Did Hitler ever have a plan to deal with America? Or did the Atlantic Ocean practically deter him away from any offensive? Do you think if Germany won in Europe and against the Russians, that the day would come where it would focus on the USA?

Everything I've found seems to focus on narrower periods if not specific reigns, say this book 'Angevin Kingship' by John Jolliffe. Is there anything more synoptic, with a broader time range as well? I'd love to learn more about what defined medieval English kingship and how it evolved up to 1485. Ultimately, I'd like to know how developments during Henry VII's reign built on -- or broke from -- earlier shifts. Thank you!

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Edit: If there aren't any texts covering the entire period, anything covering the last century-ish would be great as well -- Lancaster, York, Henry VII. I'm asking this because I can't seem to find anything for England specifically, when there are broader texts for other nations: Kingship and Unity: Scotland, 1100-1306 and Scottish Kingship, 1306-1542, for instance. There are also broader texts for medieval England on themes which I don't think are any more limited, say the comprehensive England and her neighbours, 1066-1453.

So, I know that the ancient Persians were ethnically Aryan - and self-consciously so, like it was a big part of their ideology and they wouldn't stop talking about it in official documents. But there were other Iranian/Aryan peoples out there - the Indo-Aryans in India (And I guess Anatolia too), the Iranic peoples of the eurasian steppe and the caucuasus. Hell - Farsi speakers in Afghanistan.

What was the Persian relationship with them like? Did they see them as kin or related peoples, or as foreigners/barbarians?

Hello,

I want to create a historical persona for myself (SCA-style), and I would like for it to have lived around the early 1300s in Iceland, since I'm a student of Old Norse. However, most texts I know about deal only with the Viking age, or the earliest settlement of Iceland up until Iceland became a vassal state of Norway. Is there any book that deals with the 14th century?

I am both interested in books about historical events, as well as books dealing with the material culture, the society and all other aspects of daily life.

Thank you very much!

How much internal debate happened before the plan was approved? Also what was the feelings and opinions of the citizens of the untied states and the rest of the world once it was done?

Additionally, can any of the cultural differences between Western and Eastern European cultures be partly attributed to differences in these two groups (a la the argument made in Albion's Seed)?

'Artek' was an educational communist camp on the southern edge of the Crimea specifically designed for international communist youth 'pioneers'.

I'm writing a biography on a Dutch communist who went to this camp as a 17-yo girl in 1930. I've already identified some relevant archives, but I would love to find more information on the early days of the camp (est 1925) and to see whether or not there are any pictures available of this camp in those days.

Does anyone know relevant sources, newspapers, books, (audio)visual resources or any tips on where to look?

Thanks in advance!

I can’t wrap my head over the reason that the crown of Poland, despite being ruled by a LITHUANIAN monarch was still above the Lithuanian Grand Duke status, despite Lithuania being far larger and being the initiator.

Pardon if the question may seem unclear and that I lack knowledge of what should be obvious, but I can’t find sources that explain the union’s…. Policies..

When Hitler Launched operation Barbarossa. The Germans made really huge gains. They were able to encircle like 400,000, 600,000 men at a time and took cities in eastern Europe like Kyiv, Smolensk, Minsk relatively easily and came very close to being able to capture Moscow. I remember reading that the Germans could see the spires of the Kremlin through their binoculars. Then it got cold.

Hello! As the title asks, I wish to know what led to an Anglo-Welsh alliance (Mercia, Wessex & The Cymru proper, I believe) against the Vikings.

Weren't the Welsh & Anglo-Saxon factions historically hostile with one another also, or did the presence of the Vikings strike both groups as utterly intolerable relative to the dubious cohabitation that the Welsh & Anglo-Saxons had achieved?

Finally, I wonder what the political, cultural &/or religious reasons were for this Britannic Alliance against the Norsemen in Britain.

Thank you!

I'm white Canadian, but when young my sisters and I were welcomed by the congregations of these churches, churches that we've seen described as...

the 'Saint James African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church'

They have a sentimental memory for us, and it would be nice to know more but esp to have an old foto (or a painting), esp of the ones in Maryland and nearby, ones that were and still are quite a vivid memory for our family.

I'm no longer a 'subscriber' to organised religion, but my sisters feel very differently and are very honourable, admirable Christians and so I'd like to help them out.

That's it. Is there one? (also, sorry if this is the wrong sub).

I watched an episode (S01e05) of Vikings Valhalla [warning SPOILERS] recently where King Cnut of Denmark and a bunch of other viking leaders and their soldiers have sailed to England for revenge on King Aethelred II for massacring all vikings in England. King Aethelred II dies 10 days before they get there so his young son, Prince Edmund (Ironside ??) takes the thrown and his step mother Queen Emma of Normandy still helping out. Edmund asks for help from the leader of Mercia, Eadric Streona, who bails during the battle hoping to snuggle up to King Cnut who wins.

There's a celebratory dinner after the battle is over and King Cnut has taking London. King Cnut spares Prince Edmund's life (to rule England alongside him we later find out) and also gets Eadric Streona to come on in for the party.

We end up with a round table including conquered Prince Edmund, traitor Eadric Streona of Mercia, Queen Emma of Normandy, King Cnut, and a bunch of other viking princes, lords, earls, etc. getting spoils and loot shared amongst his allies whilst also working out to do with Edmund, Eadric, and Queen Emma.

He beheads Eadric Streona in front of everyone because he can't be trusted.

Thanks for reading this far, I felt like needed to set the scene.

MY QUESTION:

After battles were won/lost like this, was it ever realistic to have such a scene play out? Were rulers like Prince Edmund ever just allowed to live like that on a whim instead of just killed immediately?

Would love to know about what really happened in examples throughout history whether in Europe or not.

Cheers!

Having studied capital punishment in the US (pre 1970s); I’ve noticed that virtually every execution in Utah prior to the 1980s was carried out via firing squad. Is there any reason why the state government decided to utilize this method in lieu of hanging or the electric chair?

How did ancient people keep up with what year they were living in? Did they care? If there were systems for keeping up with years, it seems to me there must have been thousands of them from one region to another. For that matter, how many systems do we have today? Just because I'm living in 2022, it doesn't mean everyone is too.