Tag: military

Literature, History, and the Vietnam War

Writing a preview of the Cheltenham Literature Festival, I suggested all History students should read literature.  I was reminded of this today when I read the (belated – he died in June) obituary of Michael  Herr in The…

Dr Rodney Atwood, ‘The British Army’s Victory in Afghanistan, 1880’, 17th March 2014

In this post, one of our first-year History undergraduates, Ben Stagg, writes about the recent talk by Dr Rodney Atwood at the Gloucestershire branch of the Historical Association. On the evening of Monday 17th March 2014 (St. Patrick’s…