In 1850, The House of Lords gathered to condemn the British Government's use of a blockade to force reparations from Greece. Their intervention wasn't warmly received, as this extract from the Portsmouth Telegraph shows.
Category: History
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Jews were seen as a threat to Christianity, and in Venice a ghetto was created. But, despite this, there appears to be evidence of Venetian Jews being protected.
Category: History
David Katz argues there is plenty of evidence that Roderigo Lopez was a spy and that the motive was money. The act of taking money in return for poisoning the Queen was enough to convict him.
Category: History
In 1594 Roderigo Lopez was hung, drawn and quartered for trying to poison Queen Elizabeth I. Many historians have argued that he was framed - but David Katz believes he can prove his guilt.
Category: History
Roderigo Lopez was sPortuguese Jew who became physician to Queen Elizabeth I. Why was he considered a prime suspect in her attempted murder?
Category: History
Shown the torture possibilities of the Tower Of London, Lopez confessed. But was that genuine, or self-preservation?
Category: History
Ian Kershaw, renowned as one of the leading experts on the Third Reich, unpicks the question of how history should view Adolf Hitler.
Category: History