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World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.


1000-1500 [expand]

1. Decoding the Black Death: Anthropologist finds clues in medieval skeletons (06 September 12)
2. BBC News - Remains of 'medieval village' found in Herefordshire (18 August 12)
3. Special clinic offers leech therapy associated with Middle Ages (05 June 12)
4. Scientists crack medieval bone code (04 January 12)
5. The Middle Ages in colour (BBC Video News) #historyteacher (12 November 11)
6. Is field, two miles away, the REAL spot where King Harold met his end? #historyteacher (13 October 11)
7. Beheaded Archbishop's Face Revealed #historyteacher (05 October 11)
8. BBC News - Medieval artefacts hidden in churchs secret room (03 September 11)
9. Black Death bug identified from medieval bones (03 September 11)
10. Medieval Spanish 'jewel' stolen from cathedral - Europe, World - The Independent (08 July 11)
11. Relic of St Thomas Becket carried in procession to London Bridge [3 July 2011] (06 July 11)
12. Half of Britons have German blood geneticists reveal (23 June 11)
13. New Mexico Man Diagnosed With Bubonic Plague (10 May 11)
14. Hole in the head: How medieval soldiers survived after battle thanks to early day brain surgery | Mail Online (17 April 11)
15. Mead set to make a comeback after hundreds of years (05 March 11)
16. Mysterious Manuscript's Age Determined (13 February 11)
17. Archaeology Treasure Pompeii Continues Collapse (03 December 10)
18. Romans 'were first to invent the eco-friendly house' (06 November 10)
19. Yersinia pestis bacteria confirmed as cause of Middle Ages 'Black Death' plague epidemic (09 October 10)
20. 1066 and all those baby names (05 August 10)
21. 'Biggest canal ever built by Romans' discovered (12 July 10)
22. Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table (12 July 10)
23. kaneapplausebw_480_360.gif (GIF Image, 480x360 pixels) (08 July 10)
24. Medieval life 'could teach us about debt-free living' (05 June 10)
25. Face of Stirling Castle warrior reconstructed (18 May 10)
26. BBC NEWS | Election 2010 | Results | United Kingdom - National Results (07 May 10)
27. Medieval music of monks unearthed (24 March 10)
28. Finders of huge Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon hoard to net 3m (26 November 09)
29. Offenders on community service orders have been helping build a replica medieval village (10 November 09)
30. Amateur 'stunned' after 1m Iron Age find (05 November 09)
31. The 'wonderful, wonderful' Viking hoard (17 September 09)
32. Ancient Egyptian temples followed astronomy to set their calendars (11 September 09)
33. Gladiators Were Vegetarians (10 September 09)
34. Medieval travel book on display (09 September 09)
35. 'Stunning' Viking find bought for the nation (29 August 09)
36. Climate Camp set up in the footsteps of the Peasants' Revolt (27 August 09)
37. Skeleton reveals violent life and death of medieval knight (30 June 09)
38. Warwick Castle's dungeon attraction make 15 people faint (21 June 09)
39. Proof That Medieval Monks Could Draw (21 June 09)
40. School Trip form as returned by a creationist (15 May 09)
41. Medieval warming study is blow to climate change deniers (08 April 09)
42. BBC's black, high-kicking Friar Tuck annoys historians (28 March 09)
43. Rudest names from the Middle Ages are dying from embarrassment (25 March 09)
44. 'Negative' attitude to Robin Hood (16 March 09)
45. Vikings lived 'harmoniously with our ancestors' (13 March 09)
46. Black Death woman 'vampire' is unearthed (13 March 09)
47. 1066 The Musical to hit the stage (01 March 09)
48. MP's alarm over "Domesday Book" Council Tax threat (08 February 09)
49. Al-Qaeda hit by Black Death fear as medieval plague kills 40 terrorists at training camp (08 February 09)
50. Boudicca's gold hoard unearthed (18 January 09)
51. 21st century Black Death discovered by scientists (26 November 08)
52. Vikings preferred male grooming to pillaging (26 October 08)
53. Bringing a Trove of Medieval Manuscripts Online (20 October 08)
54. Roman invasion beach found in Kent (05 October 08)
55. Is English law related to Muslim law? (24 September 08)
56. Library to share 14th-century royal cookbook online (23 September 08)
57. Olympic-sized Roman villa discovered in Britain (19 August 08)
58. Elvis lives: in 2,000-year-old carving (29 July 08)

1500-1750 [expand]

1. 17th century urine-filled 'witch bottle' found (19 January 12)
2. The historical Rough Guide to everywhere: 16th century book mapping major cities is reprinted | Mail Online (17 April 11)
3. A medieval mural depicting Henry VIII has been uncovered by a couple renovating their home (03 February 11)
4. Who was the man behind the diaries, Samuel Pepys? (23 July 10)
5. Michelangelo hid anatomical sketches in Sistine Chapel in Church attack (18 June 10)
6. Leonardo da Vinci to become Hollywood hero in new film (14 March 10)
7. Samuel Pepys's diary: 350 years on (08 January 10)
8. Leonardo da Vinci-designed instrument to be unveiled in New York (11 December 09)
