The Hanseatic League Our morning, starting at 10.30 and ending at 1pm, will be in three parts with comfort breaks Part 1: Introduction...

AFRICA: GENERAL A Short History of Africa G.Kerr The State of Africa M.Meredith SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA The Scramble for...

I have been thinking a great deal recently about the nature and the teaching of history. We all know there is no truly objective history...

One of the strange things about teaching contemporary history is that the teacher, as well as the students, tend to have but a muddled...

This is the story of John Vesey, who became bishop of Exeter. He was born John Harman in c.1464 in Sutton Coldfield. The change of...

I have been mulling over a number of different historical/folklore topics to blog about and couldn't really get going on any of them. ...

A good test on what we know; so many of these words and acronyms pass across our horizons with the speed of light, whereas others linger...

Some of you may wonder why lawyers are so concerned with The Rule of Law. The simple answer is that it is the bedrock of our democracy. ...

Ogden Nash wrote: I don't mind eels Except as meals. And the way they feels. Churchill more than once used eels as a metaphor. During...

Travel: THE LAND OF MAYBE by Tim Ecott, former BBC correspondent. Tells the story of a year in Faroese life. Much of the book is about...

We, who are older, all know the feeling of visiting museums or exhibitions and saying, 'We used to have one of those at home when we were...

As an adult educator, I have always been fascinated by autodidacts, that is people who have largely taught themselves, sometimes as...

The stepmother is a frequent motif in folklore, from a dialect term for cow parsley - stepmother's blessing - to the stepmother in the...

I am sharing the hour, 11am to 12pm (or 12 am if things really get out of hand!!) with Trudy Gold. I am speaking about the First War,...

People coming across The Channel with the intention of reaching Britain in order to claim asylum have dominated the news in the last few...

Eternal Truths and Present Challenges As with Caesar's Gaul, the morning is divided into three parts, with a short break between each...

Where now are bolsters? Where eiderdowns? Where bed bugs? As for the latter, I really don't care as long as they are not near me....

A late friend of mine, Professor Brian Groombridge, once said, 'we are learning animals from the moment of our birth to the moment of our...

First, as a follow up to Anne Applebaum's book, 'Twilight of Democracy', another American academic, Joel Kotkin, has published a title...

This recently published book is sub-titled in the American edition 'The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism'. This is unlike Applebaum's...