http://www.webremixed.info/ Aggregation of tags: history Webremixer http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2009/01/03/fake-viking-swords-but-not-modern-fakes.htm Archaeologists and collectors of Viking swords have been pondering a strange fact: some of the best Viking swords ever found bear the name of their maker, Ulfberht, on the metal... Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:39:44 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2009/01/03/fake-viking-swords-but-not-modern-fakes.htm 2009-01-03T11:39:44Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2009/01/03/best-russian-vote.htm The recent trend for countries to vote for their best citizen has reached Russia, which this week unveiled the results of their poll. First was Alexander Nevsky, a medieval commander... Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:39:24 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2009/01/03/best-russian-vote.htm 2009-01-03T11:39:24Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2009/01/03/did-rap-originate-in-medieval-scotland.htm This is a slightly bizarre story, so I’m just going to summarise and point you to where I saw it reported: American Professor Ferenc Szasz is arguing that a Scottish... Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:38:53 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2009/01/03/did-rap-originate-in-medieval-scotland.htm 2009-01-03T11:38:53Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/27/medieval-child-bishop-custom-revived.htm A medieval English tradition is being revived in Hampshire: a nine year old girl has been made a Bishop for December. The Rev Carrie Thompson explains: "In medieval times, they... Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:51:55 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/27/medieval-child-bishop-custom-revived.htm 2008-12-27T10:51:55Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/27/the-development-of-mary.htm The online part of the Boston Globe (and probably the print edition) has this week published an interview with Miri Rubin, a Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History in... Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:51:32 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/27/the-development-of-mary.htm 2008-12-27T10:51:32Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/27/german-windows-returned.htm Medieval stained glass windows from a church in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, have been returned by Russia, who looted them during World War 2. The Russians didn’t actually take... Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:51:08 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/27/german-windows-returned.htm 2008-12-27T10:51:08Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/20/house-of-european-history.htm The European Parliament is sponsoring a new museum to open in Brussels in 2014: the “House of European History”. According to reports the museum will cover the history of Europe... Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:17:48 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/20/house-of-european-history.htm 2008-12-20T09:17:48Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/20/roman-battlefield-revises-understanding.htm Archaeologists working in northern Germany have uncovered evidence of a Roman battlefield. Arrowheads, axes, 300 bolts thrown by Roman “scorpio” weapons (think bolt throwers) and coins have all been found... Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:17:14 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/20/roman-battlefield-revises-understanding.htm 2008-12-20T09:17:14Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/20/team-to-save-churches.htm The British government have announced plans to use £1.5 million to part fund a team of experts who will help save Britain’s churches. These religious structures are among the oldest... Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:17:00 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/20/team-to-save-churches.htm 2008-12-20T09:17:00Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/13/was-the-roman-empire-damaged-by-climate-change.htm A recently published study on climate has prompted some to ask the question: was the Roman Empire (and its later incarnation as the Byzantine Empire) brought low by changes in... Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:30:59 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/13/was-the-roman-empire-damaged-by-climate-change.htm 2008-12-13T10:30:59Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/13/planned-destruction-in-moscow.htm When Napoleon marched into Moscow in 1812, he found the city ablaze, a gift from the departing population designed to defeat him. If Hitler’s forces had made it to Moscow... Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:30:32 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/13/planned-destruction-in-moscow.htm 2008-12-13T10:30:32Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/13/dart-bomber.htm In the later years of World War II, Nazi Germany searched desperately for a weapon which would turn the tide back in their favour. The many brainstormings produced a lot... Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:30:20 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/13/dart-bomber.htm 2008-12-13T10:30:20Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/06/catalan-christmas-tradition-question.htm This week I was sent a link to a US news report from 2002 explaining about “caganers”, a Catalan tradition going back to the eighteenth century. The article claimed these... Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:53:33 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/06/catalan-christmas-tradition-question.htm 2008-12-06T11:53:33Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/06/denouncing-in-ww2-france.htm A recent conference in France broke a taboo recently by discussing the issue of denouncing in France during World War 2. Organiser and historian Laurent Joly said the conference couldn’t... Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:53:04 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/06/denouncing-in-ww2-france.htm 2008-12-06T11:53:04Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/06/more-british-documents-online.htm Three million pages of government papers dating from the Tudor and Stuart era are to go online in a project which promises to be a real boon for historians of... Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:52:39 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/12/06/more-british-documents-online.htm 2008-12-06T11:52:39Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/29/is-this-lucrezia-borgia-picture.htm Lucrezia Borgia is the most infamous member of one of the Renaissance’s best known families, the Borgias, thanks to a popular, but probably entirely false, reputation as a poisoner. Until... