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Ernst Jünger: Practitioner of killing in the First World War

by Benjamin Ziemann on September 21, 2017

If there is one German author who appears emblematic for the brutality of the First World War, the glorification of violence and the fascist reading of the wartime experience from 1914 to 1918, it is

What history can’t tell us about the future: Non-predictions for a Trumpy world

by Martin Brown on January 20, 2017

Europe faces a clear and present danger. NATO and the Russian Federation are facing off in the eastern Baltic. Rival

William Joyce: Fascist, Anti-Semite and Traitor – An Adventure in Political Biography

by Colin Holmes on December 12, 2016

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If you had read my Wikipedia entry several years ago you would have found the following: "His long-awaited biography of

Poppies, football and remembering the dead: they’ve always been political

by Martin Johnes on November 7, 2016

In 1919 a series of special international football matches were held between the British home nations. They were not to

Chilcot and the politics of Britain’s military history

by Matthew Ford on July 19, 2016

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Military history sells. The British public alone spends around £60 million a year on it. The public spend around £60

Voices from 1915: Public engagement with the First World War

by Jonathan Murphy on September 28, 2015

Much to my chagrin it seems that for once, Blackadder’s Lord Flashheart was right. When considering the First World War, we think of “the blood, the death, the endless poetry”. With the centenary upon us,

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