9. Galileo's missing fingers found (26 November 09)
10. Rediscovered painting of Charles I to be shown at National Gallery (26 November 09)
11. Stamp-sized Elizabeth I miniatures to fetch 80,000 (18 November 09)
12. Italian couple discover 16th-century frescoes in bedroom (10 November 09)
13. Cromwell's legacy damages tomb of Black Prince (03 November 09)
14. Painting features 'oldest watch' (21 October 09)
15. Items from Henry VIII's Mary Rose revealed for first time (14 October 09)
16. Fingerprint Tech IDs Leonardo da Vinci (14 October 09)
17. Earliest Scottish music discovered on carving (27 August 09)
18. Vatican Reveals Letter on Henry VIII Papal Plea (14 May 09)
19. Are you a Cavalier or a Roundhead? (13 May 09)
20. 'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy (21 February 09)
21. 'Warts and all' death mask of Oliver Cromwell up for auction | Mail Online (03 February 09)
22. Briton drew pictures of the moon before Galileo (15 January 09)
23. Vatican 'forgives' John Lennon (24 November 08)
24. Halloween pardon sought for executed British witches - CNN.com (01 November 08)
25. Should Mary Queen of Scots should be repatriated from England? (13 October 08)
26. Fading Cerne Abbas giant brought back to life (17 September 08)
27. Swiss finally clear the last 'witch' beheaded in Europe (28 August 08)
28. Henry VIII's benevolent side emerges with a 1 million pound chain (21 August 08)
29. Catholics given chance at shorter stay in Purgatory (29 July 08)
30. Europe's last executed witch to be cleared - Telegraph (14 June 08)

1750-1900 [expand]

1. How fearless Forty Elephants girl gang terrorised 19th century London (26 January 19)
2. Did Abraham Lincoln Pioneer Emoticons? 1862 Speech May Offer Clues (20 September 12)
3. Civil War Reenvisioned - Battlefield Art - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine (30 April 12)
4. Napoleon... the theme park (04 April 12)
5. Bobble head dolls of Abraham Lincoln's assassin pulled from Gettysburg gift shop (15 March 12)
6. How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade (20 February 12)
7. Check that President Abraham Lincoln wrote the day before he was killed is discovered in bank vault #historyteacher (15 January 12)
8. Rio's Cemetery of New Blacks sheds light on horrors of slave trade (03 January 12)
9. Rare daguerreotype offers insight into urban slavery (11 October 11)
10. Stereoviews from the National Brunel Archive (19 August 11)
11. Huge testicular tumour helps identify subject of 19th century portrait | Science | The Guardian (26 May 11)
12. 12,000 for news snap of Queen Victoria: 1855 image captures monarch with Napoleon III | Mail Online (15 May 11)
13. Police mugshots of 19th century women criminals revealed (05 March 11)
14. James Watt: Scientists create sculpture of Industrial Revolution engineer using 3D technology (22 February 11)
15. Abraham Lincoln 'wanted to deport slaves' to new colonies (13 February 11)
16. Edison's Predictions for the Year 2011(1911) (21 January 11)
17. Councillor: Black History Month left-wing vanity (20 November 10)
18. Essence of Che, Marie Antoinette at 367-Year-Old Candle Maker's N.Y. Shop (17 November 10)
19. New Titanic artefacts on display (06 November 10)
20. Louis XVI's Blood May Be Hidden Inside Decorated Gourd (26 October 10)
21. 'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century (21 August 10)
22. Revealed: Industrial Revolution was powered by child slaves (03 August 10)
23. Rare Napoleon memorabilia, including a lock of his hair, sold in New Zealand auction (01 July 10)
24. Napoleon 'hoped to conquer Britain from St Helena' (18 June 10)
25. Napoleon - the greatest movie never made? (10 December 09)
26. Branson unveils 'first commercial spacecraft' (08 December 09)
27. Police using 300 year-old law to target gang violence (26 November 09)
28. Carla Bruni attacked as new Marie Antoinette of France by magazine (30 October 09)
29. Doubts over Ripper 'memoirs' find (28 October 09)
30. Last Union Jack flown at Trafalgar 'must remain in Britain' (22 October 09)
31. Victoria's secret: how dancing queen kept amused with self-portrait (21 October 09)
32. Last surviving Trafalgar flag expected to fetch 15,000 at auction (10 October 09)
33. New Jack the Ripper suspect unveiled (07 October 09)
34. Michael Palin: British Empire was not 'wicked' (03 October 09)
35. Genealogy Site Details Lives of 'Jack the Ripper' Victims (17 September 09)
36. Queen Victoria's Crotchless Underwear Deemed National Treasure (10 September 09)
37. 389 Years of Black History in the USA: This would make a great classroom poster (01 September 09)
38. Portuguese archeologists unearth General Wellington's command post (27 August 09)
39. Caribbean slaves came from different regions in Africa (14 August 09)
40. Recalling Douglass in the age of Obama (30 June 09)
41. Geographic Profiling Works: Great White Sharks' Hunting Skills As Refined As Jack The Ripper's (23 June 09)
42. The long-term consequences of the British Empire (09 June 09)
43. Louis XVI's final testament discovered (21 May 09)
