According to Oxford Dictionaries Online, Racism is: “Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.”…
Category: World History
Henry M. Stanley, explorer and journalist
Henry M. Stanley, explorer and journalist One is not too sure that modern schoolchildren are taught about persons like Henry Stanley, or for that matter Dr. Livingstone, with…
Another message from Jeremy Taylor
You can read a book (at the risk of your eyesight) off your computer screen, or you can have it read to you by some famous actor; you…
The revolt of Portugal
The first king of this tiny country, washed by the Atlantic, and blessed with fine seamen, navigators and harbours, was Alfonso I, in 1139, but the Portuguese Empire…
Further thoughts on the Khmer Rouge
In 1970, serious trouble boiled up again when the Prince Sihanouk was knocked off the throne by a Cambodian communist guerilla force called Khmer Rouge. This brutal, well-organised…
Four revolutions of 1848
Revolutions are a regular feature in all history, human nature being what it is. The careful student can probably find a revolution of some kind every year since…
Important European families: Este and Esterhazy
Any family that distinguishes itself for eight hundred and seventy-five years must have something special, and the Italian family d’Este has it. Appearing first in the misty beginnings…
The murder of Elisabeth Feodorovna
This beautiful, doomed woman was the sister of the Tsarina Alexandra of Russia, and of Prince Ernest of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the daughter of Princess Alice of Great Britain,…
Seven Christian kings in Scandinavia
Christian I was born in 1426 and became King of Denmark in 1448, King of Norway in 1450 and Sweden in 1457. In case this seems greedy he…
Further thoughts on Thomas Becket, martyr and saint
Thomas Becket, or Thomas à Becket as he was called by my teacher of History, was not a Saxon. He was a son of a wealthy Norman merchant…