Historian on the Edge

[ In this piece I am going, first, to question that historical memory/commemoration is always a 'public good', in that it often su...

Allow me to try out some thoughts that I am trying to put in order as part of my argument about there being an inherent ethical demand with...

As I was reading about Italian settlement patterns in Late Antiquity I came across this map in one of the works of Angelo Castrorao Barba.( ...

[ This is the paper I presented at the kind invitation of Prof Martial Staub, at the University of Sheffield last night.  My thanks to Marti...