Andrew Simpson

I suppose every generation at some point comes to terms that with uncertain times, threats become real and the unthinkable becomes a prospec...

History's Secret Heroes is one of those programmes I dip into and I am glad I dipped this week.* It was broadcast on Monday and can be a...

Now I know it is stating the obvious to say that postage stamps can and are political. Like coinage they aim to say something about a countr...

Now, sometimes you just get lost in a story. It seemed easy enough, or so I thought.   The German on the picture postcard would be easy to t...

So, when two of your kids own and run a school in a forest outside Warsaw, there are always pictures. “ Pines is a British Forest School ba...

Yesterday, today and all week. "The extraordinary archive that secretly recorded daily Jewish existence in the Warsaw Ghetto – brought ...

Berries in Chorlton, snow in Warsaw and sunshine in Salford. So, Chorlton at midday, Warsaw, at 8.48 am and Salford 2 minutes later. Locatio...

  Now this is a programme I will be listening to today. Obliterated from the map. The Invention of...Poland Episode 1 of 3, BBC Radio 4.* Ch...

  Now, my knowldge of Polish history is pretty much confined to the period from the late 18th century to now, so this edition of In Our Time...

We are on a street in Warsaw on what turned out to be a cold day on November 11 which in Poland is Independence Day. Up there at the to...