Articles in English… COUNT ROGER OF HAUTEVILLE 5 Mar 202510 Jun 2026 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 202410 Jun 2026 ABOUT THE MALTESE An insider’s (not so humerous) view about the way Maltese people behave Introduction 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 20242 Jun 2026 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 202410 Jun 2026 MALTA DURING THE GREAT WAR (1914 - 1918) Introduction All popular history books attribute the casus belli of the Great War to the assassination of Prinz Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary…
Articles in English… THE MALTESE MAXRABIJA 8 Jun 202310 Jun 2026 A * B * Ċ * C * D * E * F * Ġ * G * GĦ * H * Ħ * …
Articles in English… MALTA FEVER – BRUCELLOSIS 11 May 202310 Jun 2026 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 202310 Jun 2026 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 202310 Jun 2026 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 202211 Jun 2026 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 202211 Jun 2026 The History of Coffee in Malta Introduction 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…
Articles in English… EARTHQUAKES and TSUNAMIS 19 May 202211 Jun 2026 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 202211 Jun 2026 MALTA as seen by foreigners Introduction Malta, located as it is in the centre of the Mediterranean served many a time as a haven that provided a momentary respite for…
Articles in English… CART RUTS 11 Feb 20221 Jun 2026 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 202111 Jun 2026 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 202111 Jun 2026 Battle of Lepanto (1571) and the Order of St John Introduction Today is the 450th anniversary of the battle of Lepanto that took place on October 7, 1571. The…
Articles in English… THE GREAT SIEGE – 1565 7 Sep 202111 Jun 2026 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 202111 Jun 2026 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 202111 Jun 2026 Introducton 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…
Articles in English… SEA TRANSPORT BETWEEN THE HARBOUR TOWNS (1830’s) 27 May 202111 Jun 2026 Introduction 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 on land in early British Malta (c. 1830 – 1840) 20 May 202111 Jun 2026 TRANSPORT in MALTA in the EARLY BRITISH PERIOD as recounted by Dominique Miège (1841) Introduction Dominique Miège was the resident French Consul to Malta in the early 1830's and must…
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