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:09:53 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/29/is-this-lucrezia-borgia-picture.htm 2008-11-29T12:09:53Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/29/polish-leader-to-be-exhumed-to-try-to-solve-mystery.htm The body of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland’s government in exile from 1939 until his death in 1943, is to be exhumed for a forensic examination. Sikorski died... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:09:24 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/29/polish-leader-to-be-exhumed-to-try-to-solve-mystery.htm 2008-11-29T12:09:24Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/29/photo-study-finds-more-history.htm You might think that, being a heavily populated island, Britain’s historical sites are all well known, but the truth is they’re not. For example, archaeologists have just finished a study... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:09:05 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/29/photo-study-finds-more-history.htm 2008-11-29T12:09:05Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/22/new-british-ww1-veteran-found.htm Over the last few years there has been a debate in Britain about whether the last surviving British veteran of WW1, whoever it may be, should be given a state... Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:57:19 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/22/new-british-ww1-veteran-found.htm 2008-11-22T11:57:19Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/22/new-mary-rose-sinking-theory.htm Conventional wisdom holds that a very tight turn, coupled with open gun ports and a freak gust of wind, conspired to tilt British ship the Mary Rose over to such... Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:56:50 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/22/new-mary-rose-sinking-theory.htm 2008-11-22T11:56:50Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/22/public-support-memorial-to-bomber-command.htm A campaign in Britain to erect a memorial to the pilots and airmen killed during the aerial bombardment of Germany during WW2 has raised £500,000 ($750,000) in just three weeks,... Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:56:21 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/22/public-support-memorial-to-bomber-command.htm 2008-11-22T11:56:21Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/15/google-returns-to-ancient-rome.htm Google have added a new "layer" to Google Earth. Now you can take a virtual tour of the entire city as historians believe it may have looked c.320 CE, with... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:56:29 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/15/google-returns-to-ancient-rome.htm 2008-11-15T12:56:29Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/15/video-of-arthur-conan-doyle.htm Arthur Conan Doyle is best known today for his stories about (now legendary) detective Sherlock Holmes, films of which have gone a long way to influencing how people view Britain... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:55:55 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/15/video-of-arthur-conan-doyle.htm 2008-11-15T12:55:55Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/15/hadrians-wall-repairs.htm Hadrian’s Wall was a continuous fortification which stretched across northern Britain, from the east to west coast, to act as a defence for the northern limits of the Roman Empire.... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:54:42 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/15/hadrians-wall-repairs.htm 2008-11-15T12:54:42Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/08/90th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-world-war-1.htm November 11 2008 will be the ninetieth anniversary of the end of World War 1, when an armistice came into effect at 11:00 am. Consequently there has been a lot... Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:37:00 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/08/90th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-world-war-1.htm 2008-11-08T11:37:00Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/08/modern-celebrity-began-in-the-eighteenth-century.htm A press release from the University of Warwick explains a new theory on celebrity, explaining how the rise in popularity of obituaries in the eighteenth century developed into our “cult”... Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:35:06 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/08/modern-celebrity-began-in-the-eighteenth-century.htm 2008-11-08T11:35:06Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/08/bletchley-park-receives-funding.htm I reported a few months ago how Bletchley Park, site of code breakers who aided the Allied war effort during World War 2, was in need of funding to survive... Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:34:41 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/08/bletchley-park-receives-funding.htm 2008-11-08T11:34:41Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/01/battle-of-agincourt-raises-debate.htm Last weekend British newspapers were up in arms about comments allegedly made by Christophe Gilliot, director of the Centre Historique Médiéval, a museum in Agincourt, France. He was supposed to... Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:14:46 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/01/battle-of-agincourt-raises-debate.htm 2008-11-01T18:14:46Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/01/amulet-that-ruined-my-life.htm Britain’s Times newspaper this week reported on the "other side" of a recent controversy. It concerns Quentin Hutchinson, who in 1990 excavated a silver Christian amulet from an allegedly undisturbed... Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:13:40 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/01/amulet-that-ruined-my-life.htm 2008-11-01T18:13:40Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/01/medieval-world-making-a-comeback.htm Tom Holland, author of a number of easily read popular histories, has written an article wondering about the resurgence of the middle ages in popular fiction, as well as the... Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:12:32 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/11/01/medieval-world-making-a-comeback.htm 2008-11-01T18:12:32Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/24/257996.htm A library called the Stiftsbibliothek (abbey library) in St. Gallen, Switzerland, has received a $1 million dollar grant to digitize and place online its manuscript collection, including 350 documents which... