All About History

Most often we study and discuss history in silos. We focus ona particular category, be it a nation, a time period, the reign of a particular monarch or dynasty, etc. One of the great things about working on All About History is that you get to see th

On 1 June 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart took off from Miami in a Lockheed Electra aircraft. Having stopped at several destinations during her endeavour to circumnavigate the globe, Earhart left New Guinea on 2 July and was expected to make her next st

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Middleham Castle is believed to have been first built in 1086. Standing in the town of Middleham in North Yorkshire, it has been home to many members of the English nobility, but its most famous resident was Richard III. Entering the household of the

On behalf of the Ottomans, pirates in the Mediterranean regularly carted off whole Christian villages, and one Barbary pirate (a Dutch Muslim convert) enslaved the entire population of Baltimore in Ireland. During the English Civil War (1642-51) thes

Dr Stephen P Kershaw has taught classics at a number of universities and now tutors primarily at Oxford University, teaching their online course on Greek mythology. He is the author of A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato’s Ideal State (Robinson, 2017)

It’s dark, dingy and sweaty. Singers vomit across the stage; bottles smash and blind audience members; household names are cursed at and mocked on live television; there’s swastikas, drugs and murder-suicide – how did it all come to this? In the mid-

The Huns were pastoral nomads who, for seven decades between their arrival in Europe in 370 CE and the 450s CE, amassed a huge empire in the north and east of the continent. Their soldiers, with their formidable techniques and incredible speed, were

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An award-winning historical author and professor at The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina, Livingston has written books such as Medieval Warfare: A Reader and Never Greater Slaughter. In 1346, still relatively early in the series of con

World of Warships is a free-to-play naval action, massively multiplayer online (MMO) game with a focus on the epic large-scale sea battles of the first half of the 20th century. To celebrate Father’s Day, World of Warships is giving you the chance to

Colonel Eduard Totleben, a gifted Russian military engineer trained at the prestigious School of Engineering in Saint Petersburg, arrived in Sevastopol in summer, 1854, to oversee the improvement of the Black Sea port’s outdated defences. He was appa

Kristofer teaches US History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941. His next book The Klan: An American History is due for release in 2023. Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt’s life reads like a road

In 1828 the gloomy streets of Edinburgh were a scary place to be. Murderers William Burke and William Hare had people living in fear, selling the bodies of their victims to the prominent medical schools of the city for anatomical dissection. They kil

Book Film TV Podcast Games Other A fan-pleasing silver screen extension to the stately series Certificate: PG Director: Simon Curtis Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery Released: Out now Following six seasons and a feature film releas

Director: Richard Fleischer Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy Country: USA Released: 1968 Criticised during its release for being exploitative, does this true-crime epic swap sincerity for shocks? VERDICT: A well-made piece of entert

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