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I visited New Grange in County Meath, Ireland today and after leaving I thought of this question that I had wished I had have asked the guide/historian.

If that question requires more detail in what I'm requesting please let me know!

Thanks so much!

I was always curious if this common portrayal had any historical relevance or if it was just to add something cool while making a movie.

It was a Dutch colony right? So how did it end up under British control during WW2?

Could anyone recommend books regarding the Russian revolution and the history/fall of the Romanov dynasty?

Thanks very much.

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I'm David Andress, Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, and author of several books on the French Revolution. I'll be here 1700-2000 GMT on 14 January. Ask Me Anything!

Thanks for all the questions, I'm quite worn out... Hope you've enjoyed it too!

A cannonball can no doubt leave quite a gaping hole in the hull of any ship, frigate and ship of the line alike, so after a battle, how would the crewmen deal with the hull breaches that were below the waterline? With water rushing in and a friendly port some weeks away, they must have had some method to temporarily seal the breach.

He is also known as Little Peter, Peter the Hermit, and Peter of Ameins. I have been reading about him for a paper. Mainly becase i find him quite amusing. He seems to have a complex of sorts with thinking he can lead people. I do not need to know what the Primary sources (Alexiad, Historia de Hierosolymitano itinere, Gesta Francorum) have to say about him, but what is his name all about? "CUCUPETER" does it mean he is crazy? There is no answer for this in the texts, but that is the first logical conclusion I draw. Any other information would be helpful to regarding his characteristics.

Please have sources or state you are making a speculation in any answers.

Thanks! Tyrus Ross Garrett, of The North.

It describes a discussing between the Pharaoh and a diety, with the pharaoh asking philosophical questions like " how could you punish me if my actions were your will? I came across it in a wiki article like 8 years ago and haven't been able to find it since.

I'm reading William Dalrymple's book White Mughals right now, as a followup to his book about the last Mughal emperor and the Great Rebellion of 1857, and while these are both really interesting looks at later phases of British colonialism in India, I'm curious about how the British first got established there--I gather the East India Company first held significant territory in Bengal, but it was originally meant to facilitate trade with the East Indies, not the Indian subcontinent.

So how did the British come to get a significant presence in India? What caused their focus to shift to India over the East Indies? And can anyone recommend any good books that cover general Indian history in the 17th and 18th centuries, or at least the initial period of British colonization?

I've just finished reading Chris Wickham's Inheritance of Rome, which while I found it a tricky read, was exceptional in the breadth of detail.

However, one thing that slightly irked me is that he simply states, when talking about the 11th century, that "we can call it France now", and for that matter he said the same thing about East Francia suddenly becoming Germany.

Earlier on in the book he makes it absolutely clear why it became West Francia / East Francia instead of Gaul etc, but I'm left wondering why the shift in the 11th century.

Is it simply (in the case of West Francia) that by this point people were naturally abbreviating to France?

With East Francia I'm aware that the region was known as various things previously such as Germania, but why the sudden (or maybe it wasn't sudden?) switch away from East Francia back to Germany?

Was there an intentional break from the Frankish/Carolingian world for some reason?

Thanks,

Zebra.