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History: Getting interested!

A guide for resources for History

Famous Quotes in History

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newton (Physicist, 1643 - 1727)

Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) : Horace (Roman poet, 65 - 8 BC)

Accessing World news via NewsBank database

British Library 1,000,000 images on Public Domain

 

 

 

BBC World News

BBC reveals 2,500-hour World War I season

37 Days

BBC History Magazine

888,246 Ceramic Poppies Surround the Tower of London to Commemorate WWI

Emerson Kent.com - World History for the relaxed Historian

First World War

Well, Here's Luck! - British trench scene

First World War Centenary 2014 - Lives of the 1st World War

Centenary of World War 1 2014 - 2018

History Today Magazine

How 2014 is strikingly similiar to 1914

History news

World Conflicts and Upheavals : D-Day, Commemorating 70 years since invasion

The best of BBC History Magazine

History Today readers select what they regard the greatest political cartoon of all time

'The scum of the Earth, I believe?’ ‘The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?’. David Low’s comment on the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 demonstrates one great truth about political cartoons: that when they cut to the heart of a situation, their power derives as much from the sharpness of their words as from the brilliance of their drawing. In a survey of readers of History Today magazine and website, Low’s cartoon ‘Rendezvous’ won more than twice as many votes as any of its rivals.

History Today July 2005

World Conflicts and Upheavals : World War I, Commemorating 100 years since start of war in 1914

World Conflicts and Upheavals : Battle of Waterloo, Commemorating 200 years in 2015

Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake. That's bad manners

Napoleon Bonaparte

Next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won

 Duke of Wellington 1815

 

World Conflicts : Tianamen Square Massacre, Commemorating '25 years on' since 1989

Turning points in History

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