How many reasons could there be?
A while ago, someone asked me if I could explain Napoleon’s fall from power. And I promised to think about it and come up with an answer. So, I’ve been thinking about it. And whilst this isn’t by...
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Recently, a small plate which hung on the wall of the drawing room came to an untimely end through a brief encounter with a log basket. Now, before you think I am lamenting anyone’s clumsiness or...
View ArticleLondon Bridge and shooting the rapids…
Righto. It’s Friday afternoon and I have now successfully procrastinated–for most of the day… But obviously it is Friday afternoon and I haven’t deposited a blog in anyone’s general direction for over...
View ArticleAt the heart of a great estate is…
This may come as a bit of a shock to some people, but despite having a reputation as a military firebrand of an historian and author, actually I began life as a social historian. Which possibly sounds...
View ArticleThe Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812…
This is a bit awkward. On the one hand, it’s fair to say that I would have done just about anything to have on hand the information that Andrew Lambert brings to light in the aforementioned tome when...
View ArticleGetting it wrong…
Funnily enough, I was just reading a blog by multi-novel historical fiction author, Allan Massie, about strong opinions and how too often they’re based on knowing or understanding less than we might...
View ArticleDaily Life ~ Through the Prism of The Great War
This is one of those blog posts I’ve been avoiding writing for some time now. Like for well over a year. Chiefly because writing it will mean that I might have to get up off my sorry backside and go...
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