Pétain’s France
France’s defeat by Germany in June 1940 brought the collapse of the Third Republic and heralded the start of the...
15/12/2011
20TH CENTURY HISTORY
Sit-down strike in Flint, 1936
Conditions in Flint before the strike were very, very depressing for working people. We had a large influx of workers...
13/12/2011
The British secret service from 1918 to 2009
The end of the First World war saw a great reduction in the size, scope and remit of the intelligence...
28/11/2011
The Antarctic Photography
October sees the opening of a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, marking the 100th anniversary of Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey...
26/10/2011
German New Guinea – How Germany lost its territory in Pacific
In August 1914 the British called on the Australian and New Zealand governments to capture Germany’s colonial possessions in the...
30/09/2011
On this day: First block in Berlin Wall was set up
In the afternoon of August 12 at 4 p.m. Walter Ulbricht, the East German leader, signed the commands to close...
13/08/2011
On this day: Ronald Reagan’s “Slip of the Tongue”
On August 11, 1984, as he prepared for his weekly address on National Public Radio, then-US President Ronald Reagan made...
11/08/2011
Jesse Owens: The Hero of the Games
James Cleveland Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama, on September 12, 1913, the son of a sharecropper, a farmer who...
07/08/2011
The Romanov Mystery – Finally solved or endless crime story
Anastasia Romanov born June 18,1901 to the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra Fyodorvna was the youngest...
13/07/2011
The Time of Book Burning – Nazi’s Burning of Souls
“Where books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.” Heinrich Heine An event unseen since the Middle...
26/06/2011