Search

...history. Hypotheses about the source of the flu have varied but investigative work by virologist John Oxford and his team identified one of the camps on the Western Front as being at the centre of the flu outbreak. So how significant was the influenza outbreak on the casualties at the end of the First World War? “In the American Army it was hugely significant. I mean...

...history of food since he stumbled across a copy of John Nott's 1723 Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary in an antiquarian bookshop at the age of 13. He has since collected early cookery books and equipment as well as systematically learning most of the techniques and methods of the period confectioner. Ivan has given numerous lectures and demonstrations, runs courses in...

...history is therefore fraught with problems. He can fulfil that role for people who are comfortable thinking of Wales as part of a greater British whole. But he sits less well with those who, whilst not necessarily advocating political independence, nevertheless view Wales’ historic relationship with England in more ambivalent terms. [The statue of Henry VII is in front...