Weekly History Quiz No.236
1. How long elapsed between the Romans founding Londinium and its destruction by Boudicca?
Try the full 10 question quiz.
1. How long elapsed between the Romans founding Londinium and its destruction by Boudicca?
Try the full 10 question quiz.
Reading time: 10 minutes
The Roman Empire continues to fascinate the world and dominate many cultural aspects of modern Western life. From language to law, the Romans left quite the legacy.
But one thing they didn’t leave was a clear successor to the Roman Empire.
If the Roman Empire still existed today, how could we determine who its ruler should be?
Reading time: 5 minutes
An encounter with a mysterious and extinct human relative – the Denisovans – has left a mark on the immune traits of modern Papuans, in particular those living on New Guinea Island. This is a new discovery we describe in a study published in PLoS Genetics today. It further suggests that our modern human diversity didn’t just evolve – some parts of it we got from other, extinct human groups.
1. When did the construction of the London Underground begin?
Try the full 10 question quiz.
Reading time: 11 minutes
The Siege of Malta, a two-year ordeal of bombs, heat and dust, was one of the most important battles of the Mediterranean theatre in World War Two. Few of the victories in North Africa and Italy would have been possible had the island fallen to the Axis. In this article, we let Australian pilots who defended Malta tell their stories.
Reading time: 20 minutes
Perhaps, with the global challenges of the 21st century, Australia can reassert its erstwhile youthful exuberance and once again be proud to call itself a trailblazing leader – a nation where justice serves as the foundation of its moral constitution.
Reading time: 7 minutes For service or for gallantry, almost all modern militaries – especially Western militaries, have issued war medals for a very long time. But who decides who gets these medals and awards, and how? Recent examination has brought to light a distinct lack of minority soldiers within Western militaries winning bravery awards, across many different countries, all throughout the 20th century and beyond.
Reading time: 8 minutes Walking around any British town or village today, it's difficult to imagine that land might not once have been private. But this was not always the case - for centuries, landless people could access common lands and forests. There they could gather firewood, graze livestock, or grow small crops.
Reading time: 6 minutes As if the tumultuous din of battle is not horrendous enough, over the ages humans have discovered plenty of ways to exploit sound in warfare. I found an astonishing variety of ancient acoustic weapons while researching my book “Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World.” Deploying sound in war has evolved over millennia, from natural animal sounds and music to today’s advanced sonic devices.
On his first journey Cook mapped the east coast of Australia, on his second the British Admiralty sent him into the vast Southern Ocean. Equipped with one of the first accurate chronometers, Cook pushed his small vessel not merely into the Roaring Forties or the Furious Fifties but become the first explorer to penetrate the Antarctic Circle, reaching an incredible Latitude 71 degrees South, just failing to discover Antarctica.
Read MoreA HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR, VOLUME ONE – AUDIOBOOK By John Buchan (1875 – 1940)...
Read MoreA History of the Great War, Volume One – AUDIOBOOK By John Buchan (1875 – 1940) This...
Read MoreThe Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa By Joseph H. Alexander (1938 – 2014)...
Read MoreThe Aeroplane in War – Audiobook By Claude Grahame-White (1879 – 1959),Harry Harper...
Read MoreClosing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima – AUDIOBOOK By Joseph H. Alexander (1938...
Read MoreTHE POLITICAL HISTORY OF FRANCE, 1789-1910 – AUDIOBOOK By Muriel O. Davis This little book...
Read MoreACROSS THE REEF: THE MARINE ASSAULT OF TARAWA – AUDIOBOOK By Joseph H. Alexander (1938...
Read MoreHISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FROM 1696 TO 1890 – AUDIOBOOK By George...
Read MoreTHE SUFFRAGETTE: THE HISTORY OF THE WOMEN’S MILITANT SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT By E. Sylvia...
Read MoreSUSAN B. ANTHONY REBEL, CRUSADER, HUMANITARIAN – AUDIOBOOK By Alma Lutz (1890 –...
Read More“THE FLU”: A BRIEF HISTORY OF INFLUENZA IN U. S. AMERICA, EUROPE, HAWAII By A. Mouritz (1861...
Read MoreA SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD – AUDIOBOOK By H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946) A Short...
Read MoreTHE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 7 – AUDIOBOOK By Charles F. Horne (1870...
Read MoreBy Charles F. Horne (1870 – 1942),Rossiter Johnson (1840 – 1931) A...
Read MoreTHE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 4 – AUDIOBOOK By Charles F. Horne (1870...
Read MoreTHE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 3 – AUDIOBOOK By Charles F. Horne (1870...
Read MoreTHE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 2 – AUDIOBOOK By Charles F. Horne (1870...
Read MoreTHE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 1 – AUDIOBOOK By Charles F. Horne (1870...
Read MoreTHE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MEDICINE – AUDIOBOOK By Sir William Osler (1849 – 1919)...
Read MoreTHE MEDICI, VOLUME 1 – AUDIOBOOK By G. F. Young (1846 – 1919) This work relates...
Read MoreTHE MEDICI, VOLUME 2 – AUDIOBOOK By G. F. Young (1846 – 1919) This work relates...
Read MoreTOM PETRIE’S REMINISCENCES OF EARLY QUEENSLAND (DATING FROM 1837). RECORDED BY HIS DAUGHTER...
Read MoreBy Thomas R. Gray THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, THE LEADER OF THE LATE INSURRECTION IN...
Read MoreTHE A.E.F.: WITH GENERAL PERSHING AND THE AMERICAN FORCES – AUDIOBOOK By Heywood...
Read MoreFIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROSE COLLECTION VOL. III – AUDIOBOOK By Various. This collection...
Read MoreFIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROSE COLLECTION VOL. II – AUDIOBOOK By Various. This collection...
Read MoreFIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROSE COLLECTION VOL. I – AUDIOBOOK By Various This collection of...
Read MoreA SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA – AUDIOBOOK By Lucy Cazalet (1870 – 1956) A Short...
Read MoreTHE EMPRESSES OF ROME – AUDIOBOOK By Joseph Martin McCabe (1867 – 1955) The story...
Read MoreHistory Guild would like to acknowledge the Boonwurrung people, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are based, and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.