History Resources (page 11)

I chose a history degree because I didn't have any clear career goals, and I knew this study would give me the transferrable skills desirable to many employers. It's no wonder history...

The Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948 in many ways set the tone of Middle Eastern politics and diplomacy for the next thirty years, if not the next seventy. The mass flight of Palestinian...

A. J. P. Taylor's often quoted assessment of the revolutions of 1848 as a turning point which 'failed to turn' typifies the notion of failure that the year 1848 evokes. In France, as...

The expectation of the Legislative Assembly, when it declared war on Austria in 1792, was a brief and victorious campaign. The number of wars, revolutions, and insurrections which fol...

Lying quietly in deep international waters close to Cuba, the Soviet submarine B59 came under attack by American depth charges. The furious officers scrambled to activate their key we...

How far was colonialism crucial to the formation of national identity in English literature from 1590-1642? `England` is an unstable concept in Early Modern literature. In the unea...

To what extent can social relations in eighteenth-century England be explained as "class struggle without class"? The work of E.P Thompson, particularly his 1963 seminal work The M...

What is the official name of Pakistan? The official name of Pakistan is The Islamic Republic Of Pakistan Pakistan's background: The separation in 1947 of British India to the ...

Labour Peer Kenneth O. Morgan has had a distinguished academic career that has seen him develop particular research interests in the history of Wales and the British Labour Party. Age...

It is curious as to the ignorance afforded to the politics of Ireland from these shores when our own histories are so inextricably linked. Whilst Andrew Sanders is not attempting to a...