History

World History
1980s - The Sometime Golden Age
Were the 80s a Golden Age?
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day - But the MSM Gets it Completely Wrong
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, but the main lesson to be learned from the Holocaust is wilfully ignored.
On This Day - England's First Parliament
On this day, 20 January, seven hundred and sixty years ago in 1265. Simon De Montfort, Earl of Leicester, the leader of a group of barons rebelling against King Henry III, summoned England’s first parliament.
The Bloody Truth
I felt I had to come back to this because, while I laid out what was a clear anti-socialist position in Socialism - Whats’s Not to Hate, I really gave it a bit of an easy pass. I let those who promote it, and force it on others, off the hook.
The Battle of Ashdown - 8 January 871
The Battle of Ashdown, on this day in 871 AD, prevented the Viking domination of Britain and changed history.
The Parable of the Good German
At what point is it legitimate for the law abiding to resort to civil disobedience against a tyranny?
Who's Indigenous?
The Left often ignorantly claims that Britain is a nation of immigrants. Iain Hunter proves here that this is nonsense.
The Battle That Ended The War To End All Wars.
Starting on 8th August, led by the British Army, the Allies began the offensive that led to the end of the First World War.
Remembrance Sunday
This Sunday, 10th November, the annual Remembrance Parade for our war dead takes place in Whitehall. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. Every year at that time on the Sunday nearest to the 11th, the nation listens to…
The First World War Was NOT Pointless
The First World War is often described as pointless, futile. Demosthenes argues that, on the contrary, it was necessary for national survival.
A Belated ‘40’s Revival Weekend
Ponty starts off our build-up to Remembrance Day with a much delayed tale of a D-Day Revival do 80 years after the real thing.
Today in 1415 - The Battle of Agincourt
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!
There Is But One Nelson
Anna writes of her's and the nation's hero, Horatio Nelson.
The Battle of Trafalgar
The British Navy outfought a numerically larger enemy - the combined fleets of France and Spain - with more guns and many more men to foil Bonapartes plan to invade England and thereby achieve world domination.
The Aberfan Disaster of 21 October 1966
On 21 October 1966, a waste heap of 300,000 cubic yards, some 111 feet high, culpably placed over an underground spring and, thanks to recent heavy, oversaturated and highly unstable started to slide................
Israel's Lack of Intelligence
Iain Hunter, in his article Unacceptable Opinions, set out an opinion that the Israeli intelligence failure of 7 Ooctober was so dire that it must have been deliberate, designed to give Israel the excuse for an all out war on Hamas and ultimately, establish itself in Gaza. I strongly disagree, so…
The Formation of the Jewish State of Israel
On the anniversary of the despicable Hamas attack on Israel a year ago, we look at trhe miracle of the creation of the State of Israel.
Getting HMS Clyde, Falkland Islands Patrol Vessel, Ready For Service
Former Royal Navy Officer Mark Smith recounts his battles with bureaucrats, naval and civilian, to get a warship-building project through to completion.
In Remembrance: Ninety Three Years since the beginning of the Second World War on 18 October 1931
Think the Second World War begand in September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland? Think again, it began eight years earlier and four and a half thousand miles away.
Black and White
Duke Maskell reminds us of the first stage of the African slave trade.