More in Heaven and Earth

The latest in my occasional series of Great Poems I love, and in honour of Easter, albeit a bit late, this is The Dream of the Rood . It...

After a long wait we finally enter Easter through Good Friday.  This is the most emotionally powerful day in the whole of the Christian cale...

These days everyone is talking about Nationalism. Whether it's Scottish Nationalism, Donald Trump's Nationalism, or European natio...

Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi German state murdered 5.5 - 6 million Jews in occupied Europe, as well as another five million gentiles ...

I have an occasional series of posts that try to work out population estimates for periods of Tolkien's Middle Earth. I have the distant...