44. A tale of romance by the king of chick lit: Napoleon Bonaparte (13 May 09)
45. Jack the Ripper 'was several different killers' (04 May 09)
46. Film news Al Pacino finally playing Napoleon | TotalFilm.com (08 April 09)
47. Cambridge University's "Empire Ball" - 'insensitive and racist?' (09 February 09)
48. Winds Topple 223-Year-Old Tree Planted For Marie Antoinette (28 January 09)
49. Was notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper a woman? (16 January 09)
50. Is Sarkozy the new Napoleon? (15 January 09)
51. Archaeologists find wreck of slave ship (26 November 08)
52. Lord Nelson's letter detailing naval strategy against French to be sold (24 November 08)
53. Madman's notes throw new light on Ripper case (19 November 08)
54. The Charge of Light Brigade boy who rode into the jaws of death and lived to tell the tale (06 November 08)
55. Titanic survivor auctions relics (17 October 08)
56. Golliwogs for sale in shop near Liverpool's International Slavery museum (07 October 08)
57. Unveiling a Tall Tribute to Frederick Douglass (06 October 08)
58. Lord Nelson bust unveiled on 250th anniversary of Trafalgar hero's birth (30 September 08)
59. Pope challenges treatment of Church since French Revolution (13 September 08)
60. Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory could be put in hands of private company (12 September 08)
61. Slave trade monuments given official protection in UK (25 August 08)
62. Was Crippen Guilty? (22 August 08)
63. Captain Cook's boomerang to make a handsome return (21 August 08)
64. Northern Ireland | Ireland to mark famine disaster (24 May 08)

1900-2000 [expand]

1. Vatican beatifies over 500 'martyrs of the faith' killed during Spanish civil war | World news | theguardian.com (23 October 13)
2. Last stretch of Hitler's motorway to disappear - Telegraph (04 October 13)
3. A gay island community created by Italy's Fascists (15 June 13)
4. Chile to Exhume Nobel Prize Winner Neruda in Pinochet-Era Probe - Bloomberg (10 February 13)
5. Berlusconi Praises Mussolini Regime on Holocaust Remembrance Day - Bloomberg (29 January 13)
6. Rare Chinese Cultural Revolution photos on display (13 October 12)
7. **BBC News - Bishop Joseph Devine's Auschwitz abortion image link condemned (23 September 12)
8. Government minister voices regret for supporting Chilean dictator (13 June 12)
9. Ernest Hemingway's 'muse' dies aged 91 (09 June 12)
10. Syria is the Spanish Civil War of our Time (09 June 12)
11. Chile activists call for ban on Pinochet film (09 June 12)
12. Chile: Pinochet Documentary Raises Questions About Dictator's True Legacy (09 June 12)
13. Vladamir Lenin poisoned by Joseph Stalin? (10 May 12)
14. Lord reveals Pinochet role in Belgrano sinking (08 April 12)
15. Basque child refugees meet for final reunion, 75 years after arrival in Britain (07 April 12)
16. Enigma's Spanish Civil War role (podcast) (07 April 12)
17. Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon Cleared But Francoist Crime Investigations Stall (29 February 12)
18. The World War Three files: terrifyingly detailed plans for nuclear armageddon (26 February 12)
19. Antonio Banderas to play Picasso in film '33 Dias' (23 February 12)
20. Germany urged to end sex offender castration (22 February 12)
21. Get Garzon! (20 February 12)
22. Franco's eyebrows on sale at Spanish art fair (20 February 12)
23. Spain's Judge Baltasar Garzon convicted for wiretapping (09 February 12)
24. Florence Green: Last surviving World War One veteran dies just before her 111th birthday (08 February 12)
25. Did Britain try to assassinate Lenin? (01 February 12)
26. Last Spanish Civil War Veteran has died at 93 (31 January 12)
27. The Picasso that's been in the wars: A history of 'Guernica' #historyteacher (31 January 12)
28. General Franco's ghosts haunt Spain 70 years after civil war ended (31 January 12)
29. Spanish judge to investigate human rights abuses of Spanish Civil War (31 January 12)
30. Capa Spanish Civil War Photo Likely Staged, say Researchers (31 January 12)
31. Franco's face and name erased from public view in Spain (31 January 12)
32. Tables Are Turned On Crusading Spanish Judge #historynews #news (31 January 12)
33. Famed Football Rivalry Reveals Historical Divide (30 January 12)
34. Relics of the Soviet era remain in Russia #historyteacher (28 January 12)
35. Spanish judge known for human rights stance on trial for probing civil war atrocities #news #historyteacher (28 January 12)
36. Spain grants citizenship to Canadian veteran of the Spanish Civil War (28 January 12)
37. Why World War I Resonates #historyteacher #news (25 January 12)
38. France adopts Armenian law making it illegal to deny WW1 Turkish genocide #historyteacher #news (25 January 12)
39. Stalin digital archive nears completion #historyteacher (19 January 12)
40. Movie Review: War Horse: Spielberg's Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift (03 January 12)
41. Early Hitler letter unveiled (although rather too much read into it, frankly) #historyteacher (05 October 11)
