Tag Archives: History

The "hero", Matthew, arrives on stage dust-spattered and debris-battered, having escaped from a World Trade Center Tower on 9/11.

Reflecting on history, from 7/7 to the "slavewoman Kitty", who split a church, to international relations on the sub-continent.

With this Egyptian Queen no inch of flesh goes unwriggled, no sideways glance unsmouldered, no lascivious gesture unexercised.

Obviously, the men who almost froze to death at Valley Forge embraced Patrick Henry’s words.

Twenty years after it was released, a collection of post-apocalyptic stories remains relevant today.

...for us to better understand the times we live in, we need to know what led up to the current circumstances.

Without people, you don't have much of an army.

How did the Eagles, with their perfect (too perfect?) symbiosis of country and rock, come to be the most popular band in America?

Tradition still counts in England. How else to explain an anachronism like BBC television’s Top of the Pops weekly music countdown show? In the U.S., with the glut of 24-hour music and music video channels, any number of other cable and satellite channels that feature music regularly, ever-finer slicing of …

A great read for fans of the music and times, providing a cautionary tale without feeling preachy.