https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/dietrich-bonhoffer/
Dietrich Bonhoffer, along with Martin Niemoller, was one of the leading Protestant ministers during the era of Nazi Germany. Bonhoffer faced great danger on a...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/kreisau-circle/
The Kreisau Circle was the name given to a group of men who opposed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The Kreisau Circle got its name from the fact that the men...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/famous-battles-of-world-war-two/battle-of-britain/group-13-fighter-command/
Group 13 of Fighter Command was formed to protect the north of England and Scotland. Group 13 also provided bases for pilots from Groups 11 and 12 to rest and...
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While pilots from abroad fought with distinction in the Battle of Britain, the majority of pilots were from Great Britain. No official record of Battle of...
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Martin Luther King is probably the most famous person associated with the civil rights movement. King was active from the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott...
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Francis I was king of France from 1515 to 1547. Francis built on the work done by Louis XI and set the scene for the clash between the monarchy and the...
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The Provisional Government The Provisional Government came into being on March 14th 1917. Based in the capital, Petrograd, the Provisional Government was first...
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For the duration of the Battle of Britain, America was officially neutral, only coming into the war after the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. Many in...
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The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was established in May 1964 in Jordan. The Palestine Liberation Organisation was a group that sort to combine...
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George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, had become very powerful under both James I and Charles I. Villiers had promoted many of his supporters to high office...
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The first news of a massacre at Katyn Wood came in April 1943 when the Germans found a mass grave of 4,500 Polish soldiers in German-occupied Russia. The...
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From 1900 to 1918, no woman in Britain could vote. Therefore, no woman could stand as a Member of Parliament. As a result, there was no female presence in...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/a-history-of-medicine/william-harvey/
William Harvey made the momentous medical discovery that the flow of blood must be continuous and that its flow must be in one direction only. This discovery...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/british-electoral-history-since-1832/female-liberal-candidates-1918-to-1979/
Pre-World War One, the Liberal Party hierarchy under Asquith had been reticent to give its full support to the campaign by women for the right to vote. In...
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A crisis in Czechoslovakia threw Europe into turmoil in 1938. Czechoslovakia had been created in 1919. The new nation was created out of the old...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/sociology/education-and-sociology/neets-in-2011/
A NEET is someone aged between 16 and 24 who is not in employment, education or a training scheme. From June 2010 to June 2011 the number of NEETs rose by 2.1%...
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Adolf Hitler led Germany throughout World War Two. How did he rise to such power that was to see Germany devastated by May 1945 when World War Two ended in the...
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While pilots from abroad fought with distinction in the Battle of Britain, the majority of pilots were from Great Britain. No official record of Battle of...
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Sir Walter Raleigh was an Elizabethan explorer and scholar. Sir Walter Raleigh advocated the colonisation of what we now call the United States of America and,...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-civil-rights-movement-in-america-1945-to-1968/1964-civil-rights-act/
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was born in the presidency of John F Kennedy who was elected president in 1960. His support of civil rights issue in previous...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/industrial-revolution/factories-in-the-industrial-revolution/
Richard Arkwright is the person credited with being the brains behind the growth of factories. After he patented his spinning frame in 1769, he created the...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-civil-rights-movement-in-america-1945-to-1968/julian-bond/
Julian Bond has been at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement in America since 1960. Bond has spent 50 years highlighting issues associated with civil...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/1918-and-world-war-one/
World War One ended in November 1918. During 1918, two major offensives took place on the Western Front, both based on movement as opposed to the trench...
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Robert Watson-Watt is given the credit for inventing the radar. In fact, this credit should go to the German engineer Christian Hulsmeyer who in 1904, using...
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Principal planes used by Great Britain Plane Type Maximum speed Weapons Spitfire Fighter 361 mph 8 x .303 machine guns Hurricane Fighter 328 mph 8 x .303...
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In Washington D.C., pressure groups have three main points of access from where they can try to influence the decisions of the Federal government: Congress,...
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After the development of the first Spitfire, the aircraft underwent a number of major improvements, or marks, so that by the end of World War Two, the Spitfire...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-role-of-british-women-in-the-twentieth-century/helen-matthews/
Helen Matthews Helen Matthews, a Scottish Suffragette, created a stir when she organised the first all-female football match in Scotland. Matthews, who played...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-november-1861/
November 1861 saw a turn in the weather for the worse and as was to become a norm in the American Civil War, the winter months saw little military activity....
