
British POWs - Napoleonic Wars to World War 2: A Day School
On Thursday 28 April I shall be teaching a Day School on this topic at JW3. You can still book by contacting JW3 Box Office - 020 7433...

Select Booklist: Baltic States
Specific The Baltic States A Plakans A History of The Baltic States A Kasekamp The History of The Baltic States K O'Connor The...

Synopsis for this Thursday's Italy class
WHITHER ITALY? Recap on last week: Berlusconi The Paradoxes of Italian Culture and the long-term Crisis of The Italian State Is Italy...

Synopsis for this Thursday's Rivers Class
OUR RIVER JOURNEY COMES TO AN END Leonardo da Vinci Kenneth Graham Civilisation begins with rivers The Heart of Darkness Water...

'A Host of Golden Daffodils' : A Message from England
We are so lucky to live in a country with glorious daffodils, as Spring returns once more. Where I live on England's South Coast there...

A Short Booklist on subject of Indigenous Americans
North American Indians Perdue & Green (OUP Short Introduction Series) *An Indigenous Peoples' History of The United States R...

A Short list of books on Liberalism, Democracy et al
Populism Mudde & Laltwasser Liberalism M.Freeden Populism M Burleigh Twilight of Democracy A Applebaum How Democracies...

Synopsis JW3 Italy Class Thurs 30 March
THE BERLUSCONI YEARS Opening quotation to set the scene Berlusconi: .......the Early Years .......and the Mafia / P2 .......the very...

Synopsis JW3 Rivers Course Thurs 30 March
RIVER THAMES 1. London 'Liquid History' and Kipling Royal River Pageant River Peoples River Trading River Dirty River 2. Rural Thames...

Synopsis for Italy Class Thurs 24th March
THE MAFIA Problems of Definition Origins in Bourbon Sicily post 1812 Characteristics Prime focus from Protection to Politics Attempts to...

Rivers class Thursday 24th March
RIVER AMAZON 1. INTRODUCTION In our imagination - The Lost World - Etymology - Facts and Figures 2. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES History and...

Same Army, Same Mistakes, Different Uniforms - Russian Armies since The Crimean War
There are some events in the contemporary world that suddenly make historians look at the past in a different light. Some books do the...

JW3 Rivers Course 17 March
The Mekong A very international river - Introduction Oc Eo: Early medieval civilisation in Mekong delta Medieval Khmer Empire in Cambodia...

JW3 Italy Course 17 March
Italy becomes a good European: The 1950s The Monarchy: Abdication and Referendum 1945/46 What sort of Republic? 1946 End of Empire 1947...

JW3 Italy course Thurs 10 March
I shall be at JW3 in person tomorrow, but you can still view via zoom Mussolini and World War Two 1938 Moving closer to Hitler Italy...

JW3 Rivers Course Thurs 10 March
I shall be at JW3 in person tomorrow, but you can still view via zoom. AMUR RIVER: LAND OF THE BLACK DRAGON: A story of geopolitics A...

Short Booklist on Ukraine
The books of S.Plokhy are all worth a read:- The Gates of Europe (A history of Ukraine) Lost Kingdom (History of Russian Nationalism) The...

Ukraine, Part 3
Following my earlier two blogs on Ukraine my good friend Edward posed some more questions to me. Rather than just answering him alone, I...

A Very Select and Short Booklist re World War Two, and with reference to Austria
A Concise History of Austria Steven Beller Hitler and the Habsburgs James Longo Hitler and Stalin Laurence Rees The...