For the time being, this is our final dip into the murky waters of Sellar & Yeatman’s classic 1066 and All That. After all, overindulgence
Boys and girls, last week’s lesson was only the beginning, the tip of the iceberg. How could you possibly imagine that we had plumbed the
A day late, but hey. It’ll be worth it. But whatever you do, don’t use this for your GCSE history revision. [If you have done
It came as a shock when this was first pointed out to me. Or rather, to be more accurate, it was a shock when I
This is doing the rounds but definitely worth a view if you’ve not yet done so…
Sir Isaac Newton is a titan in world science, so it’s no surprise that he features on the very first, and the penultimate page of
The Blair autobio was far too chunky for me take on the plane to Albania, last week, so instead I took Clay Shirky’s followup to
I admit it. I’m a total sucker for historical fiction – and absolutely adore all the books of C J Sansom. I’ve reviewed a few
The pope is arriving on these shores next week. And there are many things that make his visit controversial. There are of course even people
Communion was of course a hot button issue 500 years ago. It’s unlikely to be again in quite the same way, even though the debates
Leonardo, Machiavelli, Borgia: these 3 men were, each in their own way, extraordinary. Genius is not too strong a word (though some might balk at