A few of you kindly said you enjoyed the autobiographical piece about Adult Education I posted a little while ago. An obituary in today's...
As the world agonises over how to contain the corona pandemic, eyes have been diverted from China's increasingly bellicose foreign policy...
Morning; Environment and History. We shall be looking this week at our relationship with animals. We begin with a short overall point,...
The publication this month of a book, entitled 'Smells: A cultural history of smells in early modern times' by the French historian...
The late 18th and early 19th century saw the rise, indeed creation, of the English Seaside. At first trips to the seaside were purely...
David Olusogo's television programme, A House Through Time (BBC 2 26th May), this time features a house in my home city of Bristol. The...
As I echo the famous quote of a fellow Bristolian, I sit at my PC amazed at the ongoing constitutional questions which keep arising under...
Below I list a number of quotations from Prime Ministers, Political Commentators, and others. You may find them interesting, even...
HISTORY. 4 new books which have received excellent reviews:- The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady Mussolini's Italy by Richard Bosworth Putin's...
Pandemics: We begin with a general introduction before moving to the first of our three main topics of the morning, namely The Black...
In an earlier blog concerning the economic crisis of 1706 and the political one of 1714, I mentioned the extraordinary character, Henry...
When I was a child I had Charles Kingsley's 'Water Babies' read to me. I clearly never understood the satirical support given in the...
When it was first reported that The Bank of England said that the current economic crisis, triggered by Coronavirus, was the worst for...
This is just a short piece around the history and folklore of the colour purple. The Phrase 'born to the purple' meaning born into...
Morning: Floods We begin with a general introduction pointing out the effects of climate change. We then tackle the first of our three...
Information Note: If you sign into my twitter, @talkhistorian, it will automatically let you know when I post a new blog. I am not...
We have already seen how when the PM was sick and off duty The First Minister, who was standing in for The PM, did not meet with the Head...
Both classes this week will follow the format of 40 mins lecture + 5 mins comfort stop + 40 mins lecture. Morning begins at 11am and...
Information: Please note there are now a number of separate blogs concerning the present crisis on here. To access all blogs, if you...
Forgive the autobiographical content but I am often asked about some of the issues discussed below. PS Please just ignore if you can't...