Category: History
“Ask me anything you like. But I warn you, I’m not a Byzantinist …” – John Julius Norwich.
This featured article had originally intended to highlight a collection of history books that bloggers or enthusiasts would find interesting […]
Bank Siege at Kredibanken and the Stockholm Syndrome
Forty years ago, on August 23rd, 1973, after four people were taken hostage by a bank robber in a Stockholm […]
Sinkholes (a brief history of…)
Could there be anything more dramatic than the ground opening up and swallowing entire dwellings, buildings, cars roads, animals and […]
Greeks, Romans and Asbestos (a brief history of…)
Our earliest records of the use of asbestos dates back around 3,000 years ago in the lands around Scandinavia. Archeologists […]
Evagrius Ponticus and the Eight Logismoi
It is difficult for us to appreciate the intricacies of the Byzantine state, without sometimes looking at the simple lives […]
The Great Fire of Rome
During the night of July 18, 64 AD, a fire had broke out in the merchant area of the city. […]
The War Dog (a brief history of…)
Two German dispatch dog sit in a trench with fitted gas masks awaiting ‘instructions’ . The scene above was repeated […]
The Iron Curtain Revisited. (The speech that began the Cold War?)
At the end of the Second World War, it is accepted that much of the western populace regarded the Soviet […]
