Pat Murphy • Nelson Voice

Harold Macmillan and the fickleness of history

Posted by Pat Murphy | Nov 16, 2018

The onetime British PM’s apparent affable, avuncular nature masked a lethal ruthlessness

Posted by Pat Murphy | Nov 9, 2018

The concept of loyalty to king and empire may be incomprehensible to us, but It was part and parcel of who those young soldiers were

Posted by Pat Murphy | Nov 7, 2018

Al Smith fell prey to the three Ps – prohibition, prejudice and prosperity – in 1928

Posted by Pat Murphy | Oct 31, 2018

The demise of the German Hohenzollerns led to Hitler, while the collapse of the Austrian Habsburgs gave rise to malignant nationalism

Posted by Pat Murphy | Oct 23, 2018

The full story of Robert the Bruce’s ascendancy to the Scottish crown is more intricate and certainly less romantic