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How to Dance Your Way to the Top
105/10/2012 by noonobservation
Someone stuck a leaflet for Zumba classes through my door this week. After tossing it into the recycling, the thought …
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Khartoum! Where god finally sacked Gordon
728/09/2012 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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Have Students Always Been this Annoying?
621/09/2012 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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Augustus the (Physically) Strong
614/09/2012 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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Borodino: Where Napoleon met his Waterloo
207/09/2012 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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Film Review: Alfred the Great (1969)
503/09/2012 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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Arthur Wellesley: A Stalker’s Guide
230/08/2012 by noonobservation
There are many advantages to stalking historical figures, rather than the living. Firstly, they have fewer bodyguards (although one shouldn’t …
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Memorabilia
324/08/2012 by noonobservation
I spent a good 10 minutes of my life today trying to remember the name of the founder of the …
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Flash Gordon
122/08/2012 by noonobservation
This week I have been reading this 1890 biography of General Gordon (I have the 8th ed, published 1901) and listening to the …
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Adventures in history
Leave a comment21/08/2012 by noonobservation
I tend to spend a lot of my time in the past, poking around in various historical people and places …
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