42. War hits home on Downton Abbey - Scotsman.com News (14 September 11)
43. Orlando Figes to give away royalties from next book (19 August 11)
44. Nazi Rudolf Hess exhumed from 'pilgrimage' grave (21 July 11)
45. 'L'Aspirine et l'eau': How French cracked German WW1 invisible ink formula | Mail Online (13 July 11)
46. First Trailer Released For Spielberg's "War Horse" (01 July 11)
47. BBC News - Adolf Hitler 'honorary citizen' row grips Austria (28 May 11)
48. Claude Stanley Choules, the Last Known World War I Combat Veteran, Dies in Australia at 110 - NYTimes.com (06 May 11)
49. Despite 5,000-Year History, Archaeology Flounders in Gaza Strip - FoxNews.com (17 April 11)
50. Milestones in Libya's Relations with the West (26 March 11)
51. Gaza militants fire dozens of mortars into Israel (20 March 11)
52. Frank Buckles, Last WWI Veteran, Dies: Big Pic (05 March 11)
53. Why North Korean strike will not trigger world war three (27 November 10)
54. Recently rediscovered diary of a WW1 German soldier tells grim tale of life and death on the Western Front (27 November 10)
55. Drunk teen high-fived pals after urinating on WW1 memorial (27 November 10)
56. Last British veteran of WW1 refuses to mark Remembrance Day (12 November 10)
57. Truth about German diplomats' collusion in Holocaust is revealed (26 October 10)
58. Brought to book with Orlando Figes (16 October 10)
59. Germany marks 20 years as reunified nation (03 October 10)
60. Why has Germany taken so long to pay off its WWI debt? (03 October 10)
61. Germany end World War One reparations after 92 years with 59m final payment (29 September 10)
62. Israeli settler issue may disrupt new talks (15 September 10)
63. France condemns Castro Roma 'holocaust' remark (12 September 10)
64. Controversial historian David Irving outrages Poles with death camp tour (11 September 10)
65. Poems and messages from injured WW1 soldiers emerge after 92 years - Telegraph (08 September 10)
66. Senior Iranian cleric dismisses Nazi Holocaust as 'superstition' created by the West (06 September 10)
67. US Holocaust Museum, others criticize Romania's central bank for minting 'anti-Semitic' coin (22 August 10)
68. 'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century (21 August 10)
69. A fading finest hour? (19 August 10)
70. Historian 'saw the big picture, but went to the heart of the matter' (09 August 10)
71. Fidel Castro addresses parliament after four-year gap (07 August 10)
72. BBC News - Israel-Lebanon border clash kills five people (03 August 10)
73. Filmmaker Stone Apologizes for Remark on Holocaust, Jewish Media Influence (27 July 10)
74. Auschwitz 'I will survive' dance video is internet sensation (16 July 10)
75. Barack Obama compared to Hitler and Lenin in Tea Party billboard (14 July 10)
76. German artists creates Holocaust memorial with 25,000 plaques on sidewalks across Europe (08 July 10)
77. Man facing jail over Hitler ringtone (01 July 10)
78. Teachers 'arrested for stealing Auschwitz memento' (30 June 10)
79. Stalin falls from grace in last bastion - his birthplace (30 June 10)
80. Incoming D-Day Memorial chief stands by Stalin bust (24 June 10)
81. First World War Bosnian postcard finally reaches family (19 June 10)
82. Hitler memorabilia 'attracts young Indians' (16 June 10)
83. Why Bollywood's film about Hitler is profoundly misguided (14 June 10)
84. Destroying monuments to Stalin a silly attempt to rewrite history: Gorbachev (14 June 10)
85. Sir Andrew Burns named as first post-Holocaust envoy (10 June 10)
86. Stalin-era mass grave yields tonnes of bones (10 June 10)
87. German neo-Nazi parties 'consider merger' (07 June 10)
88. Mikhail Gorbachev: Russia's elder statesman still at home with power (07 June 10)
89. Russia says probe into 1940 katyn massacre can't be reopened (02 June 10)
90. Artists take on the new cult of Stalin (31 May 10)
91. Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Hitler, Russian general says (26 May 10)
92. Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Hitler, Russian general says (26 May 10)
93. Miliband's escape from The Holocaust (24 May 10)
94. Hitler Fashion Ad Causes Controversy In Sicily (24 May 10)
95. Russian court rejects Stalin libel case brought by grandson (18 May 10)
96. USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969 (14 May 10)
97. Briefing: Computer traders blamed for Wall Street crash (14 May 10)
98. The London haunts of VI Lenin (09 May 10)
99. Adolf Hitler 'did not shoot himself' (08 May 10)
100. FTSE falls for 4th day on Greek contagion fears | Reuters (08 May 10)
101. Historian facing Spanish tax bill for First World War hero (07 May 10)
102. Stalin bus begins driving through St Petersburg (06 May 10)
103. YouTube pulls Hitler Downfall parodies (21 April 10)
104. Before you start mouthing off about Hitler, you'd better know your Nazis (30 March 10)
105. Russia bans Hitler book as extremist (27 March 10)
106. Advert with dog dressed as Hitler 'not offensive', rules watchdog (26 March 10)
107. Stalin Resurrected in Russia (video) (12 March 10)
