I listen to music often.

Music allows me to think, to space out or to focus on something. As readers of this blog may know, I often find myself delving into history. Many know the song Willie Macbride, by Eric Bogle, (also known as No Mans Land and Green Fields of France) a song about the pointlessness of war. Some people I know recorded an ( Read more... )

Today is the 90th anniversary the end of the First World War.

As someone who studies history, this day means a lot to me. For hours on end, I have studied the First World War. We often here about numbers, one million people died, two million people died. The conditions were horrible, blah blah blah. It is not until you put a name to these people ( Read more... )