In approximately 100 days between April and June of 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered by Hutu extremists. The extremists targeted members of the Tutsi minority community who made up approximately 15% of the Rwandan population, as well as any political opponents. With the twentieth anniversary this year, this article aims to provide a Continue Reading
ISIS
If you have been keeping up with current affairs recently it will have been hard to miss the frequent reports on the atrocities being committed in vast swathes of Syria and Iraq, by a group tagged ISIS. But who are ISIS and what are their origins? In this short piece I will try to shed Continue Reading
The Empire Goes To War
We are all familiar with the story behind the outbreak of the First World War; what is less familiar is the response of the Dominions, India and other imperial colonies. The declaration of war obligated the Dominions to rally to the defence of the mother country. The Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa Continue Reading
Battle of the Month: The Battle of Mons
The Battle of Mons saw the British Expeditionary Force’s (BEF) first major involvement in the First World War, as it took part in what is commonly known as the Battle of the Frontiers, where the British and French armies engaged the German forces along the french border. The BEF was stationed on the left flank Continue Reading
Hist Soc Update
Hello to our new freshers, and welcome back to returning students! We hope that you all enjoyed your summer and the first few weeks of the new semester. The 2014-2015 academic year has seen a growth in the members of the History Society committee. This year, the committee is determined to make the society, and Continue Reading