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The Kolyma was the greatest and most famous island, the ferocious extremity of that surprising country of Gulag which though in terms of geography scattered out an as archipelago- ...

The notion that North East England has been overlooked, patronised, forgotten and misunderstood runs through Dan Jackson's The Northumbrians, a welcome examination of the last two ...

"The history of the modern Near East has often been written as though the states were driftwood in the sea of international affairs, their destinies shaped by the decisions of others ...

In 1865 the American Civil War ended and a period known as reconstruction began which lasted from 1865 to 1877. But why did the U.S need to reconstruct? The answer in this lay in Li...

F.W. de Klerk came to power in 1989, after the former National Party leader P.W. Botha was incapacitated by a stroke. De Klerk promptly and radically overhauled the apartheid regime, ...

South Africa witnessed steadily increasing violence during the 1980s, which particularly impacted the residents of the Townships. The new waves of violence and protest were led by the...

During the Holocaust, up to 6 million Jews lost their lives at the hands of National Socialism. Historiography concerning the Holocaust has seen many topical debates such as the Fun...

The typical assumption incorporates the prominent role of Nazi past in the student unrest throughout the 1960 s and 1970 s. Historians assuming this stance evoke a transnational...

Although critics argue otherwise, happiness as a concept and as a political ambition does have an apparent history. To demonstrate this point, a chronological structure will be used...

"What`s the point of history?'lt;/span>As a history teacher, I was often given people`s unadulterated opinion of my subject when asked what I did for a living. "Oh God, I hated histor...