108. Legacy of Pain From 'Jew Sss' for Veit Harlans Family (06 March 10)
109. Jud Sss: the Nazis' inglorious blockbuster (26 February 10)
110. John Babcock, Last Canadian World War I Veteran, Dies at 109 (25 February 10)
111. Charlie Wilson: Congressman whose support for the mujahideen helped force the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan - Obituaries, News - The Independent (13 February 10)
112. The Nazi board game to teach Hitler youth how to win wars (11 February 10)
113. Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' to be republished in Germany (05 February 10)
114. New study fails to bridge Japan, China history divide (02 February 10)
115. Jews use Holocaust as propaganda weapon, says Catholic bishop (27 January 10)
116. Russian heir demands Tsar Nicholas II murder investigation (18 January 10)
117. 108-year-old woman emerges as Britain's oldest first World War veteran (18 January 10)
118. Murder mystery over 'Rosa the Red' (13 January 10)
119. Can Oliver Stone show us the human side of Hitler? (12 January 10)
120. Freya Grfin von Moltke: Anti-Nazi activist - Obituaries (08 January 10)
121. Chinese Communist Party develops taste for cosmetic surgery (02 January 10)
122. Czech Wounds Still Open, Communists Face a Ban - NYTimes.com (29 December 09)
123. Stalin's crude side laid bare (22 December 09)
124. Two killed as statue to Soviet Union war dead is demolished (22 December 09)
125. Russian textbooks attempt to rewrite history (03 December 09)
126. Ukraine leader calls '30s famine Soviet genocide (03 December 09)
127. Germany still owes 50m in reparations for the First World War (03 December 09)
128. Lenin statue vandalised by Ukrainian Nationalists (30 November 09)
129. BBC - Viewfinder: My Lai: "Smoke coming from the muzzle" (26 November 09)
130. No apology for Germanys own Nazi sterilisation victims (26 November 09)
131. Otto von Bismarck received fan mail and marriage proposals (26 November 09)
132. Rochdale declares that Ukrainian Famine was a Genocide (26 November 09)
133. USSR meets YouTube in nostalgia project (26 November 09)
134. Last echo of Nuremberg? (26 November 09)
135. Glorious 39's scorn for appeasement is unjustified #historyteacher (via activehistory.co.uk / classtools.net) (24 November 09)
136. EasyJet Magazine Apologizes For Holocaust Memorial Fashion Shoot (PHOTOS) (24 November 09)
137. The accidental uprising: How 'corpse' killed Communism (22 November 09)
138. EasyJet magazine 'trivialises genocide' with Holocaust memorial fashion shoot (22 November 09)
139. The 26-year-old victim of the First World War (20 November 09)
140. Press split on Palestinian statehood move (16 November 09)
141. Swastikas and Tinsel: How the Nazis Stole Christmas (15 November 09)
142. Diary that exposed Stalin's famine goes on display (15 November 09)
143. French mock Nicolas Sarkozy, the Beatle who bust the Berlin Wall (15 November 09)
144. Sir Andrew Motion 'ripped off history book for Remembrance Sunday poem' (10 November 09)
145. An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers? (10 November 09)
146. Judge highlights Carnage UK's role in war memorial incident (06 November 09)
147. New statue of Chairman Mao surprises China (05 November 09)
148. Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after 550,000 award (05 November 09)
149. 'Puzzlers' reassemble shredded Stasi files, bit by bit (03 November 09)
150. History books re-written twenty years after fall of Berlin Wall (03 November 09)
151. Boy, 12, was 'youngest British soldier in First World War' (01 November 09)
152. 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (VIDEO) (01 November 09)
153. Leaders recall Berlin Wall's fall (01 November 09)
154. George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl in Germany to mark fall of Berlin Wall (01 November 09)
155. Final Member of Hitler's Inner Circle Dies at 96 (31 October 09)
156. WW1 hero's amazing diaries throw new light on life in the trenches (30 October 09)
157. British Bishop Fined for Denying the Holocaust (29 October 09)
158. In Moscow, Lenin Lights the Way to Angry Debate (27 October 09)
159. 'Great depression' gaffe lifted from Prime Minister's website (26 October 09)
160. First World War sub found after 93 years (24 October 09)
161. BNP protests descend into chaos at BBC Television Centre - Telegraph (22 October 09)
162. Vladimir Lenin died from syphilis, new research claims (22 October 09)
163. Vatican thumbs up for Karl Marx after Galileo, Darwin and Oscar Wilde (22 October 09)
164. Medvedev appeals to history to woo Serbs (22 October 09)
165. Nazi Olympics exhibit opens in Vancouver (21 October 09)
166. Israel pulls textbook with chapter on Nakba (21 October 09)
167. A Curtain Call for the Domino Theory? (21 October 09)
168. Weimar America (21 October 09)
169. Thai waxworks museum apologises for Hitler billboard (20 October 09)
170. How Mr Rowe's potion let Hitler's No 2 sleep easier (20 October 09)
171. 'Women's love lives were better in East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell' (20 October 09)
