European History

Google Returns to Ancient Rome
Google have added a new "layer" to Google Earth. Now you can take a virtual tour of the entire city as historians believe it may have looked c.320 CE, with...

Video of Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known today for his stories about (now legendary) detective Sherlock Holmes, films of which have gone a long way to influencing how people view Britain...

Hadrian’s Wall Repairs
Hadrian’s Wall was a continuous fortification which stretched across northern Britain, from the east to west coast, to act as a defence for the northern limits of the Roman Empire....

90th Anniversary of the End of World War 1
November 11 2008 will be the ninetieth anniversary of the end of World War 1, when an armistice came into effect at 11:00 am. Consequently there has been a lot...

Modern Celebrity Began in the Eighteenth Century?
A press release from the University of Warwick explains a new theory on celebrity, explaining how the rise in popularity of obituaries in the eighteenth century developed into our “cult”...

Bletchley Park Receives Funding
I reported a few months ago how Bletchley Park, site of code breakers who aided the Allied war effort during World War 2, was in need of funding to survive...

Battle of Agincourt Raises Debate
Last weekend British newspapers were up in arms about comments allegedly made by Christophe Gilliot, director of the Centre Historique Médiéval, a museum in Agincourt, France. He was supposed to...

"Amulet that ruined my life"
Britain’s Times newspaper this week reported on the "other side" of a recent controversy. It concerns Quentin Hutchinson, who in 1990 excavated a silver Christian amulet from an allegedly undisturbed...

Medieval World Making a Comeback?
Tom Holland, author of a number of easily read popular histories, has written an article wondering about the resurgence of the middle ages in popular fiction, as well as the...

Medieval Manuscripts Online
A library called the Stiftsbibliothek (Abbey Library) in St. Gallen, Switzerland, has received a $1 million dollar grant to digitize and place online its manuscript collection, including 350 documents which...