Historians have often underestimated Queen Anne because she was quiet and plain. In fact, her strong common sense and identification with the hopes and fears of her people would make her the most successful of the Stuarts. […]
Well before the infamous Boston Tea Party, unrest in Boston grew so common that in September of 1768, two British infantry regiments were landed to keep order. For the next 18 months, those bewildered redcoats did nothing but unintentionally antagonize Bostonians. […]
A generation before the sack of Rome in 476, Roman culture and civilization in its British territories had dwindled to an almost negligible point. So […]
In 1858 India formally became a direct possession of the British Crown, and become known as the “Jewel in the Crown.” To justify their rule, the British argued that they were going to bring superior European culture and political institutions into a backward continent. It was their of own doing, however, that Britain lost control over the nation. […]
David Christian structures his groundbreaking Big History course around eight fundamental thresholds. Each of them is associated with new forms of complexity, and each of which has new emergent properties. Here we will take a high-level look at the eight fundamental thresholds of Big History and the material covered within each. […]
Big History: Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to understand the whole of the past, literally from the beginning of everything to the present […]
The African coastline had been explored by the time of Queen Victoria’s reign. Much of the interior of Africa was unknown to the Europeans. It was called the “Dark Continent”. […]
How did one of the most vibrant commercial centers in the global economy drift toward colonialism, and how did this set the stage for an eventual conquest of India, by both regional Indian and foreign powers? […]
The summer of 1666 was hot and dry. Most people were grateful because they thought that the heat would kill off the plague. Instead, it […]
On December 29 in the year 1170, Thomas Becket, the former Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II, was murdered by four knights in a […]
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