The Fall of Saigon | History Today
On 21 April 1975, speaking from Saigon’s Independence Palace in a televised broadcast to South Vietnam and the world, President
‘Epic of the Earth’ by Edith Hall review
In Book 21 of the Iliad Achilles has a violent confrontation with the nonhuman world. Overcome with wrath after the
The City of Jasmine by Nadine Presley illustrated by Heather Brockman Lee
With a release date of May 6, I really wanted to wait to post a review because the images are
Sex Workers and Salvation in the Renaissance
Pope Pius II once quipped that Florence was a city of merchants, or, perhaps, prostitutes, playing on the similarity between
Stalin’s Man in Belgrade | History Today
On the morning of 27 April 1953 Yugoslavia’s communist leader Josip Broz Tito received the Costa Rican diplomat Teodoro Castro
VE Day: The Quiet After the Peace
Across Britain, people could sense the end of the war approaching by the spring of 1945. After five-and-a-half years of
Death of Zaga Christ | History Today
Sometime in 1633 a teenage Ethiopian prince, newly converted to Catholicism by Franciscans in Jerusalem, knelt before Pope Urban VIII
The Ghosts of Gaelic | History Today
April 2025 is the 20th anniversary of the Gaelic Language Act (Scotland) of 2005, passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament
Bismarck’s Britain | History Today
In mid-September 1883 the British steamer Pembroke Castle, traversing the North Sea, made an unscheduled stop in Denmark. Upon landing
Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden by Jenan A. Matari illustrated by Aya Ghanameh
This sweetly illustrated 32 page rhyming book starts off introducing a little girl living in one place, and having a
