Counter-factual History.
What might have been had the Romans developed the steam engine? By the late 3rd century AD, all of the essential elements for constructing a steam engine were known to Roman engineers: steam power –...
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If you were required to teach twentieth century history to primary school pupils, what would you teach and why? I have a particular reason for asking this question, and will tell you why later.
View ArticleIt is the Sixth of June
And do I see any sign in the press that, sixty-seven years ago today, the greatest sea-borne invasion in history took place on the beaches of Normandy, beginning the end of the Great Patriotic War,...
View Article‘David Starkey is ill-suited to hold forth on topics other than the Tudors.’...
Boadicea. Perhaps you would like to start the conversation. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8722917/David-Starkeys-views-on-race-disgrace-the-academic-world-say-historians.html
View ArticleMystified Marxist Mouse
I have recently been involved in an interesting discussion Elsewhere on the subject of Cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School. Simplistically, Political Marxism morphed into Cultural Marxism from...
View ArticleA Grand Day Out
Cold and wet with a blustery wind: that’s what we woke to this morning. The forecast did not suggest any improvement for the rest of the day. After that lovely spell of hot Spring weather a week or so...
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