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Monday, 8 August 2016

Dead Blog?

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Because of serial spam attacks which the Blogger platform seems unable to deal with (yes - people warned me about Blogger), I have moved the...
Monday, 6 June 2016

Philip Green: The insanity of neo-liberalism

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‘Sir’ Philip Green, eh?  What a guy.  Knighted by Blair, a government advisor to Cameron.  Now his business ‘skills’ have led to the coll...
Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Why Sixth-Century History Doesn't Matter (any more or less than any other history)

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I'm a sixth-century historian ... and let me tell you I look good for my age.  Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.  I'll be h...
Wednesday, 13 April 2016

The Peoples of Northern Europe: Text updated

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I have updated the text of the three previously-posted instalments of my chapter on 'The Peoples of Northern Europe' for the forthco...
Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Peoples of Northern Europe in Late Antiquity: A Bibliography

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Here, in case it is of any use, is the doubtless rather hit and miss bibliography to my chapter on 'The Peoples of Northern Europe...
Tuesday, 15 December 2015

The Refugee Crisis, the Paris attacks and the Death of History. Part 3A

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So, you're maybe saying, if History isn't about, or doesn't matter because of, all of the things you discussed in Parts 1-3, wh...
Friday, 11 December 2015

The Refugee Crisis, the Paris attacks and the Death of History. Part 3

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More on the deconstruction of narrative and the political irrelevance of specific histories... Part 1 of this essay is here Part 2 of thi...