The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
In the Second World War Germany lost four million military dead. Three million of those were on the Eastern Front. From June 1941 onwards never fewer than seventy-five percent of German’s land and air assets were on the Eastern Front. In the whole of the war the...
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Alexander the Great in the Dock At The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in London, on 26th October 2022, Alexander the Great stood accused of terrible crimes against humanity, the indictment of which can be found here. I witnessed the televised proceedings as...
Andrew Liddle, many congratulations on Cheers, Mr Churchill!. There are many Churchill histories out there – why did you write a new one? Thank you. It is absolutely right to note that the field of Churchill literature is extremely wide, but there is a notable absence...
There are two stories that Jeremy Paxman tells in his new book, Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain. The first is the national story, how coal was the driver behind the Industrial Revolution and the British Empire. The country’s hunger for this black rock...
At 6.30 pm on 18th August 1823, Jack Gladstone walked up to the large bell that hung at the centre of the sugar plantation, and rang it. This was the signal for the start of the Demerara uprising, that would become the largest revolt against British slavery up to that...
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The renowned Second World War historian, James Holland, has produced an outstanding account of a unit’s campaign across North West Europe from D-Day in June 1944 to VE-Day in May 1945. The subject unit - The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) - was a Territorial Army...
Ronald, you wrote Queens of the Wild during 2020, when Covid struck the land, and we were all confined to our homes. Did this experience bring any historical examples to mind when writing the book – a time when plagues were a more frequent occurrence? Covid was...
The destruction of Smyrna in 1922, for which we’ve just seen the centenary, was an event that not only shamed the Turkish forces that carried it out, but also the allied navies that looked on as tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children were killed, and...
