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Neanderthals: Javelin athletes helped us show how effective they were at hunting with weapons

Reading time: 5 minutes
Neanderthals used to be portrayed as unintelligent and technologically deficient, a species that went extinct because of its inferiority to humans. But researchers now generally agree that Neanderthals were adept predators, innovative builders and symbolic thinkers. So how were early humans actually different from Neanderthals? It’s getting increasingly difficult to tell. But the capability to kill at a distance – such as with a bow and arrow – has long been thought of thought of as one important threshold in our human success story.

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X Troop – The Secret Jewish Commandos of WWII

Reading time: 8 minutes
When we hear ‘Jewish’ and ‘World War II’ in the same sentence, our minds often lead directly to the Holocaust. The extent of Jewish resistance to the brutal treatment on their own was limited due to the extent of their persecution by Nazi or Nazi aligned governments. These governments generally had the broad support of the populace, making it hard for small groups of Jews within these societies to fight back. One exception to this were the Jews of Poland, the X Troop commandos were another.

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Plague Ahoy! Maritime quarantine in the 18th century

Reading time: 8 minutes
On 23 August 1720 at the Council Chamber in Whitehall, the Privy Council issued an order to the commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs ‘to prevent the landing any goods, passengers, or seamen from on board any ships coming from the Mediterranean’. Diplomats and statesman had been in correspondence for weeks about the worrying state of affairs developing in the south of France. Writing to Secretary of State James Craggs, the diplomat Robert Sutton related ‘the melancholy news of a pestilential distemper being crept into Marseille by the infection of some bales of cotton brought from Sidon (in modern day Lebanon)’. Other letters reported that the seamen on the said voyage had died, with many others taken sick and transported to infirmaries. Four porters, who had opened the goods carried on the ship, died suddenly as the distemper spread from ship to shore killing as many as 24 people in one street. Quarters of the city were barred up and houses and their contents were burned. The plague had hit Marseille.

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RESTORING ONE OF THE WORLD’S RAREST MAPS

Reading time: 4 minutes
In 1663, Europeans called Australia ‘New Holland’, New Zealand was considered one land mass and Tasmania had only been sighted by Abel Tasman – it would be another hundred years before Europeans would set foot there.

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Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong

Reading time: 7 minutes
Right now, it’s Bitcoin. But in the past we’ve had dotcom stocks, the 1929 crash, 19th-century railways and the South Sea Bubble of 1720. All these were compared by contemporaries to “tulip mania”, the Dutch financial craze for tulip bulbs in the 1630s. Bitcoin, according some sceptics, is “tulip mania 2.0”.

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The Rwandan Genocide

In this lesson we will be learning about the events that unfolded during the Rwandan genocide and the lack of international intervention.

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Argentina

In this lesson we will be learning about Argentina before the great depression, it’s infamous decade and controversial Presidents.

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Mexico

In this lesson we will be learning about Mexico from the Mexican revolution to post WW2.

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The Indian Subcontinent

In this lesson we will be learning about the movement for Indian independence and Mahatma Gandhi’s role in it.

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Israel and Palestine

This lesson examines Zionism, the partitioning of Palestine, the creation of Israel and conflicts with neighbouring countries.

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Egypt

This lesson will be taking us to Egypt as we learn about the events that happened during Egypt’s revolutions.

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Impact of War World II

In this lesson we will be learning about the impact of WW2and the purpose of the Universal Declaration Human Rights.

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The End of the War

In this lesson we will be learning about the last and bloodiest battles that led to the eventual end of the Second World War.

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