Posts from the ‘History’ Category
- And wherever he went, Genghis Khan left no stone unturned on April 21, 2023
- C’mon boys, it’s golf, not a coronation on April 7, 2023
- Life, therapy and the pursuit of happiness on March 20, 2023
- How close we came to The End on February 14, 2023
- Postcard from Bulgaria – oligarchs, patriarchs and medieval miracles on December 16, 2022
- A nation that queues on September 16, 2022
- Scandi culture – keeping religion private on July 1, 2022
- Happy and glorious, shiny and endless on June 4, 2022
- Ukraine: have we reached peak fake news? on March 8, 2022
- The dogs are unleashed on February 22, 2022
- Getting ready for the Big One on December 21, 2021
- Postcard from France: gables, ghosts and gumboots on November 12, 2021
- Farewell to a Navigator on October 30, 2021
- The only bucket list worth making is of stuff you’ve already done on October 28, 2021
- On levelling up and other fantasies on October 12, 2021
- The Old Lie on September 6, 2021
- Afghanistan: the Monkey and the Sonnet on August 20, 2021
- All is not lost – provided you can dodge the muck and bullets on August 10, 2021
- Summer Reading: Putin’s People on May 28, 2021
- Great men are not always the famous ones on May 4, 2021
- Britain’s latest invasive species – the flag fetish on March 23, 2021
- When two tribes go to war on March 18, 2021
- The diminishing power of three on February 22, 2021