On History and the Present Tense Oxford, Sunday 6 July 2025 Early this morning, I found a note I had jotted down a few years ago, dated 19 September 2023. Azerbaijan had just launched another violent assault against Armenian civilians living in the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. ‘Yet even as I write, bombs may be falling still, or falling again: or a temporary lull may have been ordered, o...