Post-war society: Social life in 1950’s
What are you thinking when you see a pictures of your parents or grandparents back in 50’s? Old black and...
03/06/2011
20TH CENTURY HISTORY
Yuri Gagarin – The First Spaceman
12 April 1961 The people of the United States share with the people of the Soviet Union their satisfaction for...
30/05/2011
The Blackface Minstrels
The practice of actors “blacking up” is no longer seen as amusing or acceptable. The once highly popular television series...
29/05/2011
Cold War paranoia
The poster Don’t Brag About Your Job was displayed in government and military offices dealing with sensitive material in the...
28/05/2011
Helen Duncan – The medium who cheated?
As a child, Scottish-born Helen Duncan earned the nickname Hellish Nell for her tomboyish exploits. She alienated her peers with...
25/05/2011
Ernst Thälmann – Hitler’s forgotten rival
One man who would have relished today’s crisis, just as he hoped to benefit hugely from the interwar slump, was...
21/05/2011
The White Rose, Silenced Voices of Hitler’s Germany
Fifty-four years ago three German students were arrested. A few days later they were hauled before the Volksgerichtshof (“People’s Court”),...
16/05/2011