The First World War: A Short Timeline
Sunday September 28, 2003
Designed for students and anyone needing a general guide to the First World War, this timeline dedicates a page to each year of the war, with bookends from the decades ... Read More
Hitler’s Danube Fleet revealed
Saturday September 27, 2003
After a long, dry summer the river Danube has fallen to it’s lowest level for well over a century, causing crippling economic problems: the vital shipping lifeline can no longer ... Read More
Caesar’s Portraits
Friday September 26, 2003
A white marble bust discovered on Pantelleria – a Mediterranean Island – has been identified as Julius Caesar. However, this discovery is remarkable because, despite Caesar’s fame and achievements (although ... Read More
Hitler, Homes and Gardens
Monday September 22, 2003
Over fifty years since Hitler died and new documents concerning his impact are still being uncovered. Simon Waldman recently found a November 1938 issue of Homes & Gardens, a British ... Read More
The Historic Buildings Liberation Front
Sunday September 21, 2003
My free local newspaper often carries stories of small historical significance, most concerning WW2, but this weekend I discovered a self-styled group of historical 'terrorists' operating in my area. The ... Read More
Talk Like A Pirate Day
Friday September 19, 2003
On the basis that, as a historian, I deal mostly with dead people, I'm pleased to mention something funny amongst the living: Talk Like A Pirate Day, which is today, ... Read More
Restoration: Controversy
Sunday September 14, 2003
Over the past few weeks, The BBC – the UK's main TV station – has run a competition to save endangered buildings: Restoration. Thirty were featured with ten being voted ... Read More
Silvio Berlusconi upsets people...again!
Sunday September 14, 2003
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's incendiary and entertaining Prime Minister, reportedly made comments defending fascist dictator Benito Mussolini this week, after being asked to compare him with Saddam Hussein. Although the quotes ... Read More
Leni Riefenstahl dies
Wednesday September 10, 2003
Leni Riefenstahl died on September 9th 2003, aged 101. Easily one of our greatest directors and cinematographers...read more.
Canada in WW1
Monday September 8, 2003
A new index for sites about Australia and New Zealand in the Great War of 1914 – 1918: 23 have currently been selected and annotated. If you know of an ... Read More
Did Gospel music originate in Scotland?
Saturday September 6, 2003
How on the heels of the British inventing Pasta and Napoleon being Scottish a new, but much more plausible, theory has been put forward by Professor Willie Ruff, Professor of ... Read More
Evidence of Ancient Greek Brain Surgery
Wednesday September 3, 2003
Archaeologists on the Aegean Island of Chios have discovered evidence of successful 'trepanning' - a process which involves carefully drilling into the brain - dating from c.250 B.C. Although we ... Read More