I love Northern Ireland and most of its people, and find it heartbreaking to see the province in the news today not in commemoration of its centenary year but once again because of vicious communal violence. The law-abiding majority feel betrayed, and a new generation of young people is being encouraged by criminals to run … Read more
Adolf Hitler’s father was authoritarian, strongly political, thought of himself as above others and had a lasting impact on his son, a German historian has claimed. Roman Sandgruber, professor emeritus at the University of Linz, says he made the discoveries after studying a never-before-seen trove of 31 letters written by Alois Hitler to the man who … Read more
Historian and author Christopher Lee who wrote BBC’s This Sceptred Isle dies aged 79 after coronavirus battle Christopher Lee passed away at his home in Sussex surrounded by his family His wife Fiona Graham-Mackay said the author had tested positive for Covid-19 The 79-year-old won acclaim for the BBC’s This Sceptred Isle on BBC Radio 4 … Read more
The dark underbelly of the infamous Chippendales all-male review is being laid bare in a new true-crime podcast that details how greed and jealousy among its founders led to arson, murder, and suicide. Host Natalia Petrzela, a historian and fitness instructor, interviewed more than 60 people for her new podcast Welcome to Your Fantasy, including former dancers, investigators, … Read more
Canterbury Cathedral has won praise for resisting calls to remove statues with historic links to slavery despite calls by Justin Welby to look at them ‘very carefully.’ The Archbishop of Canterbury last year suggested the monuments should be reviewed to see if they ‘should all be there.’ He made the comments last June, when monuments … Read more
Historian Tom Holland has joined the rector of London‘s oldest parish church in calling for financial help from both sides of the Atlantic to fix the roof in part of the building where Benjamin Franklin once worked. The beams holding up the roof of the Lady Chapel at the 12th-Century St Bartholomew The Great church … Read more
WHAT BOOK would historian Charles Spencer take to a desert island? Charles Spencer is currently reading The Splendid And The Vile by Erik Larson He would take Screenplay by Syd Field with him to a desert island The historian said The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil left him cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: … Read more
Like the previous three series of The Crown, the latest is riddled with factual errors. Here, Royal historian Ian Lloyd highlights some of the worst examples. DIANA AND CAMILLA’S LUNCH ‘DISASTER’ TV VERSION The two women in Charles’s life are shown meeting for lunch at the London restaurant Menage a Trois shortly after the Prince … Read more
The date was June 16, 1815. At Quatre Bras, a few miles from the Belgian village of Waterloo, 19-year-old Private Matthew Clay was close to despair. All day, he and his comrades in the 3rd Foot Guards had been fighting to hold back Napoleon Bonaparte’s French army. Now Private Clay was on the move, stumbling … Read more
BBC historian Lucy Worsley says Battle of Waterloo was NOT a British victory because Wellington completely downplayed the part played rest of Europe Wellington’s triumph in Belgium has been hailed as one of Britain’s finest hours Worsely said that the leader deliberately glossed over the role the Prussian army She said British badly needed a … Read more