Beginnings and look backs
I've probably cut a slightly frustrated figure in my life recently. In this strange thing that is my brain is an historian waiting to burst out but not really knowing quite what to do with my accumulated knowledge of nearly 5 decades on this planet. Most people say at this point "You can always be a teacher". Er, no. Anyone who knows me would immediately say I'm not cut out for it and besides, it's really NOT what I would go in for. However, the need to impart some sort of knowledge to people still remains hence the wife suggested I start something like this and get my brain doing something rather than watch tv or play on the computer in the evenings. So, the aim of this blog. Well one of the things I like to do with my colleagues at work is chat about the current news and how history led up to them. So this is what I'm going to do here. My knowledge of history is pretty broad but if I have a speciality it'll be 20th century British History, mainly around ...