Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Toppling Edward Colston was important and right

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Two of the most useful things I studied at university were statistics and a history elective called "Public History". As t...
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Sunday, 1 July 2018

From abusive sex tourism by the privileged to Love Island

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I have been reading a terrible book. It's called Sultry Climates by Ian Littlewood. The book's subtitle is "Travel and s...
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Sunday, 13 August 2017

#JeSuisTalayotic

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I'm back from Menorca where I visited the remains of one of an estimated 300 Talayotic settlements because I find it impossible to ...
Sunday, 29 November 2015

Learning from history? It'll never catch on...

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Imagine this scenario if you will: People in England, including the leaders, consider the country to be under threat by the "other ...
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Sunday, 19 July 2015

The Queen is probably not a Nazi but I am still a republican...

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For The Sun , it was mission accomplished. Step 1: Stoke up outrage over photographs and a film from 1933 featuring the Queen Mother an...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Off with her head! Behold, it's Hilary Mantel hysteria!

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Beheading people for treason isn't really the done thing in Britain these days. It is mildly terrifying that the last person execute...
Thursday, 7 February 2013

Make no bones about it! Richard III is political.

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Richard III has been dead for 528 years but he is still causing havoc long after it was rumoured that he had his own nephews murdered. T...