Tag: History
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Part 5 of the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta: WW2 (The turning point)
This is part 5 of the series of lectures on the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta. Watch the video below. Other parts also listed below. Lecture 1 found here. Lecture 2 founder here. Lecture 3 found here. Lecture 4 found here. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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An Introduction to the Economic and Social History of Late Modern Malta
I’m uploading a series of lectures on the economic and social history of Late Modern Malta. These lectures provide a basic introduction and the foundational works required for an understanding of the economic and social history of Malta from 1800 to the present day. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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Brown and Broken Boys: the forgotten colonial victims of the pedophile elites
For the British naval personnel, Malta was a much coveted stop: with welcoming inhabitants and a blissful nightlife that included a small but very active red-light district, Malta was the ideal stop for young men travelling the high seas. For the British, Malta was also a sex tourism-destination. Nowadays, there are writers with no historiographic…
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Why the Labour Party should apologise for its violent history
Alex Agius Saliba’s statement that he does not want to apologise for the past violence of the Labour Party is aligned with Labour’s ever growing shift to authoritarianism and illiberalism. Alex Agius Saliba is a genuine authoritarian apart from having far-left views that converge with the far-right. He also has an aversion to journalists and…
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Deputy-Leader of the Labour Party Alex Agius Saliba says he won’t apologise for the past violence of the Labour Party: better to move forward
In a statement uploaded online on his Facebook page, the Deputy-Leader of the Labour Party Alex Agius Saliba said that he won’t apologise for the violence of the Labour Party and its supporters during the 1970s and the 1980s. Alex Agius Saliba said that violence was committed by both sides and he prefers to move…
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Revising history (supposedly)
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca wrote an article in the Times of Malta praising Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici and defending his legacy saying he represented social justice and workers’ rights. The article employs Labour’s textbook propaganda tactic of the “dichotomy prerequisite” in political criticism: an approach based on the notion that there are no fundamental truths in…
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How Vladimir Putin changed the way we view the history of Russia and the Soviet Union
Russia will never be the same again after its brutal and genocidal invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has galvanised the peoples of its previous Soviet colonies into becoming even more nationalist and protective of their independence. The trust that was built along the years in Western and Russian relations has collapsed and won’t…
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Malta’s Political leaders commemorate the 7th June Riots, but barely a comment by the Prime Minister
As I consistently wrote in several articles in this website, the Labour Party’s collapse in values and morality comes with a total disregard to its history and an extensive failure to understand it. The Prime Minister barely wrote anything about the Seventh June Riots Anniversary and this also means that it wasn’t on his mind,…
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Teacher-author of history workbook confirms it is up to 14-years old
Following the publication of this story showing the recourses provided to children studying history in schools, the author of the workbook contacted me and said that the document is actually more than 14-years old and was never even intended to be an official resource uploaded on the Ministry’s website. Separately, Yosanne Vella, who was mentioned…
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Updating what history books, exactly?
Amid the flurry of headlines sparked by a Times of Malta article on the ongoing archeological investigations at Tal-Latnija, some of the more grandiose claims included that Maltese history books for schoolchildren would need to be rewritten. The Minister of Education Clifton Grima gave similar comments to the Times of Malta. What history books? History…
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History is back
History is back with a vengeance after Donald Trump successfully avoided an assassination attempt. When Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016, The Economist ran an article saying that the end of history had ended, yet the resurgence of the Democrats in 2020 had put the world back on its previous Fukuyamist…
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Vladimir Putin became dictator by slowly and gradually capturing state institutions
Listen to this very educational interview with Russian historian and opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza who explains in his soft-spoken manner how Vladimir Putin eventually became a dictator. Vladimir Kara-Murza is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in Russia after having condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He was also a close friend to Russian Opposition figure…
