The world never saw anything like it before or since. What we now call D-Day was first known as ‘Overlord’, and it was the most ambitious sea to land invasion in all of history. Allied Forces arrived en masse on 50 kilometers of coast along Nazi-occupied France 72 years ago today, on 6 June 1944. […]
Citizen Historian of the Month: Hakar Ismael Shukri Tell History relies upon a network of dedicated citizen historians to collect important stories–stories that are all around us, but need to be collected, preserved and shared. Every month we recognize one of our amazing citizen historians who make the effort to save stories and fill the gaps in […]
Team Tell History greatly enjoyed reading Rachel Donadio’s delightful profile of Belarusian oral historian and last year’s winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature, Svetlana Alexievich. The work of 68-year old Alexievich is remarkable because of the personality and drive of its author, but also because she focuses on the everyman, venturing into territory traditionally […]
Do you like to listen to your recordings of yourself ? If you don’t, you are not alone: many people are reluctant to watch a video of themselves because there seems to be something so strange about the sound of their voice. It’s common to hear someone say, “do I really sound like that?” The […]
To help better understand one of the most controversial agreements ever made, Team Tell History has put together a timeline for some key events surrounding the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
This guest blog post is by Stafford Clarry, Humanitarian Affairs Advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government. Clarry has been in Iraq and Kurdistan since 1991 where he has worked for three different United Nations agencies. This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), and […]
One hundred years ago today, two diplomats signed a secret agreement that has come to define the modern Middle East. While it may not have set the national borders we know today, the clandestine pact between European powers became the ultimate symbol for the kind of imperial fiddling that created a legacy of chaos in […]
Over the last eight years countless families have donated precious documents, photos, and heirlooms to build the best museum about World War II the world would ever see. It was scheduled to open its doors in Gdańsk, Poland, early next year. Unfortunately it seems the public will never actually see this groundbreaking collection. The reason? […]
Citizen Historian of the Month: Eman Abdul-Razzaq Ibrahim Tell History relies upon a network of dedicated citizen historians to collect important stories–stories that are all around us, but need to be collected, preserved and shared. Every month we recognize one of our amazing citizen historians who make the effort to save stories and fill the […]
Celebrated every year on 9 May, Europe Day was created to celebrate the European Union as a uniting force. But is there a future to the groundbreaking union that has brought unprecedented peace to a continent which until 71 years ago was continuously mired in war? How did the European Union get to this point? […]
