All About History

Jan 20, 2025 | historyanswers.co.uk | Jonathan Gordon

Martin Luther King Jr rose to prominence thanks to his powerful oratory skills, depicting a future for America that was cooperative and fair for all citizens. In 1955 he became head of the Montgomery Improvement Association to lead protests over the arrest of Rosa Parks. In the years that followed he founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the hopes of uniting the movement for social change.

Nov 27, 2024 | historyanswers.co.uk | Jonathan Gordon

What lurked down the shadowy alleys of Britain’s city streets in the 19th century? While murderers took a lot of the headlines when it comes to Victorian crime, the menace that really concerned people in Victorian Britain were its street gangs. These organised groups, largely made up of young, underemployed men, but with their fair share of female members, were involved in the kind of turf wars and illicit activities that seem all too familiar to us today.

Nov 1, 2024 | historyanswers.co.uk | Jonathan Gordon

What was life like in England in the time of William Shakespeare? Thankfully, with our never-ending interest in the history of the Tudors and Stuarts we have a lot of information about daily life in this era as the Bard rose to fame in the theatre scene of London. But what events were happening around him that might have influenced his work? Who were the other playwrights, performers and theatre-owners who he interacted with and competed against?

Oct 2, 2024 | historyanswers.co.uk | Jonathan Gordon

The origin story of the United States often paints of picture of intellectual cordiality, of fair-minded compromise and statesmanship. The reality wasn’t exactly like that. The 13 original states of the union were individualistic and in fear of the empire across the Atlantic that they had just managed to defeat in the Revolutionary War. What if the British crossed the Canadian border? What if the turmoil in France meant they no longer had a strong European ally?

Sep 5, 2024 | historyanswers.co.uk | Jonathan Gordon

What drove thousands of European men to leave their homes and seek conflict in the Middle East? For this issue of All About History, we wanted to dig into the roots and first confrontations of the First Crusade and how it set the scene for generations of conflict to come. With religious battles being fought in the Holy Land and in Europe, it was a bloody and brutal era. Why did it begin though? Who were the ringleaders? And was there more motivating the crusade than religious conviction?