Historian on the Edge

The Historical, Philosophical and Political Musings of an Autistic Historian

Sunday, 24 June 2012

For fans of austerity everywhere

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A Nobel-laureate economist speaks.

Archbishop hits out at failing leader

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Following in the footsteps of a commendable tradition going back to the likes of Nicetius of Trier and beyond, the out-going Archbishop of C...
Thursday, 21 June 2012

More trouble...

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... at the institution to which we at Historian on the Edge like, for legal reasons, to refer as Bourneville Tech.  We've had reason  be...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

In Lieu of a Post

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Some gems from bloggers more knowledgeable and more creative than I. http://stevesarson.blogspot.fr/2012/06/bullingon-kubla-cam.html http://...
Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Thought for the Day

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Even the sincere black man (le Noir) is a slave of the past.  However, I am a man, and in that sense the Peloponnesian War is as much mine a...
Sunday, 3 June 2012

Feud, Vengeance, Politics and History in Early Medieval Europe

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[ This is the text of a paper I gave at a very good conference in Aarhus in October 2003, which I haven't (yet) written up (the rest of ...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Gaps, Ghosts and Dice: More inchoate musings on the nature of history (in which Julius Caesar meets Stéphane Mallarmé): Part 1

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[ Brace yourself for more ill-informed, half-thought-through pseudo-philosophical waffling about what history really is.  Ill-informed, etc....
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