Napoleon Bonaparte’s relatives after he lost power in France
What happened to Napoleon Bonaparte‘s relatives after he lost power in France? They could not stay in France but, perhaps...
25/08/2016
MODERN HISTORY
Mazzini’s ‘Young Italy’
The situation facing the forces of liberalism and nationalism in Italy in 1830 was apparently more hopeless than that facing...
30/06/2016
Belgian independence
The union of Holland and Belgium under the Dutch king, William I, in 1815 had been one of the less...
14/04/2016
The Mfecane 1816-28
The rise of the Zulu empire under its warlike king Shaka (r.1816 -28) sent shock waves throughout southern Africa, triggering...
05/04/2016
The Modoc War, 1872-73
From the late 1860s there was an uneasy peace until the outbreak in 1872 of the Modoc War, one of...
04/12/2015
Few leading figures in the English Civil War 1642-51
In the middle of 17th century England experienced a great convulsion of political and military violence, which quickly spread to...
30/11/2015
Key moments of the American Civil War
Union and Confederate armies clashed close to the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg in the battle we now know was a...
09/07/2015
First portrait of a criminal published in a British newspaper
On 27th June 1881, 64-years-old coin dealer Isaac Gold was brutally murdered on the 14:00 London to Brighton express train....
16/05/2015
Manpower for sea power
Life at sea may not have been a particularly attractive prospect for a man in Georgian England, but it was...
08/01/2015
Spencer Perceval’s assassination
All that is generally remembered about Spencer Perceval is that he was the only British prime minister ever to be...
06/09/2014