Names of Shame. The Six Rulers with History’s Worst Epithets

Everyone loves a good epithet. Charles the ‘Great’, Sven ‘Forkbeard’, Eric the, er, ‘Memorable’. But namecalling, it turns out, is really not cool and can be very mean. So spare a thought for these six men: the Johnny-two-straps of History’s great playground. — James the Shit (King of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1685-88). Poor James…

Oxford University to Announce Online ‘Game of Thrones’ History Course

This story will hit the press tomorrow, but I wanted readers of The Social Historian to be the first to know some exciting news from my day job. In the last three months my colleages at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education have been working towards creating a new, short online course entitled ‘From…