I’ve always had a fascination with the events surrounding the Battle of the Little Big Horn and General Custer’s Last Stand. This goes back to my childhood in the 1960s and those Sunday afternoon [more…]
June 25th, 1809. We are returned to London. Our journey from Portsmouth was necessarily a slow one, as no stagecoach driver will countenance adding eight bears to his passengers. In any case, Fred deemed it [more…]
Featured song: 10cc – Rubber Bullets This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. One [more…]
One of the more noticeable phenomena of WW2 was the number of conferences between the Allied Leaders. Without Facebook and Facetime they just had to meet physically; they did have scrambled telephone calls though, unbeknown [more…]
“For every foreign-born soldier who dies, no German mother weeps” – Gottlob Berger The Waffen SS was the military wing of the Nazi party, although it is important to note that membership of the NSDAP [more…]
Introduction Sometime in mid-2017 I casually remarked to the chap shooting at the next bench to me that I had long been fascinated by the Westley Richards ‘Monkey Tail’ transitional rifle but had never actually [more…]
Operation Kratos In 2001 international terrorist events directed security services to conclude that terrorist events involving suicide bombers, were not only likely but sadly inevitable in any country. Among many other agencies, the Metropolitan Police [more…]
May 20th, 1809. We are at sea again – on a merchant ship, Pride of Scunthorpe, under the command of Jonas Swigger, a jovial captain who was more than happy to take us bears [more…]
Featured song: Dr Hook and the Medicine Show – Sylvias’ Mother This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when [more…]
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