RIVER THAMES 1. London 'Liquid History' and Kipling Royal River Pageant River Peoples River Trading River Dirty River 2. Rural Thames...

THE MAFIA Problems of Definition Origins in Bourbon Sicily post 1812 Characteristics Prime focus from Protection to Politics Attempts to...

RIVER AMAZON 1. INTRODUCTION In our imagination - The Lost World - Etymology - Facts and Figures 2. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES History and...

There are some events in the contemporary world that suddenly make historians look at the past in a different light. Some books do the...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 Concise History of Austria Steven Beller Hitler and the Habsburgs James Longo Hitler and Stalin Laurence Rees The...

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

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...

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

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...

Please note I shall be delivering this talk in person at JW3, but you can choose to still join via zoom. RIVER NILE Introduction 'Egypt...

I am sat in my flat with Covid. Not ill, but can't go out. However, with the weather outside being what it is, I don't wish to anyway!...

THE GANGES Introduction Mystical and religious nature of rivers Auspicious properties of Ganges Kumbla Mela Pollution of Ganges and...

SOCIAL PROGRESS & SOCIAL STAGNATION 1861-1915 That North/South divide again! Money and weights and measures Industrial Progress in the...