I’m researching my family tree and I know that my Grandad was in the RA from 1939 and came back to the UK in 45. We have his service number, but there aren’t any records showing his time there. We have photographs that prove he was there. Could anyone give advice how I might move forward?

Having looked around a bit I found who it is in modern Russia (President, Secretary of Defense and Chief of General Staff), but nothing on who precisely had the authority in the Soviet Union.

So as I understand it, the larger nations and cultures rarely had any reason to interact or to meet very distinct cultures back when there wasn’t much imperialism. One place where I can think of a meeting of a distant culture and language, with western culture, was when the mongol empire got to Europe. I recently read that letters were sent to Venice or the Vatican (can’t remember which one), from the Kahn. In an instance where culture was very different, but royal letters or that of two commanding generals with no understanding of the other generals culture, how long would it take for the receiving part to be able to respond such a letter?

Life in Đại Việt in the Early Modern period, that's what I'm looking for. Elements of social and cultural history, the more detailed the better. If anyone can help here plz?

On the face of it, it doesn't seem obvious why the National Party would suddenly gain support from voters it had previous disenfranchised. I'm wondering how the National Party presented itself in this election.

Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk commanded Henry VIII's troops in the Battle of Flodden where James IV was killed. Howard was even awarded an augmentation to his coat of arms depicting the lion of Scotland with an arrow through its throat (a vivid visual insult to the Stuart monarchs). How did the Howards fare when the Stuarts came to the throne of England? Was it all water under the bridge or were there lingering tensions?

At first it makes sense with the primordials; the earth, the void, night. Then later generations evolve into more abstract or human-related aspects, but some are also seemingly unrelated.

For example, Artemis is representative of the hunt, the moon and chastity (including others), which I find confusing. Poseidon is representative of the sea mostly along with storms (which is reasonable) but also horses. Athena is representative of wisdom and war (again, acceptable), but also handicraft? Apollo has archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases and the Sun? Dionysus is the god wine, but also fertility, religious ecstacy and theater.

Why does it seem that some of the deities are more of a hodge-podge than others? Especially as you move towards the younger generations?

I imagine they would need to be near volcanically active regions, or are there sources of Sulphur far away from Volcanoes?

Before I begin, I want to stress that I am aware that Native American cultures are not a monolith, and that each region, culture, and era will probably have its own answer to this question.

That being said, I am interested in how different situations may have lead to different views, accommodations, and treatment of disabled people, and particularly with regards to disabilities like paraplegia. Would the Hopi view of somebody with limited mobility differ from that of say, the Ancestral Puebloans? Or, if we go across the country, would we see different views of disability in the vastly-different climate of the Eastern seaboard? To what extent does era and environment affect such attitudes?

Thanks in advance!

I am sorry if my question seems too assuming, I honestly do not know too much about Will Durant's work but I am curious to learn more about history. I was thinking that the "Story of Civilization" series might be a good start. However before investing time and energy I want to know if it is whitewashed(for lack of a better word) i.e implicitly implying that the west represents the pinnacle of society, thereby undermining/sidelining other civilizations?

Please I do not intend to offend with this question, but am genuinely curious and I know it is impossible for history to be 100% unbiased but it helps if events are evaluated from multiple points of views.

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Whoever built Rome, be they Romulus or someone else, knew that the coast wasn't that far away. What about the place they chose made it better?

I heard once that the sufi orders we're instrumental in covnerting the mongol, turkic speaking and pashtun peoples to islam and that sufism remains very influencial to this day. But why did a tradtion of islam that was/is very intellectual and estoric so popular in these very warlike cultures ?

Today, people watch classic horror films ironically for camp value and monsters like the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Frankenstein seem silly and cartoonish compared to modern movie monsters. Did audiences at the time find them to be genuinely frightening?

I am looking to learn and read more about the specific experiences American fighter pilots had during world war II. How often did they go on missions? How did they feel about the planes they were flying? What were they doing while waiting on the next mission? How often did they change bases?

The majority of the books I have found so far focus on bomber pilots (e.g., Bomber Boys) or provide an overview of the air campaign well beyond the perspective of the individual pilots.

I would love to find a slew of personal accounts or books collecting and summarizing first hand accounts of fight pilots during world war II.

I try to read a couple of non-fiction books every year, and one of them is usually a war memoir. I have read form German, US, British, Japanese, and a couple more nations, but I have never found a book written by a Japanese infantry soldier. By high ranking officers, yes. By naval or air-force, yes, but not from the perspective of the common infantry soldier.

I am interested in knowing how the daily life was in the pacific front but from the Japanese perspective. I know the death toll of Japan's infantry in some of the most famous battles is almost unveliebable, and that make it more difficult, but if you could help me finding some book where my googleing failed, I will be grateful.

Thanks to all.

My parents emmigrated from Vietnam following the aftermath of the war. And currently I kinda try to find out about my roots and heritage. However, I mostly come across documents from the American perspective. I would be really grateful if somebody has a hint. Preferably in English or German. But Vietnamese should work out as well of course.

So I thought of this when it occurred to me that anti-Asian racism is increasing at the same time that K-pop is taking off. I don't want to break the 20-year rule, so I figured I might ask about something somewhat similar that happened in the past.

I've heard it that it was originally a system of work division and on the other hand, I've heard that it is a system of oppression. I think it was a system of both. But what do actual historians think? How did the caste system start?