Gervase Phillips

War Horses: Black Beauties of the Western Front

With the New Year release of Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse Gervase Phillips explores the true story of the horses and mules that served the British army during the First World War.

Published December 20 2011

Slave Resistance in the Antebellum South

Gervase Phillips examines the extent and significance of an often misunderstood phenomenon.

Published November 30 2007

Horse and Man in Early Modern England

Published July 12 2007

Was the American Civil War the first Modern War?

Gervase Phillips points out the limitations in a common interpretation.

Published November 28 2006

Henry VIII and Scotland

Gervase Phillips explains how and why Henry so badly mishandled his relations with the Scots.

Published August 31 2006

Warhorses of the U.S. Civil War

Historians have often stressed the modernity of America’s Civil War. Yet Gervase Phillips argues that the dependence on often weary, sickly horses on both sides in the war had a significant impact on the development, and final outcome of, the struggle.

Published November 16 2005