This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – February 2017. A Rostock street, January 1987 This is a fragment of personal history about the fringes of the Cold War. I want to post it now because the events happened thirty years ago this year and because they recall people in…
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – October 2015. The site at Bursledon: to the left, the site of the Grace Dieu, to the right, the possible site of the Holy Ghost. ‘But how do we know that?’ is a good question for people to ask of historians and…
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – May, 2014. Weimar and the Ettersberg, from Conti-Atlas für Kraftfahrer (c 1935). It’s strange what evidence of history you can find in banal, everyday objects. On an impulse, years ago, I bought an old road atlas of Germany in a secondhand…