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Why Were the Jews Persecuted? - History Today
T hroughout the history of mankind, no group has been more victimised than the Jewish people. Today they are remembered for being mass-murdered in Hitler's death camps, yet their …
How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire? - History Today
Dec 12, 2023 · Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge and author of Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Basic Books, …
Did the Romans Invent Christmas? - History Today
Dec 12, 2009 · I t was a public holiday celebrated around December 25th in the family home. A time for feasting, goodwill, generosity to the poor, the exchange of gifts and the decoration of …
How the South Became Republican - History Today
Sep 9, 2024 · O n the evening of 1 August 1952 General Dwight D.Eisenhower, the newly nominated Republican presidential nominee, met with his advisers at the Brown Palace Hotel …
Christmas 1914, and After | History Today
W ars of religion - like civil wars - are commonly considered to be the most merciless, the most cruel, the most destructive. Divine sanction or divine instruction has generally tended to …
Concorde: Flight of the Imagination | History Today
4 days ago · I n December 1971, around the coast of Britain and in the south of the country, people could look up to see the test flights of Concorde, the world’s first supersonic passenger …
The First Christmas Tree - History Today
Dec 2, 2011 · P rince Albert, Queen Victoria’s consort, is usually credited with having introduced the Christmas tree into England in 1840. However, the honour of establishing this tradition in …
Why Early Christians Were Persecuted by the Romans
In its first two centuries of existence Christianity witnessed the persecution of many of its members by officials of the Roman Empire; the causes of these persecutions have been and …
Lavrenti Beria Executed - History Today
Dec 12, 2003 · Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian, like Stalin, who called him ‘my Himmler’. Involved in revolutionary activities from his teens and head of the secret police in Georgia in …