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Even when I was young, we didn’t play Cowboys & Indians any more and Westerns have declined as a movie theme. But despite the relative ...

In January a couple of people from the Dutch Miniature Wargaming group on Facebook decided to meet up and have a beer and a chat. The idea ...

Two more books I ordered some time ago and only arrived recently. I was very much impressed by Paul Dawson 's thesis on the rebuilding ...

When my interest was raised in slavery at university, I also learned about the maroons (called bosnegers in Dutch controlled Surinam). Thes...

Yesterday Nick and I went to the National Portrait Gallery and among other stuff, we saw George Catlin's portraits of North American In...