SOCIAL PROGRESS & SOCIAL STAGNATION 1861-1915 That North/South divide again! Money and weights and measures Industrial Progress in the...

The Sleepwalkers C.Clark The War that ended Peace M.MacMillan Both the above are general histories on the steps to war across...

Ol' Man River: The Mississippi Overview: Geographical and Historical As we will have discussed under the above heading there is almost...

IMPERIAL AFRICAN DREAMS Our story today falls into two parts, viz:- Before and During Mussolini's Fascist Rule A. Before Mussolini....

Unification: Loose tied up 1866 Venice and Venetia 1870 Rome and remaining Papal States The story of later Vatican-Italian relations...

RIVER TRENT A little geographical and introductory background A dip into some of the history witnessed by The Trent:- a. Viking and Saxon...

The Risorgimento: The story from 1848 to 1862, and this week starring GARIBALDI Recap of week 1 Introduction to week 2 1834 Garibaldi...

THE VOLGA: Russia's Iconic River The Mighty Mother Volga The Story of the Viking Rus and the Founding of first Russian State Story of the...

Some Background 1848 Revolutions Cavour Crimean War 1855 Situation 1860/61 ....to be continued next week Some Books (more added weekly)...

Importance of Rivers Part 1 A personal story of the River Frome in Bristol Uses of Rivers thro' the ages with a closer look at Laundry...

A piece in John Lewis-Stempel's 'Nature Notes' in The Times last week caught my eye. He was writing about Arum Maculatum, more commonly...

Prisoners of Time by Christopher Clark. Clark is a great historian of all things German. This book is sub-titled 'Prussians, Germans...

The Habsburgs Martyn Rady The Habsburgs Andrew Wheatcroft The Habsburg Empire Martyn Rady A Concise History of...

January. The beginning of a new journey for all. A time to make New Year Resolutions. In Britain it is often today referred to as 'dry...

Nature always seemed to get on all right until people showed up. The novelist David Baldacci May you never meet a mouse in your pantry...

Many of these words will be familiar to older readers, whether they live in England or elsewhere, or at least the things they describe...

1 Black Panthers 2 US-Canadian Border 3 Teddy Roosevelt 4 Louisiana 5 Texas 6 If born before Independence Britain reserved the right to...

On American History 1 Which militant group in the 1960s did Bobby Seale belong to? 2 What issue between US and UK was finally resolved by...

1 Prince George of Denmark 2 Grandfather 3 Elizabeth I 4 Lord Rosebery 5 Gwilym Lloyd George 6 Lloyd George on Stanley Baldwin 7 A coin...

THE ANSWERS ARE POSTED ON A SEPARATE BLOG. I HOPE THEY ARE ALL CORRECT, UNLIKE LAST YEAR; SOMEHOW I DOUBT IT! ON ENGLISH HISTORY 1 Who...