Confidence Motions, Collapsing Governments, and Snap Elections: Has Politics Always Been This Messy?

Political turmoil is sweeping through several key European countries, notably in France and Germany, collectively known as the so-called ‘engine’ of the EU. In France, President Macron’s dissolution of the National Assembly in June 2024 (after the far-right National Rally’s EU election success) backfired, with the resulting legislative election leading to a fragmented parliament with […]

Rebrand From The History Buff to the Ministry of History

About 18 months ago, I launched The History Buff podcast. This was because I wanted a channel to be able to speak about history from all over the world, not just Germany and Europe, which is my job as a Berlin tour guide! I’ve loved the experience with The History Buff, and I hope you […]

The History of Blogging

So as I got started with this blog, it got me thinking… what is the history of blogging? I did some research and I was surprised to learn that blogging only really started with the advent of the computer. For some reason I thought blogging would go back much further (which I guess is silly, […]

My History Master’s – Things I’m Enjoying and Things I’m Not

As some of you may know, I  (Artie) recently began a distance learning (remote) history master’s degree at the University of Birmingham, UK. I’m now almost done with the first term and I have some thoughts. The reasons I began the master’s I won’t go into too much as I explained it already on a […]