History Guild World History Course

Traitors to King and Country: Inside the British Free Corps, Hitler’s British Legion

Traitors to King and Country: Inside the British Free Corps, Hitler’s British Legion

Apr 30, 2024

Reading time: 11 minutes
From the moment it took power, the Nazis ruled over a German state possessed of two armies. One was the inheritor of the imperial lineage of the First World War, and the second was the Waffen-SS, which grew from a tiny band of Hitler’s most hardened antisemites to a force of nearly a million men from over two dozen nations before its demise.

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Neanderthals were no brutes – research reveals they may have been precision workers

Neanderthals were no brutes – research reveals they may have been precision workers

Apr 29, 2024

Reading time: 5 minutes
Neanderthals were until quite recently often seen as simple-minded savages – powerful hunters with a short attention span. But in the last few years, scientists have realised that they were a lot more refined than previously thought – capable of caring for the vulnerable, burying their dead and even adorning themselves with feathers and beads.

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MARTIN LUTHER: RENEGADE AND PROPHET – BOOK REVIEW

MARTIN LUTHER: RENEGADE AND PROPHET – BOOK REVIEW

Apr 25, 2024

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper – a magisterial new biography which goes beyond Luther’s theology to investigate the inner life of the religious reformer who has been called “the last medieval man and the first modern one.”

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Treason against the state: The execution of Charles I

Treason against the state: The execution of Charles I

Apr 22, 2024

Reading time: 7 minutes Levying war against the Crown was one of the key treasonable offences defined by the 1352 Treason Act. Yet, during the civil wars of the 1640s and again in the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s and 80s, those that levied war against the monarch not only avoided punishments for treason, but rejected royal authority and accused their kings of levying war – of committing treason – against the state.

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WHO DISCOVERED WHAT WHEN? – BOOK REVIEW

WHO DISCOVERED WHAT WHEN? – BOOK REVIEW

Apr 18, 2024

Who Discovered What When? Five hundred years of great scientific discoveries by David Ellyard: an absorbing and easy-to-read book about the growth of scientific ideas and knowledge since 1500.

History Audiobooks

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World – Audiobook

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World – Audiobook

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.

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