Forgive the autobiographical content but I am often asked about some of the issues discussed below. PS Please just ignore if you can't...

In a civil case brought in The High Court, and subsequently which went on appeal to The Court of Appeal, Gaius, the Roman lawyer and...

A number of people have asked me the question which many of us have been mulling over, namely, 'How will life be different once the...

Slightly ahead of myself this week. Weather and deliveries have kept me in ! You can book via JW3 website, search for my name. Morning...

NB Please note that if you have reached this blog through my Home Page you can access over 30 earlier blogs by clicking on 'BLOG' at top...

James FitzJames was the illegitimate son of James II (at the time, 1670, Duke of York) and his mistress Arabella Churchill, John...

April 2019. The first time the Cornish language was used in a prime time television advert; For Kelly's Cornish Ice Cream Allegedly,...

1. HL Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe:- " As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more...

One or two people perhaps don't realise that they can access all the blogs, not just the last two or three, by clicking on the word...

During the Civil Wars of the 1640s, both sides, King and Parliament, employed foreign mercenaries. They employed them for their...

Tomorrow, I begin two new term length courses. In the morning at 11am I am talking about Environment and History In the afternoon at 2pm...

Sometimes non historians writing about history as a subject can offer great insights. Here are a few chosen somewhat at random from my...

For my numismatic friends: Coins and Medals of the English Civil War by Edward Besly. An example of how such books should be written For...

The Plague of Athens occurred in the middle of The Peloponnesian War (Athens v Sparta) in 430 BC. We have an excellently detailed...

Once upon a time .......... there was a Kingdom of Mallorca which existed for nearly seventy years. It began as a peaceful division of...

One of the earliest plagues for which we have multiple contemporary sources is The Plague of Justinian. Justinian was the Eastern...

I have already written in an earlier blog of how some authoritarian regimes, such as that of Hungary, are taking the opportunity of...

The Butcher, The Baker, and The Candlestick Maker. Roger Hutchinson. The story of The Census since 1861 Histories of the Unexpected. ...

'Rough Music' is the usual name given in England to the old, largely rural custom, of showing community disapproval of marital infidelity...