History

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962) English historian

Welcome to my history page. Below are links to the various posts I have made about the past, organized in roughly historical order. I love history and especially love trying to imagine what it must have been like for the people at the time. And I have found that the more I study history, the more it becomes clear that it is all one great panorama, and that everything that is going on today is no different than what has gone on before. The trappings may change, but people don’t.

About one hundred billion human beings have lived and died since we first woke up from our animal dream life and began to wonder at the amazing world we found ourself in. This is our story…

• A snippet on ancient beads.
• 5000 year old love birds? The Lovers of Valdero
• The Battle of Marathon
• Virtual Rome and life as a Roman: Roman Ramblings
• The Romans are a favourite topic of mine: Romans, Eggshells, and Immortality.
• I’ll wager few people know that the world ended in 535 AD…
• Greenland and the lost Norse settlers. The first part is about global warming, but it leads into one of the great mysteries of history.
• Ever hear of a steam carriage? Neither had I: What in the name of God is that?
• Another post about the early nineteenth century: World’s oldest photograph of a human being…
• 30 July 1864, The Battle of the Crater
• The Battle of Lissa, 1866, when ironclads ruled the seas
• The little known story of the 1914 Christmas Truce.
• The sad and inspiring story of The White Rose, an anti war group in Hitler’s Germany.
• Waiting for the Bank to open…Nagasaki.

Suggestions for historical topics for me to write about are welcome.

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