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Image via Wikipedia By late winter 1933, the nation had already endured more than three years of economic depression. Statistics revealing the depth of the Great Depression were staggering. More than 11,000 of 24,000 banks had failed, destroying the savings of depositors. Millions of people were out of work and seeking jobs; additional millions were [...]
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Roosevelt’s first war…on the Depression
Posted: November 9, 2010 in A Level History, American History, Economic History, Historical Interpretation, History, History in the news, Hoover, Roosevelt, Seventeeth Century, Wall Street CrashTags: Democratic, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Depression, History, New Deal, New York, Oxford University Press, United States
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Reassessing Cromwell in Ireland
Posted: April 7, 2010 in A Level History, History, Seventeeth CenturyTags: A Level History, Cromwell, History, Ireland, Seventeenth Century
Having taught History in both England and Ireland, it has been an interesting challenge to seek to obey the exigencies of the differing curricula when one approaches the topic of Cromwell. Recently –in England- he was shortlisted as one of the “greatest Englishmen of history” (though ultimately losing out, a bit predictably, to Winston Somebody [...]
CROMWELL: Sinner or Saint?
Posted: April 6, 2010 in A Level History, History, Seventeeth CenturyTags: A Level History, Cromwell, History, Ireland, Protectorate, Seventeenth Century
CROMWELL: Sinner or saint? Make an estimate of his successes and failures in the context of his biography
