ANOTHER ALEXANDER: THE "ANABASIS" OF ANTIOCHUS THE GREAT Colin Liddell August 17, 2025 0 Everybody knows about the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great, but few know of a military expedition that echoed it in man... Read more »
WHO DID WORSE AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN 1942, THE BRITISH OR THE AMERICANS? Colin Liddell January 09, 2025 0 The Fall of Singapore is often presented as the "death knell" of the British Empire, as a cataclysmic and humiliating event that e... Read more »
THE REAL REASON THE BRITISH EMPIRE FELL Colin Liddell November 20, 2024 0 Why did the British Empire fall? Was it because Churchill threw it all away by standing up to Hitler's aggression or was it part of a ... Read more »
OCTOBER 23rd, 1983: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Colin Liddell September 09, 2024 0 US Empire RIP 1983 The minimum requirement for any empire is simple. It is power projection with "boots on the ground" a long way ... Read more »
HOW THE BRITISH BEAT NAPOLEON'S ARMIES Colin Liddell August 20, 2024 0 YouTube historian A Time of Eagles dismisses the usual myths used to explain British success in the Napoleonic Wars and focuses on the rea... Read more »
HITLER AND MANNERHEIM IN CONVERSATION Colin Liddell February 08, 2024 0 There are few recordings of Hitler talking in his normal voice. Indeed I only know of one, which is a conversation he had with The Finnish l... Read more »
How Did Stalinism Work? Colin Liddell December 29, 2023 0 Stalinism is famous for two main things, namely the mass incarceration and slaughter of millions of people for minor or imaginary offences a... Read more »
"THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE" WAS MERELY A SIDESHOW IN A BIGGER WAR Colin Liddell July 04, 2023 0 The so-called "American War of Independence" is often presented as a one-on-one struggle between American colonialists and a ... Read more »
"The Craft, How Freemasons Made The Modern World" by John Dickie Colin Liddell July 03, 2023 0 YouTuber Brutus the Insane runs through John Dickie's historical account of the Freemasons. Note: this video was previously on YouTube b... Read more »
KEEPING CLEAN IN ANCIENT ROME Colin Liddell July 03, 2023 0 How were the Romans able to keep cleaner than many of their successors? Sean Gabb looks at the plumbing behind the bathhouse supremacy of t... Read more »
CHURCHILL DID NOT CAUSE THE BENGAL FAMINE, HE DEALT WITH IT Colin Liddell March 25, 2023 0 by Andreas Koureas As someone who has read through thousands of pages of primary sources, here's the actual relationship between Church... Read more »
GALLIENUS - THE GLUE THAT HELD THE EMPIRE TOGETHER Colin Liddell February 04, 2023 0 Gallienus, Emperor of Rome from 253 to 268, is usually viewed negatively by history due to his association with a period of chaos and disun... Read more »
POLISH CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN SOTLAND Colin Liddell January 30, 2023 0 Welcome to Hell: Rothesay, site of a Polish concentration camp in WWII From British Concentration Camps, A Brief History, 1900-75 , by Simo... Read more »
The Romanian "Night of the Long Knives" - Ion Antonescu and the Overthrow of the Iron Guard Colin Liddell January 27, 2023 2 Adolf Hitler, far from being an "extreme radical," as he is often portrayed, quite frequently sided with Conservative and est... Read more »