Strongbow: the Anglo-Normans in Ireland
October 25, 2013
The first intervention of the Normans into Irish affairs resulted from a bitter local feud that, in 1171, allowed Henry II to become the first English monarch to set foot on Irish soil. This moment was portrayed by historians and writers of the early twentieth-century Irish national movement as a pivotal one: the first step …
Restoration Britain: A Post-Conflict Society?
October 10, 2013
The restoration of Britain’s monarchy in 1660 used to be thought of as just that, a return to social and political quietude after the tumult of the civil wars and Commonwealth. More recently, though, historians have shown that the restoration of the monarchy and the subsequent consolidation of royal power were by no means inevitable. …
Muslim Soldiers of France
October 1, 2013
In Rachid Bouchareb’s 2006 film Indigenes (literally meaning “natives”, but also the term for French colonial subjects – the film was released to English-speaking audiences with the more conventional-war-film title Days of Glory), four Algerian men, Yassir, Said, Abdelkader and Messaoud, sign up to fight for the Free French after the defeat of the Axis …
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