Historian on the Edge

The piece I wrote on interpretations of the Great War in January has become the second most popular post on this blog.  Since then I have ...

Can be found on the Verso blog here .  It is extremely interesting for all sorts of reasons and regular readers of this blog (if there are a...

I have talked, on this blog, before about the issues involved with discussing atrocity in the past and the 'statute of limitations'...

... the Little Corporal lost his last throw of the dice, at Waterloo, where he didn't surrender, pace Benny and Bjorn.  It is salutary (...

Maybe it is just me but, apart from the fact that last Friday will have been the last ten-year anniversary when a sizeable number of Operati...

Spare a thought today for the men and women of the D-day landings and the Great Crusade, the non-Nazi fallen of both sides, and the civilian...

So King Juan Carlos is abdicating in favour of his son.  This makes him, I think, the third European monarch in ?2 years to abdicate.  It...