Just to say that I will probably write a blog post around once a week, as work commitments are fairly busy at the moment, but I see I’ve picked up a handful of followers which is nice. 🙂 I touched on the legacy of the British Empire in my previous post on migration – theContinue reading “Empire”
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Migration
I’m using the word ‘migration’ here to encompass the variety of legal and illegal movement of people around the word. I’m not going to get into the pros and cons of migration, but I wanted to flesh out some early thoughts as to why it has increased in the post Second World War period intoContinue reading “Migration”
On Bias and fake news
We all have our biases and prejudices. Historians have their political views too. Navigating history, politics and current affairs in 2021 needs to be very alert to bias. One might even call it ‘fake news’. Separating truth from fiction is of course an historian’s job, but the ‘fake news’ problem is also part of theContinue reading “On Bias and fake news”
New beginnings
This website will evolve and develop but first and foremost I want it to be place, mid-Coronavirus pandemic where I have space to write, develop my thoughts and start talking about my passion: history. Perhaps we can use history to shine a light on the modern world and work out what has gone wrong, whyContinue reading “New beginnings”
Modern History Man 