Historian on the Edge

 I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Rosamond McKitterick a little over a week ago. Anyone with more than a few hours...

On Bluesky there has been a little discussion of counter-factual history, sparked by a post asking what position you could defend against 20...

  The ‘Lessons of History’ [ This post basically argues three things: that the current world crisis, rise of fascism etc cannot be attribute...

Call for papers for session/strand at the International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July 2025:   The Reach of Politics, 5 th -7 th centuries ...

[ This is a somewhat rewritten version of a plenary lecture I gave at a conference last year on the dissolvement [sic] of kinship ties, shor...

This time, ah - ah Is coming like a ghost time When I wrote Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West , getting on for 20 years ago, I used a ...