Nigeria-Biafra War – 1967-1970
The boundaries of African colonies seized by European countries in the 19th century were arbitrary,
Humanitarian
The Cultural Revolution – 1966-1976
The failure of China’s Great Leap Forward strengthened the hands of moderates in the ruling
The Great Leap Forward – 1958-1961
Ten years after the Communist victory in China and the establishment of the People’s Republic
Apartheid – 1948-1994
An Afrikaans word meaning ‘separateness’, apartheid was the formal policy of racial segregation which prevailed
Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945
In August 1945 a H-29 bomber named Enola Gay after the pilot’s mother took off
Bengal Famine – 1943
Way back in the 19th century the Bihar and Bengal famines of 1873-1874 were dealt
The Holocaust – 1940-1945
There cannot be a word in the English language that conjures up more haunting –
Holodomor: Murder by Hunger – 1932-1933
Ukraine has always been invaluable to Russia as a ready source of grain. For centuries,
The ‘Great Calamity’ Armenian Genocide – 1915-1918
The Armenians have inhabited the Caucusus, between Russia and eastern Turkey, since time immemorial. They
Herero and Nama Genocide – 1904-1907
During the late 19th century, when territorial expansionism was at its height, the nations of
Ethiopian Great Famine – 1888-1892
Africa’s traditional subsistence economies have been subject to the whims of nature since time immemorial
Southern India Famine – 1876-1878
For two years in the 1870s over 58 million people in the Bombay, Madras, Mysore
The fate of Australian Aboriginals – 1850 onwards
The once widely used catch-all phrase ‘Australian Aboriginals’ is being replaced by Indigenous Australians’. In
Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal – 19th Century
‘Manifest Destiny’ has at its core the assertion that not only were the European people
The Great Irish Famine – 1845-1852
During the Napoleonic Wars, Irish landlords enjoyed a successful period as the price of food
The Vendee – Genocide in the Name of Revolution – 1793-1795
Afterwards, French General Joseph Westermann wrote to Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety: ‘There is no
Famine in Bengal – 1770
At the time of the 1770 Bengal famine, the British East India Company was governing
The Transatlantic Slave Trade – 16-19th Century
The seal of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England shows an African
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