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Harlem 1913-30
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Harlem 1913-30
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Harlem’s black population numbered about 10,000, concentrated in tenements around 130th Street, in a prevailingly Jewish and Italian neighbourhood. The property price crash of 1904-05 created a glut of housing in the area which black real estate entrepreneurs remedied by the mass supply of black tenants: by 1910, 10 per... More
Hawaii Operation 26 November–23 December 1941
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Hawaii Operation 26 November–23 December 1941
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The Japanese Hawaii Operation, which saw an unprovoked aerial attack on the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor, marked the beginning of hostilities between the US and Japan. The attack was a pre-emptive strike aimed at disabling the US Pacific fleet so that Japan could carry out its territorial expansion... More
Helmand Province
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Helmand Province
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Before the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Helmand province was the epicentre of Afghan poppy cultivation, with 40,000 hectares being grown in 2000. In 2001 the Taliban, a hard-line Islamic movement that had emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan in the wake of the withdrawal of Soviet... More
Henry Hudson’s Last Voyage 1610-11
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Henry Hudson’s Last Voyage 1610-11
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Captain Henry Hudson, an English explorer and navigator, was employed by the Dutch East India Company to sail the Northwest passage and find a faster route to the Orient. Once his boat, the Discovery, passed Greenland, its closeness to the magnetic Pole rendered its compass useless and Hudson ended up... More
Henry Hudson’s Last Voyage 1610–11
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Henry Hudson’s Last Voyage 1610–11
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Henry Hudson was born in around 1565 in England, possibly London. He became a sea captain and explorer employed by the Muscovy Company of London, Dutch East India Company, English East India Company among others. In 1607 and 1608 Hudson had made two voyages attempting to find the rumoured northern... More
Herod’s Kingdom 40–20 BCE
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Herod’s Kingdom 40–20 BCE
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Under the patronage of Mark Antony, then in control in Rome, Herod was appointed king of the Jews by the Roman Senate in 40 BCE, and set out to claim his kingdom from his rival, the usurper Antigonus. Until his dizzying elevation, Herod had been a provincial governor in Galilee,... More
Highland Clearances 1745–1881
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Highland Clearances 1745–1881
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After the Jacobite defeat at Culloden in 1746, the British government were determined to erase the culture of the Scottish Highlands. They banned the speaking of Gaelic, playing of the bagpipes, the wearing of tartan and gatherings in public places. These deprivations were cruelly compounded by the Highland Clearances, described... More
Hill of Tara Co. Meath, Ireland, from 3400 BCE
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Hill of Tara Co. Meath, Ireland, from 3400 BCE
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The summit of the Hill of Tara is ringed by oval Iron Age earthworks, known as the Fort of the Kings. Within the enclosure, the oldest construction is the Mound of the Hostages, a Neolithic passage-tomb dated to c. 3400 BCE. At some point, the portal stone of the tomb... More
Hispanic America c. 1800
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Hispanic America c. 1800
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The Bourbon dynasty in Spain tried, like the British Government of the time, to recoup some of the costs of its various military entanglements by rendering its colonies more profitable. The promotion of free trade made the colonies more self-sufficient, but the introduction of royal monopolies and increased taxes were... More
Holiness in the United States
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Holiness in the United States
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The Holiness movement traces its origins to notions of perfectionism within Methodism, which emerged during the early 19th century. It is focused on the ‘second work of grace’ (or ‘second blessing’), which refers to a personal experience of regeneration, in which the believer is cleansed of original sin. It flourished... More
Homeland of the Slavs 800–200 BCE
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Homeland of the Slavs 800–200 BCE
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Herodotus, writing in the 5th century BCE, describes a tribe he calls the ‘Neuri’, living beside a great lake, in a land bounded by rivers. The locale fits the Pripet Marshes, which flood seasonally. It has been conjectured from the details of the description that the Neuri could be an... More
Hood’s Tennessee Campaign 29 September–30 November 1864
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Hood’s Tennessee Campaign 29 September–30 November 1864
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In the aftermath of the Union capture of Atlanta in the US Civil War, Confederate General John Hood decided to use his army, which had been left relatively undamaged, to disrupt Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s supply lines from Atlanta to Chattanooga. On 29–30 September, Hood’s Confederates crossed the Chattahoochee... More