An Introduction, Of Sorts:

I need to learn how to write. 

That is not to say I am completely illiterate - on the contrary, I know quite a few words, and have recently managed to learn how to string whole sentences together. But, despite my ability to talk the hind leg off a donkey, I cannot write about History very coherently, and as this is a fairly major requirement for any History degree, I feel it would be a good idea if I learnt how to.

So, this is what this blog is about. Well, that and hopefully showing people that there is more to the subject I love than the Hitler History Channel would have you believe. Yes, dear friends, there are more topics available to study than Germany 1914-18, or key battles in Word War Two. Amazing. Though, I should give them their due - occasionally, they'll show the odd documentary on the Tudors, which isn't so bad. I quite like the Tudors. But they do seem to have a firm belief that 98% of History happened between 1914 and 1918, and 1939 and 1945. Like I say, this clearly isn't true. The Tudors were around from 1487 to 1603 and everyone knows about Henry VIII and Elizabeth and...er...stuff.

I would like to do this as a sort of "On This Day..." type blog, though I know I won't be able to write on every day of the year, much as I would like to because I do have a life need to do some proper work, sometimes. But I hope to write as much as possible, and that anyone who reads this enjoys it.

I promise, when it's not about studying Hitler, History really is very interesting.