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An oral history of the Korean War
I have been conducting oral history and journalistic interviews ever since I was a young student under Raph Samuel at Ruskin College in the late 1960s when I interviewed an old communist who had led...
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Herman Rothman and Hitler's will
The title of Herman Rothman’s autobiography, Hitler’s Will, has a double meaning. It tells the story of Herman (Hermi) Rothman, the last surviving German-speaking interrogator in the British Army who...
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The Friday Digest 27/06/14
This week's update features the 700th anniversary of Bannockburn, books bound in human skin and the sunken kingdom at Borth. * 'Men whose minds the dead have ravished’ - psychological war disability...
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Thomas Cromwell and the ‘catholic faith’
Thomas Cromwell’s last words and moments on 28 July, 1540 continue to cause quite a lot of discussion, and the following piece is offered to try and clarify some points. Cromwell and the ‘catholic...
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Thomas Cromwell and the ‘ungoodly’ executioner
Thomas Cromwell’s last words and moments on 28 July, 1540 continue to cause quite a lot of discussion, and the following piece is offered to try and clarify some points. Edward Hall, the Tudor...
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The Friday Digest 04/07/14
This week's update features global war, mistakes in medieval manuscripts and the age-old print/ebook debate. * Was World War One really the first global war? * Gavrilo Princip and the lie that...
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Why did women seek out the front line in the First World War?
When war was considered very much a male environment, why did women petition to be militarised on an unprecedented scale? Why did they take their own volunteer groups to the front? There was no legal...
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The First World War and Eastern England.
The Centenary of the First War is still under shadow from the 50th Anniversary around 1964. This created powerful stereotypes of lions and donkeys, ,butchers and bunglers and oh what a lovely war ---...
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The Friday Digest 11/07/14
This week's update features a potential re-write of British histiry, Irish heritage and landmarks of summer literature. * An open letter signed by a number of bestselling writers has called on...
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Medieval pirates in the English Channel
Fowey Harbour in peacetime Pirates in the English Channel? Surely not! Think again. For as long as men have sailed the seas with goods in their ships, pirates have flourished, seizing all...
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Steve Lewis at Barton’s Bookshop, Leatherhead on 19/07/14
Steve Lewis will be at Barton's Bookshop, Leatherhead on Saturday 19th July from 10am-3pm signing copies of his new book, An East End Album. The pictures in this book show the changes that have...
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George Kerevan and Alan Cochrane at Blackwells, South Bridge, Edinburgh on...
George Kerevan and Alan Cochrane at Blackwells, South Bridge, Edinburgh on 30th July from 6:30-8:00pm giving a talk and signing copies of their book, Scottish Independence: Yes or No. In September...
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David Carroll at Waterstones, Dumfires on 19/07/14
David Carroll will be at Waterstones, Dumfires on Saturday 19th July signing copies of his new book, The Dumfries Book of Days. Taking you through the year day by day, The Dumfries Book of Days...
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Robert Leader at Waterstones, Cambridge on 26/07/14
Robert Leader will be at Waterstones, Cambridge on Saturday 26th July signing copies of his new book, Exploring Historical Cambridgeshire. This fascinating and beautifully photographed guidebook...
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The curious history of Talliston House & Gardens
Behind an arched oak door set in a thicket hedge lies Talliston House & Gardens, the house named as 'Britain's most extraordinary home' by The Times. With a name that means ‘the hidden place’,...
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Stephen Haddelsey at British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge on 01/08/14
Stephen Haddelsey will be at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge on Friday 1st August giving a talk about his new book, Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica...
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James Daly at Waterstones, Portsmouth on 02/08/14
James Daly will be at Waterstones, Portsmouth on Saturday 2nd August from 12-2pm, signing copies of his book, Portsmouth's World War One Heroes: Stories of the Fallen Men and Women. Over 6,000 men...
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How do you choose your summer reading?
For many people, those blissful few days when they are on holiday, are the only time that they have for settling down with a good book. But with thousands of books published every month, and the added...
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The Friday Digest 25/07/14
This week's update features the peculiar history of cows, the bonfire of papers at the end of Empire and Amazon's twentieth birthday. * Why was Orkney the perfect naval base in the First World War? *...
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The Final Over
Today, many biographers, historians and film-makers have a chilling certainty in the correctness of their judgments on the First World War. It wasn’t only an appalling tragicomedy in its making, they...
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