The Bay of Pigs: The Unsuccessful Invasion
On the night of April 16th and 17th, 1961, 1,400 armed men on board a flotilla of small boats and...
20/04/2012
20TH CENTURY HISTORY
The War Horses of the Western Front
Michael Morpurgo’s popular novel War Horse (1982) has rightly been referred to as ‘the Black Beauty of the Great War’....
18/04/2012
On this day: Disaster of Titanic
When Titanic set sail for New York on 10th April 1912 she was sailed as one of the greatest feats...
14/04/2012
Hitler’s bloody swastika
The Blutfahne or Blood Flag was one of the most sacred relics of nazi Germany. Originally the banner of the...
23/03/2012
Theodore Roosevelt and his African safari
America’s 26th president Theodore Roosevelt, was a politician and stateman who seemed larger than life. His swashbuckingly style, his love...
18/03/2012
The mobster story
The “mob” –often called “the Mafia” –achieved mythic status in America thanks to movies, books, and the FBI. No expert...
06/03/2012
A Black worker in Soviet Union
While much of the world faced depression, in the early 1930s the Soviet Union was booming. Stalin’s industrialisation programme was...
15/02/2012
General Masaharu Homma and Manila, the open city
The day after Christmas 1941, when his forces left, US Army General Douglas MacArthur had declared Manila an open city...
10/01/2012
On this day: Lockerbie tragedy
23 years ago, 270 people died when Pam Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. The victims of the terrorist bombing will...
21/12/2011
The portrait of Matthew Henson
Matthew Alexander Henson was born in 1866 to freeborn sharecroppers. When he was four the family moved from Maryland to...
18/12/2011