The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
On 31st January 2010, Trooper Corie Mapp of The Life Guards was driving his armoured vehicle on combat operations in Afghanistan when it ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The explosion that followed caused him massive injuries. But this was not the end of...
The Imperial War Museum has just opened an exhibition by Wim Wenders, Photographing Ground Zero, to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. For such a huge event, 20 years ago, the free-to-enter display of his work is measured, thought-provoking, and highly...
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World As we have discovered in January 2020, words matter. They matter even more when spoken by powerful men and women. I write this in the context of the dying days of Donald Trump’s presidency, when his words have incited...
I was delighted to be asked to interview Professor Tombs, a distinguished historian of France and the bestselling author of The English and Their History, about his new book, This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe, on the historical context of Brexit...
I have been asked to provide some tips on publishing your historical novel for writers when submitting proposals to publishers or literary agents. There is, of course, more information available via other articles on the internet and the likes of The Writers' &...
The Wolfson History Prize 2021 Rebecca Clifford Rebecca, congratulations on your nomination for the Wolfson History Prize of 2021 from Aspects of History. Why did you choose your particular subject? This is a two-pronged answer. Most important prong, I’ve worked with...
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? Roman writers were with me as an Essex teenager in the sixties and have stayed with me ever since. At sixteen I had two big passions, writing about jazz for The Daily Telegraph ( I had won a competition...
