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Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher noted ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man’. Similarly, every Prime Minister will transform Britain bu...

In 1962, Dean Acheson the United States Secretary of State at West Point asserted that ‘Britain has lost an empire, and has not yet found a role’. However, this cannot be taken at face value when evaluati...

Appeasement has spawned a wide debate among historians over time. The differing views of historians and their scholarship over a period of time is called historiography. Firstly, thinkers such as Cato and...

There were several factors behind the fall of the Umayyad Dynasty in the Abbasid Revolution of 750. These include: *Fragmentation of the Umayyad dynasty due to internal feuds *The reliance of Marwan II on...

Understanding medieval London can be a struggle, and poses a rather difficult picture for archaeologists. Although the archaeological evidence is usually good in confines of the medieval London walls, and...