Both Lenin and Trotsky expected a workers’ revolt in Germany that would sweep away their old order and in turn inspire similar actions in other countries… In the event, History took a different course.

After the death of her father, King Alfred the Great, Aethelflaed proved to be an astute leader and strategist.

Hitler came to power in 1933 and the Nazi officials wasted no time in clamping down on her Jewish heritage. Despite her outstanding natural ability as a fencer, her membership of the German fencing club was withdrawn, followed by revocation of her national citizenship… she left Germany for California with her hopes of competing for the country of her birth dashed.

Comment on not only what is said but also what is not said or implied. Are the opinions in the sources appropriate or typical for their time?

The Catalan language was suppressed, with its poets and writers imprisoned and its press closed down. It is the children of grandparents and parents who lived through these times who form the backbone of today’s Catalonian Independence movement. 

Stashinsky, living under a false name, fell in love with Inge Pohl, an East German. She had no idea of his true occupation, though, even when he asked her to marry him and she accepted.

Luther’s reformation freed men’s minds to engage in scientific and philosophic enquiry, and to question the medieval concept of the “Divine Right of Kings”.

Oxfordshire County election meetings, held in pubs, usually and farcically descended into riots, drunken brawls and debauchery.

The belief in Lenin’s ability to bring down the Russian Tsar was well founded.

Zola, as a liberal, together with an increasingly like-minded press, denounced the elite’s verdict in a front page open letter article in “L’Aurore”, entitled “J’Accuse”.