Dining destinations, social hubs and creative spaces combined, food halls are taking Europe by storm. From a train station ...

Researchers are merging multidisciplinary expertise with AI tools to document, reconstruct and preserve Europe's historical ...

No country in Europe was affected as profoundly as Ireland by the 1840s potato blight. In Belgium, the potato failure caused a severe food crisis, but from 1846 to 1856 the population increased by ...

What caused the Irish famine? A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County ...

The rot that most concerns Scanlan is neither phytophthora infestans, the blight that ravaged Europe’s potatoes from 1845, ... The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, ...

There have been, in absolute terms, many deadlier famines, but as Amartya Sen, the eminent Indian scholar of the subject, concluded, in “no other famine in the world [was] the proportion of ...

The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down the barbarous masses that populated the rest of the world, and one of the ...

From earthquakes and eruptions to fire and floods, the continent's deadliest natural disasters have killed hundreds of thousands of people at a time. Some of them even changed the course of history.

Extra History. Thirty Years War - Famine - European History - Extra History - Part 3. Posted: December 20, 2024 | Last updated: March 5, 2025. Many things added up to create the famine that swept ...

The 2024 Irish Famine Orphan Girls Commemoration will be held on Sunday, November 24, from 2pm, at the Famine Rock standing stone memorial in Burgoyne Reserve, Williamstown, Melbourne.