Posts from the ‘History’ Category
- Nine days at Amiens: Harry Hickson’s diary on August 9, 2018
- Winter Reading: Blitzed – Drugs in Nazi Germany on February 6, 2018
- Winter Reading: My Father’s Wake, by Kevin Toolis on February 2, 2018
- 2017 Retrospective Part 6: Out in the big bad world on January 4, 2018
- 2017 Retrospective Part 5: My green and pleasant land on January 3, 2018
- 2017 Retrospective Part 2: The Middle East on January 1, 2018
- The 59steps Retrospective of 2017: Introduction on December 31, 2017
- RetroSaudi: The Bedouin King on November 11, 2017
- RetroSaudi: The Founder on November 10, 2017
- RetroSaudi – an introduction on November 9, 2017
- Evidence of a life – building a virtual monument on October 6, 2017
- A death in Edinburgh on October 3, 2017
- A new Holocaust history and an old question: could it happen again? on September 19, 2017
- Peter Kosminsky’s The State – four characters in search of jihad on September 1, 2017
- Mary Beard – civil defender in an unsafe space on August 6, 2017
- Passchendaele, August 1917 – a survivor’s diary on July 30, 2017
- Manchester on May 23, 2017
- Let their names moulder in the graveyard of infamy… on March 31, 2017
- Celebrating World Book Day (the British version) on March 2, 2017
- The tip of the iceberg? on February 5, 2017
- Postcard from Vietnam – Part 3: Hoi An and Hué on February 2, 2017
- Postcard from Vietnam – Part 2: Hanoi on January 31, 2017
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