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Abraham Lincoln – the Legend and Legacy
In the United States, Abraham Lincoln has become an iconic and idealized figure, held up to every American school child as an example of honesty, intelligence, and morality. His life is often used as an example of American liberty and … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 11, 2012 - 5:00 pm
The Marshall Plan and the Cold War
The European Recovery Program, commonly known as Marshall Plan, is usually remembered for the economic support provided by the United States for the rehabilitation of European countries ravaged by the Second World War. But the US was motivated by more … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 08, 2012 - 5:00 pm
Dickens, Debt and the Marshalsea Prison
Today, 7 February 2012, is Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday and History in an Hour celebrates with the publication of Dickens: History in an Hour. Here, its author, Kaye Jones, writes about the imprisonment for debt of Dickens’ father and the … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 5:00 pm
The Death of George VI
Sixty years ago today, on 6 February 1952, Britain’s King George VI died. Sinead Fitzgibbon summarises the life of the reluctant king. Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George the second son of George V and Queen Mary of Teck, was born … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 10:07 am
Dickens: History in an Hour
History for busy people. Read a succinct account of Charles Dickens in just one hour. Charles Dickens remains – 200 years after his birth – arguably Britain’s most successful writer. Works such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist have amused … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 7:42 am
Eva Braun
Eva Braun was born this day, 6 February, 100 years ago. Eva Braun first met Hitler whilst working as an assistant and model to Hitler’s official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. It was 1929 and she was 17, Hitler 40. At the … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 06, 2012 - 7:06 am
Kliment Voroshilov – Defender of Leningrad
During the 900-day siege of Leningrad, the man initially charged with the city’s defence was one of Stalin’s old favourites, Kliment Voroshilov, born this day, 4 February, in 1881. Rupert Colley summarises his efforts. During the Second World War, the … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 03, 2012 - 5:00 pm
Woodrow Wilson
Born in Virginia to a slave owning Presbyterian minister, Woodrow Wilson became the first Southern US president since Andrew Johnson in 1869. A world safer for democracy Elected the twenty-eighth US president in 1911, Wilson, a Democrat, was determined to … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 02, 2012 - 5:00 pm
Hitler painting sells for £27,000 – but how did the future dictator start off as an artist?
The painting shows the distant moon, its light shimmering over the sea, reflecting in the gentle waves. As a work of art it is pleasant to the eye but doesn’t linger too long in the memory being almost instantly forgettable. … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 01, 2012 - 5:02 pm
Stalingrad
On 2 February 1943, in what is considered the turning point of the war, the final remnants of the German army surrendered at Stalingrad. Considered important because of its supply of oil, the symbolic significance of Stalingrad (renamed as Stalin’s … Continue reading
Date Published: Feb 01, 2012 - 5:00 pm
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