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The Aspects of History Newsletter: A Day at the Library – 8th October 2026
Nunhead Library, as planned… (not quite as realised!)
From The Editor
I’ve talked a bit about the last few weeks of literary festivities. But what am I keeping myself occupied with during the day? This – believe it or not!? – takes up...
Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic, by Giles Milton
Once a celebrated explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson ended up disgraced after the disastrous Karluk expedition and a fatal attempt to establish a colony on Wrangel Island, his legacy a controversial one.
I doubt whether one in a 100 readers o...
Plunder: The Last of the War in Europe, 1945 with Max Hastings
As the Second World War in Europe entered its final weeks, the outcome was no longer in doubt – but the fighting continued with extraordinary intensity. From the Allied crossing of the Rhine and the German defence of their homeland to the l...
The Aspects of History Newsletter: The Historian in the Family – 30th September 2026
From The Editor
Today, in the run-up to her birthday and as she enters her ninetieth year this coming week (I hope she won’t mind me saying that…!), I want to talk about my granny, Veronica Baker-Smith, herself a published historian, a...
The House of Cromwell with Miranda Malins
Thomas Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell are among the most recognisable figures of Tudor and Stuart history – but few people realise that they were related. Separated by a century, their lives were shaped by remarkably similar rises from relati...
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