Podcast
Rachael Duffett considers how First World War soldiers took to the food they were served. Plus Julian Swann offers his thoughts on the origin of the French Revolution.
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Book Review
Sir Richard Cocks, the Gloucestershire JP & MP, thought that William III’s escape from an assassination attempt in 1696 demonstrated “the hand of god in our revolution as was in the bringing the Children of...
Feature
1. Discover classical music
“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable,” said the Roman poet Juvenal almost 2,000 years ago. He was not alone in thinking this, for, as an exhibition at the National Roman Legion...
Feature
National parks have been described, with some justification, as the best idea that America ever had’’. But actually, the person who first came up with that far-sighted and world-shaping idea was an Englishman.
It was the celebrated Lake...
Book Review
This is, by Lieven’s own admission, a labour of love, the result of years of study and reflection. It brings genuinely new insights, eschewing the conventional concerns of British and French historiography to examine the Napoleonic Wars from a...
Visit
Carlisle’s location has left an indelible impact upon its history. Commanding the low-lying land at the west end of the Scottish border, it was for centuries of immense strategic importance as a bulwark against invaders from the north, and...
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Our long cycling journey following Hannibal’s trail has come to an end, appropriately where the Carthaginian general met his first and last major defeat – at the Battle of Zama.
Hannibal had been recalled to Africa to defend his homeland...
Book Review
Sitting on Crewe station on a wet afternoon waiting for a train makes it difficult to believe that railways had once, and will continue, to transform the world. Blood, Iron and Gold revived my faith in the power that
is the railway. Wolmar’s...
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