The women servicing their ambulances at Yelak In my early childhood the village manor house was occupied by a spinster, Elsie Cameron Corbett. She was old, in her late sixties, so not really ‘elderly’ although from my truncated infant perspective she appeared to be ancient, an idea that was encouraged by her being very lame. As she owned much of the local property it felt rather as if her spirit hovered over the village but there was no sense of menace about that; in so far a

Jan Christiaan Smuts in Parliament Square I enjoyed giving my talk, The Smuts Report 1917: a new perspective , at the RAF Museum on 20 May...

General Smuts in 1918 On Tuesday 20 May I will be giving the lunchtime lecture at the RAF Museum, Colindale, in which I will be...

As we in Britain – and it seems more or less everywhere in the ‘free’ world – are finding our civil rights under attack by increasingly...