Confessions of a Ci-Devant

Musings on history, life, popular culture, and art by historian Gareth Russell. All opinions, unless otherwise stated, are either my own or possibly Gabrielle de Polignac's.

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Belfast's Lord Mayor to resign early in order to avoid meeting the Queen

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Only a few weeks after officially unveiling the city's beautiful new memorial gardens to mark the centenary of the Titanic disaster, ...
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Saturday, 21 April 2012

Saint Jude

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Saint Jude the Apostle, identified with Thaddaeus the Apostle by some (but not all) historians of the Church, was one of the Twelve Ap...
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Thursday, 19 April 2012

Writing from the Tub's review of "Popular"

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The lovely Carly Bennett has written a review of my novel Popular on her blog Writing from the Tub . For those who have enjoyed Ci-Devant a...
Friday, 30 March 2012

Queen Elizabeth: Ten Years On

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His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall attended a memorial service in Saint George's Cha...
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Friday, 9 March 2012

The plight of Christians in the Middle East

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The Wall Street Journal is carrying a rather sobering opinion piece by Michael Osen, the State of Israel's ambassador to the United Sta...
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Friday, 24 February 2012

Famous Shipping Disasters: The attack on the "Lusitania" (1915)

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Although she is less famous than her equally-unlucky rival the Titanic , it's arguable that the Lusitania 's actual impact on histo...
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Monday, 20 February 2012

France's Iron Lady?

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"I am not a sentimental woman. Even during my youth I wasn't given to melancholia or remorse. I rarely looked back, rarely paused ...
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Gareth Russell is the author of four works of non-fiction, including the critically-acclaimed biography of Queen Catherine Howard, "Young and Damned and Fair", and two novels set in his native Belfast.
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