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/timeline-of-world-war-two/world-war-two-1943/
1943 January 4th Operation Ring approved by STAVKA. It entailed the destruction of the VI Army at Stalingrad unit by unit. January 8th STAVKA proposed to von...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/inventions-and-discoveries-of-the-twentieth-century/flight-and-the-wright-brothers/
Orville and Wilbur Wright are credited with making the first successful manned controlled powered flight on December 17th 1903. However, the Wright brothers...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-american-civil-war/american-civil-war-january-1862/
The weather still detemined how much warfare took place in January 1862. The American Civil War was determined by a series of skirmishes in the winter months...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/tudor-england/henry-viii-and-the-nobility/
Henry VIII is usually viewed as a powerful king who was all but unopposed in government. However, Henry himself was always concerned that at some point a rival...
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The First Duma met for the first time on May 10th, 1906 in the Tauris Palace. The First Duma was dominated by the Kadets who wanted Russia to have a parliament...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/the-bombing-campaign-of-world-war-two/the-manchester-bomber/
The Avro Manchester bomber was the forerunner of the Avro Lancaster. What shortcomings the Manchester had were rectified when the Lancaster first flew. The...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/weapons-of-world-war-two/t34-tank/
The T34 tank was developed by the Russians both before and during World War Two. The T34 revolutionised the way tanks were designed and made. Close up in...
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The Plague Eyam Village quarantined themselves to prevent the spread of the the Great Plague of 1665. Their sacrifice saved thousands in northern England.
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/military-commanders-of-world-war-two/general-mark-clark/
Mark Clark became the youngest American to be promoted to general in 1945. Clark had a distinguished career in World War Two and is primarily linked to...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-and-eastern-europe/the-attack-on-poland/
Poland was attacked by Germany on September 1st 1939. The German attack was code-named Operation White (Fall Weiss). The attack on Poland started at 04.45...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/results-of-the-four-year-plan/
Results of the Four Year Plan The Second Four Year Plan was introduced in 1936 and the results of it showed that in many areas it failed to achieve its...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/the-blomberg-fritsch-crisis-of-1938/
The Blomberg-Fritsch Crisis of 1938 showed just how ruthless Hitler could be when it came to his expectation that everyone working for him should be totally...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/weapons-of-world-war-two/bristol-beaufighter/
The Bristol Beaufighter first flew on July 17th, 1939. The Beaufighter was developed as a private venture by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was a two-seat,...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-civil-rights-movement-in-america-1945-to-1968/1963-birmingham-church-bombing/
On September 15th, 1963, a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The ground floor of the church collapsed. A Sunday...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/stuart-england/the-lord-mayors-orders/
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Lawrence, issued orders for the prevention of the spreading of the plague and these came into force on July 1st 1665.
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/france-in-the-sixteenth-century/1461-onwards/
France from 1461 to 1515 saw the start of the rise of absolute rule that continued to the reign of Francis I, Henry II and saw a backlash from the nobility who...
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Canterbury Cathedral was one of the most important centres of pilgrimage in Medieval England. There has been a cathedral at Canterbury since 597 when St....
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/weapons-of-world-war-two/hurricane/
The Hawker Hurricane was developed by Sidney Camm. As a fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane was to revolutionise all future fighter plane design. It was to...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/nuremberg-war-crime-trials/
The Nuremberg War Crime Trials were held between 1945 to 1949. However, the most famous trials at Nuremberg were those of the major war criminals and these...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/british-politics/the-house-of-lords/
The House of Lords, along with the House of Commons, is the lynchpin of the British political system. The House of Lords was for centuries the senior of the...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/the-home-front-1914-to-1918/
The Home Front during World War One refers to life in Britain during the war itself. The Home Front saw a massive change in the role of women, rationing, the...
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The Long March saved Mao Zedong and the Communist Party from the attacks by the Guomingdang. The Long March came about when the Chinese Communists had to flee...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/sociology/theories-in-sociology/phenomenology/
Phenomenology is different from the social action approach in that it denies the possibility of explaining social action. It emphases is upon the internal...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-role-of-british-women-in-the-twentieth-century/force-feeding-of-suffragettes/
Force-feeding was used on Suffragettes who were sent to prison but then went on hunger strike. Force-feeding was traditionally associated with those held in...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/stuart-england/lord-monteagle/
William Parker, Lord Monteagle, is very much linked to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot. It was Lord Monteagle who mysteriously received a letter that clearly warned...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/sociology/research-methods-in-sociology/research-topics/
There are a vast number of research topics that a sociologist could select to work on. With such a vast array of topics, how are topics selected for research?...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/the-western-front-in-world-war-one/padres-in-world-war-one/
More correctly known as military chaplains, the men who served as such were better known as padres. Padres gave spiritual guidance to men who sought it. They...
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https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/holocaust-index/the-sonderkommando/
The Sonderkommando were Jews who were forced to work in the death camps found at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Belzec. The...
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