Oliver Webb-Carter
Film Club 27
Episode 183
Aspects of History Book of the Year: The Siege
Our Book of the Year is The Siege, by Ben Macintyre.
As we reach the end of the year Aspects of History selects the title that stood out above the rest published during 2024. Past books that have won include The World by Simon Sebag-Montefiore, The White Ship by Charles Spencer, and last year's Conflict, by General...
Film Club 26
Fairfax of Virginia, by Hugh Fairfax
Artist Hugh Fairfax researched his family history and discovered a cornucopia of fascinating figures.
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...
Film Club 25
The Divided Island
A new documentary is out that deals with the ‘Cyprus problem’.
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...
Film Club 24
