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The Provinces Are Revolting! – Investigations of a Dog

An article that I’m working on involves getting on top of the debates over the causes and outbreak of the English Civil War. This is something that I avoided like the plague during my PhD, partly because it wasn’t vital to my study of the development of administrative systems, and partly because it was too big and complicated (and, let’s be honest, too scary – Conrad Russell wasn’t entirely joking when he called it “bloodsport”). Now all that’s changed and I’m getting stuck into the historiography.

Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence, VC – Military History Blog on the Web

Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence, VC, was one of the few senior British officers to be killed in action during the First World War.

Aerial Insults: The Tradition of Inscribing Lead Sling-Bullets in Antiquity – Military History Blog

Typically, when one ponders the use of the sling in antiquity the first image that comes to mind is the story of how David slew Goliath. The exact origins of the sling, however, are not precisely known.

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