InfoBritain Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.infobritain.co.uk InfoBritain - Travel Through History In The UK : The Crimean War The Crimean War Pembroke Lodge The Crimean War has a peculiar resonance for the modern world, since it could be argued that this pointless and awful struggle arose largely out of religious tensions between various religious groups in the Middle East. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848 - 1918 saw no religious factor in the Crimean War. But perhaps history reveals as much about its writers as it does about history. Perhaps in the twentieth century when Taylor was writing it was hard to understand the continued power of religion. Nationalism was all, and nation fought nation. In the twenty first century we are in a more complex situation, and a religious interpretation of the Crimean War makes more sense. So, whether war grew out of national power struggles, or religious dispute, or a mixture of both, it is salutory to remember that the heritage industry is fond of identifying sites of "proud heritage" which have to be protected. These sites are never what they seem. A definitive British example would be the Tower of London The Times newspaper, which was selling more copies than it had ever done. In the Birmigham Oratory, John Henry Newman had a room in which he, like so many others, followed the war. This room was left as it was when Newman died in 1890. Visiting the room it is still possible to see maps of the campaign cut out from | |
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