The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
A renaissance-hunting scene opens Trevor Nunn’s 1985 film, Lady Jane. Amongst the white clad riders is Frances, mother of the future Nine Day’s Queen. When the doe is brought to bay, Frances dismounts. Soon a river of blood will run on the snow. The scene captures her...
Elizabeth Woodville, the attractive commoner who managed to enchant a king and become queen of England, has proved herself a controversial figure just for being who she was. To some she is a romantic heroine, a regular young woman who married for love and held her own...
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...
Oscar Heinrich, ‘The American Sherlock Holmes’ is the most famous criminalist you’ve likely never heard of. Looking at his photograph, I was struck by something that seemed like an odd observation at the time—Heinrich was quite handsome for a tightly wound scientist....
For anyone wanting an insight into the inner workings of the British political and military war effort in the Second World War, Dr Andrew Sangster’s re-appraisal of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke in his new book Alan Brooke : Churchill’s Right-Hand...
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...
Welcome to Aspects of History. You’ve written a fantastic book, Alan Brooke: Churchill's Right-Hand Critic, but he is not as well-known as he should be, is that why did you decided to write about him? Having used his diary many times for references and his views it...
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On 4 June 1929, a photograph of Winston Churchill appeared on the back page of the Daily Herald. It showed him outside 11 Downing Street, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s residence which he had not yet vacated following the defeat of the Conservative government at a...
The seeds of the German nation, nursed into being by the wily statesman Bismarck, were sown in Prussia’s humiliation in the Napoleonic Wars. By the time the fragmented German states got their act together, fought back and won at Leipzig in 1813, the journey to...
