History Guild World History Course

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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The Treaty of Versailles: Brutally Unfair or Righteous Retribution?

The Treaty of Versailles: Brutally Unfair or Righteous Retribution?

Apr 23, 2024

Reading time: 7 minutes
Marking the end of World War One, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany on June the 28th 1919. Often cited as one of the leading reasons for Germany’s descent into fascism and the start of World War Two, the Treaty of Versailles along with the other treaties signed at the Paris Peace Conference vastly reshaped the borders and the economies of the European continent.

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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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General History Quiz 211

General History Quiz 211

Apr 19, 2024

1. Which Battle saw Henry V of England order the French prisoners he had captured to be executed?
Try the full 10 question quiz.

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Military History

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Smoking Snakes: Brazil’s Forgotten WW2 Fighting Men

Smoking Snakes: Brazil’s Forgotten WW2 Fighting Men

Apr 16, 2024

Reading time: 12 minutes One of the most unusual forces ever to join the fighting in Europe: the 25,000 Brazilian soldiers and pilots of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force. An idea born out of political necessity, the “Smoking Snakes” played a brief, important, and fascinating role in the fighting in Europe.

Political and Economic History

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‘Habits of civilised life’: how one Australian State forced Indigenous people to meet onerous conditions to obtain citizenship

‘Habits of civilised life’: how one Australian State forced Indigenous people to meet onerous conditions to obtain citizenship

Apr 17, 2024

Reading time: 7 minutes In the breakthrough High Court case Love and Thoms vs Commonwealth in 2020, the court ruled that First Nations people could not be considered aliens in Australia. As Justice James Edelman noted in the decision, whatever the other manners in which they were treated […] Aboriginal people were not ‘considered as foreigners in a kingdom which is their own’.

Social and Cultural History

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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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