I have just finished a week looking at the work of Sir Thomas More (the same More who got on the wrong side of Henry VIII with the classic Henry VIII fatal treatment). I focussed on two texts in...

Hi There! It’s good to be blogging again. Summer is at last reaching a close and I thought I might use the opportunity to talk about life and work outside of the chaotic 8 week Oxford term. I was...

I began to write an exciting post about my summer endeavours and how I ended up rescuing my car from four inches of fast moving water in Northumberland (if it is any consolation, it was an exciting...

Dominic Sandbrook takes the Oxford University History Society into the weird world of Seventies Britain. Watch the talk...

It’s the first of August today, and I’m writing this mid-way through a six-hour Brittany Ferries journey home from Normandy, where I’ve spent the last week or so on holiday with my family. The...