Friday 9th May, 2008

May 2008

 

What was 1968 all about? We look at the year of student protests from various points of view and uncover the battle between Clinton and Obama. We probe the discovery of oil 100 years ago and we look at this alongside the 2,500-year struggle between Europe and Asia.
We follow in the footsteps of Christopher Columbus and debate the antiquity of the human mind.
History Today May 2008
 

Mussolini and Hitler in Rome (Getty / Hulton)

Free article button Hitler meets Mussolini
It was not the two dictators’ first meeting, which had occurred in Venice four years previously

Oil gushes from a well in Masjid in 1910 (Getty / Hulton)

‘The deadly parallel’, from Puck magazine, July 1917

The Democrats should blame history for the dilemma they face in having to choose between Clinton and Obama
 
Black heritage home 
Archives chronicling the history of African and African-Caribbean descendants in the UK have been awarded a major grant.
 

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'I was astonished at the vastness of the plan, & the greatness of Stile in the execution... the whole seems to be the work of Titans rather than a production of our Pigmy race of beings.'
 
 
May 9
1945 - Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs a ratification of German surrender.
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Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, signing the ratified surrender terms for the German Army at Russian Headquarters in Berlin, Lt. Moore, Germany, May 7, 1945 (NARA 111-SC-206292)
 
Leaving Burma Behind
Charismatic Queens of Southern Asia
A Grave Injustice
After Katrina
Not the Eternal City
 
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