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Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1880 A Day in History - 22nd January 1879 On the afternoon of the 22nd January 1879, a skeleton British garrison of fewer than 150 soldiers stood at Rorke’s Drift, an unremarkable mission station on the edge of Zululand. Within hours, they would be fighting for their lives. Just twelve miles away, an entire British column had been destroyed at Isandlwana - remembered by the Zulu as The Day of the Dead Moon , when a

Casablanca Conference 1943, present are (left to right): French General Henri H. Giraud; US President Franklin D. Roosevelt; French General Charles de Gaulle; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. A Day in History - 14th January 1943 Between the 14th and 24th of January 1943, Allied leaders met at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, for one of the most significant strategic conferences of the Second World War. The meeting brought together U.S. President Franklin D. Roo

William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, circa 1942. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images A Day in History - 18th September 1939 On the 18th September 1939, just weeks after Great Britain entered the Second World War, a strange, nasal voice first crackled over the British airwaves: ‘Germany Calling, Germany Calling.’ It belonged to the American-born William Joyce, soon notorious as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, whose propaganda broadcasts from Nazi Germany would both unsettle and entertain milli

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...

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

The Sinking of the 'Bismarck' - Charles Edward Turner . Image Credit : National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London A Tuesday in History - 27th May 1941 Construction of the Bismarck  began in July 1936, as part of Germany’s ambitious Plan Z naval expansion. Completed in 1940, it was widely regarded as the most powerful warship in the world. Completed in 1940, the battleship was a formidable force: over 820 feet long, capable of 30 knots, with a range exceeding 11,000 miles and

Adolf Hitler visiting the Special exhibition of war loot from Russia in the Zeughaus (old arsenal) in Berlin, where Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff made an attempt on Hitler's life. @El Pais A Day in History - 21st March 1943 Throughout his reign, Adolf Hitler survived numerous assassination attempts, many of which have been analysed by historians and popularised through media. One such is the 2008 film Valkyrie , starring Tom Cruise as Wehrmacht Colonel Claus von Stauffenbe

A Day in History – 28 November 1943 On the 28th of November 1943, the leaders of the 'Big Three' nations - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - met for the first time in Tehran, Iran. This historic summit aimed to solidify military strategies for the Allies in the final stages of World War II and to begin shaping the post-war world order. As Churchill remarked, the meeting “probably represented the greatest concentration of worldly power that had ever

Death and the Soldier, oil on canvas, Hans Larwin, 1917 A Day in History - 11 November 1918 On 11th November 1918, the Armistice was signed between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany. Signed in Le Francport, it came into effect at 11 am CET, commonly referred to as ‘the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month’. This moment marked the end of hostilities on the Western Front during World War I, bringing four years of brutal warfare to a close

Painting of Benito Mussolini by Gerardo Dottori, 1933 The question of whether Mussolini prevented Italy from becoming communist state requires an exploration of his rise to power and the role of anti-communism in his fascist regime. Mussolini’s political ascent was marked by a fierce opposition to the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and other leftist movements, which he and his fascist ‘Blackshirts’ actively suppressed through violence, intimidation, and propaganda. Anti-commun

Police Attack Demonstrators in Sharpeville, March 21, 1960 Apartheid, meaning ‘apartness’ in Afrikaans, refers to the system of racial segregation enforced in South Africa between 1948 and the mid-1990s. Though formally introduced by the National Party in 1948, racial segregation had long been part of South Africa’s history. Apartheid laws imposed severe restrictions on the daily lives of non-white South Africans, from ‘pass laws’ that required them to carry permits to enter

German soldiers on the way to the Western Front in 1914. Messages on the car read: ‘Trip to Paris’, ‘See you later on the Boulevard’, ‘Off to battle’ and ‘My sword tip is itching’. ‘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 suggests that the public, especially young men and boys, felt great excitement at the prospect of war and fighting for one’s country. The Nazi party later used the ‘

A Day in History - 18th July 1925 Following his conviction for high treason against the German Republic in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years imprisonment in Landsberg prison. During his time, of which he only served nine months, Hitler began to dictate Volume One of his autobiographical piece - initially titled 4 ½ Jahre Kampf gegen Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit. Eine Abrechnung (4 ½ Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice.

The Empire (depicted in red) in 1886, by Walter Crane Hans Kohn explains the idea of nationhood rose to prominence in the seventeenth century, with the growth of political thought and participation. [1] This idea is described as a greater sense of loyalty to the nation, one which was governed over by political parties, in Great Britain being the Liberals, the Conservatives and the Labour Party. The focus will start at the period of imperialism and sovereignty under the Liber

Death March (Czechowice-Bielsko, January 1945), 1945, Jan Hartman 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 1933, one must analyse the policies of Hitler and the party by this period. These were underpinned by the views seen in Mein Kampf, which clarifies Adolf Hitlers' hatred of the Jews to a significant extent yet fails when using it as an argument towards the inevitability of the Ho

A demonstrator blocking tanks near Tiananmen Square, 1989 To assess whether China’s rise post-Mao was peaceful, one will look at the position within China both internally and externally, from Mao Zedong’s death in 1976. Classically described as the ‘peaceful rise’ from Deng Xiaoping onwards, the emphasis internally was based on economic development and policies relating to an alleviation of poverty. With the remarkable growth within these areas came the expression within the

George Washington with slaves on his Mount Vernon estate. Credit: MPI/Getty Images The American Revolution, 1765-83, was a political revolution which focussed on gaining autonomy from the British and significantly regaining the right to control property, including slaves. In one respect, the revolution reinforced American commitment to slavery, as the Southern States continued to reject emancipation and succeeded in strengthening the institution. Slave owners were able to mak

Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman as Andy Dufresne and Red in the Shawshank Redemption This study will compare the American penal system from 1940 to 1970, seen in Frank Darabont’s 1994 picture, The Shawshank Redemption and in written academic history. The comparison will be shown with an emphasis on rehabilitation, change within the legal system and the way of prison life within this period. The idea of rehabilitation is rooted strongly within the film relating to developments

A Day in History - 16th April 1945 Colditz Castle is arguably the most infamous of all POW camps. Declared as 'escape-proof' by Field...

A Day in History - 19th January 1983 Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie was a member of the Nazi Gestapo who worked in the German-occupied...