About Analysis History

Analysis History is a disribution platform of carefully curated content. Much of it is ours so we wrote it or made a film about it but we also provide links to others who have compelling throught for material. There is good content but it can be hard to find. There is nothing on Analysis History that we have not viewed ourselves. The topics include. Modern Geopolitics, the Battle Imphal. India, 1944, Japanese History 1830 to 1945. Anglo Zulu Wars of 1879 and the events that led to that a follow that. The history of the American mid west; Museums, what they are for and how technology can be used in them.

We offer analysis but also data sets, book and blog suggestions. We offer all this free in the hopl viewer will view, enjoy and recoomend the paid for content which at present is Amashinga.

About Simon Sole

Simon had three related careers: military engineer/intelligence analyst, entrepreneur and finally historian and investor in technology companies.

Highlights of the Army career included teaching at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, engineering in Bosnia and Northern Ireland, Pakistan Command and Staff course Quetta, lots of mountaineering (Alps, Peru and Alaska) and finally two periods on exchange with the Canadian Army firstly in Vancouver then Ottawa latterly as an intelligence analyst.

There was then an entrepreneurial decade building Exclusive Analysis (EA). EA’s niche was a managed global source network and very specific forecasts about world events. Client value came from rich-data pricing models for the insurance industry to which EA was the biggest provider of political intelligence. In 2012 Exclusive Analysis was acquired by IHS (now IHS/Markit).

In addition to being an historian, Simon is a Non-Executive Director at Lowe and Fletcher. He invests in and/or advises a range of companies with digital offerings, including; Gift Wink, Sandpit, Deepcrawl. Areas of advice include: structuring a sales process, the value of brand and building robust code that clients actually want.

Simon has degrees from RMCS (Maths and Physics); MA in War Studies from the University of Baluchistan and an MPhil from Downing College, Cambridge in International Relations.

Present hobbies include riding a BMW motorbike, cross country skiing and sculling. He lives in Hereford and Chelsea during the week with his wife Jacquie who is a student at SOAS. Club is Sohohouse.