The word itself comes from the Hebrew word Shoah. This was the affliction suffered by Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe from 1933 to 1945. It is usual to divide…
The American Civil War
By Dean Swift Like all civil wars, none of which are the least civil, the American Civil War was a murderous and bloody conflict between brothers, fathers and…
The American Revolution
1776 – 1783: American colonists revolt and declare independence One of the more obvious oddities about the American War of Independence is that it need not have happened….
Jack The Ripper and the British Royal Family
The name describes the pseudonymous murderer of at least seven women, all of them prostitutes, in or near the poor district of Whitechapel in London from August 7…
Alexander the Great
All records of Alexander by his own contemporaries have disappeared. We have to depend, all of us, including historians, historical novelists, and teachers, on histories compiled three or…
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Though the actual battle was inconclusive (18 October, 1854), a part of it has entered the lexicon of war myths as strongly as Hastings (1066) or Trafalgar (1805)…
Josef Stalin
Born in Georgia, his family name was actually Djugashvili, and his adopted middle name was Visarionovitch. This hero of the Soviet Union was a living reminder of the…
The British Empire
What we mean by this expression was (formerly) an apparently haphazard collection of lands throughout the world linked by common allegiance to the British throne. In 1800, though…
The orchestrated Suez Canal Affair (1956)
Suez is a ship canal joining the Mediterranean Sea (at Port Said) with the Red Sea (at the Gulf of Suez). It was built to provide a sea…
The Great Cabinet Re-shuffle: the significance
On a recent Sunday the President of the Government was asked at a meeting if he intended to remodel his government, by making changes among the ministers. Rodríguez…