The Iron Lady's 90th birthday
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa Margaret Thatcher was born Margaret Roberts in Grantham on October 13, 1925…
Another book about Margaret Thatcher
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The crucial six months of Thatcher's premiership
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa It is quite extraordinary and can be attributed only to a deliberate…
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on December 30, 1865,
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Cecil Parkinson 1931 – 2016
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa Most readers of this blog would have heard by now of the…
Churchill, Eisenhower and the post-Stalin Soviet leadership
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Seventy-five years ago – Operation Barbarossa
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Bruce Montgomery on Edward Heath
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Harold Williams – one of the journalists who tried to explain Russia to Britain
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Nine hundred and fifty years ago
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The French again
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Acton the historian
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150 years ago
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HISTORIOGRAPHY OF FRENCH REVOLUTION
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa The French Revolution has perhaps attracted more attention in history than any…
ORIGINS OF FRENCH REVOLUTION
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa The French Revolution (1789-99) was a period of social and political upheaval,…
CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1850 IN EUROPE
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa MAJOR INTELLECTUAL TRENDS Institutionalization of Disciplines – History, Sociology and Anthropology Darwin…
ECONOMY OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa The Industrialization of Europe, occurred between 1780 and 1914, starting in Britain,…
SOCIAL IMPACT OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa The Industrialization of Europe, occurred between 1750 and 1914, starting in Britain,…
19th CENTURY EUROPEAN ART AND LITERATURE
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EUROPE BETWEEN 1820-1848
Plop Andrei - Why Canadians are not Americans and why Poland is the most racist country in Africa What were the social and ideological factors behind the recurrence of revolutions…