A Collection of Essays by Dr. Richard Pankhurst
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Essays for the Addis Tribune
- A History of Early Twentieth Century Ethiopia
- The Beginnings of Ethiopia's Modernisation
- The Eucalyptus Tree, and Ethiopia's First Modern Schools and Hospitals.
- Menilek's Failing Health, Anglo-Franco-Italian Attempts to Partition Ethiopia, the Appointment of the First Ethiopian Cabinet, and the Succession of Lej Iyasu.
- The Fall of Lej Iyasu.
- The Rise of Tafari Makonnen.
- The Emperor's Coronation, and Pre-War Reforms
- The Italo-Ethiopian Scenario, 1935
- Mussolini and Ethiopia
- League of Nations Sanctions
- Anglo-French Diplomacy, and the Initial Italo-Ethiopian Campaign of 1935-6
- May Chaw and Badoglio's Occupation of Addis Ababa
- The Occupation Years
- The Patriot Resistance, 1939-1941
- The Liberation Campaign, 1941 Mussolini's Entry into the European War
- 1941: The Italian Departure, and the Arrival of the British
- Post World War II Relations with the British
- Ethio-American Post-War Relations
- Emperor Haile Sellassie's Post-War Foreign Policy
- Developments of the 1950s and 1960s
- Prelude to Revolution
- Medical Activities in Early Times
- The Medical Activities of James Bruce, and his 19th Century Successors
- The Medical Activities in the Early 19th Century Successors
- Ethiopia a Century and a Half Ago
- Emperors Tewodros and Yohannes
- Menilek
- Medical Developments at the Time of Menilek
- Christian Art: Icons, Wall Paintings and Manuscripts
- Ethiopian Manuscripts: Bindings and Illustration
- Artistic Developments of the Past, and the Crisis of the Manuscript Today
- A Serious Question of Ethiopian Studies: Five Thousand Ethiopian Manuscripts Abroad, and the International Community
- Imperial Dynastic Marriages and the Beta Esra'el, or Falashas
- Ethiopia's Half-Falasha Emperor Ya'qob
- The Half-Falasha Emperor Ya'qob Overthrown, and His Brothers Rebel
- Prelude to Lalibala: The Zagwe Dynasty
- King Lalibala and his Monolithic Churches
- The Lalibala Churches
- Emperor Tewodros II
- Tewodros, Maker of Cannons and Mortars
- Tewodros Receives No Reply from The British Government
- Tewodros, and the Battle of Maqdala, 1868
- Ancient and Medieval Life
- Ideas of Innovation in Medieval Times
- Innovation, or Lack of It, in Medieval and Gondarine Times
- Developments in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Some Conservative Attitudes of the Past Question of Tobacco and Coffee
- Emperor Tewodros as Innovator: Cannon and Roads
- Tewodros, as Innovator: Cannon, Roads, Boats - and Foreign Craftsmen
- From Tewodros to Yohannes
- Emperor Yohannes, Conservative, but also Innovative
- From Yohannes to Menilek
- Menilek, and the Founding of Addis Ababa
- Menilek, the Building of Bridges, Roads, and the Railway
- "Why Can't We Have an Amharic Typewriter?"- Menelik
- Monetary, Banking, and Educational Developments of Menilek's Day
- Medical, Political, and Dietary Innovations of Menilek's Day
- Drinking, Drunkenness, Smoking, and Dress in Menilek's Day
- The Coming of Photography, the Cinema, Foreign Education - and Menilek's First Cabinet
- Afawarq Gabra Iyasus, Gabra Heywat Baykadaygn - and the Accession of Lej Iyasu
- Modernisation in the 1920s
- The Coming of the Radio, and Developments in the Field of Currency, Education, and Public Health
- The Year 1930
- Expanding Trade, Changing Ways of Life - and Conclusions
- The Beginnings of the Patriotic Resistance
- Fighting around Addis Ababa, during the Rains of 1936
- Resistance and Repression
- Fierce Fighting
- The Graziani Massacre and Consequences
- Graziani's Reign of Terror, and Patriot Resistance
- The Duce and the Patriots, in 1937
- Mussolini's Concern at Increasing Patriot Power
- The Dismissal of Graziani
- The Spirit of the Patriots in 1938, and the Advent of the Duke of Aosta
- Approaching the European War
- Old Time Ethiopian Church Education
- Poetical and Other Studies
- Education and Literacy in Old-Time Ethiopia: Christian, Muslim, and Falasha
- Ge'ez Literature, Church Libraries, and the Coming, from Europe, of the Printed Word
- Missionary Printing - and Early Study Abroad
- Missionary Education - and Literacy - in the Nineteenth Century
- A New Book on Missionaries in Ethiopia
- Education Abroad - and At Home - in Menilek's Day
- Educational Advances in Menilek's Day
- The Coming to Ethiopia of the Printing Press First Ethiopian Newspapers
- The Tafari Makonnen School
- The Educational Philosophy of Tafari Makonnen
- Printing Developments in the 1920s - and Increased Study Abroad
- Ethiopian Students Abroad, in the 1920s
- Educational Developments of the 1930s
