History Resources (page 20)

When the conquistadors first began their exploration of the New World they became enraptured by rumours of El Dorado, the mythical City of Gold. Their hunt through the dense jungles o...

Documents dating 20th March 1801 to the 13th April 1801, give a representation of food rioting in the South West,and show an intricate picture of the relationship between the crowd, f...

Introduction and Brief Historiographical Overview Female crime has been widely ignored within the context of the Irish Famine, 1845-501. However, in recent years female crime has bec...

Abstract (full 12,000 word thesis can be emailed on request): There is extremely limited existing scholarship on George Butterworth, and what exists is either biographical in focus...

Perhaps the continually polemic nature of Margaret Thatcher and her governments is, at the very least, indicative of their attempts to 'change the heart and soul' of Britain, and her ...

Linguistic engagement between Europeans and Aborigines in early colonial Australia took numerous forms, occupied diverse spaces, shaped power relationships between the two groups and ...

How and why did the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe collapse? As with the end of the cold war in general, few predicted the timing, speed or peacefulness of the collap...

The drive for disfranchisement in the 1890s was primarily racially motivated, as white Southern Democrats sought to restore the status quo of white supremacy prior to reconstruction. ...

History can be a challenging subject both to teach and to learn. The combination of dates, names and events, means that occasionally it can be a dry subject. Fortunately when presente...

Augustine was writing in a high political context. The Christian Roman Empire was wrestling with its Pagan past; Christianity was still trying to establish itself 'in the milieu...