History Resources (page 21)

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...

Nationalism certainly had a role to play in the unification of Germany in 1871; it was, however, a rather different breed of nationalism to that seen in 1815, the 1830s and 1848, and ...

I wanted to see if I could develop students' causal reasoning in their writing by explicitly concentrating on lexicogrammatical structures. The majority of attempts to develop linguis...

The Falklands war was primarily regarded by many contemporaries as evidence of Britain's revival as a world power following the loss of the Empire and the humiliation of Suez, 1956. T...

The traditional view of Mary's reign gives too much unprecedented weight to the influence of Philip II over the playing out of her reign. By no means can England be said to have been ...

Title: 'The Yellow Peril of the fiction writer has become actuality'. The awakening of the East and the Fall of Singapore through the eyes of British Imperial culture, 1890-1945 A...

The commonly held assumption that the youth`s initial enthusiasm for war was replaced by pessimism and grief is clear in Vera Brittain`s Testament of Youth, where her negative experie...

Punching Above Their Weight? Focusing on the period 1957-61 this essay will consider whether Ireland's involvement in the UN had a significant impact on international relations durin...