Artie’s History Master’s: My First Essay

Hi everyone, Sorry I haven’t posted on this blog for a while. I’ve been super busy with other things including creating content for the Ministry YouTube and social media. If you haven’t already, please do follow us on those channels! Links are at the bottom of the page. So as some of you know, I […]

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 […]