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...

1 This latin phrase, meaning Much in Little, was the title of a small revision book written by my Prep School history master in Bristol,...

Historians are becoming less reluctant in turning to works of fiction to illuminate the past, for examples the novels of the 18th century....

FURTHER TO YESTERDAY'S BLOG ABOUT PRIME MINISTERS ETC:- The country has been left without a clear answer as to whether The First...

The Prime Minster's hospitalisation (from which we all wish him a speedy and complete recovery) has raised a number of constitutional...

Eyam 1665/6 The village of Eyam in Derbyshire, led by its vicar, Rev William Mompesson, self isolated to contain the plague within the...

1. Putin and Italy. Russia has/is sending aid to Italy. Surely, this is something we can all applaud, help in time of crisis; Yes, but...

A number of you, following last week's lecture for JW3, asked me to put up the quote I used. So here it is, taken from Seamus Heaney's ...

Leslie, one of the students who followed my lecture on 'The Baltic and World War Two' for JW3 yesterday, reminds me that I didn't mention...

Many thanks to whoever replied to me with their considered academic response and answer. Just click on ‘comment’ below my original blog...

I have been learning from my son this morning about logarithmic scales which COBR are using in constructing the graphs used at Government...

We are all learning new ways of doing things. My technical adviser, aka my son, Jonathan, decided that the book slot on the blog wasn't...

There has been much discussion already as to how our experience with this pandemic will affect the way we conduct our politics in the...

In an earlier blog I made mention of The Black Death, and, in that connection, the work of the American historian and biologist, Walter...

Who guards the guardians? or, who watches the watchers? A quotation from the Roman author Juvenal writing in the early second century CE....