RIP VHS: Marky Mark Lawson on the downfall of VHS. I can’t comment on the ‘common culture’ stuff as I was just a kid back then, but his evocations of overwritten and thick-piled videotape labels obscure one key aspect of the video: […]

END-TIMES WATCH #2:
“[Ewing] insisted he and his team had nothing but respect for Kennedy and for history”[…]

“Igniting kids’ interest in history”: actually history is one of the genres better served by computer games. Well, military history, anyway, but games like Civilisation stand or fall by how plausible a timeline their game mechanics […]

The biography channel on satellite is no way to learn of Carole Lombard’s death. I appreciate that I am probably running behind the rest of the world a touch in acknowledging the death of Lombard, but it had never occurred to me before that her[…]

Atlantis found again: this one tiresomely credible, however.[…]

ex memoria
They weren’t all elderly and they weren’t all white, but the number of shoppers wearing poppies in Tesco in omnicultural Hackney, as the Armistice Service Parade wheeled out of St-John-at-Hackney into the Narrow Way, definitel[…]

“This was a Royal fellowship of death”
Maybe it’s inappropriate to have a favourite war memorial. If so, I apologise. Working at Hyde Park Corner I pass several of the things every day. Most are appropriately solemn but never really[…]

“I HAVE KILLED” — Part 2 of 2
(Continued from The Brown Wedge)
Currently, a slew of my fellow citizens are fighting a whole bunch of folks in a far away city that, by all accounts, is little more than a bloody mess now. I can&#8217[…]

WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?

Want to know more about the place you were born, the town you grew up in, or the city you’ve just moved to? http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp gives you a detailed look at the history of places in the uk. It&#8[…]

You cannot libel the dead. Which is why it always suprises me that bio-pics are often completely reverantial towards their subject. For example Finding Neverland is a film designed to rehabilitate the reputation of a man whose reputation is, since hi[…]