World War Z: Why, as a history student, you should read it
Jo Perdicchia’s next offering: a review of the book, World War Z by Max Brooks, urging you, as an history student, to read it!
Ring-a-ring o’ roses
Following the discovery that the Justinian Plague was potentially the same stream as the Bubonic Plague, Jo Perdicchia explores epidemics through history, and society’s, sometimes irrational, reaction to infectious disease.
Hitler’s 9/11
You would not expect to find those two words in the same sentence right? However, evidence has shown that the Fuhrer of the Third Reich shared the same (apparent) vision More »
The very ugly breakup
James Strachan blogs about Yugoslavia and it’s rise and fall under ‘Sloba’.
To endure the unendurable and bear the unbearable
Jo Perdicchia, guest blogger and University of Cardiff graduate, details the impressive life of Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to surrender years after the Second World War.