Dan Carlin produces excellent history podcasts. But boy are they long.

Well it is that time of year when you have a little time to reflect. And I have decided that I am no longer happy using Facebook. I hate the experience and they are undermining democracy. And I waste too much time on Twitter. I love the experience but I can’t seem to take it

The Silver Chair is a good book, but it has some political and religious messages.

Lyrical Ballads was a revolutionary collection of poems that changed the way we think about verse. It was also a successful get rich quick scheme.

A review of British Prime Ministers’ attitudes to Europe reveals that the UK’s political elite has never really got what the EU is about.

A meeting between Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1942 raises interesting questions.