The Guild Review

Today is Queen Victoria's birthday, a public holiday in Canada (observed on the preceding Monday) and the anchor point for the movin...

Is this the face of a conservative Muslim politician? Turns out, it is. Cemile Giousouf was elected to German's Bundestag (federal...

Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire Day, is a curious holiday.  It commemorates the failure on 5 November 1605 of the Gunpowder Plot, a sc...

Readers of this blog will know that I am a strong proponent of heraldry, having proposed heraldic arms for the City of Charlottesville  (s...

In December 1914, Pope Benedict XV called for a truce amid the bloodshed of the Great War, to offer some respite and "cease the clan...

Tomorrow marks the sixty ninth anniversary of the death of Major Hugh Seagrim. Born in 1909, Seagrim attended the Royal Military Academy ...

Thanks to the Financial Times I discovered the works of James Tissot (1836-1902).  This Franco-British artist came from a background of t...

This is not a recipe blog.  However, I spent a goodly while in Britain over the past few months, as this blog bears out.  I wrote about my ...

Being in Britain for Independence Day is slightly odd. If all goes according to plan, my wife and I today will travel from Ipswich, visit t...

If ever someone makes a movie about the founding of Britain's Special Operations Executive, Joan Bright Astley , who was a secretary at ...

Having recently been in Britain for a spell, studying military history, I have decided that it is high time to choose some favorite regiment...

I'm naturally skeptical of novels that have their own trailer , but I'm intrigued by Looking for the King , by David Downing. The bo...

It is fairly common to hear recent travelers complaining about airport security. Perhaps the most righteous anger is reserved for those scr...

A little while ago the trailer for An Education came across my desk, probably because it was nominated for three Academy Awards. The film, ...

Fuzzy-Wuzzy Soudan Expeditionary Force Early Campaigns by Rudyard Kipling WE'VE FOUGHT with many men acrost the seas, An' some of ...

This past fall I read an excellent memoir by George MacDonald Fraser about his time with Britain's Fourteenth Army ("the Forgotte...

I came across this passage in Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma , by George MacDonald Fraser , and could not resis...