Neil Faulkner

Neil Faulkner is a freelance archaeologist and historian. He works as a writer, lecturer, excavator, and occasional broadcaster. His books include ‘A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics‘ and ‘A Marxist History of the World: from Neanderthals to Neoliberals‘.

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Relatives and friends of the al-Kaware family carry their bodies to the mosque during their funeral in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. The father, a member of the Fatah movement, and his six young sons were all killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted their home. AFP

The agony of Gaza

Yes: The Radical Case for Scottish Independence

WWI: Imperial carve up, industrialised killing the truth about Gove’s ‘Great War’

David Cameron and the Floods of 2014. Copyright The Prime Minister's Office

The Great Flood

Jeremy Paxman’s BBC history of the First World War is shallow, banal, and cliché-ridden

Final Solutions: Human nature, Capitalism, and Genocide

World War One and the rehabilitation of slaughter

Their history and ours: the first world war that won’t be commemorated in 2014

Who was Nelson Mandela?

Chavez, Venezuela, and the ‘Bolivarian revolution’

Sandinista fighters celebrate victory

The Nicaraguan revolution

Revolutionary campesinos on the move

Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican revolution

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste

Simon-Bolivar 'The-Liberator'

Simon Bolivar and the Spanish-American revolutions

The Haitian slave army battles the soldiers of Napoleon in 1803

Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian slave revolution

Jeremy Paxman should stick to asking questions instead of trying to answer them

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