Historian on the Edge

Living in Interesting Times "May you live in interesting times" runs the Chinese curse (allegedly). Those of us in the UK (and i...

This is a masterly piece of analysis that exposes the malignant heart of the government's attack on Univerity education.  It shows it f...

This is a good analysis of Starkey and of the historical profession, or of a particular segment of it.  Tapley's mistake is to assume ...

Well, we've had nearly a week of post-rioting analysis and on balance I don't think it's been a good week for history.  There ar...

From linguists/philologists - maybe from Alex Woolf in particular! I went for a drink with an old friend - Steve Brohan - whom I hadn...

Today comes from my philosophical hero, Simon Critchley, from an interview in How to Stop Living and Start Worrying , p.114: We're si...

Today's thought comes from Derrick May and can be found here .  I've loved this ever since I first heard it sampled on E-Z Rollers...