Four illustrious Cecils
William Cecil / tudorplace.com.ar William Cecil was the first illustrious Cecil, men from an ordinary background who managed, by determination, hard work, guile, ambition and not a little luck to reach very near [...]
NEWS of the books
General History in book format! Don't forget Volumes One & Two of GENERAL HISTORY are available on Amazon wherever you may be. These books are simply the articles posted on the website www.general-history.com in the [...]
The USSR and its leaders
/ commons.wikimedia.org This article deals with the former Soviet Union, a.k.a. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The USSR was a federation of fifteen republics, forming what was the world’s largest sovereign state from [...]
Conversos (the converted)
Religious poet Fray Luis de León Jews in the Spain of the Middle Ages, though never popular, were permitted to convert from Judaism to Christianity; rigorous tests conducted by priests followed equally [...]
The Boston Massacre, Tea Party & the Intolerable Acts
Depiction of the Tea Party painted by Louis Arcas / down withtyranny.blogspot.com By March, 1770 a strong sense of resentment and general feelings of unrest among American colonists, who came mainly from Britain [...]
The Inquisition
Popular conception of question time in the Spanish Inquisition / newsbiscuit.com This was a Catholic tribunal founded on a temporary basis in France and Germany. Its purpose was to seek out heresy, prosecute [...]
William Cobden
Cobden’s ideal England, done by computer / craftform.com Cobden was a self-educated farm labourer from Surrey, England who became one of the first professional journalists. By this I mean that he wrote for [...]
Sales of General History in book form – news!
Jeremy Taylor alias Dean Swift Sales of Volume I and II of General History in book form are advancing sedately on line. Wherever you live in the world you can contact www.amazon.com or [...]
A brief history of Russia
Peter the Great, a portrait made in 1838 / en.wikipedia.org Russia is a vast area of land occupying most of eastern Europe and much of northern Asia. So little is known about this [...]
The Métis & the Red River Rebellion
The Grave of Louis Riel,one of the founders of Manitoba / tourismerial.com Among the first Canadians were the oddly named Métis – having a mixture of pure Native American blood with white, mostly [...]
After devastation, the Reconstruction of the United States
/ history.martinez.com The American Civil War had left most states, especially in the South, in chaos and sad decline. American boys from North and South had killed each other, most of them not [...]
More about THE BOOK
The first (and second) volume of General History in print – some news With a book presentation on September 13 at midday, held in the famous Orchid Gardens of Sitio Litre, a beautiful old house [...]
Once upon a time . . .the Law of Fratricide
Mehmed III rid himself of 19 brothers / crowland.uw.hu For those of you who are not entirely confident (very few indeed I should judge) in the English language there are a number of [...]
Hohenstaufen (1138 – 1254) and Hohenzollern (1417 – 1918)
Brandenberg – old and new / en-wikipedia.org The Hohenstaufen dynasty was named after the castle of Staufen (long ruined) in north-eastern Swabia. From 1338 to 1254 its leader were crowned as Holy Roman [...]
The Ottoman Dynasty (and a warning about names)
Suleyman I the Magnificent / bbc.co.uk History students must not confuse the word ‘Ottoman’ with ‘Ottonian’, though it is easy to do so. The latter is another name for an ancient German royal [...]
Names to confuse you (they have another meaning)
Cherry blossom / derwentvalleyphotography.wordpress.com English is a rich language not only because of an immense vocabulary, but also because many words in daily use have another, purely historical meaning. Take for example: [...]
The Anglo-Dutch Wars, Maarten & Cornelis Tromp, Michiel de Ruyter & Robert Blake
Ruyter causing havoc in the river Thames / badassoftheweek.com In the seventeenth century two dominating naval powers emerged, following the reduction of the great Spanish Empire and her navy. They were Holland and [...]
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