Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

Whilst the movie 'Avatar' (2009) may have attracted record breaking takings at cinemas, there have been rather desultory comments th...

This election campaign seems to be moving into the realms of the surreal.  Some mornings I wake up and think I am in 1906 or at least 1922 w...

The fact that historically people have written 'R.S.V.P.' (standing for the French phrase Répondez S'il Vous Plait, i.e., Respon...

Many commentators have suggested that the recent recession is in the same league of the Depression of the 1930s which began to enter its dir...

People said they have found the current UK parliamentary election campaign to be dull.  I suppose after the big changes that happened in the...

As anyone who has read this blog over the last couple of years or so, or has more recently dipped into my accounts of cycling in northern Fr...

My views on this topic can be found in my e-book ‘On Other Fields: Alternate Outcomes of the Middle Ages’ by Alexander Rooksmoor.   It is ...