The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
On 1st January 1645, Captain John Hotham, having played loose with his loyalties in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, faced his end at the Tower of London. His proposal to pay Parliament £10,000 to commute his sentence to banishment had been declined, therefore...
Afghanistan and the IED Threat In October 2001 the United States led a coalition of nations into Afghanistan with the aim of overthrowing the repressive Taliban regime. The coalition forces advanced rapidly, Taliban forces were simply unable to withstand the onslaught...
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Just over a century from the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, Gretchen Friemann has provided an explosive account of the detailed events leading up to and during the renowned agreement. The Treaty is a much-needed analysis of the complexity of the Irish and...
On 22nd August 1485 two armies assembled near Market Bosworth to contest the throne of England. One was vast and the other tiny, yet the ensuing battle provided one of the greatest upsets in English history. Once the fighting started at Bosworth, the outcome was in...
CVHF 2023: Day 3 The V-Bombers - Norman Bonner & Ed Jarron with James Holland Britain And The Nuclear Threat - Julie McDowall The Pacific War 1941-45 - Saul David & Michael Neiberg The Wolf-Girl, The Greeks And The Gods: A Tale Of The Persian Wars - Tom...
CVHF 2023: Day 2 The Blazing World: A New History Of Revolutionary England - Jonathan Healey Revolutionary Spring: Fighting For A New World 1848 – 1849 - Christopher Clark With Tom Holland Living In The Third Reich - Julia Boyd & Martin Davidson Middling sorts...
CVHF 2023: Day 1 Ashes Heroes - Mike Brearley, Gideon Haigh, Simon Hughes The Ship beneath the Ice, The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance – Mensun Bound How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks – Adam Nicolson Bazball This year’s opener was a crowd-pleaser, the...
Throughout the 1930s, Lord Max Beaverbrook, owner of the London Daily Express, Sunday Express, and Evening Standard, used his best-selling newspapers to encourage British policy makers to dismiss or appease the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler. He believed in ‘splendid...
Dr Wheatley is on a mission. His mission is to disprove the long articulated Russian stance that the tank action at Prokhorovoka was an annihilation of the elite SS II Panzer Corps by the Soviet Army in the southeast corner of the Russian Front in July 1943. Whilst...
