
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...

UKRAINE: Past Present Future
This is my second blog posted on the subject of Ukraine. Scroll down for 'History is Dangerous', the first blog. There were, at the...

Synopsis: JW3 Italy course Thursday 3rd March
Please note, because of the tube strike, I shall be giving this lecture on zoom. One step forward and then one step back! Sorry, but...

Synopsis: JW3 Rivers Course Thursday 3rd March
Please note that because of the Tube strike I shall be giving the lecture by zoom. So annoying, but there that's life! You may join...

History is Dangerous
History is dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands. That is not to say that objective history (or as objective as historians can...

Synopsis for JW3 Italy course, Thurs 24 Feb
Please note I shall be giving this talk in person in JW3, but you can still choose to join via zoom At War in 1915 Two facts with which...