Ah, bit like Ireland then, until....erm, fairly recently. (View Post)

Yes, I've found much the same. By the way, the Eurocentric view of World History is remedied by reading Peter Frankopan's 'The Silk Road' which makes you appreciate how recent and… (View Post)

Why so? The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was once quite a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth (View Post)

Shouldn't it be the Afro-Caribbean Rod? [Other Rods are available on request.] (View Post)

@Jonathan 'I don’t buy public school veneer as ‘nice’. It’s shop bought. ' Nice line that, Jonathan. It chimed with me because I have just finished reading A Spy Among Friends. It's mu… (View Post)