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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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New technologies…

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...

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London 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...

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At 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...

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The 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...

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Getting 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...

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Daily 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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