The interwar period was still a colonial era. The biggest empires were profiting from their colonies, but the younger countries, that arose after the first world war, were aspiring to gain some overseas areas. In that era ...

The article based on a criminological analysis of penal transportation. The author talked over three main issues. Firstly, the paradigm of classical criminology that was valid in those days. Moreover, the researcher took ...

The article presents the events which followed the death of Edward VI on 6 July 1553. The opponents in the struggle for the crown were: the elder sister of the monarch Mary Tudor, and the great-granddaughter of Henry VII ...

On October 25, 1495, Manuel I the Lucky enters the throne of Portugal. This king, continuing the policy of his predecessor, John II, intensively financed commercial sea fishing expeditions. They contributed to the extraordinary ...

Peter (III) came from Będków, a town located on the border of the Łęczyca and Sieradz voivodeships. As the first of his family reached officials. He was a swordfish (1507–1508), standard-bearer (1508–1512) and castellan ...

Among many conflicts between United States and Soviet Union during the cold war era, one of the longest were Namibia’s independence war and civil war in Angola. In the historiography, especially South Africa’s literature, ...

This article describes relations between Greek colonists, that came to the island in 8th c. B.C., and other communities. One of the societies that were taken into consideration, are native inhabitants of Sicily, which ...