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The Legend of the Winchester Round Table
A Day in History - 20th April 1290 At the forefront of the Arthurian Legend stands the image of King Arthur's Great Table, around which...
Apr 202 min read
Suicide Mission to Kill Hitler Foiled
Adolf Hitler visiting the Special exhibition of war loot from Russia in the Zeughaus (old arsenal) in Berlin, where Rudolf Christoph von...
Mar 213 min read
The 'Perfect Season' - Miami Dolphins win Super Bowl VII
Coach Don Shula is carried off the field by his players after the 1972 Miami Dolphins completed their unbeaten season in Super Bowl VII....
Jan 143 min read
'Big Three' meet at Tehran
A Day in History – 28 November 1943 On the 28th of November 1943, the leaders of the 'Big Three' nations - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston...
Nov 28, 20243 min read
Armistice Called
A Day in History - 11 November 1918 On 11th November 1918, the Armistice was signed between the Entente and their last remaining...
Nov 11, 20242 min read
Mussolini and Communism
The question of whether Mussolini prevented Italy from becoming communist state requires an exploration of his rise to power and the role...
Oct 8, 20248 min read
Why did the struggle against apartheid become violent?
Apartheid, meaning "apartness" in Afrikaans, refers to the system of racial segregation enforced in South Africa between 1948 and the...
Oct 1, 20248 min read
The Mythos of the ‘Spirit of 1914'
“The Spirit of 1914” is a term used to describe the supposed war fever that gripped Europe at the outbreak of the First World War. It...
Oct 1, 20244 min read
Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Published
A Day in History - 18th July 1925 Following his conviction for high treason against the German Republic in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923,...
Jul 18, 20242 min read
The British Nation: How did political change shape ideas of nationhood in the 19th and 20th centuries?
Hans Kohn explains the idea of nationhood rose to prominence in the seventeenth century, with the growth of political thought and...
Jul 11, 20249 min read
Was 'the Holocaust' an inevitable result of the rise to Power of the Nazi Party in 1933?
The Holocaust was the act of genocide of 6 million Jews during World War 2 by Nazi Germany. To discuss whether this was inevitable by...
Jun 5, 20244 min read
How exploitative was serfdom in Medieval England?
Serfdom, a medieval term, is commonly described as the condition in which a tenant farmer was bound to a hereditary plot of land and the...
Jun 3, 20248 min read
Has the rise of China post-Mao been peaceful?
To assess whether China’s rise post-Mao was peaceful, one will look at the position within China both internally and externally, from Mao...
Jun 1, 20244 min read
Could enslaved people make use of the American Revolution to resist slavery?
The American Revolution,1765-83, was a political revolution which focussed on gaining autonomy from the British and significantly...
May 29, 20245 min read
Is 'The Shawshank Redemption' an accurate depiction of American prisons from 1940-70?
This study will compare the American penal system from 1940 to 1970, seen in Frank Darabont’s 1994 picture, The Shawshank Redemption and...
May 27, 20245 min read
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