History


Forgetting Churchill to Concentrate on Miller

Posted on February 16, 2015

Firstly, thank you to everyone who offered so much positive comments via Facebook, Twitter and email regarding my most recent post about the shocking increase in male suicide rates. It is probably the most response I have had to a blog in the eight years I have been writing them. It has also gained me more readership after I suffered a dent in my confidence last week when I received a couple of anonymous, semi-sinister emails regarding the ...

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War Porn and the Magna Carta

Posted on January 30, 2015

What a crazy few weeks it has been on the the television, with programmes featuring all the glory of war, the holocaust, Churchill and the Magna Carta. As interesting as they are, I often find that these programmes about modern history seem to have a somewhat elitist bias to them, possibly because the majority of the arts and media industry is dominated by the offspring of the ruling classes. Churchill for instance, has been documented as ...

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Does Nostalgia Control Us?

Posted on April 19, 2014

I don’t know if any of you have been watching the Ian Hislop series called Olden Days but if you haven’t, you should, it is a fascinating insight to how us Brits have entrenched in us, a longing for a golden age where things were so much better than they are now. Hislop’s series goes back hundreds of years to times when a writer would publish accounts and novels of the golden eras before them, creating mythical figures such as King ...

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Luddites and a Twitter Joke that Miserably Failed!

Posted on February 27, 2014

When I went to the bank the other day, the lady cashier said that something had appeared on her computer screen indicating that I could now do internet banking via a new system that I could use on my mobile phone. I asked her if it involved downloading an HSBC App on my iPhone. "It's no use asking me as I am a complete Luddite." To me this sat up like a great joke that would have her belly laughing at my razor sharp, spontaneous ...

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King Cnut Evokes Memories of “Flossie” Florence

Posted on January 3, 2014

One thing that has frustrated me in recent years is my ignorance regarding the Kings and Queens that have reigned these isles since Anglo Saxon warlords first handed themselves such grand titles around 1500 years ago. I must have wittered on about this quite a lot as Justine picked up on my incoherent ramblings and presented me with a book for Christmas called ‘Kings and Queens’ an original title that must have been the result of the ...

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