William Brooke Joyce was born on 24th April 1906, into an Irish Catholic family, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. A few years after his birth, the family returned to Ireland permanently, setting up home in Salthill, Galway. After leaving school, William crossed the Irish Sea to England, to study at Birkbeck College of the… Read More

Following on from my earlier story about John Hampden, the English politician and nemesis of King Charles I, during which I mentioned the peculiar English habit of digging up the corpses of important people, long after they had been laid to rest, I decided to look a little deeper into this strange impulsion.   Unsurprisingly,… Read More

During his summer holidays in 1958, an American scholar by the name of Gerhard Weinberg (b. 1928), was trawling through German military documents captured by the United States at the end of World War II. His attention was drawn to a folder labelled “Draft of Mein Kampf“. As he began to examine the yellowing 324… Read More

Prior to the English Civil War (1642-1651) the power of the reigning monarch was absolute. They ruled by divine right, meaning their authority came from God, and no subject was at liberty to question that authority, let alone take up arms against their sovereign. The eventual outcome of the war, was the establishment of the… Read More