David Rooney

Bridges: The Science and Art of the World’s Most Inspiring Structures

David Rooney reviews a work by David Blockley.

Published September 22 2010

The Fourth Part of the World; The Epic Story of History’s Greatest Map

David Rooney introduces a book on early mapping.

Published June 11 2010

Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800

David Rooney reviews a new work by Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift

Published May 14 2009

A German Guerrilla Chief in Africa

David Rooney describes the extraordinary exploits of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German soldier who kept the Allies tied down in Africa throughout the Great War.

Published November 1 1999

A Grave Injustice: Wingate and the Establishment

David Rooney argues that Chindit commander Orde Wingate has had his Burma campaign unfairly judged by military establishments.

Published March 1 1994

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.