Welcome to this Blog

Who knows how long this blog will last? Who knows how famous it will become? Will these be the first words in a long stream of well-informed, interesting and entertaining communications? Or will it be a brief and incoherent spluttering, rarely updated and potentially sleep-inducing? All i can say is that i will try.
But what will i try to do?
The title of the blog 'historymusicpolitics' embraces my three main interests. I am a historian, the 'Dr.' comes from a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Bristol. I have always loved music, one of my earliest memories as a child was seeing 'A Hard Days Night' in the Classic Cinema in Birkenhead on Merseyside. The moment when the four boys decide to escape the stifling confines of the theatre they are going to perform in and somehow find themselves at the top of a fire escape, free, young, energetic, happy and fun-loving they run out into a field to 'Can't Buy Me Love' - hooked on music from the age of 5. I am interested in politics and participate by supporting my local Labour Party - handing out leaflets, canvassing, writing letters and generally arguing the case for breaking down national barriers between people, encouraging a society in which hard working and talented people, from what ever background, are given all the help they need to succeed, and where the vulnerable and helpless are protected and supported.
I will be writing blogs drawing on these three themes - hoping they will be interesting, trying to make them so and awaiting responses from readers.