Robert's European History Blog

An Italian researcher, currently being roundly mocked by his peers, is claiming that Johannes Gutenberg didn't invent the process of printing with moveable type after all; instead he used the ... Read More

This week was the 150th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade, a minor military event in British history that became infamous, even legendary. Sean Coughlan's article for the ... Read More

David Beisel's The Suicidal Embrace: Hitler, the Allies and the Origins of the Second World War is going to upset a few people, especially with its suggestion that British and ... Read More

During this year's D-Day celebrations I cast my eye across the books available on the subject; despite a massive number in print, there wasn't a good single volume overview covering ... Read More

If you've ever done a history course, you'll have written the 'why history is important' essay, the one which inevitably mentions politicians. The theory is, the more you know about ... Read More

A news agency devoted to Catholic issues isn't the most neutral ground for a debate on the Crusades, nevertheless, this interview with Thomas Madden – author of A Concise History ... Read More

Renowned military historian David Chandler died last Sunday, October 10th. An author on many periods, he was most famous for his The Campaigns of Napoleon, a classic, if apologetic, book ... Read More

This article reports on a speech made by Peter Torry, the British Ambassador to Berlin, during a ceremony in Brunswick commemorating the Allied destruction of the city in 1945. It ... Read More

The fate of Russia's Amber Room has prompted many theories and one of the more logical is experiencing a comeback. Research by Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy suggests that Red ... Read More

I'm not sure of the legal history of this case, or whether there's much truth behind it (reading shall ensue!), but as it mentions Nazis, gold and secret Vatican plots, ... Read More

Amidst a range of 'what if' scenarios, this article explores the growth and importance of the alternative history industry.

You've heard of G-Mail, but during World War 2 there was V-Mail, the system used by American servicemen to contact friends and family (and vice-versa). Read more about it here.

The relative rarity of medieval books has enabled bibliophiles to try and catalogue all remaining examples, but private collections frequently produce surprises. Until recently historians believed there were only two ... Read More

A special Visitor Centre dedicated to the Battle of the Somme has opened at the Thiepval Cemetery and Memorial in France. For more information, and pictures of the building work ... Read More