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Two Books on Scottish and Irish Migration

Adventurers and Exiles _ The Great Scottish Exodus Marjory Harper A Pocket History of The Irish Famine Fiona Biggs PLUS a book...

Three Books on Forced Migration Stories

I have consulted a number of sources for the lecture, 12th May, but here are three books you might enjoy. The Mammoth Book of Native...

First Migration booklist

General Books The Shortest History of Migration Ian Goldin International Migration Khalid Koser The Great Migrations John...

Short Booklist: History of Greenland

A History of Greenland Alex Bugeja A short but comprehensive history. More of a textbook than a historical work. The Vanished...

A First Booklist for the Lockdown CHINA Course

Scramble for China Robert Bickers Modern China Rana Mitter Histories of Nations (Ch on China) ed. Peter Furtado...

Heroes & Villains: Part 2

HEROES WITH FEET OF CLAY: CLIVE OF INDIA & FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The phenomena of knocking 'heroes' off their plinths and exposing their...

Heroes and Villains: Opening Lecture of Series

Definitions, Joan of Arc, and Dracula The difficulty of defining heroes, eg who are heroes in the 21st century? Easier to define villains...

American Slavery and The Nat Turner Rebellion

First African slaves arrive in Virginia 1619 Slavery persist in America until 1865 The nature of American Slavery Types of Resistance to...

Black Spartacus: The Haitian Slave Revolution

Lockdown Lecture Synopsis for Monday 23 September European slave traders and slave owners in The Caribbean: English and French History of...

The Zanj Rebellion: Lockdown Lecture 16 September

In this second lecture on Slave Revolts we turn to the issue of the Africans taken into slavery by the Arabs. Slavery began before Islam...

Can Peace ever be Achieved?

The final lecture in the present series asks this profound, and to some, unanswerable question Introduction a. 7 December 1941. Why? b. A...

WARS & INTIFADAS

A synopsis for Lockdown lecture, Monday 22 July Intro and recap The Early Years The 6 Day War and The Yom Kippur War The First Intifada...

Post War Palestine: Creation of Israel and War

The situation in 1945: Recap Events in Palestine and New York Last Days of The British Mandate 1947/48 1948: Israeli independence...

Synopsis for Lockdown Lecture 8 July

The Second World War in The Middle East Overview Brief references to North Africa Campaign French Mandated territories of Syria and...

THE BRITISH MANDATE IN PALESTINE

Here follows my synopsis for the Lockdown Lecture for 1 July Note that the story today goes up only to the outbreak of The Second World...

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