The 1440 Review https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html On This Day – 10th March Anacyclosis: The Polybian theory of the cyclical evolution of ruling throughout History Bragança to Brasil On This Day – 11th February Project A119 – The Plan to Detonate a Nuclear Bomb on the Moon The Emancipation Proclamation: The beginning of the end of slavery Sachin Tendulkar The Race to the South Pole How Pepsi had the world’s sixth largest military Who Speaks for the Guilty? Nuremberg and the Making of German Memory On This Day – 19th March On This Day – 16th March On This Day – 7th March One This Day – 10th February On This Day – 24th February On This Day – 27th February England’s First Parliament: The role of the Witan in medieval England The Battle of Islandlawa On This Day – 22nd February On This Day – 20th March The Lion of Africa: Paul von Lettow-Vonbeck’s campaign in German East Africa The Team – 2025-2026 The Medieval Warlord who terrorised England: Geoffrey de Mandeville’s reign of Terror Paulet Affair Mikhail Gorbachev Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccine On This Day – 6th February Was Richard III responsible for the Deaths of the Princes in the Tower? Was Suez really about the canal – or about pride? The Ikkō-ikki: the warrior monks who were Nobunaga’s greatest obstacle Ninjas An Unvictorious Victorian Coronation 508 889 (Hugo Boss) Oda Nobunaga: The Shogun Who Never Was What if we used more counterfactuals? Exercise Tiger: The Deadly Dress Rehearsal for Normandy The History of Silence Three Tiaras The end of the Bretton Woods System Shah Jahan and his masterpiece: The Taj Mahal Nicolae Ceauşescu’s rule of Romania (1965 – 1989) Henry Kissinger: Architect of American Realpolitik The 1961 Algerian Bridge Massacre: How did it remain a secret for so long? Operation Mongoose: CIA’s attempts to kill Fidel Castro The Great Emu War Draped in Hierarchy: Hanbok and Social Order in Joseon Korea Ho Chi Minh The Rise of the Konbaung Dynasty The Simele Massacre: an untold tragedy On This Day – 20th March