by David West | Sep 25, 2025 | News
The Peace of Augsburg, signed on the 25th of September, 1555, was a pivotal treaty within the Holy Roman Empire that sought to quell the religious tensions that had simmered and erupted since the onset of the Protestant Reformation. This accord, agreed upon by Charles...
by David West | Sep 24, 2025 | News
On the 24th of September, 787, the Second Council of Nicaea assembled at the church of Hagia Sophia. The Second Council of Nicaea addressed the iconoclast controversy that had deeply divided the Byzantine Empire. Iconoclasm, the rejection and destruction of religious...
by David West | Sep 23, 2025 | News
I’ve posted about South America a few times, such as Rio de Janeiro and Inca Gold, and here we go again. On the 23rd of September, 1973, a general election in Argentina returned Juan Perón to the presidency for the third time. He was certainly very popular, and for...
by David West | Sep 22, 2025 | News
On the 22nd of September, 1359, an Aragonese cavalry force defeated a superior Castilian cavalry force at the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters. The War of the Two Peters, fought between 1356 and 1375, was a protracted conflict that embroiled the...
by David West | Sep 21, 2025 | News
On the 21st of September, 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was published. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, known widely as J.R.R. Tolkien, was an eminent English writer, philologist, and academic, celebrated for his timeless contributions to the world of literature. Born...
by David West | Sep 20, 2025 | News
The chancellor of the University of Oxford is elected by a vote of graduates, as is the University Poet. In 2015 my college’s senior tutor in English urged us to vote for Wole Soyinka as the next University Poet. I read a selection of poems by the candidates, who...
