http://europeanhistory.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com European History GuideSite. http://z.about.com/f/lg/s10.gif http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2008-05-03T11:42:16Z hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/03/diary-of-louis-xiv-misleads-biographer.htm Bloomsbury Press are delaying publication of 'Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV' by Veronica Buckley as they deal with the fallout from a recent revelation about a... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/03/diary-of-louis-xiv-misleads-biographer.htm 2008-05-03T11:43:34Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/03/the-wallenberg-mystery.htm Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who, at the height of the Second World War, managed to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust thanks to a mixture of bribery,... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/03/the-wallenberg-mystery.htm 2008-05-03T11:42:16Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/03/bodies-of-tsars-missing-children-found.htm DNA analysis has shown that two bodies discovered last year are indeed those of Crown Prince Alexei and Princess Maria Romanov. Former Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/05/03/bodies-of-tsars-missing-children-found.htm 2008-05-03T11:41:55Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/26/sugar-donation-preserving-timbers.htm Wet timbers in England dating from the eleventh century are being preserved thanks to a donation of forty tonnes of sugar from British Sugar. The wood, originally part of three... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/26/sugar-donation-preserving-timbers.htm 2008-04-26T10:27:02Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/26/france-buys-crown-jewels-back.htm France’s Louvre museum has spent $10.8 million on buying a broach which once formed part of the crown jewels of France. The 141 carat diamond brooch was made for Empress... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/26/france-buys-crown-jewels-back.htm 2008-04-26T10:26:14Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/26/britains-lost-marine-megafauna.htm The end of this article from msn news is a plea for greater conservation of Britain’s marine life, but there’s some history in the first part, as Professor Callum Roberts... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/26/britains-lost-marine-megafauna.htm 2008-04-26T10:25:35Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/19/rare-roman-statue-found.htm The Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (who ruled from161 until 169) wasn’t keen on sitting for artists which, coupled with the ravages of time, had left us with just four depictions... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/19/rare-roman-statue-found.htm 2008-04-19T09:57:57Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/19/cod-bones-used-to-reconstruct-trade.htm I found this article from Britain’s Times newspaper very interesting, although I admit the subject is perhaps a bit ‘specialist’ for many readers. Basically, scientists and archaeologists from across Europe... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/19/cod-bones-used-to-reconstruct-trade.htm 2008-04-19T09:57:33Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/19/the-fate-of-colditz.htm Colditz castle is famed, at least in Britain, as a Second World War prisoner of war camp from which British prisoners tried many ingenious escape attempts. (There’s even an Escape... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/19/the-fate-of-colditz.htm 2008-04-19T09:56:26Z http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/12/medieval-hoodies.htm American readers may not be familiar with ‘the hoodie’, a caricature of all that is supposedly wrong with English youth as peddled by certain tabloid newspapers and political groups, so... http://europeanhistory.about.com/b/2008/04/12/medieval-hoodies.htm 2008-04-12T10:14:11Z