Ottoman Archives

The Birth of Modern Iraq: A Historical Odyssey

by History Guild | Oct 24, 2024 | Political and Economic History, Social and Cultural History | 0

Reading time: 6 minutes
Mesopotamia, now located in the country of Iraq, has been home to some of Earth’s earliest civilizations and urban settlements, from the Sumerians to the Akkadians, as well as the centre of the Islamic world with the city of Baghdad under the Umayyad and Abbasid empires.
Yet the modern nation of Iraq is only just over 100 years old – a relatively new nation compared to many in the world.
How did Iraq, a home to ancient Empires turned battleground between bitter great powers, become the nation it is today?

Who Would Be the Roman Emperor Today?

by History Guild | Oct 10, 2024 | Political and Economic History, Social and Cultural History | 0

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?

Dive! Australian Submariners at War by Mike Carlton – Book Review

by History Guild | Sep 9, 2024 | Military History | 0

Reading time: 4 minutes
Dive! opens with the best description of the development and implementation of submarine technology and doctrine I have ever read. This could easily be part of a broader history of submarines, Carlton has clearly done broad and extensive research and his writing effortlessly demonstrates his command of the topic.

In their own words: letters from ANZACs during the Gallipoli evacuation

by History Guild | Apr 25, 2024 | Military History | 0

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Just five days before Christmas, in the early hours of Monday...

Who were we fighting at Gallipoli?

by History Guild | Apr 24, 2024 | Military History | 0

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In the annual discussion of the Gallipoli campaign Australians...

Twelve days at Anzac: the evacuation

by History Guild | Apr 25, 2022 | Military History | 0

Over one hundred years ago, one of the most remarkable operations in military history occurred at the Dardanelles with the evacuation in December 1915 of 83,000 Australian, New Zealand, British and Indian troops from the Gallipoli Peninsula without a single loss of life. It will, as, one contemporary German correspondent reporting from the Turkish lines exclaimed, ‘stand before the eyes of all strategists as a hitherto unattained masterpiece’.

Lemnos and Gallipoli Revealed – Podcast

by History Guild | Apr 17, 2022 | Military History | 0

Over the course of 1915, most of the 50,000 Australian personnel who served at Gallipoli passed through the island of Lemnos. Centring his attention on the Australian experience of the island, historian Jim Claven shares unique and humanising insights into the Gallipoli campaign.

A Period of Change: Global Events in the Lead Up to WWI

by History Guild | Dec 14, 2020 | Military History, Political and Economic History | 0

Reading time: 6 minutes The history of the lead up to WWI is undoubtedly dominated by Europe....

How Romania’s WW1 Gamble Paid Off Spectacularly

by History Guild | Nov 6, 2020 | Political and Economic History | 0

Reading time: 6 minutes
The Great War was a major turning point for virtually all European countries, but not too many of them enjoyed a positive outcome. Although it took two years for Romania to enter the war and another two for the conflict to reach a conclusion, the result was an unlikely unification of its historical lands and the beginning of the most prosperous period in the nation’s history.

Tag: Ottoman