The Committee for the Liberation of Upper Italy
‘Let’s find some fascists!’ / histomil.com (Comitato di Liberazione nazionale Alta Italia) Rather a mouthful both in English and Italian, this was a committee established in January, 1944 in an attempt to coordinate [...]
Colonization
/ from a painting by Angus McBride – posterlounge.co.uk These days the word strikes a sour note, arousing images of rough settlements, starving ‘piccaninies’, whips, shackles, thoughtless government from a distance of thousdands [...]
The Revolt of Portugal II
Dom Joao VI, an unflattering portrait / algarve-retreat.co.uk This Atlantic, south-western European country is on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula, bounded to north and east by Spain and to the west [...]
Chinese dynasties in antiquity
Glazed Tang Dynasty flask / metmuseum.org Civilization in Europe is an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes compared with China’s. The Shang dynasty, for instance, began 1766 years before Christ, according to reliable records, [...]
War in the air Part III: the Pacific
/ pacificwar.org.au The carrier-based Japanese air force began the war in the air over the Pacific Ocean by attacking without prior warning the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. The damage to American [...]
War in the air Part II: Per Ardua Ad Astra
A scene from the film The Battle of Britain / omfdb.org The Blizkrieg from Nazi Germany that opened the Second War in 1939 showed that apart from tank power, air [...]
War in the air: part I; the early days
Air combat / en.wikipedia.org In the very late nineteenth century hot-air balloons were first used in Europe for observing enemy troop movements. War in the air had started. Later the same balloons were [...]
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 [...]
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