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Mikhail Kalashnikov: the man and his gun
‘O Jesus Christ! I’m hit,’ he said; and died - ‘The Last Laugh’ by Wilfred Owen
By DAVID MYTON
At 6am on 29 August 1949 at Semipalatinsk, northeastern Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union for the first time in its history successfully detona...
The age-old link between Istanbul, Turkey and York, England
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bou...
When Boethius met Lady Philosophy: locked up and doomed to die, he writes a scholarly classic
By DAVID MYTON
Boethius sits alone in his prison cell, encased in a darkness hardly illumed by the one flickering candle. Once he was an important man: a philosopher, politician, scholar, poet, musician, orator. He was feted, admired,...
Was King Alfred the Great really that great? Just ask the Vikings ....
The England of that dawn remains/ And this of Alfred and the Danes
Seems like the tales a whole tribe feigns/ Too English to be true
Yet Alfred is no fairy tale;/ His days as our days ran,
He also looked forth for an hour/...
Wars, revolt and religion: A short 'biography' of the historic city of York
By DAVID MYTON
I recently returned to my home in Sydney, Australia, after spending several weeks in the city of my birth and upbringing: York in North Yorkshire, UK. I have had a life-long passion for history - clearly the result of g...
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My name is David. I am a journalist who loves writing about history,especially the medieval era. I have a BA with First Class Honours in History.
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