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  A Review of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer Amazon Kindle eBook edition (the edition used...

It's time to write something. It's a bit of recent commentary on an old post prompted by a new comment made on Goodreads about my re...

  What a strange year 2020 was. I remember encountering the words "the past is a foreign country" somewhere in the writings of his...

As I was watching video footage of developments during the Hong Kong protest movement, I saw Beijing had symbolically mobilised the People...

Just a quick update. I have had to give up researching and writing for my book up for a while. I just found it too depressing reading about...

This blog post by American academic in media studies, Professor Randall Bytwerk , on fake and apocryphal quotes often attributed to leading...

My book on the place of Wagner in German history is begging to be written. It is being written. Some time ago, it felt like a first drau...

A little comment on this diagram called the "Vienna Circles: the Field of Cultural Production". It was recently posted on Twitt...

As suggested in my last post, there will a resumption of regular articles that give snippets of insight into the sort of background researc...