What is History? | History Today
网页2020年8月8日 · History is the study of people, actions, decisions, interactions and behaviours. It is so compelling a subject because it encapsulates themes which expose the human condition in all of its guises and that resonate throughout time: power, weakness, corruption, tragedy, triumph …. Nowhere are these themes clearer than in political history ...
Why Were the Jews Persecuted? - History Today
网页Biblical Times. Much of the history of the Jewish people can be found in the Old Testament, in which we learn that the Jews are the 'chosen people'. By making a covenant with God, they would, in return for being chosen, obey his laws. After their exile in Egypt the Jewish people were led back by Moses into Israel, where, by force of arms, they ...
Revolutionary Domesticity - History Today
网页2020年8月8日 · Women, non-importation agreements and spinning bees in the American Revolution. Spinning yarn from cotton or flax is careful, necessary work which has become invisible in modern life. But at the dawn of the American Revolution, it was revolutionary. Women across the colonies organised spinning bees …
The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever | History Today
网页2005年3月3日 · In the autumn of 1346, plague broke out among the besiegers and from them penetrated into the town. When spring arrived, the Italians fled on their ships. And the Black Death slipped unnoticed on board and sailed with them. ***. The extent of the contagious power of the Black Death has been almost mystifying.
The Crusades: A Complete History | History Today
网页2015年5月5日 · The First Crusade was called in November 1095 by Pope Urban II at the town of Clermont in central France. The pope made a proposal: 'Whoever for devotion alone, but not to gain honour or money, goes to Jerusalem to liberate the Church of God can substitute this journey for all penance.'.
The Soviet Union is first to the Moon - History Today
网页2009年9月9日 · Richard Cavendish explains how, on September 12th, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 2, the first spacecraft to successfully reach the Moon. Luna 2. The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union brought an engaging touch of science fiction to the Cold War. To American astonishment and dismay, the …
Belgium's Heart of Darkness - History Today
网页2012年10月10日 · Belgium's Heart of Darkness. King Leopold II’s personal rule of the vast Congo Free State anticipated the horrors of the 20th century, argues Tim Stanley. When I was a boy we used to play a car game called Name Five Famous Belgians. The game speaks to a lazy stereotype among Britons that Belgium is a country without history or character, lost ...
Baghdad Sacked by the Mongols - History Today
网页2008年2月2日 · The Siege of Baghdad ended on February 10th 1258. Baghdad was the seat of the Abbasid caliphs from the eighth century. In 1248, however, Genghis Khan’s grandson Möngke became great khan of the Mongols and resolved to extend his sway to the Middle East and beyond that, if possible, to Syria …
George Stephenson's First Steam Locomotive | History Today
网页2014年7月7日 · A milestone in railway transportation, George Stephenson's first steam train was unveiled on July 25th, 1814. Within a few years of his death in 1848 George Stephenson was called ‘the father of the railways’, but that accolade has been challenged because there were other engineers involved in the development of the world’s first railway ...
The Real Macbeth: King of Scots, 1040-1054 - History Today
网页S hakespeare’s Macbeth, king of scots, was a real person; and the historical facts concerning him, as they are given by writers at all close to his lifetime, may be quickly told. He was the dux (or general) of King Duncan, whom he killed—probably somewhere in Moray—in 1040. He succeeded to the throne, ruled for fourteen years, resisted at ...