robertbrook + history   27

'Discuss Archbishop Cranmer's role in the formation of religious policy between 1534-39'
"There's only two people in the country - myself and Diarmaid MacCullough - who could answer that question, and we would disagree."
education  history  tv  uk 
november 2004 by robertbrook
Bringing genocide to the big screen
"This is the equivalent of making a film about the Holocaust set in Auschwitz, with Auschwitz survivors, almost immediately after what happened there."
film  genocide  history  rwanda 
august 2004 by robertbrook
History of Public Transport in, South East London, and North West Kent
Transport photographs of buses, trams, trolleybuses, the railway and Woolwich Free Ferry.
Look at Woolwich, Greenwich, Plumstead, Bexleyheath, Dartford, and other places the way they were in the 60s, 70s and before.
history  transport  london 
august 2004 by robertbrook
'True Olympics' begin in Greece
"Anyone can take part regardless of age or talent, as long as they run barefooted and in traditional tunics."
history  sport 
july 2004 by robertbrook
Operation Grapple
"a United Kingdom tri-service exercise leading to the detonation of the first British hydrogen bomb"
armaments  history  uk 
july 2004 by robertbrook
London Events Calendar - traditional events
"Service at the Church of St Ethelreda (Holborn) attended by throat sufferers, remembers St Blaise, who saved a child with a fishbone stuck in his throat."
date:02-03  history  london 
july 2004 by robertbrook
Sixties Britain
"In the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s Barry Coward went around Britain photographing the humble omnibus. Some of these pictures now are full of nostalgia for that period when the baby boomer generation started to revolt, clearly evidienced by t
history  photos  travel  uk 
july 2004 by robertbrook
Economic Deterioration of Rome in the Third Century AD
To what extent were economic factors to blame for the deterioration of the Roman Empire in the Third Century A.D?
history 
july 2004 by robertbrook

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