Articles in English… MALTA FEVER – BRUCELLOSIS 11 May 202313 May 2023 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 202326 Mar 2023 Symbolism in the Maltese Megalithic Temples Introduction There are on the Maltese islands some 26 megalithic sites, that are recognisable as having been used as places of worship, all dating…
Articles in English… Malta’s Megalithic Temples 18 Jan 202326 Mar 2023 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 202126 Mar 2023 The COLD WAR From Yalta to Malta Intro ... The many decades following the Second World War were years full of international political tension, caused mainly by the animosity…
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 202126 Mar 2023 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…
Articles in English… How the Maltese made merry in the 19th century 29 Apr 202126 Mar 2023 Throughout the 19th century, the Maltese folk hardly had anything to feel happy about. What with a large percentage of them employed only sporadically, and hundreds others begging in…
Articles in English… MALTA’s BLITZ – APRIL 1942 9 Apr 202126 Mar 2023 MALTA’s WAR THE APRIL BLITZ OF 1942 The ‘Battle for Malta’ in World War II commenced on June 10, 1940, once Mussolini declared war on France and Britain. Malta, then a British…
Articles in English… Women in Maltese Folklore 31 Mar 202126 Mar 2023 WOMEN in MALTESE FOLKLORE Myth or Cultural Legacy by Rita Saliba * If we think of folklore as customs and traditions, it takes us back to distant times when…
Articles in English… CHURCHILL and MALTA 12 Mar 202126 Mar 2023 In his dispatch of 5 June 1941 to Malta’s Governor, General Dobbie, Churchill stated: ‘You may be sure we regard Malta as one of the master-keys of the British Empire’.…
Articles in English… Lord Byron and Malta 5 Feb 202111 May 2023 Amongst the many illustrious visitors who set foot on Malta throughout the 19th century there were some very distinct men of letters. Whether their stay was a brief one or…
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