The Hindu Edited excerpts from a speech delivered by Professor Romila Thapar on âHistoriography and Early Indian Historyâ, during the second Sitaram Yechury Memorial Lecture I would like to thank the Sitaram Yechury Foundation for the invitation to deliver…
SPRINGHILL, N.S. – One minute, Valarie Alderson was at her grandmother’s kitchen table. The next, her life and the lives of many others changed forever. “I was standing at the kitchen table, finishing my homework, and I felt the ground shake,” Alderson…
Sid Glennie remembers the ground shaking and seeing a mushroom cloud over the No. 4 mine in Springhill just after supper on Nov. 1, 1956. It was the second of three mine disasters to befall the Springhill mines and this one claimed 39 men.
The American Legion Legion memorial database includes church tributes Plaques, honor rolls and tablets among commemorations to service. The American Legion’s online memorials database currently stands at just under 3,900 entries. A number of these – from some institutions centuries old – were…
These World War I inventions made life easier during—and after—the war. While World War I redrew political borders and introduced modern weaponry such as poison gas, machine guns and tanks, it also spurred the development of practical innovations.
A look back at the Richmond Fire Department. 11-01-1973 (cutline): James Jackson polishes a mirror on one of Engine Co. No. 23's fire trucks at the new Fourth Battalion Headquarters, located at 400 LaBrook Concourse in South Richmond. The recently opened facility,…
Twenty veterans buried in unmarked graves at Queenscliff Cemetery will finally receive formal recognition this weekend, with family members travelling from across Australia to honour their service. The Victorian Headstone Project has spent months researching the veterans’ histories and tracing…
Archaeological Park of PompeiiArchaeologists discovered dozens of personal objects in a Pompeii cupboard that had gone untouched for nearly 2,000 years. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., the bustling ancient city of Pompeii, near the Bay of Naples, was wiped from the…
Three weeks ago, Skip Sommer announced he had written his last “Petaluma’s Past” column for the Argus-Courier, marking the end of an era. Sommer, who turned 95 earlier this week, began writing his local history column in 1987, a decade after making…
Credit: Image Copyright: Miles Russell and Macsen Russell Bournemouth University (BU) archaeological research has revealed that Iron Age British ruler ‘Verica’ who was central to the Roman Invasion of Britain AD 43 was in fact a woman. This discovery re-writes the…
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