Thanks to Robert, and the BBC, just found out that a little bit of China comes to London in September:

“China’s famed Terracotta Army is to star in an exhibition about its first emperor at the British Museum.

“About 20 life-size figures from the tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi are being loaned for the event.

“The tomb, dating from 210BC, contains several thousand individually modelled figures intended to protect the emperor in the afterlife.

“The museum’s Reading Room is undergoing a

Sad to hear Winston Churchill has been dropped from the history syllabus, according to the Sun.

I appreciate not everyone thinks Churchill was a great hero, but that’s no reason to give me the boot, after all who else would have done his job?

So to my one and only Churchill anecdote! Leading European political historian Paul Ginsborg was based at Churchill College, Cambridge, and every evening at ‘formal hall’ you had to make a toast to Churchill the man.

Well, Paul didn’t really like having to do that he told us, his students – but fortunately found a ‘work around’. Recalling a conversation he had with a member of the Italian resistance imprisoned by Mussolini, who said to him that “when they heard Churchill’s name they knew they would soon be free”, Ginsborg said he always thought of that when he made the toast to Churchill.