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In Patria: Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair explores nine nations, dissolved or imagined, and what they tell us about Latin America. Head to Head.
The Crusades: A Complete History | History Today
May 5, 2015 · The First Crusade was called in November 1095 by Pope Urban II at the town of Clermont in central France. The pope made a proposal: 'Whoever for devotion alone, but not to gain honour or money, goes to Jerusalem to liberate the Church of God can substitute this journey for all penance.'.
Roger Casement’s Heart of Darkness | History Today
1 day ago · The grim reality underlying Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness echoed the growing moral outrage over the murderous rubber trade in the Congo and the Amazon. For Roger Casement, it became a moral crusade. Angus Mitchell | Published in History Today Volume 49 Issue 12 December 1999. A Congolese man sits looking at a severed hand and foot.
Books of the Year 2021 - History Today
Dec 12, 2021 · Joseph Hone, Author of The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers (Chatto & Windus) Two of the most bewitchingly original history books that I have read this year both concern revolutionary France. The first is Colin Jones’ The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (Oxford University ...
When the Men Came Marching Home from the Great War
3 days ago · T he Seventh Dragoon Guards made one of the last charges of the First World War at 10.30am on 11 November 1918, galloping forward and capturing the bridge at Lessines in the Picardy region of Belgium. Fighting officially ended at 11am on the same day, when the Armistice was signed. On hearing the news, the Fifth Dragoon Guards’ official war diary described the celebration as the regiment ...
What is History? | History Today
Aug 8, 2020 · History is the study of people, actions, decisions, interactions and behaviours. It is so compelling a subject because it encapsulates themes which expose the human condition in all of its guises and that resonate throughout time: power, weakness, corruption, tragedy, triumph …. Nowhere are these themes clearer than in political history ...
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