

How A Law About Hats Contributed to the American Revolution

Did the Imposition of the Hat Act cause the American Revolution?

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Trade between Great Britain and America is currently an important political and economic issue. When Donald Trump visited the UK in June 2019, preliminary discussions about a potential 'Post-Brexit' trade deal between the two nations was headline news. More recently...

Summer Reads from Sharpe Books

Summer Reads from Sharpe Books' authors. Recommended history and historical fiction.

Summer Reads from Sharpe BooksAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyGary Sheffield’s Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities, is an incredibly readable piece of historical analysis, that challenges the lions led by donkeys view of Haig...

Latitude, by Nicholas Crane

The latest book from explorer Nicholas Crane tells an incredible tale of an 18th century scientific expedition.

Paul Strathern

First let’s deal with the elelphant in the room. Nicholas Crane’s Latitude will inevitably draw comparison with Dava Sobel’s surprise runaway best-seller Longitude, which was published over a quarter of a century ago in 1993 and has remained in print ever since. Sobel...

Scientific Struggle: The Search for Latitude

Measuring the earth was not only mathematically challenging, but a physical feat too.

Nicholas Crane

The Search for Latitude Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral lay unconscious on the mountainside. ‘I fell down’, he wrote later, ‘and remained a long time without sense or motion; and, as I was told, with all the appearances of death.’ The year was 1737 and the...

‘No more victories! No more conquests!’: The East India companies pull back from empire

The 'Second Hundred Years War' during the 18th century could have come to a premature end if corporate interests had won through.

John Shovlin

Talks between the East India companies of Britain and France in 1754 promised to end a war between them in India and to transform the Franco-British relationship there. Responding to hints from London, the French proposed that the two companies ally to resist...

Nicola Cornick

Nicola Cornick discusses historical fiction and her writing.

Nicola Cornick

Nicola Cornick, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? My very first book was a Regency romance inspired by my enjoyment of Georgette Heyer’s writing more than anything else! However, when I changed genre to write dual-time...