In the General History blogsite many posts have appeared dealing with different aspects of the French Revolution; there will have been many references to Jacobins and Girondins, both…
Author: Dean Swift
‘Dean Swift’ is a pen name: the author has been a soldier; he has worked in sales, TV, the making of films, as a teacher of English and history and a journalist. He is married with three grown-up children. They live in Spain.
An error in author names
Our editor has noticed that on Wikipedia, one of the pieces on Winston Churchill originally appeared, with a new link, under the author name of JAMES DEAN instead…
Errata in the printed version of General History
After the successful publication of three edited volumes of General History, we have discovered to our astonishment that errors abound! Prepositions and full stops have vanished. There are…
Fascism – a dreaded word
Fasci, literally meaning ‘bundles’, and perhaps descending from the fasci of thin staves of wood carried by Roman officials as symbol of authority, were established in Sicilian towns…
William the ‘Sailor King’
William IV King of Great Britain and Ireland was born in the eighteenth century (1765) and died seventy-two years later. He was also King of Hanover from 1830…
Henry VI of England, sad man and king
Henry was born in 1421, and became King of England at the age of one. He had two reigns, due to the Wars of the Roses. The first…
Latest news on the books
Oyez! Oyez! Latest news on the books! All three volumes of Jeremy Taylor’s brief chapters on world history, written under the name of Dean Swift for the website…
Who said it?
Our first slightly intellectual quiz for the year 2015 presents the published words of an eccentric and wit, male, and the only clue to his identity is that…
The army of British India
Also known as the ‘Indian Army’, this was a British – officered military force in India; the other ranks, corporals, sergeants and warrant officers were recruited from the…
Hohenstaufen & Hohenzollern Dynasties (further notes)
Brief details of these two important German dynasties have appeared before on in General-History.com. Here are some additional notes: The Hohenstaufen royal dynasty got its name from the…