Articles in English… COUNT ROGER OF HAUTEVILLE 5 Mar 20256 Nov 2025 COUNT ROGER in Southern Italy, Sicily & Malta Early life Roger of Hauteville was born in Normandy in 1031, the youngest son of Tancred de Hauteville and his wife Fressenda. Little is…
Articles in English… ABOUT THE MALTESE 19 Dec 20246 Nov 2025 ABOUT THE MALTESE An insider’s (not so humerous) view about the way Maltese people behave Some time ago, while waiting for my departure at Heathrow airport to Malta, I overheard two presumably…
Articles in English… The GRAND HARBOUR BREAKWATER 3 Dec 20246 Dec 2024 A BREAKWATER FOR ALL SEASONS The Gregale was par for the course for the Royal Navy, perhaps the only blight on their Grand Harbour inheritance. The wind had been known since antiquity:…
Articles in English… THE GREAT WAR & MALTA 6 Aug 20248 Nov 2025 MALTA DURING THE GREAT WAR (1914 - 1918) All popular history books attribute the casus belli of the Great War to the assassination of Prinz Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and…
Articles in English… THE MALTESE MAXRABIJA 8 Jun 20238 Nov 2025 A * B * Ċ * C * D * E * F * Ġ * G * GĦ * H * Ħ * …
Articles in English… MALTA FEVER – BRUCELLOSIS 11 May 20238 Nov 2025 MALTA FEVER (Brucellosis) Adieu thou damned’st quarantine That gave me the fever and the spleen Return to scribbling or a book, Or take my physic while I’m able (Two spoonfuls…
Articles in English… Malta’s Megalithic Temples – part 2 15 Mar 20238 Nov 2025 Symbolism in the Maltese Megalithic Temples Introduction There are on the Maltese islands some 26 megalithic sites, that are considered to having been built as places of worship, all dating…
Articles in English… Malta’s Megalithic Temples 18 Jan 202329 Apr 2024 MALTA’s MEGALITHIC TEMPLES - part 1 Why were they built? Introduction There are on the Maltese islands some 26 megalithic sites, that are known as having been used as places…
Articles in English… MALTA in the 19th CENTURY 22 Sep 202226 Mar 2023 BRITISH MALTA During the 19th century The early years The British hoisted the Union Jack for the first time in Malta at Bieb il-Bombi, Floriana, once the French were forced into…
Articles in English… How Coffee Gained Popularity in Malta 6 Jul 202226 Mar 2023 The History of Coffee in Malta The coffee plant knows its origins in Ethiopia. During the fifteenth century, the plant began to be cultivated in Yemen and Saudi Arabia where coffee was roasted…
Articles in English… EARTHQUAKES and TSUNAMIS 19 May 202226 Mar 2023 Earthquakes and Tsunamis in and around Malta It is not uncommon for earth tremors to be felt in the Maltese islands. Many pass unnoticed and are only registered by the University’s seismic measuring…
Articles in English… MALTA AS SEEN BY FOREIGNERS 28 Apr 202226 Mar 2023 MALTA as seen by foreigners Malta, located as it is in the centre of the Mediterranean served many a time as a haven that provided a momentary respite for voyagers…
Articles in English… CART RUTS 11 Feb 202226 Mar 2023 THE CART RUTS of Malta Among the large number of archaeological and prehistoric sites all over Malta and Gozo, none remain more mysterious than the fifty or so conglomerations of cart ruts,…
Articles in English… The COLD WAR and MALTA 2 Dec 20211 May 2025 The COLD WAR From Yalta to Malta Introduction The many decades following the Second World War were years full of international political tension, caused mainly by the animosity between…
Articles in English… The BATTLE of LEPANTO 7 Oct 202126 Mar 2023 Battle of Lepanto 1571 and the Order of St John Today is the 450th anniversary of the battle of Lepanto that took place on October 7, 1571. The battle…
Articles in English… THE GREAT SIEGE – 1565 7 Sep 202126 Mar 2023 How great was the Great Siege of 1565 ? The decision by the Sublime Porte to attack Malta was taken in October, 1564. By the early months of 1565, De…
English read ...… GĦAR DALAM – Malta’s prehistoric cave 30 Jul 202129 Nov 2024 Għar Dalam Malta’s Prehistoric Cave Għar Dalam, the so-called 'Cave of Darkness', is located in the South East of Malta, just a couple of kilometres away from Marsaxlokk, in a…
Articles in English… NEO-CLASSICAL architecture in 19th century MALTA 18 Jun 202126 Mar 2023 Interest in Neo-classicism started in ernest as from the second half of the 18th century, especially after the discoveries of Pompeii and Herculaneum. All over Europe, but especially in Britain…
Articles in English… SEA TRANSPORT BETWEEN THE HARBOUR TOWNS (1830’s) 27 May 202126 Mar 2023 In his Histoire de Malte, (published in 1841), Dominique Miège, the French Consul for Malta, gives a detailed description of the sea borne communication system that existed in the Grand…
Articles in English… Transport in early British Malta (c. 1830 – 1840) 20 May 20212 Feb 2022 TRANSPORT in MALTA in the EARLY BRITISH PERIOD as recounted by Dominique Miège (1841) Dominique Miège was the resident French Consul to Malta in the early 1830's and must have…
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