An anthology of posts In That Howling Infinite addressing matters historical.

Australia

• Martin Sparrow’s Blues
• We’ve Got The Australia Day Blues 

Britain and Ireland

• The Spirit of ’45
• The Monarch of the Sea  
•  Mo Ghile Mear – Irish myth and melody
• The Boys of Wexford – memory and memoir 
• Encounters with Enoch

Romans

• Roman Holiday
• What have the Romans done for us?
• Cuddling up to Caligula
• Roman Wall Blues 

The Middle East

• Rocky road to Heaven’s Gate
• Once in Royal David’s Citadel
• The grand old New Imperial Hotel
• Nova Via Dolorosa
• King Herod’s edifice complex
• The Mizrahi Factor 
• O Little Town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie…
• The hand that signed the paper  
• Islam’s house of many mansions 
• Ottoman Redux – an alternative history 
• Sailing to Byzantium 
• The Watchers of the Water
• Pity the Nation
• Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion 
• Children of the revolution 

The Rest of the World

• A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of the West
• The Twilight of the Equine Gods
• Sic Semper Tyrannis 
• Thermidorian Thinking
• Solitudinem Pacem Appellant
• A House Divided – the Nature of Civil War
• Allende’s Desk and Osama’s Pyjamas
• Ghosts of the Gulag
• The Death of Stalin is no laughing matter
• Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold – 1968 revisited
• Weighing the White Man’s Burden
• Freedom at Midnight (1): the birth of India and Pakistan
• Freedom at Midnight (2): the legacy of partition 
• November 1918 – the counterfeit peace
• Dulce et ducorem est – the death of Wilfred Owen
• Tanks for the memory – how Brezhnev changed my life
• Phil Och’s Chicago blues
• Springtime in Paris – remembering May 1968
• The last rains came gently – Steinbeck’s dustbowl ballad

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