history

Wonderful things… from guinnessorig 310 days old

[ ... ] interest in history to get anything out of Time Team. To be curious about the past and the people who populated it. The personalities and the ...

Things I hate #6 from guinnessorig 329 days old

[ ... ] sense of history? Why do these streets not celebrate their spatial heritage? Their occupational ancestry? Are we really saying that there’s no ...

The Dogs of War & Brave Buccephalus from guinnessorig 357 days old

The British are, above all, passionate about two things – their animals and their Nationalism. At the outbreak of World War I, when Kaiser Wilhelm ...

1066 and all that from guinnessorig 358 days old

History may be signposted by the dates of battles and divided into eras by the reigns of Royal Houses, but it is the detail that brings the past and ...