Thursday, 13 August 2015

Results Day

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It's A-levels Results Day, or 'National Hovering Teenager Day', as web-site The Poke called it.  The papers are full of the usu...
Sunday, 31 May 2015

Why History Doesn’t Matter: Historians for Britain (or, Where does a Chaotic/Ironic view of History leave the Socially-/Politically-Committed Historian?)

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So, um, I decided to join ‘Historians for Britain’.  … Nah, not really. *** If you live in the UK and keep an eye out for history-related ne...
Friday, 29 May 2015

Unit Names in the Western Late Roman Army

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Ah, so many things to blog about right now - Historians For the Britain, the disastrous election, Charlie Hebdo and Islamic 'extremism...
Friday, 22 May 2015

Consensus: A Historical Lesson from UKIP

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UKIP is 100% united, said Nigel Farage earlier this week , making a public pronouncement of the consensus that exists within his party in mu...
Friday, 15 May 2015

Political Communities? A Comparison of the Roman and Merovingian Polities

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[ This is the paper I gave yesterday at Kalamazoo, in what turned out to be a very successful and (given there were a lot of clashes) gratif...
Tuesday, 28 April 2015

The ghostly horizon of the year 600

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[ Here, for your comments and reactions and to help me get back into it, is the current draft of the opening to my book of the Transformatio...
Monday, 20 April 2015

The Myth of Relevance (Part 2)

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[ Here is the next installment of the chapter.  As last time , it was mostly written a year ago.  It is very much a draft and most if not al...