Historian on the Edge

Nine years ago I started this blog as a way of helping me to focus on the project I was working on, thanks to a grant from the Leverhulme F...

[ This is the keynote paper I gave to the 12 or so people who had stayed to the end of the recent conference on 'Renegotiating Power...

I always get melancholic with the D-Day commemorations. I was born in 1964, 20 years after D-Day when the people who fought in Normandy wer...

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