Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “History”
War may be good for absolutely nothing but it is hard to escape the fact that we are surrounded by violence. From a fight in a playground to rival gangs fighting over territory right through to the events taking place in Ukraine right now. The world is at war. As people faith or those trying to work out what life looks …
Psalm 103:13-16 Remembering is important, it is how we learn. Sometimes our remembering is personal. We experience something and this experience teaches us something that we take with us going forward. From remembering to duck when we walk through that small doorway so we don’t bang our head to the feeling we got when we first fell in love and our desire …
I recently discovered something new whilst reading David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History. It concerns William Wilberforce and another man called George Hibbert. These two men lived opposite each other on Clapham Common and worshipped together at Holy Trinity on the North side of the common which had strong evangelic roots. If you visit the church today you …
This post was written for Sunday@thePub and can be found here. This first post on prophets and influencers is on Granville Sharp. I am going to assume that not many people know who he is, but out of interest you could respond with a ? or ? below if you know or don’t know, and haven’t used the internet or …
Here then is my first post in the series ‘Things they didn’t teach me at school!’ One of the points raised in Akala’s book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire – The Sunday Times Bestseller and one that I have seen raised elsewhere, is that much of the history we are taught in school is extremely one-sided. …
Having been away for a little while in August this year I have had chance to do some reading (this doesn’t happen often). After watching Stormzy’s Glastonbury set I decided to see if there was a book about him and bought myself a copy of Rise Up: The Merky Story So Far which was co-authored by Jude Yawson and includes …