Robert's European History Blog

David Winner's long discussion of Rome and popular perception is excellent and informative reading for everyone, but Hollywood film producers most importantly of all. Winner begins by explaining why almost ... Read More

Charles Moore's discussion of Churchill mixes some of the positive and negative views levelled at the man once called 'the saviour of his nation', but finally concludes with the now ... Read More

This review of The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages by Miri Rubin covers what the author thinks medieval Britain is like, as well as ... Read More

According to this article, the visitor centre at Ambion Hill, Market Bosworth, attracts over 22,000 people a year interested in seeing the battlefield where Richard III died. Unfortunately, new research ... Read More

The Russian military is selling off a mass of Second World War equipment, ranging from pistols to T-34 tanks, with the latter costing over $20,000 each. I didn’t even get ... Read More

A review of The Longman Handbook of Modern British History by Chris Cook and John Stevenson.

Peter Aspden's article 'Orchestrating The Holocaust' tackles a difficult, emotive and highly contentious subject: a concert intended to both celebrate the liberation of and to commemorate the horrors of the ... Read More

Now living in America, Joachim Pusch fought for Nazi Germany in the Second World War, experiencing both the Eastern and Western Fronts. In this all too brief interview he recounts ... Read More

In the 1920's an enterprising architect build a reproduction castle in the middle of London (probably by reworking an existing Georgian house). This article explains who's owned it and why ... Read More

France has only fourteen soldiers left from the millions who fought in the First World War (five less than the UK – does anyone have a figure for the US ... Read More

Journalists, politicians and other commentators on contemporary Iraq frequently plunder two main areas of history for their analogies: Vietnam if they want to be critical, World War 2 if they ... Read More

In 1994 builders discovered hundreds of meters of film that may have lain abandoned since 1913, when a film studio based on the relevant site closed. A decade of preservation ... Read More

Archaeologists at Colchester, UK, have discovered what they believe to be the largest Roman chariot track outside Italy. Try this article for more information.

If you consider this short article as a primer on the history of Augsburg, as opposed to anything in-depth, you shouldn’t be disappointed.

Unless you're unlucky enough to be trapped somewhere with just one book, newcomers to Hornblower are faced with a key decision: to read the books in the order Forester wrote ... Read More

Volunteers in Devon are building a modern reconstruction of Nelson’s ship HMS Victory, albeit on land. But, for a reason that’s never fully explained in this article, they’re going to ... Read More

As a discussion on the history of spheres being used in time keeping and major celebrations, a double-entendre was never going to be far away in this article from the ... Read More