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In November, 1963, John F. Kennedy (‘JFK’) was tragically assassinated in Dallas, an event which shocked not just the USA but the entire world. Many people had seemingly invested their hopes and dreams in the new youthful president, and suddenly that optimism had been cruelly crushed.
As part of my teaching duties, I have given lectures on the nature of U.S. foreign po...
In the years prior to the outbreak of war in 1914, the issue of soil and the ‘land’ in Britain, and its position in public and national life, became a source of great anxiety for the critics of modernity. Such people felt that traditional rural communities and village home-life across the country, were in serious decline. In particular, the question of the right to own or ren...
The study of fascism and the far right often throws up some difficult conundrums for the historian. I have recently undertaken some research on the men and women in Britain who supported the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 and who expressed pro-Franco sentiments. One such man was the controversial poet, writer and satirist Roy Campbell, who also saw himse...
During the course of 1917, in a determined attempt to cut down on the amount of food imports and to alleviate pressure on Allied ships sailing across the Atlantic, the British government initiated a national campaign to encourage as much cultivation of land as possible, and evidence of this can be seen at local level in Surrey, including in the Kingston area and surrounding d...
After Adolf Hitler’s suicide in his bunker in Berlin on 30th April, 1945, his chosen successor, Grand-Admiral Donitz, was briefly the new leader of a Germany that, astonishingly, fought on for a few more days. Donitz did not concede defeat until 7th May, 1945.
It was a good indication that some parts of the German armed forces, especially many middle-ranking and...