172. Russia seizes Stalin-era research (18 October 09)
173. Russian historian arrested in clampdown on Stalin era (16 October 09)
174. Josef Stalin's grandson loses legal attempt at rehabilitating Soviet dictator's reputation (14 October 09)
175. The Miliband family, Stalin and me (11 October 09)
176. Marek Edelman, last surviving leader of WWII Warsaw Ghetto uprising dies at 90 (04 October 09)
177. Sole Video Footage of Anne Frank Posted Online (03 October 09)
178. Manga version of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' a hit in Japan - Telegraph (01 October 09)
179. Holocaust 'Industry' More About Money Than Memory? (17 September 09)
180. Germany unites to mourn hero who braved Nazi yobs (17 September 09)
181. Habsburg family demands right to seek Austrian presidency (17 September 09)
182. Russian Schools to Teach The Gulag Archipelago (17 September 09)
183. Award for 'bravest street in WWI' (17 September 09)
184. Russia Split On Stalin: Hero Or Villain? (17 September 09)
185. United Germany might allow another Hitler, Mitterrand told Thatcher (10 September 09)
186. Romanov grand duchess's hidden jewellery found (09 September 09)
187. David Irving sparks row over Holocaust 'propaganda' (09 September 09)
188. Germany's New AIDS-Awareness Ad Stars Hitler (09 September 09)
189. History judges Neville Chamberlain unfairly, says his granddaughter (09 September 09)
190. Josef Stalin 'returns' to Moscow metro (09 September 09)
191. Rare first world war poetry archives published online (09 September 09)
192. Lenin and Hitler playing chess. Yeah, right. What a load of rubbish. (03 September 09)
193. Berlin 36 tells how Nazis replaced Jewish woman athlete for man in drag (03 September 09)
194. Oxford University puts unseen First World War poet's manuscripts online (03 September 09)
195. World War 2: Poland was conspiring with Nazis to destroy Soviet Union, Russia claims (03 September 09)
196. Survivors gather to pay tribute to 'British Schindler' (02 September 09)
197. UK documents reveal hunt for Hitler's deputy (02 September 09)
198. Children who escaped Nazis retrace 1939 journey to Britain (02 September 09)
199. Film portrays athletics gender row in Nazi Germany (02 September 09)
200. Re-Stalinization of a Moscow Subway Station (02 September 09)
201. Putin blames Britain for Russia's invasion of Poland on the 70th anniversary of WWII (02 September 09)
202. Vladimir Putin condemns appeasement of Hitler on 70th anniversary of WW2 outbreak (02 September 09)
203. Kremlin Rules - Nationalism of Putin's Era Veils Sins of Stalin's (02 September 09)
204. Modern views on the Nazi-Soviet pact (01 September 09)
205. EyeWitness Reports: Watching the start of World War II (01 September 09)
206. Stalin's grandson goes to court to defend Soviet tyrant (01 September 09)
207. Neville Chamberlain should be praised, not buried (30 August 09)
208. Sergei Mikhalkov, lyricist who praised Stalin, dies aged 96 (29 August 09)
209. My Lai massacre: Lt William Calley apologises more than 40 years after Vietnam (27 August 09)
210. USSR plotted invasion of Manchester (27 August 09)
211. Stalin's bid for a new world order (26 August 09)
212. BBC Viewpoint: The Nazi-Soviet Pact (25 August 09)
213. Russia declassifies secret documents on Nazi-Soviet pact (25 August 09)
214. Radiohead in tribute to WW1 veteran (06 August 09)
215. Britain's last surviving First World War veteran Claude Choules says war was boring (05 August 09)
216. 'Best tribute to Harry Patch is teaching our children why they must never forget horrors of Great War' (05 August 09)
217. Artist may face charge for 'Nazi' gnome (18 July 09)
218. Lenin's nose put out of joint in Kiev (08 July 09)
219. Stalin's Wars: An Interview with Professor Geoffrey Roberts #historyteacher (via activehistory.co.uk / classtools.net) (06 July 09)
220. Communists turn to Stalin to fight crisis (30 June 09)
221. Treaty of Versailles: 90 years old this weekend (27 June 09)
222. British World War I veteran Henry Allingham becomes the world's oldest man (21 June 09)
223. Spanish Civil War bodies exhumed (13 June 09)
224. Soviets Had Help during Checkpoint Charlie Standoff (13 June 09)
225. Spanish Civil War Grave Uncovers Victims of Dictator (09 June 09)
226. The Falsification of History in the new Russia (09 June 09)
227. Unseen photographs reveal the private life of Adolf Hitler (06 June 09)
228. Amid Russian push to recast history, Russian historian blames Poland for starting WWII (06 June 09)
229. Australia's oldest man and last WW1 soldier dies (04 June 09)
230. Images rescued from dump reveal black British 'Tommy' at the Somme (30 May 09)
231. German corpse 'may be Luxemburg' (30 May 09)
232. Spanish Civil War volunteers are granted citizenship 70 years on (27 May 09)
233. Tory activist expelled after Facebook Hitler tache picture (25 May 09)
234. Israel admits Tube advert map 'mistake' (22 May 09)
235. Man fined for beheading Hitler (21 May 09)
236. Vietnam war photographer Van Es dies in Hong Kong (16 May 09)
