Historian on the Edge

 On Bluesky there has been a little discussion of counter-factual history, sparked by a post asking what position you could defend against 2...

The ‘Lessons of History’ [ This post basically argues three things: that the current world crisis, rise of fascism etc cannot be attributed ...

  Call for papers for session/strand at the International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July 2025:   The Reach of Politics, 5 th -7 th centurie...

  [ This is a somewhat rewritten version of a plenary lecture I gave at a conference last year on the dissolvement [sic] of kinship ties, sh...

This time, ah-ah Is coming like a ghost time When I wrote   Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West , getting on for 20 years ago, I used a ...

Several problems are raised by the economic/political paradigm. As indicated last time, my aim here is not to replace them but to add a new ...