A giant of a book, hugely well researched and hugely entertaining: Notes below: This book’s central argument is that popular consent was...

First trip abroad since Covid. Notes below :) Bulgars from Iran. Mixed with Slavs. First Bulgarian state. Roman invasion. Roman/Greek...

Read this over the best course of a year or so. Everytime I picked it up I walked away feeling energised as a parent and ready to try out...

Read as part of my continued participation in The History Teacher Book Club on Twitter. And again, another excellent read. Notes are...

Malta a strategic point in the middle of the Med. Frustrated Italian and German efforts to supply their African campaigns. However. By...

A very enjoyable read, it came second in the ‘History Teacher Book Club’ vote but I was so keen to get it read I read it alongside the...

Moving from Working to Long-Term Memory (from Why Don’t Students like School, Daniel T. Willingham) The initial example is about a...

King John, by Marc Morris I rediscovered these notes while looking for my Anglo-Saxon notes. So this was a little bonus discovery. I made...

The Anglo-Saxons, by Marc Morris. Again, another superb read recommended by the History Teacher’s Book Club. Ag ain, an era I knew little...

What is it about? War between the West and Russia. Who wrote it? Mark Greaney, a military thriller author who was written some of the...