The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Empire on the Mind: Mary Beard interviewed Parliament Square in London bristles with so many statues it is like a free version of Madame Tussauds. If you’ve ever wondered why, look no further than Mary Beard’s latest book – Emperor of Rome. Yup it was the hubris and...
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw widespread advances in the arts and sciences. Artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Van Dyk flourished across...
In 1732 Thomas Fairfax, the sixth Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was reading the Gentleman’s Magazine obituary of the agent to his lands in Virginia, Robert Carter. To his astonishment he discovered Carter was worth, in those days, £10,000 and so Fairfax immediately began...
If only Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner could sing from the same song sheet with such harmony. Long before the Gallaghers, the Everly Brothers knew how to do number one records, drugs, tantrums and comebacks. Phil and Don Everly were one of the first and most...
The True WWII Story of SAS Original Reg Seekings Reg Seekings intrigued me from the moment I stumbled on him during a spot of channel-hopping during one of the lockdowns. I had never encountered Seekings until I glanced archive footage of him in a BBC documentary....
Hugh, the Fairfax name is most well-known because of the 3rd Lord, Sir Thomas (1612 – 1671), but what are the origins of the family? The Fairfax family is first heard of in the 12th Century with Henry owning land at Askham near York. Like many people in the north of...
The Divided Island There is a place in the Levant that is divided, its people at loggerheads many years after the British departed, leaving behind a nation of two communities that had previously lived in peace, but where outbreaks of horrific violence have occurred...
