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In 1095, Pope Urban II called for the first Christian Crusade to Jerusalem. How might that pivotal event have been reported if newspapers had existed back then?
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- Thin Red Line: Scottish Soldiers and Britain’s Retreat from Empire after 1945 by Ian S. Wood
- Gender Spheres and Circles of Power: How American Women Won the Vote by David White
- Gruppe 47 and the Post-WWII German Literary World
- Napoleon III – The Populist Emperor
- Products Which Changed the World – Sugar and Oil
- Hamish Henderson and the Spanish Connection by Mario Relich
- Is Donald Trump a Jacksonian? by Dr David White
- Alasdair Gray on the Declaration of Arbroath: A Personal View
- The Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway and Sunday Travel by Dr John McGregor
- Monitoring Morale: The History of Home Intelligence 1939-1944 by Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang
- How Churchill’s Mind Worked by Paul Addison
- Red Herrings & Codswallop: Fishing History Pre-Brexit by Pouca McFeilimidh
- The Dresden Triangle by Paul Addison
- Stalin, the ‘Red Tsar’? by David White
- Chroniclers, Detectives or Judges – Just What Are Historians? by David White
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- Why Did Germany Lose the Great War? by David White
- The Japanese Occupation of China 1937-45: The Divided Opposition and its Consequences by David White
- Pope Urban II and the First Crusade
- What was the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft and how successful was propaganda in realising the vision of a racially exclusive society? by David White
- “Bloody Victory” or Bloody Stupidity? The Battle of the Somme, by David White
- Masculinity, Public Schools and British Imperial Rule, by David White
- Chiang Kai-Shek and the USA: Puppet and Puppeteer, but Which Was Which? by David White
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Society Details
The Open History Society is open to everybody and meets on the last Friday of the month between September and May to hear talks from historians and those interested in and knowledgeable about history. Speakers have included eminent academics, published authors, documentary producers, historical novelists, postgraduate researchers and Open History Society members. The subject matter may be anything from the Falklands War to medieval women, from Hugh MacDiarmid to Eamon De Valera, from Nazi feature films to Sicilian cultural history, from Bannockburn to Verdun. You are very welcome to turn up on the night of the talks at our permanent venue, the Royal Scots Club in Abercromby Place in central Edinburgh. Just ask at the reception desk for directions to the meeting room. There you will be made to feel welcome by one of our committee members.Our Venue: The Royal Scots Club, 29-31 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh
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Articles and Past Talks by Society Members
This section is for pieces, both published and unpublished, which Open History Society members have written. These may be recent or from the distant the past, finished articles or drafts that the writer wants to try out. Each year the society also invites one of its own members to give a talk, usually at the AGM , and transcripts of these are among the works appearing here. To view these, click on the link titled Members' Articles.
