Sitemap - 2024 - History Explored
The cruel sea: navigating the deadly journey to Australia
The unjust killing of Anne Boleyn, condemned by her husband and King
How Tolkien used old English poetry to make Middle Earth 'believable'
A dose of Rough Music, a serve of Shivaree: punishing the wayward 18th century style
Go ahead, call the cops ... General Monty wasn't very nice
Burned alive: the fate of thousands of women killed in Europe's witch-hunt mania
Charles Darwin and the evolution revolution that shook society
World War One was all Germany's fault: the academic argument that sparked a furore
As a matter of fact ... a short history of facts
True confessions of a journalist in 1970s Northern England
Britain's crushing defeat at Singapore in 1942: beginning of the end of the Empire
I've got rambling on my mind ... walking and reality in The Lord Of The Rings
William the (proto-postmodern) Conqueror
Barbara Tuchman: great writer, but was she any good as a historian?
1914-18 'the war to end war': the epic tragedy that still haunts Europe
The man who predicted the horrors of World War One ... and was ignored
Thomas Cranmer's prayer book provides a glimpse of life in a time of peril and strife
The Protestant work ethic: Is it really Protestant? Is it even ethical?
The cherished freedoms promised by Magna Carta may be under threat
Hacked to death in battle: the grim fate of King Richard III and how it came about
They did WHAT!? When Winston Churchill ordered the destruction of France’s navy
They did WHAT!? A new series on historic decisions and the reasoning behind them
What does the future hold for the working class?
The crazy final years of genius editor J F Archibald
Hard to imagine today ... when poets and poetry drove up newspaper circulation
JF Archibald's boisterous Sydney Bulletin: a carnival of mockery, ridicule and comedy
The making of one of the most popular newspapers in Australian history
The rise and fall of a genius editor (Part 3)
The enduring beauty of Choral Evensong
When History reflects the Present as much as the Past
The rise and fall of a genius editor (Part 2)
The rise and fall of a newspaper genius
A carnival of mockery: criticising Christianity in 19th Century Australia
Why the Luddites raged against the machines: they'd seen the future and it didn't include them
Poetry slam: the amazing 'duel' in verse between two great Aussie bards of the Bush
An interview with the ghost of Great War poet Wilfred Owen
What the newspaper death notices say about us
Why YouTube Bible experts Ehrman and Tabor (and the rest) owe it all to the Germans
The tragedy of Rosa Frankenstein: lured into marriage by fake French Jew newspaper boss
Arthur and Martha: their hopes and dreams were shattered by the war that never ended
The courageous clergyman who exposed London's dirty, downtrodden underbelly
Eric and George made it cry and sing - but being a guitar star is much harder than it looks
All in a day’s work: journalist reports on grim spectacle of Death by Hanging
From William the Conqueror to Bill the Bean Counter: the journey of a killer king