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d. Sources for Norse innovation
See below for resources on this topic. Works of archaeologists and historians Neil Price - The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. 2020. Allen Lance. W.B. Bartlett – Vikings: A History...
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a. Economic policies
Nazi propaganda claimed that the regime's economic policies were a stunning success; by 1935, unemployment figures had fallen to two million from the six million of 1933, and by 1939 there were labour...
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b. The impact and significance of key developments
As mentioned on the previous page, the industrial revolution occurred in Britain due to a range of factors; one of these was the actions of inventors and entrepreneurs whose innovations transformed the...
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3. Reasons for the First Arab–Israeli War (1948)
The Second World War transformed the situation in Palestine; Britain found itself not only weakened by the war but now criticised by the US and International opinion for its immigration policy. Within...
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What is the role of professional historians? Free
Discuss in pairs any professional historians that you know of from your own country. What do they write about? Why are they well-known? Are they active on television or social media or are they known...
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Who gets to write the History? The 'world's last colonial museum'
The renovation of Belgium’s African museum ‘the last colonial museum in the world’ highlights this question and the issue of how countries try to deal with dark parts of their past. The African Museum...
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What if the Russian Revolution had never happened? Free
On the 2017 Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, there are many articles on the revolution in the news. This New York Times article considers what might have happened had the Revolution never taken...
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Should scientists use Eduard Pernkopf's anatomy book? Free
Eduard Pernkopf's anatomy book, often called Pernkopf's Atlas, provides doctors with detailed drawings of the human body peeled back layer by later. It is no longer in print and a second-hand set can...
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Does history do more harm than good?
The graves of soldiers, in Sarajevo, who died during the Bosnian war. In January 2020, Trump presented his Administration’s Partition Plan for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The plan, which...
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Do we have a Hollywood view of History?
History is a great topic for movies and a great way for people to find out about historical events…or is it? This is the historian Antony Beevor’s view on war movies in an article from The Guardian newspaper,...