By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 November 2022

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 November 2022

The late Bernard Lewis recorded in his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian (2012), meeting the Shah of Iran “a year before” the Islamic Revolution that felled him, thus, some time in early 1978:
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022

It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 July 2022

An IRA parade in Belfast || Image source
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 June 2022
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2022

“Judgement of Charles I,” by Ladislaus Bakalowicz, 1650