Casting a wide net over the intriguing world of Modern History
When the Empires of Europe bought their slaves from Africa, they put many of them to work on the lush plantations in the Caribbean colonies. The British had Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. The Spanish had Cuba, Puerto…
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History is littered with false narratives. Over time, these myths can end up being accepted, at least by popular culture, as fact. For example, much of what is attributed to the life of Henry VIII actually comes from the Shakespeare play of…
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When the troops from Charlie company arrived in Vietnam in December 1967, they instantly bonded with the locals. The first few weeks featured more socialising than any actual fighting. This was not the War they were expecting, and it was great. But…
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Now I am become Death… In August 1945, the United States detonated 2 Atomic bombs over Japan. The first destroyed the city of Hiroshima on Monday the 6th. The second, more powerful bomb, destroyed the city of Nagasaki, just 3 days later….
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IN THE BEGINNING On June the 14th, 1928, Ernesto Guevara is born in Rosario, Argentina, to Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna. “Che” was a nickname he would get later in life. His parents were left-leaning middle class professionals of…
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With so much attention given, understandably, to the catastrophic 20 year War in Iraq, not much has been said about the preceding events. It is these events which created the bad blood that exists between the USA & Iraq. No, not the…
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Brian Bilston wrote this durable poem in 2016: “America Is A Gun England is a cup of tea.France, a wheel of ripened brie.Greece, a short, squat olive tree.America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand.Argentina, Maradona’s hand.Germany, an oompah band.America…
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We often hear nowadays that the West is declining and being overtaken by China. Actually, China is not rising to the top of the ladder, it is returning. For thousands of years the geographically enormous nations of China and India have been…
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There are probably around 130 founding fathers of the USA. Those who speak of the founders as though they were Messengers from God, probably couldn’t name any of them apart from the A-Listers: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John…
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It was 109 years ago this month that the RMS (Royal Mail Steamer) Titanic foundered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in the deaths of 1496 people. To this day, there have been very few peacetime disasters at sea which…
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