Category: History

From A to Z

“Stop the world I want to get off’ – it’s the title of a 1961 musical – and it’s what I’d like to do sometimes.

Allenby’s Entry into Jerusalem

I cannot improve on John D Grainger’s account of Allenby’s entry into Jerusalem extracted from The Battle for Palestine 1917, published in 2006.

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Three Irish Regiments

My Bellew grandfather told me he served in both the North Irish Horse and South Irish Horse in the Great War.

Conflict

Lunch at my club yesterday with David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts. If you don’t know them click the links to Wikipedia.

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I’ve Got a Little List

I went to The White Swan this morning thanks to Angela and Edward’s comment yesterday and on the way saw the Bondgate Tower.

Bear Arms

The Ursine Appreciation Society have lodged a complaint about yesterday’s post alleging that the portrayal of a bear mauling Mr Hugh Glass misrepresents bears and has undone their work to promote bears through brands Pooh and Rupert. Today’s post redresses the balance.

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Winter in Madrid

CJ Sansom is an author who has found his metier writing historical whodunnit mysteries set in Tudor England with Shardlake as his hunchback lawyer hero. Maybe he chose a lawyer as before he became a full time author he practised as a solicitor.