Comments on: This Spectred Isle

By: Margaret Penfold

Margaret Penfold — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:56:39 +0000

I am intrigued to find myself quoted here especially as I was under the impression that the quote came from Channel 4′s site, Empire’s Children, not the BBC. I must admit I have not watched ‘Sceptred Isle’. Do you know if it is on DVD?
Is it OK to plug my book ‘Struggling Free’ here, the only novel I know of in English to be set in the British Mandate during WW2 and centring on three women, one Arabic, one Jewiish and one British. If not of course you will erase it and I will understand!

By: Sadly, No! » Dumbing-Down The Word

Sadly, No! » Dumbing-Down The Word — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:16:02 +0000

[...] Laurence A. Tisch professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, [...]

By: sepoy

sepoy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:31:59 +0000

Some silly pun on ghosts of empires past…

By: Fadzilah

Fadzilah — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:17:00 +0000

May I know why you call it This Spectred Isle instead of This Sceptred Isle?

By: Ostrich Looking for Sand » This Spectred Isle

Ostrich Looking for Sand » This Spectred Isle — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:40:48 +0000

[...] Chapatimystery blogs on the BBC program [...]

By: thabet

thabet — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:14:37 +0000

Niall Ferguson has also been involved in a public spat with the Indy columnist Johann Hari recently, over the British Empire in India. Ferguson responded, in the Indy, to a Hari article, "There can be no excuse for Empire". NF was backed up by Lawrence James, writing in the Sunday Times. Hari, for his part, is not letting it lie.

By: Ikram

Ikram — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:40:07 +0000

The BBC interactive map re-fights the war of 1812 and shows Canada’s southern border at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Apparently, Chicagoans are still subjects of the Queen.

By: exitr

exitr — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:45:02 +0000

Ferguson is such a git.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:06:30 +0000

"I regret coming on at the last minute. As an academic with serious interests in the matter, I thought I'd be participating in a real discussion, not a book plug, a sham and an apologia for the past." From Priya Gopal's letter of complaint.