History – it’s what seperates us from the dinosaurs. Here are my takes on the past from the comfort of the present – catch them now before they’re repeated. It’s also a place to park my poems on politics, because nothing ages quicker than current affairs.
America:
America, We Need to Talk
Breaking the News
Cattle Prattle
Dream On
Every Winner gets a Free Shave
The Star-Spangled Manna
Succession
Ancient & Classical:
Ancient & Modern|
Damnatio ad Bestias
Decline & Fall
Forty-Eight
Hierogryphs
I Am the Artifact
Musings on the Nature of Hadrian’s Wall
Of Lost & Found Cities
Proctotryp
History in General:
The Corkscrew of History
Golden Ages Last For Ages
History Never Changes
The Inertia of Tradition
Insults are Written by the Winners
Month of Fertility
Mortal Remains
New Year’s Day
The Noble Art of Treachery
To the Future
Victus
Middle Ages & Tudor:
Adventures in Phantom Time
Big Charters
Carcassong
Carcassonnet
Clause 50
The Good Life
Gunpowder, Fizzle, & Pop
Harvest Song
Licence to Crenellate
No Man’s Pie is Freed from his Ambitious Finger
A Recipe for Iron Gall Ink
The Sheriff of Chelsea
Spectacles
Via Metallum
White Rose, Red Leicester
Politics:
Aves Republica
Backwards Flags
Balloteers
The Bogeyman
Clause 50
Con Spiracy
Credo
Crew of the Revolution
The Deep State of Fear
Democracy in Action
Every Winner gets a Free Shave
The Green Tree Anthem
The Hustings Shuffle
The Only Poll That Matters
The Peasants are Revolting
A point is all that you can score
A Public Service Announcement
Referendum
The Rigours of Indolence
Royal Peculiar
Rue Britannia
The Star-Spangled Manna
Succession
To the Future British Republic
Us Too
Value Added Tax
Winning the Defeat
Your False True-Colours
Twenieth Century:
Agit-Proper
Armistice Sunday Blues
Blown on the Windrush
Collaterals
Con Spiracy
Crew of the Revolution
Diesel
Harvest Song
Jaxman
Jubilee
Mate in One
Mutiny on the Waves
Red Like the Poppies
Royal Peculiar
Rue Britannia
Salient Thoughts
Value Added Tax
Y2 A-Okay
Victorian:
America, We Need to Talk
Bottom of the Barrel
Crew of the Revolution
The Engineers’ Plot
Fresh Pantoums, Only a Shilling !
Horseguards
Hounslow Fast & Hounslow Slow
James Somersett
My First Imperial Adventure
Outpost
Put out to Pasture
The Queen of the Cockles
Queen of the Silk Road
The Rigours of Indolence
Transatlantic Cable 1 – The Wake
Transatlantic Cable 2 – Emigrants’ Song
Transatlantic Cable 3 – Slow News Days
Transatlantic Cable 4 – The Visionary
Transatlantic Cable 5 – The Senator’s Speech
Transatlantic Cable 6 – The Engineer
Transatlantic Cable 7 – The Businessmen
Transatlantic Cable 8 – Crafting the Cable
Transatlantic Cable 9 – Gutta-Percha
Transatlantic Cable 10 – Laying the Line
Transatlantic Cable 11 – Hooking the Cable