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:27:52 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/24/257996.htm 2008-10-24T12:27:52Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/24/spanish-enigma-machines-found.htm I love a story about people finding things, and one caught my eye this week. Historians know that Spanish General Franco used Nazi Enigma machines in his command of Nationalist... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:26:25 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/24/spanish-enigma-machines-found.htm 2008-10-24T12:26:25Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/24/pirates-corporations-credit-crunch.htm This article from Science Daily attempts to make a parallel between modern corporations and the organisation of pirates and privateers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, bringing the “credit crunch”... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:25:57 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/24/pirates-corporations-credit-crunch.htm 2008-10-24T12:25:57Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/17/should-governments-enforce-historical-orthodoxy.htm I try and avoid contemporary politics on this blog, but I felt a recent article by Timothy Garton Ash was sufficiently thought provoking to include. The article in question concerns... Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:08:32 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/17/should-governments-enforce-historical-orthodoxy.htm 2008-10-17T18:08:32Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/17/auction-house-acts-over-illegal-artefacts.htm This week auction house Bonhams withdrew ten items from sale after being informed by the Italian embassy that the objects had possibly been looted by real life tomb raiders and... Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:08:03 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/17/auction-house-acts-over-illegal-artefacts.htm 2008-10-17T18:08:03Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/17/roman-finds.htm I saw a number of Roman era archaeological discoveries this week: Also in Rome the tomb of a second century CE Roman nobleman, Marcus Nonius Macrinus, was discovered. The tomb was... Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:07:45 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/17/roman-finds.htm 2008-10-17T18:07:45Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/10/stonehenge-older-than-thought.htm Excavations carried out at Stonehenge earlier this year indicate that the famous stones may have been erected 500 years earlier than currently believed, albeit in different positions. The current orthodoxy... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:31:55 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/10/stonehenge-older-than-thought.htm 2008-10-10T17:31:55Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/10/world-war-2-and-statistics.htm World War 2 was more than just soldiers and tanks, as this article by Gavyn Davies amply demonstrates. He explains the role played by statisticians in producing a formula which... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:31:28 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/10/world-war-2-and-statistics.htm 2008-10-10T17:31:28Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/10/world-war-1-artist.htm Several British news sources this week reported on the story of Leonard Smith, a Sapper with the British Royal Engineers during World War 1. He was tasked with providing detailed... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:31:04 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/10/world-war-1-artist.htm 2008-10-10T17:31:04Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/03/800-year-old-law-ends.htm Last week a 600g loaf of bread went on sale in England. This was unusual, as previously a law had decreed that all loaves sold in England had to be... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:51:39 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/03/800-year-old-law-ends.htm 2008-10-03T19:51:39Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/03/dresden-death-toll-reduced.htm The Allied bombing of Dresden during World War 2, which destroyed 85% of the city, has been the subject of great debate recently, with some people complaining that the action... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:51:22 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/03/dresden-death-toll-reduced.htm 2008-10-03T19:51:22Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/03/hitler-assassination-story.htm One of the questions I’ve heard about World War 2 is why weren’t there attempts to assassinate Hitler, with the implication that disgruntled Germans should have acted. While this view... Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:50:56 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/10/03/hitler-assassination-story.htm 2008-10-03T19:50:56Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/09/26/key-gun-to-go-on-display-in-britain.htm The gun fired by an assassin in his, successful, attempt to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, thereby triggering the powder-keg of European politics and leading directly to the start... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:02:49 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/09/26/key-gun-to-go-on-display-in-britain.htm 2008-09-26T18:02:49Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/09/26/napoleonicorg-gets-a-facelift.htm The “Fondation Napoléon” is dedicated to the study of all things Napoleon, and their website is one of the better resources on the web about the Emperors of France. It... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:02:30 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/09/26/napoleonicorg-gets-a-facelift.htm 2008-09-26T18:02:30Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/09/26/charge-of-the-polish-cavalry.htm Polishnews.com has published an account of the “Last Great Charge of the Polish Cavalry”. Any guesses as to when this was? Well, the answer was actually 1939, against the invading... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:00:09 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/09/26/charge-of-the-polish-cavalry.htm 2008-09-26T18:00:09Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/09/19/working-spitfire-auctioned.htm The Spitfire is the iconic British plane of the Second World War. While its precise role in the Battle of Britain – the aerial war fought between Britain and Germany... Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:16:43 GMT http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/09/19/working-spitfire-auctioned.htm 2008-09-19T21:16:43Z