by Lucille Turner | Oct 10, 2021 | History, Spotlight Blogs
Recent fishing disputes over the access of French fishermen to British waters for their seafood have heated up relations on both sides of the Channel. Ever since Brexit, the relationship between France and England has been tense, with the idea of England ‘having its...
by Lucille Turner | Mar 14, 2021 | History, Spotlight Blogs
Over the past two hundred years most monarchies in the western world have died out, some violently, as in France and Russia, others more peaceably as in the case of Spain. Those that still remain – ancient dynasties such as the Danish Royal Family – keep a relatively...
by Lucille Turner | Jun 21, 2020 | History
Present-day Istanbul was once called Constantinople, and it was in Greek hands until it fell to the Ottoman army in 1453. For centuries the city was the principal capital of the Christian world, until Rome replaced it little by little, exerting its power through the...
by Lucille Turner | Apr 18, 2020 | History, Philosophy
History is full of pandemics. As populations have expanded, epidemics have increased. Even in ancient times great epidemics scoured the globe, bringing monumental changes in their wake. Some of these epidemics became pandemics, although in ancient times the world was...
