Carausius, full name (as from a milestone found at Carlisle) Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Valerius Carausius, was not even a Roman despite...

NOTE: If you haven't yet enrolled there is still time. Because these are zoom lectures there are no maximum numbers. All are welcome,...

For some reason I received a tweet from The Society for the Canonisation of King James II and VII. Clearly the members of such a society...

Morning: PINK ICE, BEAVERS, & DOMINIC CUMMINGS Recap: What is Global Warming? Recap: Overview of the consequences of Global Warning...

NOTE: I mentioned before one of my zoom lectures for JW3 that I was keeping a Corona Journal and as part of that a list of words, new to...

PLEASE note that there was an administrative hiccup and this week's titles did not appear on JW3 week by week list of topics Morning;...

Almost every society has had a history of fast food. In Europe we can go back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Fast food is usually an...

One of the stranger things about the present pandemic is that many people, who have not experienced a family or friend's death or even...

The future structure of The Civil Service and its interface with Ministers and Special Advisers (SPADS) is currently in the news. It is...

Morning: Industrial Revolution: Coal and Oil Continuing last week's theme of how we have affected our environment, we turn to the impact...

Preparing for a post Brexit world, The UK and Morocco signed an 'Association Agreement' last year. Both sides have emphasised in recent...

Morning: The Agricultural Revolution This week we turn to the impact that humans have had on their environment, beginning with The...

Perhaps some of you are sick of hearing me talk about the pleasures of swimming down here on the South Coast. But it has recently got me...

I often use the phrase, when history lecturing, 'broad brush approach'. In this blog I am going to the other extreme to what is called...

COTTAGE CHEESE. Beloved of dietitians and not exactly give-away cheap today, cottage cheese began life as an easily made cheese for...

Morning; The Year without Summer. Our topic is the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815. We shall look at the event itself and...

Who could have imagined a few weeks ago that we would become engaged in a national debate over the purpose of history. Historians,...

Morning: Humankind and Nature The continuum: From Exploitation to Conservation via Management English Woodland: Saxon and Medieval...

Well. Bristol hit the national headlines yesterday. During the BLM demonstration in the city, the statue of Edward Colston, slaver and...