Is the Chilcot Inquiry writing history?
On the day of Tony Blair’s appearance before the Iraq War inquiry, I was asked what we may expect from the work of the committee chaired by Sir John Chilcot. Listen to the interview recorded for the BBC Radio 4 News Briefing, broadcast on 21 January 2011. For further information on the inquiry into the […]
Uneasy balance: reflections of a First World War historian on scholarship and memory
This was the rather grandiloquent title of a short paper I gave last June before the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Graduate Discussion Group at St Anne’s College, Oxford. In the next couple of weeks, I will be posting my presentation in an abridged version. In the meantime, here is the summary of this paper. […]