The task of the historian, most would agree, is to transmit the information collected about the past to the present; in the process utilising the maximum range of tools and resources in gathering the sources that will form the basis of his finished work. Most would also tend to agree …

RACE AND MURDER IN THE 1920s The written word is a most powerful tool. It has the capacity to mould, shape, build and destroy the reputations of both the living and the dead. But if there is any grain of truth to the cynical adage that historians are granted a …

Thursday, 29th June 2006, York Hall, Bethnal Green London. Top of the bill for this Maloney Fight Factory promotion was the contest for the vacant Commonwealth bantamweight title between Britain’s Martin Power and Tshifhiwa Muyawi of South Africa. Power, from the St. Pancreas district of London, fought gamely and aggressively; …

Boxing as a sport, has through the ages, provided the fulcrum for much heated debate and contested analysis. Standard among this tendency to polemisize, is that which matches fighters from different eras against each other. The question always is, ‘How would this great fighter shape up against this other great …

Frankie DePaula, New Jersey boxer, died thirty-five years ago from complications arising from the wounds inflicted on him four months after an assassination attempt in a Jersey City alley way. His death, in many ways, was arguably the inevitable culmination of his frequently wayward lifestyle; a lifestyle that accommodated an …