Commodus: Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 4 Part 1
If you want to be an emperor, the easiest way is to be born into it.
Michael Foot RIP: The British Cicero
The whole History Books Review organisation was saddened to hear this week of the death of Michael Foot. In addition to his career as a politician he was of course also a historian of some note and his biography of Aneurin Bevan is on the list of books I intend to review. This particular book is interesting as an example of a history of his own time written by a participant in that history. This is quite a rare thing nowadays.