Robert's European History Blog

Do you buy a lot of history books? Yale University Press and Oxford University Press are both having summer book sales with up to 50% off...and their history sections are ... Read More

Online book motherlode Abebooks.com is celebrating their tenth anniversary with an ad campaign featuring fake but ironic titles. I've so far seen four and, given that a. they're aiming for ... Read More

New research suggests that early humans were using jewellery around 100,000 years ago, 25,000 more than previously thought. Given that the use of jewellery demands a sense of self, a ... Read More

In 1941 a Soviet tank crewman dreamt up a design which, by 1947, would become the 'AK47' Kalashnikov rifle. But Mikhail Kalashnikov, now 86 years old, is worried that his ... Read More

Last week in European history: a warrior pope was captured, it became illegal to sell your place in Britain's parliament and the Scottish inventor of the TV was born.

Douglas Haig, a British Field Marshall during the First World War, is one of the most controversial history men in British history. Reviled by many, defended zealously by a growing ... Read More

Tens of thousands of football/soccer fans have gathered in Germany for the World Cup, the world's largest single sport event. Held every four years and with competitors from the five ... Read More

It's been over two hundred years since the French populace first reviled and then executed Marie Antoinette but, according to this article from an Australian news source, French culture has ... Read More

When restorers working on the Palace of Westminster took up part of a floor they probably didn't expect to find part of a table...a table over 700 years old!

This week in European History: the first Benedict became Pope (we are now on the sixteenth), 'wireless telegraphy' was patented, tv licences and L plates for learner drivers became compulsory ... Read More

Your Guide takes a look at this new book from Britain's BBC Television, an attempt to cast the Romen Empire's neighbours in a new light.

Students at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, are taking their medieval studies course more seriously than most by attempting to recreate aspects of, well, medieval study. At certain times they wear monks' ... Read More