Henry VII – the problems of snatching a throne. Posted on September 23, 2024 1 Having randomly looked at Henry VII’s foreign policy with Scotland last week I thought that it would be sensible to consider why Henry’s policies in regard to his neighbours and Europe were established rathe...
Several weeks later, Harrison became sick. He complained of many problems: anxiety, fatigue, and pain in his stomach. His health grew worse and worse. One month after he was sworn-in, Harrison died. It was the first time in the country’s history that a president had died in office. ...
as was her mother, and they were later held in the Tower of London. They were all still there in June 1413, shortly after Henry V assumed the English throne, but Catrin passed away before the end of the year. The accounts of the Exchequer include a payment in December for her burial ...
By that time the possibility of crowning the young Henry in France had already been discussed by the royal council in England, for the problems caused by the failure before Orleans and the generally unfavourable military situation were becoming daily more apparent. It would be necessary for Henry ...
there were some Scots. In total there were two bands of foot and since there were so many soldiers in the city they had to be billeted on the local population. There are also problems with regard to pay – parliament was short of cash and the unpaid soldiers threatened a mutiny of ...
Henry Abramson is a specialist in Jewish History and Thought, serving as Dean of Lander College for Men, Touro University. A native of northern Ontario, Canada, he earned his PhD in History from the University of Toronto with a dissertation on the Jews of Ukraine, published by Harvard Univers...
As Royal Dutch Shell and the Health & Safety Executive would acknowledge, I am an expert on safety matters relating to offshore oil and gas platforms. In 1999, I was appointed by Shell to lead a safety audit on the Brent Bravo platform. The audit revealed a platform management culture that...