Suffragette Primary Evidence Link (Gold Dust!)

This is the kind of thing that will really help with your history coursework! Here is a link to a report in the Times in 1911 on how Suffragettes boycotted the census of that year in protest at not having the vote.

New Deal or Raw Deal?

This is an interesting article on the subject of Roosevelt and the New Deal. Now, as you all know (and yes, we did study this) not everyone greeted the New Deal with enthusiasm, the Republican rigt particularly thought that the best medicine for the depression was none intervention in the market and to let events take their natural course. Economic downturns do tend to remedy themselves over time, but normalyl not until a lot of hardship has taken place. There was a general feeling in the 1930s also that whilst cyclical economic downturns had been seen before, there was nothing quite like the great depression to have taken place in living memory. JM Keynes argued that individuals and businesses did not possess the capital to drag America (or anywhere else for that matter) out of the slump, so government would have to act. Read this article for the pros and cons of the New Deal.

Super link for historians

Here is a daily digest of history online, it's the site of the editor of History Today, well worth a read for all sorts of useful handy articles and ideas.

Haiti

Haiti was a product of the French Revolution. French Slave owners in the 18th Century were confronted by black revolutionaries demanding their freedom. When Napoleon Bonaparte came to the throne of France as Emperor in 1800 he had no qualms about crushing the revolt, even though he claimed to be spreading freedom and enlightenment across Europe using his vast armies. Read more on this hidden aspect to Haiti's past here. Coming up, how America ruthlessly exploited Haiti after the French....

The making of the modern middle east

The signing of the secret Sykes Picot Agreement in 1916 was the first act in the making of the Middle East crises of the 20th Century. It was the secret accord between Britain and France that designated how the dying Ottoman Empire should be dissected. Britain would control Iraq and Jordan and Palestine, France would control Syria and Lebanon. Check out this link that demonstrates exactly how the region was to be carved up.

The Life and Death of Trotsky

How and why did Stalin manage to out-position Trotsky for the leadership of Soviet Russia after Lenin had died? Why did he persue Trotsky all the way to Mexico (not personally of course) in 1940 to have him killed? Listen to this Radio 4 programme and all will be revealed