Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoTIL - during her reign Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attemptswww.historic-uk.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down12
arrow-up1130arrow-down1external-linkTIL - during her reign Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attemptswww.historic-uk.comBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareWabiSabiPapi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down1·10 months ago“…frustrated at Britain’s attempts to help Ireland during the Irish famine…” lol. was this written by an English aristocrat?
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down2·edit-210 months agoIt is a UK history site that open with this: Queen Victoria had a majestic sixty-three-year reign… ( 1-2 million irish starving to death, the majority a direct result of British government policy to use the famine to reform the Irish) So I don’t expect anything close to historical balance.
minus-squarerockerface@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoJust like Soviets helped Ukraine in the 30s, eh
“…frustrated at Britain’s attempts to help Ireland during the Irish famine…”
lol. was this written by an English aristocrat?
It is a UK history site that open with this:
Queen Victoria had a majestic sixty-three-year reign… ( 1-2 million irish starving to death, the majority a direct result of British government policy to use the famine to reform the Irish)
So I don’t expect anything close to historical balance.
Just like Soviets helped Ukraine in the 30s, eh