This chapter explores the life of Thomas Becket during his time in Canterbury.

The list of the military heroes produced by the Rebellion was long, and such men were widely celebrated in contemporary military and popular sources. There also emerged during the Rebellion three groups of soldiers who came to be feted above all others as representatives of collective military heroism: Highland Scots, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas. Stories that celebrated their valour, ferocity and gallantry articulated new connections between British soldiers and the most loyal Indian soldiers, and between military service in the Empire, ideal masculinity and racial superiority. Although there were many such military figures who filled the pages of despatches, newspapers and journals, two men dominated national attention to a far greater extent than any of the others - Henry Havelock and Colin Campbell. As a result of narratives produced by both Havelock and Campbell, Highlanders quickly became associated with manly heroism during the suppression of the Rebellion.

This chapter focuses on the policing of Canada where English and Irish styles of policing intermingled, in particular after 1867 when Canada became a nation in its own right with the passage of the British North America Act. The first professional police force in Canada, the Toronto Police, appropriated Metropolitan Police practices as well as drawing on the experiences of former members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Overall, there were real links between the RIC and the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) in terms of the export of officers, the organisation and role of the force. In 1869 a military-style constabulary was felt to be the most appropriate way of securing control of the north-west, a vast swathe of territories that had been under the jurisdiction of the Hudson Bay Company since 1660. Rural areas became a provincial responsibility and led to the development of provincial police forces.

This chapter tracks author's own growth and development as a filmmaker. In his first book, The New Documentary in Action, the author had looked at how films are made, in a fairly simple and straightforward way. While reviewing his own background and film education the author realized that, apart from working with Terry Macartney-Filgate and George Stoney, he hadn't seen much of other filmmakers at work. A pioneer of cinéma vérité, Terry had shot some superb films for the National Film Board of Canada, including the two classics, Blood and Fire and The Backbreaking Leaf. Of all the filmmakers he interviewed, one man in particular interested the author. This was a Jewish filmmaker called Robert Vas, who had fled to England from Budapest after the Hungarian uprisings of 1956. After life in Jerusalem, the author took a job for two years teaching documentary film at York University in Toronto.

This chapter presents an annotated translation of The Book of Bishop Bonizo of Sutri which is entitled ‘To a Friend', perhaps the best known of the polemics of the Investiture Contest.

The author makes films, because he loves the process, the excitement, the discoveries and friendships along the way. In trying to increase film returns he tried everything. He also tried distributing by video on demand (VOD), iTunes, and websites. MEDIMED serves as a film market and also as a pitching opportunity. The flamboyant decoration of the Maricel mini-castle creates a great atmosphere, so many contacts are made, and good friendships blossom over a bottle of cheap red wine. At the second conference he attended, he met a man who changed his way of thinking about docs. When he was reviewing Gary Gladman's missiles, he realized that his advice was so good, it was well worth sharing. He asked Gary if he would give his permission for him to reprint some of his letters.

Conflicts involving armed non-state armed actors challenging states and each other have become the main form of warfare thus far in the new millennium. The main actors are insurgents and counterinsurgents. Their conflicts are primarily internal, though they occasionally cross borders. The conflicts are carried out with a type of brutality that can be expected when countrymen turn on each other and the institutions responsible for upholding law and order and protecting the population begin to fail. In addition, whereas states may carry out wars from the sky or sea, or at least from a distance, with the aid of satellites, long-range missiles and other sophisticated technologies, the armed non-state actors fighting in the present century’s armed conflicts do so primarily on the ground and at close range. The patterns of their use of terrorist tactics vary over time within the context of wider-scale warfare. In this study, the authors explore and seek to understand why this is the case.