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[31st August 2011 - 12.24]
Can history compete at prime time on Britain’s biggest channel? That was the challenge I was set by the BBC’s top brass. Me and a crack...
[11th February 2010 - 12.06]
There were rumours from the East. Soviet T-34 tanks were being destroyed at inconceivable ranges while German news reels boasted of a war winning...
[17th December 2009 - 09.58]
Christmas is approaching; people are giving themselves over to wild excess, while misanthropes moan. They wail that Christmas has become a festival...
[19th November 2009 - 09.42]
It was a very British scene. A group of wild haired men and women, dressed like Siberian irregulars, standing in a huddled group on a rain lashed...
[14th October 2009 - 09.54]
The street was full of fans. They were doing what fans do: shouting, laughing, drinking as much beer as possible before it was confiscated at the...
[14th September 2009 - 12.46]
Yesterday was the 250th anniversary of the battle of Quebec, fought on 13 September 1759, on the Plains of Abraham outside the town of Quebec, the...
[24th August 2009 - 10.40]
In one week I've gone from the very nadir of British maritime history to its zenith. On Monday I visited the excellent but low key Upnor Castle on...
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On this day...
Herbert Croft was consecrated bishop of Hereford
9 February
1662
Herbert Croft was consecrated bishop of Hereford. During the English Civil War, as dean of Hereford, Croft had risked his life to confront a group of parliamentarian soldiers who had broken into the cathedral.
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