Sobibor: The Concentration Camp Uprising
Shortly after the events that transpired at Treblinka, Sobibor was experienced a similar insurrection. The camp functioned much like Treblinka, so great detail will...
The Heptarchy: Anglo-Saxon Ascendancy
Let us take a step back from religious fervor for a moment and focus on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms themselves.
The Heptarchy: Anglo-Saxon Ascendancy The first...
The Nazi Party – Early Days
The trouble with leaving politicians to play, as was suggested the German people did, at the end of the last article, is that they...
The Maltese Language
Since 2007 Maltese has been include the twenty-three official languages of the European Union although only spoken by some 500,000.
Although Maltese is an...
Der Führer and the Volkswagen
Hitler wanted German consumers to be able to afford a car. He promoted the idea of the Volkswagen (originally KdF Wagen) to the public...
Early Arthurian Britain – Peeling the layers
While Arthurian literature, folklore and myth is mostly fiction, its significance to history cannot be ignored. As said before, the legend is rooted...
Christmas: Resonances in Ancient Britain
Christmas in Britain is taken for granted these days, but it wasn’t so in ancient days. For one thing, the date of the birth...
Aethelwulf: Worthy Successor?
Following in the difficult footsteps of Egbert, first-ever king of all England, was Aethelwulf, Egbert’s son, who took the throne of Wessex in 839....
Original Winter Celebrations and How Christ Came Into Christmas
Descriptions of riotous winter celebrations, the multicultural influences on Santa Claus, and the establishment of Christ in the Christmas holiday.
Riotous and unruly, the people...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand – Reformer?: Habsburg Dynast Supported Plan to Share Power with Ethnic...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, supported a plan to establish 15 semi-autonomous states based on cultural and linguistic identities.
By 1906, the...