The History World

    See below for the following series

• Contexts

• Forum - join the debate

• The World of Sources

• Byways in History

  Contexts - a place, building or event in context

  London’s dockland redevelopment - pending

  Haussmann’s Paris

  The Festival of Britain, 1951 *

  Coubertin, the Olympics and 2012 legacy *

  The Great Train Robbery, 1963  *

  The ‘Crab and Winkle’ Railway - a world first  *

  The enigma of Bletchley Park - secrets uncovered *

  Fashoda, 1898: high noon in Upper Sudan *

  The Berlin Wall: icon of the Cold War era *

  St Isaacs and the city of St Petersburg *

  Sir Joseph Paxton and the Great Exhibition, 1851 *

  The South Tyrol, Italy and the Versailles Peace, 1919 *

  The Wall Street Crash, 1929 - disarray in the West between the wars *

  Church on Spilled Blood, St Petersburg, and the death of Alexander II *

  The Siegessäule, Berlin: monument to the Franco-Prussian War *

  The cruiser Aurora  and the Russian October Revolution [1917] *

   Forum - join the debate

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      Channels for those who enjoy critical and independent thought

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  The neglect of culture and the biographical aspect in History study

  British liberal democracy, a concept revisited by Gilbert Pleuger

  Capping Benefit Income: Less Eligibility Rides Again? by Roger Spalding

  Looking ‘outside the box’. The benefits to students of considering ‘a bigger picture’  

  Text and topic books are not enough. Texts and topic books need to be supplemented

  Women’s History by Professor Pat Hudson

  Depictions of Stalin: The Past and the Future by Alf Wilkinson

  The Interest in History by Jacquetta Devine

 The World of Sources

  Sources from the Soviets: photographs that mislead * by David King

  Nazi film and photography * by Dr Robin Lenman

  The Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich Correspondence * by Chris Corin

  The Value of Films in Understanding the Past * by William Simpson

  Searching for sources: assassination in Sarajevo * § by Sylvie Nickels

  Cartoons * § by Dr Roy Douglas

  The poster * § by Professor David Welch
 

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  Byways in History

  Prince Lvov and Russia in in revolution in 1917 * by Alf Wilkinson

  Alexander Kerensky and reform in Russia * by Alf Wilkinson

  Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby * by John Garland

  Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman * by John Garland

  Spencer Perceval by John Garland - forthcoming

  Viscount Gooderich, Prime Minister 1827-8 by John Garland