Robert's European History Blog

This book review provides a nice little introduction to Isaac Rosenberg, a First World War poet who wasn't Sassoon or Owen!

What If? history has grown increasingly popular (and why not, it's fun), so you might be interested in this short answer to a popular what if question: What if the ... Read More

The Historic Flying Company, based near Cambridge in the UK, are selling 3 completely restored Spitfire planes. They're expected to fetch well over a million dollars each, partly because of ... Read More

The top of the Graf Spee's command tower has been successfully removed from the sea bed, despite a few initial problems (bad weather, cables snapping and pieces threatening to return ... Read More

The discovery of an unexploded WW1 artillery shell in Ivybridge, Plymouth UK has caused a major mystery. While the fields of France turn up live ammunition and bombs all the ... Read More

Wilfred Owen's poetry dominates the literature and history of the First World War, his evocative and brutal verse leaving as big an impact on the English speaking consciousness as Churchill's ... Read More

Archaeologists have discovered a Viking ship burial, the first to be found in England; it's "one of the most important Viking discoveries ever made in the British Isles" (Simon Holmes). ... Read More

Britain's Office for National Statistics has calculated that a penny (the British equivalent of 1 cent) would have purchased more in 1750 than £1 would buy today. The precise calculations ... Read More

Schools, and some historians, tend to a give us a false impression: that we know what happened in history, that the books we read and the documentaries we watch are ... Read More

Profits from the British National Lottery are being used to send WW2 service personnel back to their battlefields as part of the forthcoming anniversary celebrations. The £10 million project (over ... Read More

European History Chat will be closing at the end of February along with the rest of the About chatrooms. I'd like to thank all the chatter's we've had in over ... Read More

Despite (or probably because of) some of the worst crimes in history, books on the Nazis sell well. You can probably imagine a publisher's joy then, when his author not ... Read More

Keel University has embarked upon a massive project: placing their entire Aerial Reconnaissance Archives from World War 2 online. Over 4 million photographs taken by the Royal Air Force will ... Read More

Alan Bullock, the highly influential historian and biographer of Hitler and Stalin, has died this week aged 89. There is an obituary here.

Yes, this link really goes to a short history of the carrier pigeon, as provided the International Herald Tribune Online. It seems the pigeon has been a key fixture of ... Read More