Gibberings

Whilst reading something related to the Tudors I came across an intriguing name: Julius Caesar. But this isn’t, as the blog post title states, not the Julius Caesar that you would immediately think of. Rather than the man from the Roman era who brought about the fall of the Republic, this other Julius Caesar was […]

About a year ago, whilst in the classroom, the term ‘tudorology’ was raised in discussion. We decided it was an appropriate term to describe anyone who was involved in the study of the Tudor dynasty, and after batting around which term was best to use on a day-to-day basis – either ‘tudorology’ or the shorter […]

It has been more than a year since I last posted on the blog. The last upload related to a mini celebration of the sixth year of the site’s existence, all the way back in April 2024. Now here we are, fifteen months later, and the blog still remains alive in terms of visitor views […]

Today is the coronation of King Charles III, and Britain (and the wider Commonwealth) are in celebration mood, months after losing the much loved Queen Elizabeth II. The British media has gone all guns blazing on the big event (which I am currently watching whilst typing this), and there is an additional bank holiday provided […]

In the final teaching week before the Easter break, I was fortunate enough to visit London for a couple of days as part of a college trip. (Fortunate in that I did absolutely none of the planning or preparation, meaning that I could geek out along with some A-level Politics students.) We had the opportunity […]

Five years ago, back in those halcyon days of 2018, I had a simple idea about creating a history blog. In my very first post – ‘The Continuing Adventures of Dave’ – I outlined how I had failed at a series of other blogs, but yet the itch remained to post ideas and articles on […]

Despite blogging very infrequently in the second half of 2022, I simply could not ignore the tradition of an end-of-year post outlining my favourite articles (links to the other years can be found at the bottom of the page). Below are some of my favourite posts from 2022… The Disappearance of John Cabot [February 2022] […]

Well, I have returned. Not from anywhere in particular, but it is a return to this blog. Since the blog’s birth in 2018 I have kept up a steady stream of posts in each and every month, but then came the summer of 2022 and everything stopped. There are a multitude of reasons for this […]

I haven’t had the chance to post much on the blog over the past month or so, mainly due to focusing on teaching and the upcoming exams. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak: the summer holiday. I intend on posting throughout the months of June, July, and August. […]

In this month (April 2022) this blog reached the grand age of four years. Back in the very first post – from 1st April 2018 – I noted the difficulties I had previously encountered when starting blogs, and so to reach four years (and hundreds of thousands of words across more than a hundred posts) […]

Back in April 2021 – during my challenge of posting once a day for the entire month – I posted about the sin of typos and grammatical mistakes. This followed an earlier post in which I outlined my annoyance at easily avoidable mistakes found in books. However, I also noted my own numerous collection of […]

The football competition Euro 2020 – still branded as 2020 despite the fact that it took place in 2021 – was one filled with drama on and off the pitch. I applauded England’s efforts as they made their way to the final, but they remained a penalty kick away from putting their hands on the […]

Back in the summer of 2018, in the very early months of the blog’s beginnings, I had a wonderful idea: to provide a round-up post at the start of every month. Okay, it wasn’t my idea; monthly round-ups are regularly seen on other blogs and news-sites. But still, the idea was a good one. I […]

During a recent revision session I ended up digressing (as I am prone to do) and we somehow ended up discussing what makes an era of history. The study of history tends to sectionalise periods of time: we focus on the Tudor dynasty or the interwar period, with each of these periods having distinct themes. […]

During the first coronavirus lock-down in 2020 I often saw posts on social media sites of people proudly stating their intention to “get their life in order” after all of the Covid disruption was over. Covid-19 caused such a jolt to the normal way of living life that it served to act as a reboot […]