On the morning of 19th June 1312, as reckoned by the old style Calendar, a party of mounted men left Warwick Castle. My Lords Leicester and Warwick rode in front on nobly caparisoned destriers, with [more…]
Imagine, if you will, that you have decided to go for a horse ride along a canal towpath. You see a canal barge making its way along the canal and in front of the barge [more…]
The Corcyran Stasis as a Template for Civil Strife and War While one might characterise the main theme of Thucydides’ work to be the gradual breakdown of Athens, its constitution, character, morality and eventually its [more…]
Featured Album: Roxy Music – Flesh and Blood This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]
Before the war, Hitler had commissioned Albert Speer to redesign Berlin into the “Capital of the World”, a city greater than London, Paris or Rome that he wanted to call Germania. When the war started [more…]
The second month in 1941 was not up to the joys of January for the Allies. The Germans started arriving in North Africa and the push into Libya did not go much further. There was [more…]
The Battle of Sphakteria and the Athenian Expedition to Sicily These two battles stand out in a book full of military engagements because of the dramatic nature of the language employed by the author, that [more…]
Featured Album: ELO – Discovery This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year and the link [more…]
Mike and Jinnie had decided that the easiest way to explain to her parents who he was and why she was spending so much time with him was to tell them that he was a [more…]
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