September 28, 2022
Within months of the Battle of Hastings, the Norman armies came to Marlborough, and – though we have no positive physical evidence to prove this, they created a rough fortification… READ MORE
September 16, 2022
Invocations of peace and justice pervaded the enforcement of law and order in medieval and early modern Europe. As one example, a judge speaking to a Yorkshire jury in 1620… READ MORE
September 6, 2022
Marlborough Mound is one of the least visible of the great monuments of England, and almost unknown except to local historians and specialists. It stands in the middle of Marlborough… READ MORE
June 8, 2022
When Pirates became media sensations In April 1828, the pirate attack on the brig Morning Star became the first truly global pirate story. Of course, back then there was no… READ MORE
June 7, 2022
A woman’s bargain with pirates Anne Logie remained calm as she faced the young French pirate Victor St Cyr Barbazan. He and the other pirates of the Defensor de Pedro… READ MORE
May 23, 2022
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and… READ MORE
May 12, 2022
Popular memory of the Scottish Covenanters, to the extent they are remembered at all, tends to feature them as either intolerant, violent religious fanatics, or focuses on their persecution during… READ MORE
May 10, 2022
Zarina Burkadze’s new book, published by the University of Rochester in their Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe series, is a powerfully insightful study of the challenges faced by… READ MORE
May 6, 2022
Dr Williams’s Trust and Library, edited by Alan Argent, derives from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716), revealing rare examples of private philanthropy and dissenting enterprise. Early… READ MORE
April 14, 2022
With the recent publication of Red Road to Freedom, I became intrigued by secret parties, patriotic unity, and great power competition. I asked myself ‘where have other red roads led’?… READ MORE
In Defense of Victorian Churches