The median age was 33-34 back then. https://database.earth/population/united-kingdom/median-age My guess is you'd probably have to go back to the late nineteenth century, to get a median age of … (View Post)

I think it’s impossible to depict the settlement movement sympathetically, because so many are spiteful racists. (View Post)

I go to suppers organised by Saul David, where military historians speak, and then we discuss it over dinner. They’re immense fun. (View Post)

I do from time to time, find myself wondering if this is like our 1970 election, with a sudden shift back to the government in the polls, that did not quite materialise on polling day. The swingback … (View Post)

Sure, but from about 650 onwards, for the best part of a thousand years, European nations (and Anatolia, when under Roman rule), were under siege from the Middle East/North Africa. That does not mean… (View Post)