Historian on the Edge

To every one of the people who was accidentally or on purpose was behind the 90,000 or so hits H.o.t.E. has had during 2011.  I hope you fin...

Chilperic and Fredegund About ten years ago I wrote a piece about Gregory of Tours and Chilperic I of Neustria - usually regarded as Gregory...

"The irresponsible, and more than despotic authority vested by the Roman laws in the father over the son, was thoroughly repugnant to t...

Yesterday I was sent (by this blogger) an interesting piece about English law as it relates to blogging ( here ).   So, to avoid any furthe...

If I want to avoid the word 'gift' - because I don't think that the exchange of objects or food in return for alliance/service/r...

... Of being able to protest peacefully without being sabred by the yeomanry, you might be interested to read this quite worrying piece.  W...

Here you can read about the University of Birmingham obtaining a court injunction criminalising any occupation or sit-in protest anywhere on...