History Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/history/ My take on our world Mon, 21 Nov 2016 05:44:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png History Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/history/ 32 32 The Relationship between the Crusades and Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-relationship-between-the-crusades-and-pilgrimage-in-medieval-europe/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-relationship-between-the-crusades-and-pilgrimage-in-medieval-europe/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2015 07:22:45 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=958   The Crusades carried out by Western Christendom in the Middle East (there were also Christian crusades within Europe) during the Middle Ages continue to cast a blight over the relationship between the West and the Muslim world to this day. Armies from the West are routinely labelled as crusaders, linking them with the atrocities […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-relationship-between-the-crusades-and-pilgrimage-in-medieval-europe/feed/ 18 New Zealand Women: Jean Batten https://www.heatherhastie.com/new-zealand-women-jean-batten/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/new-zealand-women-jean-batten/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:43:18 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=356 This article is the first in an occasional series I will be writing on New Zealand women. Shortly, there will be a new page on my website, New Zealand Women, celebrating some of the amazing, or just well-known, women New Zealand has produced. I’m currently populating it with short bios of the women I will […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/new-zealand-women-jean-batten/feed/ 9 World War One and the Churches of Europe https://www.heatherhastie.com/world-war-one-and-the-churches-of-europe/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/world-war-one-and-the-churches-of-europe/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2014 02:07:01 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=317 It’s 100 years since the start of the First World War. From New Zealand’s point of view, the Great War started at 2300 GMT on 4 August 2014 when Great Britain declared war on Germany. As part of the British Empire, that meant we were at war too. My grandfather volunteered and trained in rural […]

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