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Donald Sterling isn't alone in the history of eccentric if not downright offensive owners of major sports franchises. ...

The discovery of a wall that dates back to 900 B.C. is pushing back the found of Rome by 200 years. Using the latest technology, archeologists in Italy uncovered pieces of the wall made from tufa – a type of limestone – along with fragments of ceramics and grains, during excavation of the Lapis Niger, ...

Two settlements dating back to the Islamic-era have been found in Qatar using an unmanned aerial vehicle. “The excavation of a site called Ras ‘Ushairiq uncovered a large settlement called Rubayaqa which revealed several large courtyard homes, a mosque and two cemeteries. “Finds from the site were as diverse as iron cannon balls to wooden ...

An elaborate array of linear stone lanes and V-shaped structures has been discovered on an underwater ridge in Lake Huron. ...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: A Highlander in Barbary By Alastair Hirst Published in History Today     Modern   Africa   Scotland   In the days of European Imperialism, writes Alastair Hirst, a notable Scotsman played a large part in the history of Morocco. In September 1876, Lieutenant Harry Maclean resigned from the British Army at the...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Anglo-American Trouble-Makers: J.G. Bennett and J.T. Delane By Arnold Whitridge Published in History Today     Cultural   American Civil War   Modern   USA   Arnold Whitridge introduces two powerful newspaper editors, who greatly exacerbated public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic during the American Civil...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Arakcheev and the Military Colonies By Michael Jenkins Published in History Today     Empire   Military   Modern   Russia   Under Alexander I, writes Michael Jenkins, a ferocious martinet overshadowed Russian life. The austere figure of Count Alexei Andreevich Arakcheev looms over almost the whole reign of the...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Birmingham Capitalists and Russian Workers By Eric Robinson Published in History Today Volume: 6 Issue: 10   1956       Economic History   Science & Technology   Early Modern (16th-18thC)   England   Russia   At the end of the eighteenth century the Russians were in want of technologists. Eric Robinson describes...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Castlereagh By R.J. White Published in History Today     Political   Modern   Britain   R.J. White describes the life and career of the great Foreign Secretary, Robert Stewart, Lord Castlereagh, who considered unpopularity 'convenient and gentleman-like'. When Lord Castlereagh took his own life in August 1822,...

Chance in History: Nelson’s Pursuit of Bonaparte, May-June 1798 History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Chance in History: Nelson’s Pursuit of Bonaparte, May-June 1798 By W.A.P. Phillips Published in History Today     Maritime   Military   Napoleonic Era   Britain   Egypt   France   Had Napoleen been killed or taken prisoner on his way to Egypt, writes...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Winston Churchill: The Liberal Phase, Part II By Lucy Masterman Published in History Today     Political   Edwardian   20th Century   Britain   Winston Churchill   A continuation of Lucy Masterman’s recollections of Sir Winston Churchill as a member of the Liberal Governments before the First World War. The conflict...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Churchill: the Liberal Phase, Part I By Lucy Masterman Published in History Today     Political   Edwardian   20th Century   Britain   Winston Churchill   Drawing on letters and diaries written when her husband was a close associate of Sir Winston's, Lucy Masterman offers a portrait of him in his early Parliamentary...

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 28 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Ferdinand Lassalle, 1825-1864 By Vivian Lewis Published in History Today     Social classes   Economic History   Political   Social   Modern   Germany   Vivian Lewis introduces the life and and career of a gifted demagogue and revolutionary; Ferdinand Lassalle founded the first German Socialist party and was...

A canoe found in the silt of Lake Minnetonka in 1934 that was thought to date back to the 1750s actually dates back 1,000 years. “We’ve always thought it was 200, 300 years old,” said Russ Ferrin, a retiree who runs the Pioneer Museum. “And then they came back and said it was 1,000 years ...

What happened to Captain Bligh, Fletcher Christian and the crew of mutineers after their famous uprising? ...

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 29 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Winston Churchill: the Liberal Phase, Part I By Lucy Masterman Published in History Today Volume: 14 Issue: 11   1964       Political   Edwardian   20th Century   Britain   Winston Churchill   Drawing on letters and diaries written when her husband was a close associate of Sir Winston's, Lucy Masterman offers...

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 29 April 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Lord Castlereagh By R.J. White Published in History Today Volume: 6 Issue: 5   1956       Political   Modern   Britain   R.J. White describes the life and career of the great Foreign Secretary, Robert Stewart, Lord Castlereagh, who considered unpopularity 'convenient and gentleman-like'. When Lord Castlereagh...

John Paul II and John Paul XXIII are made saints, as 1 million gather in St. Peter's Square to attend the double-canonization mass led by Pope Francis. ...

Two popes will be declared saints on Sunday in a historic ceremony which will be attended by at least one million people and 19 heads of state. ...

A full-sized exact replica of Tutankhamun tomb is nearly finished and set to open soon in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. A group of workers, archaeologists and architects is busy at work at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank at Luxor, where the tombs of New Kingdom pharaohs and ...