Archive - Alex Churchill’s HistoryStack

ARTICLE: A Frenchman on the Somme, 1916

The French receive little attention for their part in the fighting on the Somme in 1916.

Apr 18 •

FREE ARTICLE: On the Ground at Sword Beach

I spent this weekend in Normandy with Stephen Fisher and a consummate band of nerds exploring one D-Day landing beach in detail.

Apr 16 •

ARTICLE: Operation Torch 1942: Dying for Vichy

I was doing some wrong-war research at the National Archives in Kew this week, and I had cause to look at a photograph album that included images of…

Apr 11 •

ARTICLE: Devil Dan: An American Scoundrel

This one comes to you courtesy of Sam, who sent me a biography of a lunatic and demanded he become a substack.

Apr 8 •

ARTICLE: Dear God, Anything But Between the Legs

I almost did my MRes thesis on the manpower cost of STDs to the BEF.

Apr 5 •

ARTICLE: How to Tell a Story (1915)

So this started life as a translation of a single letter written in February, 1915.

Apr 1 •

March 2025

ARTICLE: An Adolescent Under the Bombs Part. III, 1945

Today you get the final part of my feature on the diaries of one boy from Milan during the Second World War.

Mar 28 •

ARTICLE: French People Gonna French (and it’s glorious)

A few weeks ago I was in an antique map shop with lovely Doug, and on discovering a box full of French magazine covers from the late 19th Century we…

Mar 25 •

ARTICLE: An Adolescent Under the Bombs, Part.II, 1943

I didn’t expect young Paolo Grassi and his diary to be half as popular, and so today, I’m bringing you a little more.

Mar 21 •

FREE FEATURE: For Valour

My job as an historian seems pretty simple on the surface.

Mar 18 •

ARTICLE: An Adolescent Under the Bombs, 1940

Today I wanted to bring you a few excerpts from an Italian Second World War diary.

Mar 14

PHOTO FEATURE: Scottish Women in WW1

One of the lines I throw out there giving talks or writing about the broad strokes of the First World War goes a bit like this:

Mar 11 •

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