James Bryce was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1838. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Oxford where he became a professor of Civil Law, a position he held from 1870 to 1893. In 1876 he ventured through the Russian empire to the Ottoman Empire where...
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Episode 21 – Arnold Toynbee Part 2: British historian who lied for his country in the Blue Book
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was a British historian, born in London in 1889. He attended Balliol College, Oxford University. Toynbee’s conversations with his son Peter were written in a book. There Peter asks his father “What is your first book?” Toynbee replies “I started writing my first...
In 1915, the 26 year-old historian began working for the intelligence department of the British Foreign Office. The Propaganda Bureau, located in Wellington House, was chaired by Charles Masterman who recruited 25 well-known authors, Arnold Toynbee among the recruits. Toynbee edited the...
Episode 19 – Armenian Genocide allegations: Dishonest and Racist Reading of History
In 1911 the Ottomans entered eleven years of war that destroyed the Ottoman Empire. The series of wars started in Libya in 1911 where the Ottomans fought encroachment by Italians. Then came the First Balkan War in 1912 and the Second Balkan War in 1913. They were followed by World War 1...
Episode 18 – The Legal Aspects of Turkish-Armenian Conflict: Perception vs Adjudication
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the U.N.General Assembly on 9 December 1948 but entered into force on January 12, 1951 after sufficient number of members states ratified it. They recognized that genocide has inflicted great losses on...