Jeremy Thorpe
Index entries from Dominic Sandbrook's Seasons in the Sun.
Posted: Dec 6 2014 | Tag: History
Articles tagged 'History'
Weekend in Brussels
See the photo gallery here.
Posted: Feb 6 2014 | Tags: Belgium, Sights, History
Captain Noel Chavasse VC & Bar
During the four long and traumatic years of the Great War, only one individual was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) and Bar – the equivalent of two VCs. The recipient of this exceptional double honour was not even a frontline soldier: Captain Noel Chavasse, a bishop’s son, was a medical officer...
Posted: Oct 4 2013 | Tags: War, History
The 'Columbian Exchange': How Discovering the Americas Transformed the World
Columbus' arrival in the Americas sparked the globalization of animals, plants and microbes. A recent book takes a closer look at how items from the New World, such as potatoes, guano and rubber, quickly and radically transformed the rest of the planet.
Posted: Sep 20 2013 | Tag: History
Nadezhda Popova
Nadezhda Popova, who has died aged 91, was a member of an elite corps of Soviet women — known as the “Night Witches” — who fought as bomber pilots in the air war against Germany, and the only one to win three Orders of the Patriotic War for bravery.
Posted: Jul 10 2013 | Tags: War, History
The oldest known portrait, 26,000 years old
Posted: Mar 17 2013 | Tag: History
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokhudin-Gorskii
Between 1909 and 1912 and again in 1915, Prokhudin-Gorskii won the support of Tsar Nicholas II to undertake an ambitious project to document the people and places of the Russian Empire. He traveled across 11 Russian regions in a specially designed railroad car that was given to him by the Transportation...
Posted: Mar 17 2013 | Tag: History
Sixty years after Stalin
Posted: Mar 5 2013 | Tag: History
RIP Sergei Prokofiev
Posted: Mar 5 2013 | Tag: History
Ku Klux Klan on a ferris wheel
Posted: Feb 28 2013 | Tag: History