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Alexander Clifford

Research & write on 30s Britain, Spain, Germany. Britain's Iron Chancellor out now! Author of Hindenburg, Ludendorff & Hitler, Fighting for Spain, The People's Army and of the introduction to new release Britain's Iron Chancellor

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Also Burnham explicity ruled out an early general election in his first major interview yesterday Not exactly a good look to go back on that. And there's an elections bill in progress that team Burnham seems to want to amend. And all his bold ideas will take time...

Julianna 💎

Real underpriced reason why a snap election is a dreadful idea is that it would likely give Reform a shot in the arm just as they’re flagging and, even if it went well on Labour’s end, would almost certainly make Nigel Farage leader of the opposition

Burnham is clearly trying to start his tenure with a series of good news story announcements At the very least he’s learnt from the first mistake his predecessor made. And he’s clearly prioritising policies that will help alleviate the cost of living, especially for the poorest

Peter Smith

Releasing policy at 6am is politically savvy. Grabs the headlines and scuppers the professional sneerers. Cheaper reliable public transport is a good thing.

Want to read a military history? How about the Spanish Civil War? Beyond the poets and paintings, there was a war on and The People's Army studies the course of the major battles and attempts to explain why the Republicans lost and Franco's Nationalists won www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Peoples-...

The People's Army in the Spanish Civil WarWhy did the Spanish Republic lose the Spanish Civil War – and could the Republic have won? These are the key questions Alexander Clifford addresses…www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

More Weimar-coded? How about Hindenburg, Ludendorff & Hitler, a narrative history of how Germany's WWI generals. It's a rollarcoaster of plots, coups and conspiracy theories that shows how the conservative elite enabled the Nazis & brought Hitler to power www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Hindenburg-L...

Hindenburg, Ludendorff and HitlerThey are two of twentieth-century history’s most significant figures, yet today they are largely forgotten – Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany’s First World…www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

Need some holiday reading? Pen & Sword are doing *50%* off practically everything! My books are on there, including: Fighting for Spain - an illustrated history of the International Brigades w/ 150 photos www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Fighting-for... Buy direct from an indy publisher to support authors!

Fighting for SpainIn the English-speaking world, the Spanish Civil War is perhaps best remembered through the exploits of thousands of foreign volunteers from across the globe who…www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

A seminal moment for me as an historian was reading John Buchan’s Witch Wood about a small Scottish village in the 1640s There’s a vivid chapter that spans a difficult winter and it brought home to me for the first time how genuinely challenging winter was for most humans for most of human history

James Austin

I thnk this quite a bit; the village I grew up in (pop roughly 600) would have been a fairly significant settlement at that point. I find the impact/nature of rural life more interesting than cities tbh. A vast majority of people would live in tiny hamlets and very tight communities

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She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.

Emilio Casalicchio

🚨 Kemi Badenoch rubbishes Donald Trump's Iran deal. She tells me at a press conference the war "definitely was not worth that deal." Said Trump "clearly" had no exit plan. Said paying to use the Strait of Hormuz leaves us "in a worse position" than before the war.

A friend who works in commercial property has alerted me to this case His view was that it is *possible* Burnham has been a very naughty boy indeed, loaning public money to developers at overly generous rates. The developer has fled to Monaco www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Manchester skyscraper loans were made based on ‘unlawful’ decision, court hearsA case is being heard in the Court of Appeal over GMCA's loans to Renakerwww.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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