Monday, 22 April 2013

The weakness of Tsar Nicholas II

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Ask any schoolchild or anyone with a passing knowledge of history to come up with one adjective they associate with Russia's last em...
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Thursday, 18 April 2013

Meryl Streep's statement on the death of Lady Thatcher

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Actress Meryl Streep, who won the Academy Award for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in the motion picture The Iron Lady (above), has...
Thursday, 28 March 2013

The other Catherine Howard

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History records three Catherine Howards who enjoyed prominence at the early modern English court - the first, and most famous, was the ...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

The death of Steven Simpson

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There is a scene in Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” when the great cathedral’s bell-ringer is ritually humiliated by the c...
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Huffington Post profiles "The Immaculate Deception"

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Journalist Scott  De Buitléir's interview with me about writing is now available online through Huffington Post: Books . I hope you...

The Taoiseach's apologises to the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries

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The publication of a report into the appalling conditions in the religiously-run Magdalene Laundries for "fallen" women in 20...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2013

"Laughing at gilded butterflies"

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This week, I have written a guest article for Claire Ridgway's The Anne Boleyn Files , about how Tudor, medieval and Baroque history...