by Geoffrey | Jan 14, 2021 | News
The Great What? The Great is a series on Channel Four about Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Some people think it is a great travesty of history, whilst others enjoy it. Controversy seldom does a TV series any harm and many features of this one make for...
by Geoffrey | Dec 22, 2020 | News
Karl Marx is famous, but not as a historian Marx was an economist, wasn’t he? Or you might think he was a politician. He certainly had a lot to say about economics and you can’t separate that from politics. However, Marx was not actively involved in...
by Geoffrey | Dec 15, 2020 | News
Coronation Street is 60 years old Coronation Street has just been celebrating this milestone in its history. By TV standards it’s been around a long time, but how does Chaucer get in on the act? When was he writing? From the middle to late fourteenth century....
by Geoffrey | Dec 4, 2020 | News
The slave trade has been in the news and on screen People are thinking about the slave trade a lot this year because of Black Lives Matter and the arguments about statues. There was also the film Twelve Years a Slave. I have seen a series Enslaved with Samuel L...
by Geoffrey | Nov 5, 2020 | News
An election like no other Here’s how I imagine some world leaders might react to the current US election, if they were being honest. If. (I have omitted their surnames to preserve their anonymity, a thing they all crave.) “It reminds me of my historic...
