Monthly Archives: September 2012

  1. Khartoum! Where god finally sacked Gordon

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    28/09/2012 by noonobservation

    It’s taken me a bit longer than I expected to finish my book about General Gordon. There are three reasons: …
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    Category: Victorian Christian Heroes | Tags: , , ,

  2. Have Students Always Been this Annoying?

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    21/09/2012 by noonobservation

    As I rolled over in bed last night, pulling the pillow more tightly about my ears to keep out the …
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    Category: General Historical Piffle | Tags: , , ,

  3. Augustus the (Physically) Strong

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    14/09/2012 by noonobservation

    Assessing the merits of monarchs causes me more pub arguments than all my spilled drinks and ill-thrown darts combined. I’m …
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    Category: Best Kings | Tags: , , , , ,

  4. Borodino: Where Napoleon met his Waterloo

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    07/09/2012 by noonobservation

    Call me strange, but when I get a new diary, I like to ritualistically go through the events of the …
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    Category: The Napoleonic Wars | Tags: , , ,

  5. Film Review: Alfred the Great (1969)

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    03/09/2012 by noonobservation

    This year I took part in Ian Dawson’s interactive history seminar at the SHP conference which I was attending for …
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    Category: Film Reviews | Tags: ,

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