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Lord Haw Haw Speaks!
William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, circa 1942. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images A Day in History - 18th September 1939 On the 18th...
Sep 184 min read


The Fall of a King
Battle of Flodden on 9th September 1513 by Sir Edward Burne-Jones A Day in History - 9th September 1513 At 4pm on the 9th of September...
Sep 94 min read


The Rights of Man: Promise and Paradox
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen , a portrait by Jean-Jacques-Francois Le Barbier A Day in History - 26th August 1789...
Aug 263 min read


Barbarossa Begins
German Waffen SS motorcyclists during Operation Barbarossa. @ImperialWarMuseum A Day in History - 22nd June 1941 In the early hours of...
Jun 223 min read


Death of the Bismarck
The Sinking of the 'Bismarck' - Charles Edward Turner . Image Credit : National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London A Tuesday in History -...
May 274 min read


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
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