Disaster history

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Day Return to Oxford

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49 years ago, in the glorious summer of 1976, I was lucky enough to persuade ATV, then the ITV company for the Midlands, to let me go back t...
Monday, 22 September 2025

I-Spy Vienna. The Russian War Memorial

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One of Stalin's priorities at the end of World War Two was to get Soviet war memorials erected sharpish in what would become Western Eur...
Sunday, 27 July 2025

Japanese artist Hiroshige and fireworks in art

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The great Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is currently featured in an exhibition at the British Museum entitled 'Artist of...
Monday, 7 July 2025

History of Fireworks reviewed in Vietnamese!

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My book 'A History of Fireworks from their Origins to the Present Day' (Reaktion Books) appears to have been reviewed in Vietnamese!...
Saturday, 5 July 2025

My CBS Radio interview about 4 July and the history of fireworks

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Great to be interviewed by CBS Radio about the history of fireworks for their 4 July special. My contribution comes at about 18 minutes in. ...
Friday, 4 July 2025

My history of fireworks - a review for July 4 in the WSJ

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4 July, Independence Day, is America's biggest fireworks day, and right on cue, the 'Wall Street Journal' has reviewed my book -...
Friday, 30 May 2025

The day I took on an England fast bowler

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Exclusive! Watch me face a ball from England fast bowler Glynis Hullah, as I reported in 1976 on the England Women's (or Ladies' as ...
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John Withington
Author of 'Assassins' Deeds. A History of Assassination', 'Secrets of the Centenarians', 'Storm: Nature and Culture', 'Flood: Nature and Culture', 'Britain's 20 Worst Military Disasters', 'London's Disasters', 'The Disastrous History of London' ('Capital Disasters' in hardback), 'A Disastrous History of Britain', 'A Disastrous History of the World', 'Disaster! A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues and Other Catastrophes', and 'Shutdown. Anatomy of a Shipyard Closure.' Producer/director of more than 40 tv documentaries. Former radio producer. Freelance writer for publications such as the Guardian, Independent, Daily Express, Observer, New Statesman. Freelance communications consultant and adviser. http://www.disasterhistorian.com/
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