by David West | Aug 25, 2026 | News
On the 25th of August, 1537, the Honourable Artillary Company was formed. It is the oldest surviving regiment of the British Army and the second most senior after the Life Guards. My father was in the Rifle Brigade in World War II, and my third great-grandfather,...
by David West | Aug 24, 2026 | News
On the 24th of August, 1349, six thousand Jews were murdered in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.The massacre of the Jews of Mainz in 1349 was one of the most devastating episodes in the long history of anti-Jewish persecution in medieval Europe. It...
by David West | Aug 23, 2026 | News
History is useful if we learn from it, which sadly we so often don’t. Are there historical figures we can compare to Trump? Let’s start with Andrew Jackson, president from 1829 to 1837. Both men presented themselves as outsiders fighting a corrupt political...
by David West | Aug 23, 2026 | News
The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was one of the darkest episodes in European history and a defining moment in the French Wars of Religion. Beginning in Paris on the night of 23rd – 24th of August 1572, the feast day of Saint Bartholomew, thousands of French...
by David West | Aug 22, 2026 | News
On the 22nd of August 1558, Bartolomé Carranza was arrested and taken to Valladolid. Bartolomé Carranza was one of the most brilliant, influential, and tragic churchmen of sixteenth-century Spain. A Dominican friar, scholar, diplomat, and eventually Archbishop of...
