I’ve often heard that Operation Sea Lion was doomed from the start, mainly since the Royal Navy was just gonna blockade the channel. However, could the luftwaffe have been better utilized in fighting the Royal Navy to prevent this?

What do we think of today caused the bubonic plague? Why did it stop/what they could've done better with their med tech knowldge? Is it true that prices went down and wages went up because of the smaller population? How did it affect the culture of the next few generations?

Did disease play any role in the Fall of the empires a la the native American tribes when Europeans came along?

Since the events of Ragnarok are spelled out in very clear terms about what will happen and who will kill who and how everything will transpire... does that mean that the vikings believed in some way that fate was determined for them and that you were merely along for the ride? Probably vastly oversimplifying things based on limited knowledge but genuinely curious.

Anthony Kaldellis makes the case for this in his book Hellenism in Byzantium, but I'd be interested in knowing if this has become a mainstream view.

Hi guys, I've been trying to remember but I can't. There was a time in the 90's I think, somewhere in eastern Europe, either Bosnia or Yugoslavia where the UN had a camp set up for civilians fleeing conflict. However, they were forced to release the men to be killed or else 'they' would have killed the whole camp. I can't remember what genocide this was and was having trouble finding a description about it. Did I just get my information wrong on this?

I've been fascinated by reading about the daycare child abuse and satanic ritual abuse moral panics of the 1980s.

But one thing that seems wrong to me is the description of the panic as something that occurred and then was more or less debunked and ended.

To me it seems like the idea that there is constant ongoing ritual child sexual abuse, and shadowy rings that perpetrate it in a coordinated way, was more or less accepted and incorporated into popular culture in the 80s and 90s. In other words, the ideas behind the panic were taken as true even as actual cases were debunked or at least seriously doubted.

Would anyone be able to point me to reading on this topic or summarize some of the current thinking on it?

Where did the phrase originate and did the civilizations at the time acknowledge some of their architectural achievements as the wonders of the world? Who made the decision to include the wonders we know of today?

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I'm a history major freshmen looking to become a world history teacher, although another job I was looking to get if I'm not a teacher is an archeologist. I read that I could be an archeologist with a history degree, but how hard would it be to get a job in that field and how many jobs are in colder climates ( I really want to work on the Franklin Expedition sites in the arctic)?

What other jobs are there in the history field are like teaching and archeology? (Sorry for the stupid question)

I get that pederasty was common in Ancient Rome, but I’m reading the Wikipedia page about Hadrian’s “lover,” Antinous, and almost every claim abiut that relationship being sexual is sourced to a 1984 book by Lambert.

Did Lambert discover this? Is his book reputable? Does anyone know the evidence he used to establish that the relationship was sexual? I don’t have access to a library that has that book in its holdings. Thanks.

I remember seeing in various fictional works, movies, TV shows and video games how both sides supposedly were not supposed toshoot at medics, though this was usually a point of drama when the medic then got shot anyway. To what degree the combatants actually avoid shooting at medics? To what degree were medics actually not arm?

How did they clean up bodies after major battles? Was there some agreement among groups not to kill/fight body removers? During the crusades or other far off wars were bodies/remains sent back to families or did they leave them in theater?

Was it out of simple loyalty? Did he have desire to preserve democracy?

I understand that a number of Basque and Catalan conservative separatists sided with the Republic, but how common was it for a Castilian conservative to side with the Republic?

So I am assessing a diplomatic cable from a British envoy to a then independent Bavaria in 1866. I was asked to "how could I use this source in a form of historical analysis?"

What exactly is meant by historical analysis?

Would it just be stating why the source is relevant? Or why it is accurate? I understand that historical analysis itself has some kind of methodology of its own, but every website I try to look at for more information says that I am not privy to those files. Any guidance would be appreciated.

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I never shall forget the way

That Blood upon that awful day

Saved us all from death

He stood upon a tiny mound

Cast his lethargic eyes around

And said beneath his breath:

'Whatever happens, we have got

the Maxim Gun, and they have not!'

So, if I am recalling it correctly, goes a famous verse from Hilaire Belloc's The Modern Traveller, and it is just one of the many evocative bits of light verse in it.

Was Belloc merely drawing on widely-held popular associations between firearm and ideology here, or was he responsible for cementing this image?

(Bonus question: Was the gun's reputation deserved?)