Y Cylchgrawn Hanes 4

Digital History Magazine

Issue 4

                                                

Y Swffragét: Arwres neu rwystr?

(adaptation of The suffragette: heroine or hindrance?, Derrick Murphy, 20th Century History Review, January 2007)

We honour the suffragettes for winning women the right to vote. But did they?

 

Yr Holocost: Glasbrint neu argyfwng rhyfel?

(adaptation of The Holocaust: Blueprint or wartime emergency?, Peter Neville, Modern History Review, September 1999)

Was the ‘Final Solution’ an intended consequence of Hitler’s anti-Semitism or an ‘accident of war’?

 

Holi Hanesydd: Yr Athro Ralph Griffiths

(Extract from an interview in July 2008 with Professor Ralph Griffiths and Danny Millum, Project Officer Making history: the discipline in perspective, Institute of Historical Research)

 

Gwlad wrth y Groesfan

(adaptation of A Country at the crossroads, Richard Carwardine, BBC History Magazine, November 2010)

Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election more than 150 years ago set the United States on the path to bloody civil war. Richard Carwardine explains why this vote was so important and how Lincoln managed to trounce his rivals in the polls.