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By Tom Anderson Song lyrics and band names reveal clues about the past. This should be obvious, on the face of it. Naturally bands take...

By Tom Anderson As the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British government knew that it would become necessary to...

By Tom Anderson The eyes of the world were turned to Paris on August 31st, 1997, when Diana, Princess of Wales died from injuries...

By Tom Anderson As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began. The Soviet Union and the Western Allies had always been uneasy...

By Tom Anderson THE sun is setting— Can’t you hear A something in the distance Howl!!? I wonder if it’s— Yes!! it is That horrid Google...

By Tom Anderson In May 2016, a child climbed into a zoo enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and was grabbed and dragged...

By Tom Anderson Some years ago, when I was in the final stages of writing up my PhD thesis, I decided I needed a suitably...

By Tom Anderson The name ‘Pacific’ Ocean means ‘Peaceful’; it was so named by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 because he found favourable...

By Tom Anderson “Did you hear about the man who stole a calendar? He got twelve months.” – old Christmas cracker joke​ Since the dawn of...

By Tom Anderson Christmas is a festival which has reached around the world, and given birth to a host of different traditions in...

By Tom Anderson World War II has, for understandable reasons, left a long shadow on our cultural memory. Not only the greatest war the...

By Tom Anderson In my previous ‘Consequences’ article, I described how the near miss of a gunman led to the writing of The Wind in the...

By Tom Anderson World War One was said to be ‘the war to end all wars’. The fact that we now have to append a number to it is testament...

By Tom Anderson How a Scotsman’s Alcoholism and an Englishman’s Bad Aim Created Modern Children’s Literature Kenneth Grahame was, as one...

By Tom Anderson On June 28th 1914, Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the...

By Tom Anderson In January 2007 I first began writing and posting a project I called “Look to the West”, my first ‘proper’ attempt at a...

By Tom Anderson I recently mentioned on social media that on this day (then November 4th) Túpac Amaru II had launched his uprising in...

By Tom Anderson The last few articles in this series have mostly focused on the idea of a neat progression of frontline naval technology...

By Tom Anderson When dramatic political events take place, it is common for analysts to speculate on just what sowed the seeds for them....

By Tom Anderson As discussed in the previous article in this series, the second half of the 19th century saw rapid advancement in naval...