Another problem: what's Russia? I quite often moan about how the English word encompasses two separate words in Russian (Rus'/Rossija) with distinct meanings; but the definition of both these things is mutable. Rossija in particular went back and forth went armies and governments. And it might...
Yep: I'm not saying that marriages and births didn't direct the course of history - obvious they did - but they didn't direct it anywhere they liked and something so gigantic (both in itself and as a change) as a united continent doesn't depend on one bloke's fertility.
I like to use my own...
Remember, there was a very large literature in England portraying Scots as foreigners, and as agents of Jacobite-style tyranny for the Hanover regime (long before Scott, the English were confusing Highlander and Lowlander). So if we know that the American revolutionaries were starting out with...
Scotland. The Hessians weren't actually deployed at the time; it meant Scots, especially Gaels. This was explicit in earlier drafts, says Devine.
New perspectives, eh? :D
That's the thing, though: it entails changing Stalin into a profoundly different kind of person at some point. The real trick - as EdT has shown with Cromwell, Mosley, and Winston Churchill - is to get basically the same person to occupy a profoundly different place in our cultural memory. So...
No Stalin regime and the USSR obligingly does everything exactly the same? Nah. (To say nothing of a rather distorted diaspora-driven version of the collectivisation famine. Thousands of peasants were fleeing the famine. They were fleeing to cities in Ukraine and other parts of the USSR.)
Och, jings. We are aware that not only have the Anglo-Saxons left us plenty of culture, but that they and the Britons, there is strong evidence, at times inhabited the same polities and mixed pretty freely? Enough of this absurd nationalist historiography.
The Saxons arrived in the southeast...
Guys, there were already Irish regiments, and Britain raised new battalions in existing regiments on the standard pattern, that was our military system. Like all our battalions, Irish ones were led by a group of men chosen for their ability to conjugate Latin verbs and play the bally game, but...
My understanding of the latest consensus is that the northern Germanic migration (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were at the centre but the exporting area was bigger than we thought and reached as far as Sweden, IIRC) started as small groups of mercenary foederati on European lines, but became a...
It's not a 'Slavic holocaust' if by Holocaust we mean, as people seem to, gas chambers. It's what Calbear explains: an expansion of the Nazi policies already in effect, which had killed at least 20% of Belarussians in three-four years, so so much for a hundred.
You don't need to tabulate...