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How the Bronze Age Suddenly Collapsed
A thriving Bronze Age world collapses overnight. Droughts, earthquakes, trade failure, and mysterious Sea Peoples combine in a perfect storm that shattered ancient civilizations—and warns us today about fragile progress.
The Doomed Terra Nova Expedition
A gripping account of Captain Scott’s doomed Terra Nova Expedition—race to the South Pole, courage, fatal mistakes, and haunting final words from Antarctica’s last great age of exploration, history, tragedy.
“You Are From Canton, Why Should I Give You Money?” – What Old Bailey Records Tell Us About Britain’s Early Chinese Communities
When eight men arrived at the lodgings of Wang Noo and her husband Tuck Quy, one Sunday in 1855, the mood was tense.
Quy claimed one of the men, Apoi, asked him for £200 to return to China. Quy said he could offer them £10 or £20, and no more.Wang Noo, according to her own testimony, was less equivocal. “You are natives of Canton, and I am of Nankin”,...
Quy claimed one of the men, Apoi, asked him for £200 to return to China. Quy said he could offer them £10 or £20, and no more.Wang Noo, according to her own testimony, was less equivocal. “You are natives of Canton, and I am of Nankin”,...
Hidden In The Sahara Is A Library You Won't Believe - 1000 Libraries
The vastness of the Sahara is like an inland ocean. For centuries, and even longer, plucky souls have cast themselves upon it, driven by trade, religion, opportunity, or other factors, in a bid to traverse this enormous space.
And so, the desert is criss-crossed with well-trodden caravan routes, and dotted with trading posts and places of shelter. One of those trading posts is Chinguetti.
And so, the desert is criss-crossed with well-trodden caravan routes, and dotted with trading posts and places of shelter. One of those trading posts is Chinguetti.
Victory From Disaster: Last Stand at Rorke’s Drift
On 22nd January 1879 in the far flung reaches of the British Empire, a redcoated sentry stood watch. He wasn’t to know it, but at that very moment just a few miles away, the last of more than 1300 of his comrades, surrounded and outnumbered, were being cut down by an unstoppable enemy. In the hours to come, 4000 warriors of that great Zulu army would appear over the horizon and launch a series of brutal assaults against this small outpost in a fight that has gone down in history as the Battle of Rorke’s Drift.
The Incredible Story of Ashurbanipal: The Scholar-King’s Library
The library of Ashurbanipal is one of the true wonders of the ancient world. Discover how the Assyrian king’s collection of texts connects us to our past.
‘Capitalism and Slavery’, and dismantling the accepted narratives of history | MR Online
Williams had no time for sentimental views on the abolition of slavery. The history he dealt in was more honest, more straightforward, and unafraid to confront the accepted narratives, wherever these might be found.
And confront he did.
His 1945 work, Capitalism and Slavery, systematically destroyed the traditional, rose-tinted views of abolition in the UK, replacing the cozy and humanitarian with the cold and pragmatic, substituting empathy and egalitarianism with hard economic necessity.
And confront he did.
His 1945 work, Capitalism and Slavery, systematically destroyed the traditional, rose-tinted views of abolition in the UK, replacing the cozy and humanitarian with the cold and pragmatic, substituting empathy and egalitarianism with hard economic necessity.
The Most Brutal Siege of the Napoleonic Wars (Documentary)
On a cold April evening in 1812, on the approaches to this formidable fortress, thousands of Britain’s notorious ‘Redcoats’ crept in silence. Their objective? To scale three breaches, hacked into the city’s defences by enormous siege cannon, and to wrestle one of the key strongholds from Napoleon’s forces occupying Spain.
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