237. Stock market optimists need to read a history of the Great Depression (13 May 09)
238. Berlin Airlift remembered, key moment in Cold War (13 May 09)
239. Obama gets it wrong about the Holocaust (08 May 09)
240. Poland 'to ban' Che Guevara image (24 April 09)
241. At Auschwitz, Israeli minister compares Iran to Nazis (22 April 09)
242. Berlin Wall Monument Commercialism Breeds Controversy (19 April 09)
243. Nazi women's magazines feature knitting patterns and British blame for WWII (15 April 09)
244. Israel FM rejects Annapolis deal (01 April 09)
245. Leningrad Siege: "Now and Then" photos - powerful! (28 March 09)
246. Clash in tense Israeli-Arab town (25 March 09)
247. China plans a Karl Marx musical (24 March 09)
248. Elmbridge Council leader backs Auschwitz jibe councillor Lara Conaway (18 March 09)
249. Spain set to tear down its last statue of General Franco (16 March 09)
250. Has time run out for the Nazi-hunters? - good stimulus for a debate (15 March 09)
251. Bin Laden: Gaza offensive was a 'holocaust' (14 March 09)
252. Hacks versus Franco (12 March 09)
253. Harry Patch, last surviving WWI Tommy, honoured by French (12 March 09)
254. DNA testing ends mystery surrounding Czar Nicholas II children (12 March 09)
255. Russia to outlaw criticism of WWII tactics (08 March 09)
256. Defectors expose plans of Germany's 'real' Nazis (08 March 09)
257. Local Councillor cheapens the Holocast (07 March 09)
258. David Irving disturbs Holocaust lecture (06 March 09)
259. CNBC claims "Comrade" Obama is a "Bolshevik" who is "taking cues from Lenin" (05 March 09)
260. Stalin no better than Hitler? What do YOU think? (04 March 09)
261. Author Orlando Figes claims political pressure behind cancellation of Stalin book (04 March 09)
262. GEOFFREY LEVY: Eric Hobsbawm, useful idiot of the chattering classes | Mail Online (03 March 09)
263. Germany provokes anger over museum to refugees who fled Poland during WWII - Telegraph (28 February 09)
264. Palestinians pay tribute to victims of the Holocaust (27 February 09)
265. German neo-Nazis plan to build Fourth Reich on back of new economic crisis (27 February 09)
266. Adored by Hitler, Gay Tenor With Jewish Wife Thrived in Reich (20 February 09)
267. Discredited Memoirist Defends Holocaust Book (19 February 09)
268. CNN Online Video - Great Depression vs. Now - Which was Worse? (19 February 09)
269. Nazis developed Thalidomide and tested it on concentration camp prisoners (09 February 09)
270. Weimar remembers the democracy destroyed by Hitler : Europe World (08 February 09)
271. 'Our last living link' to WWI (01 February 09)
272. Is Bavaria right to try banning the reprinting of Nazi newspapers? (24 January 09)
273. Britain on the brink of an economic depression, say experts - Telegraph (23 January 09)
274. Rosa Luxemburg Still Popular 90 Years after Assassination (18 January 09)
275. Nazi Lebensborn Adults Piece Together Their Pasts (10 January 09)
276. At 50, Cuba's revolution showing its age (02 January 09)
277. Last statue of dictator Franco removed from mainland Spain (18 December 08)
278. Signs of dispute on Moscow's Solzhenitsyn Street (15 December 08)
279. Germany gets go-ahead to prosecute 'Ivan the Terrible' in last Nazi trial (14 December 08)
280. Hitler's pub dart bomb: The secret Nazi weapon drawn up to terrorise Britain (11 December 08)
281. Spanish Inquisition left genetic legacy in Iberia (08 December 08)
282. Stalin planned to destroy Moscow if the Nazis moved in (08 December 08)
283. Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed' (04 December 08)
284. Franco feared Hitler wanted to kidnap him, says daughter (28 November 08)
285. "Re-Stalinisation" of Putins Era Veils Sins of Stalins (27 November 08)
286. A New Legacy in Belgium for World War I Deserters (26 November 08)
287. Nazi holiday resort Prora to be opened to tourists for first time (26 November 08)
288. Pope speaks to Ukrainian pilgrims of 1930s famine (26 November 08)
289. Makeover Planned for Hitler's Baltic Sea Hotel Colossus (24 November 08)
290. Did Hitler really only have ONE testicle? (21 November 08)
291. World recalls end of World War I (11 November 08)
292. 'We should be more thankful': Teenagers Experience the Impact of WW1 (11 November 08)
293. British veteran, 112, to mark WWI anniversary in London (10 November 08)
294. The whitewashing of Stalin (10 November 08)
295. The first Boys from Brazil: Nazi graveyard discovered deep in the Amazon rainforest (06 November 08)
296. World War I veteran dies aged 108 (06 November 08)
297. Passport offer for Spanish exiles (02 November 08)
298. Crowds bid fond farewell to airport that saved Berlin (01 November 08)
299. WWI veteran launches Poppy Appeal (30 October 08)
300. The last soldiers to die in World War I (30 October 08)
301. Vichy calls for Nazi past to be forgotten after 60 years (30 October 08)
302. JFK's drug addictions almost caused nuclear war (28 October 08)
303. Outcry over Belgian TV cookery show helping people cook Hitler's favourite meals (28 October 08)
304. In Germany, crisis revives old memories of Hyperinflation (28 October 08)
