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Gordon Corrigan

Gordon Corrigan

Gordon Corrigan was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962 and was an officer of the permanent cadre of the Royal Gurkha Rifles before leaving the army in 1998. Having left, he considered that he was knowledgeable in only two fields: horses and history, and as working with horses is a recipe for going bust, albeit going bust in style, he decided that history was a safer bet. He is now a professional historian.
Gordon Corrigan

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Andrew Roberts

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

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

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...

The Chalke Valley History Festival 2021 – Review

The Chalke Valley History Festival 2021 – Review

Despite Covid, the Chalke Valley History Festival went ahead, and we were there to check it out.
James Chetwode

Last week we headed down to the sunny Wiltshire to attend the Chalke Valley History Festival. Nestled in the heart of the beautiful Wessex countryside a few miles west of Salisbury it is the scene of the largest history celebration in the UK. Back after an enforced...

Summer Reads from Aspects of History

Summer Reads from Aspects of History

Our authors and contributors recommend books to take on summer holidays.

Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryPaul BernardiTaking a well-earned break from the adventures of Beobrand in his much-loved Bernicia Chronicles series, Matthew Harffy moves forward the best part of one hundred and fifty years in this, his most recent and...

Toussaint Louverture: Black Spartacus

Toussaint Louverture: Black Spartacus

The Wolfson Prize winner writes about the relationship between Toussaint Louverture and Napoleon Bonaparte is an intriguing one, although they never met.
Sudhir Hazareesingh

Sudhir Hazareesingh is the winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize for his book, Black Spartacus, the Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. This article is taken from the first issue of Aspects of History. The Haitian revolution was one of the defining episodes in...

Napoleon and His Marshals

Napoleon and His Marshals

Napoleon and His Marshals by A.G.Macdonell. A Classic work of military history, featuring all of Napoleons great marshals.

Historical Parallels

Historical Parallels

Politicians' use of history always comes back to bite them, much like the Continental System.
Adam Zamoyski

Historical Parallels I like it when current affairs start ringing historical bells, and the former French ambassador to the UK Sylvie Bermann came up with a real clanger recently when she averred that the consequence of Brexit was to bring together 27 countries in a...