Royal News BlogAvailable for free on the Project Gutenberg site, with illustrations from the 1843 first edition: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
And, to make this post a little bit royal, here’s a quote about Charles Dickens from Queen Victoria’s diary: “He had a large loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes. He felt sure a better feeling, and much greater union of classes, would take place in time. And I pray earnestly it may.”
Kate Middleton, Chelsy Davy… Chelsy Davy, Kate Middleton… Apparently I should mention those names frequently if I want more web searchers to find this blog: Kate is top royal
(Oh, and did I mention Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davy?)
Is history important? Of course it is, and Elementary Historyteacher explains why.
A look at the splendour of royal life
(This is an excerpt from the book Made for Maharajas by Amin Jaffer.)
Adam Hochschild’s book King Leopold’s Ghost, about King Leopold II of Belgium’s reign of terror in the Congo, has been made into a documentary.
From LegalHistory.com: “Charlemagne’s imperial coronation in the year 800 is one of the most important events in European history, not necessarily because of what it accomplished but because of what people thought it accomplished,” says Jeff Sypeck, author of Becoming Charlemagne.
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