305. Adolf Hitler 'planned propaganda cable TV' (26 October 08)
306. Stalin 'planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact' (19 October 08)
307. Vatican: "Pius protected Jews during WWII" (09 October 08)
308. Spain to offer compensation to victims of Franco dictatorship (08 October 08)
309. Should Holocaust Denial be a Crime in the UK? (05 October 08)
310. Depression offers lessons for financial crisis (05 October 08)
311. 70th Anniversary of the Munich Agreement (02 October 08)
312. Hitler's desk set on which Munich pact was signed in 1938 put up for sale in online auction (02 October 08)
313. Boris Yefimov, legendary Soviet Cartoonist, dies (02 October 08)
314. Weapons that helped start World War I going on show in London (28 September 08)
315. Million pound "Marshall Aid" banknote on sale for 40,000 (26 September 08)
316. Jewish city feared by Stalin is rediscovered (25 September 08)
317. The Parallel with 1929 We Ignore at Our Peril (23 September 08)
318. A New Cold War in the Caribbean? (22 September 08)
319. Palestinians paying price for West's Holocaust guilt, says Tutu (20 September 08)
320. Palestinians paying price for West's Holocaust guilt, says Tutu (20 September 08)
321. Pope defends "Hitler's Pope" (19 September 08)
322. Body of Spanish Poet Lorca may be found in mass grave (18 September 08)
323. Rosenberg Sons Acknowledge Their Father Was a Spy (18 September 08)
324. Germany holds rare war crimes trial over 1944 Nazi massacre (15 September 08)
325. For First Time, Figure in Rosenberg Case Admits Spying for Soviets (12 September 08)
326. Memories of Containment - Coming to Grips With Russias New Nerve (08 September 08)
327. Huge tribute to Lenin visible on Google Earth (07 September 08)
328. British spy in longbow plot to kill Heinrich Himmler (07 September 08)
329. Former Nazi Collaborator from Ukraine Loses US Appeal (07 September 08)
330. Secret documents say Markov's killer was given a medal (07 September 08)
331. Israeli spy admits Mossad allowed Josef Mengele to escape (02 September 08)
332. Stalin makes a comeback with Russian teachers (02 September 08)
333. World's last female First World War veteran dies (29 August 08)
334. Old Aussie soldier uncovered in Belgium (28 August 08)
335. Georgia fails to escape its past (BBC) (26 August 08)
336. Georgia fails to escape its past (BBC) (26 August 08)
337. Spanish DNA bank to identify Franco victims (25 August 08)
338. Berlin's Holocaust Memorial Vandalized With Nazi Graffiti (25 August 08)
339. The Hitler Analogy - Why do Putin and Bush keep using the Nazis? (24 August 08)
340. The Windscale Disaster (24 August 08)
341. Sex on the Somme (24 August 08)
342. Bergen-Belsen survivor learns of sisters' fate 64 years on (23 August 08)
343. Franco's relationship with Hitler: New Insights (22 August 08)
344. Nazi war crimes suspect faces extradition from Australia (21 August 08)
345. Claus von Stauffenberg: the true story behind the film Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise (21 August 08)
346. Rescuing Berlin's Most Famous World War II Ruin (20 August 08)
347. Crisis in Georgia: History repeating itself (19 August 08)
348. Vandals attack Berlin monument to gay victims of Nazis (19 August 08)
349. Crisis in Georgia: History repeating itself (19 August 08)
350. 'Don't forget Czechoslovakia' - Anniversary of the Prague Spring (19 August 08)
351. Germany marks 47th anniversary of Berlin Wall (14 August 08)
352. Why is Stalin still popular in Russia, despite the brutality of his regime? (09 August 08)
353. Russia and Georgia move to brink of war (09 August 08)
354. Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (04 August 08)
355. Tens of Thousands March 90 Years After Tsar's Death (18 July 08)
356. Stalin and Last Tsar in Neck-and-Neck Race (17 July 08)
357. BBC NEWS | Americas | SS doctor 'still alive in Chile' (17 July 08)
358. German Geneticists Condemn Nazi Eugenics Program | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 15.07.2008 (17 July 08)
359. Stalin and Last Tsar in Neck-and-Neck Race (17 July 08)
360. Ukraine to investigate whether devastating 1932-33 Soviet-era famine was genocide - International Herald Tribune (14 July 08)
361. Bury Lenin's body, says Gorbachev (08 June 08)
362. Review Criticizes Textbooks' Take on Middle East, Islam (08 June 08)
363. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel buries victims of shooting (05 June 08)
364. Ideas and Trends - Appeasements Taint Is All in Hindsight - NYTimes.com (29 May 08)
365. Tribute to Nazis Gay Victims (24 May 08)
366. Rethinking Churchill and the Allied warmongers (24 May 08)
367. German War Guilt and the Jewish State - WSJ.com (14 May 08)
368. Austria: Josef Fritzl blames Nazis for behaviour - Telegraph (09 May 08)
369. Letters: We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary | World news | The Guardian (06 May 08)
370. Nikolai Baibakov: Stalin's oil commissar - Obituaries, News - The Independent (06 May 08)
 

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