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Angela Long is a journalist and media consultant with over 30 years experience in the worlds leading media organisations. She has extensive experience as a news editor, feature writer, reporter, production editor and broadcaster. A native of Melbourne, Australia, Angela studied journalism at Melbourne Technical University (RMIT) before living in the US, England, Spain, and Ireland. Her staff positions include 10 years at The Irish Times, five at The Sunday Times, two with the BBC World Service.
Journalism is the first draft of history. Angela describes herself as a lifelong history head, thanks to her fathers reminiscences and Northcote Library. For contributors, she is particularly fond of the neat historical entrée of the anniversary, centenary, and so on.

Historic Days of the Month

February Days in History

Angela Long Feb 1, 2016 0

History in February: It’s the month of Valentine’s Day, usually the month of Ash Wednesday – hence Pancake Tuesday – and every four years, the 29th of February, when women traditionally can propose to the man of their choice. But what else…

Historic Days of the Month

Bread, Dignity and Freedom: the Tahrir Square rising, five years on

Angela Long Jan 25, 2016 0

January 25 marks the fifth anniversary of the mass uprisings in Egypt, most famously in Tahrir Square in central Cairo, which led to a regime change. The event, following on the heels of the “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia, signalled the…

Music

Talkin’ ’bout my generation: baby boomers felt Bowie was theirs

Angela Long Jan 12, 2016 0

Too beautiful to live; too elegant to grow old – and David Bowie is dead. The pop superstar/artist’s passing took millions by surprise. The news led bulletins around the world, including the serious BBC morning programme. When I caught…

History News

Charlie Hebdo anniversary: one in many terrorist attacks

Angela Long Jan 7, 2016 0

TOUJOURS CHARLIE HEBDO – one year on, we look at the recent history of terrorism in France The attacks on the offices of magazine Charlie Hebdo happened on January 7, one year ago. As a BBC interviewer noted, with hindsight that awful…

Historic Days of the Month

January Days in History

Angela Long Jan 2, 2016 0

January - you start the year off fine. And in the inaugural month under the Gregorian calendar, there's plenty of history, with the unavoidable temptation to start new things on New Year's Day. January has also been, since 1937, the month…

Historic Days of the Month

London Blitz climaxed 75 years ago

Angela Long Dec 29, 2015 0

As you’re pondering your Christmas presents, hazily watching TV in the fug of post-prandial bliss, or planning for New Year's Eve … spare a thought for the city across the sea, London, exactly 75 years ago. For December 1940 saw its…

History

Forty years on, Spain’s Franco still divides the country

Angela Long Dec 8, 2015 0

The great celebration took place 40 years ago, in the winter of 1975. And across Spain the occasion was the death, after a lingering illness, of the diminutive dictator who had changed the face of the country: Francisco Franco Bahamonde.…

Historic Days of the Month

December Days in History

Angela Long Dec 6, 2015 0

As if it weren't a busy enough month already, what with partying, buying presents, meeting up with old mates, thinking of excuses to avoid tedious familial gatherings ... there's so much history in December! Here's the first of Headstuff's…

History

The true history of Santa Claus

Angela Long Dec 4, 2015 0

So this is Christmas: or Yule: or Noel: or the Nativity, however you prefer to label it. And we spring into Christmas mode as soon as Xmas FM appears on the dial, but where did these traditions orginate? The ceaseless playing of Slade’s…

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