- Missionary and Other Educational Developments of the 1930s
- Bibles and Literacy in the 1930s
- The Italian Occupation Period
- Graveyards, and What To Do With Them
- Curiosity of Ethiopian Studies: Preoccupation with a "Second Coming", and its Ethiopian Consequences
- The Crown of Emperor Tewodros II
- The Dilemma of the Two Looted Crowns
- Mussolini, and the Ethiopian Crowns of Tewodros, Yohannes, Menilek, and Haile Sellassie
- King Lalibala and the River Nile in Early Medieval Times
- Emperor 'Amda Seyon, His Successors, and the Nile
- The Portuguese, Ludolf, and Le Grand: The Nile Myth is Shattered
- Unidentified Epidemics in Medieval Times
- Epidemics from the Reign of Emperor Zar'a Ya'qob, to the Rise of Gondar
- Smallpox History
- Cholera: A Killer Disease, from the 17th Century to the Time of Tewodros
- Cholera: The Decline of the Killer Disease
- Typhus: The Army's Disease
- The Quarter of Millennium Old Story of Influenza in Ethiopia
- The Advent of the Camera in Ethiopia
- The British Maqdala Expedition and its Photographed
- The Advent of the Camera in Ethiopia
- Photography in Ethiopia in the Late Nineteenth Century
- French and British Photographers in Ethiopia in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Photographic Advances in the Early Twentieth Century Ethiopia: French, British and Italians
- Photography Comes of Age: Activity in Early Twentieth Century Ethiopia
- The 1868 Battle of Maqdala Remembered-in British Roads and Pubs
- Ethiopian-Indian Relations in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
- Ethio-Indian Trade, and Slaves, in Medieval Times
- Ethio-Indian Trade, and Slaves, in Medieval Times
- A Brief History of Trade and Business in Ethiopia from Ancient to Modern Times
- A Brief History of Trade and Business in Ethiopia from Ancient to Modern Times
- Antoine d'Abbadie: a Great 19th Century French Traveller and Scholar
- Traditional Ethiopian Medicine and Surgery
- Ethiopian Crosses, and Their History: Processional, Hand and Neck Crosses
- History of Northern Ethiopia - and the Establishment of the Italian Colony or Eritrea
- Background to Ethiopia's Liberation A Letter which was Destroyed, but Not Lost
- Ethiopian History Revisited: Dogali: A Monument and an Anniversary
Ethiopia's Historic Quest for Medicine
History of Ethiopian Religious Art and Manuscripts
The Truth about Old-Time Ethiopian Dynastic Marriages
Glimpes of Ethiopian Medieval History
A Page in Ethiopia's Late 19th Century History
An Essay in Nineteenth Century Ethiopian History
Innovation and Opposition to Change in Ethiopian History
History of the Ethiopian Patriots (1936-1940)
History of Education, Printing, and Literacy in Ethiopia
Early Ethiopian Banking History
The Story of Ethiopian Looted Crowns
Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile: An Historical Fantasy
The History of Epidemics in Ethiopia
The Early History of Photography in Ethiopia
Foreign Scholarship in Ethiopia
Ethiopia Across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean
A Brief History of Trade and Business in Ethiopia from Ancient to Modern Times
Other
Concerning The Looting of Maqdala
- Tewodros, and the Battle of Maqdala, 1868
- Who Lost the Battle of Maqdala?
- Maqdala Loot in "The Times" Newspaper
- The Crowns of Emperor Tewodros: Loot from Maqdala
- Maqdala and its Loot: a Brief History
- The Association for the Return of The Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures, AFROMET, Launched at Sheraton Addis
- Dr and Mrs Pankhurst Write to London "Independent" Newspaper on Maqdala Treasures
- The British Maqdala Expedition and its Photographed
The Ethiopian Aeroplan "Tsehai"
- The Ethiopian Aeroplane "Tsehai": A Matter of Unreturned Loot, in Italy
- Tsehai: Aeroplane or Princess?
Concerning The Asksum Obelisk
- The Unfinished History of the Aksum Obelisk Return Struggle. 1 (Addis Tribune)
- The Unfinished History of the Aksum Obelisk Return Struggle. 2 (Addis Tribune)
- The Unfinished History of the Aksum Obelisk Return Struggle. 3 (Addis Tribune)
- The Unfinished History of the Aksum Obelisk Return Struggle. 4 (Addis Tribune)
- The Unfinished History of the Aksum Obelisk Return Struggle. 5 (Addis Tribune)
- Aksum Obelisk Mystery: British Attempt to Obstruct the Course of Justice? (Addis Tribune)
- Italy Promises to Return Obelisk Within the Year (Addis Tribune)
- The Question of the Looted Aksum Obelisk (Addis Tribune)
- The Question of the Looted (and Still Not Returned) Aksum Obelisk (Addis Tribune)
- yeaksum Hewltna yeTaliyan mengst qnnet maTat kefl 1 (Beza)
- yeaksum Hewltna yeTaliyan mengst qnnet maTat kefl 2 (Beza)
- An Appeal to the People of Italy
- The Re-Erection of the Great Aksum Obelisk Considered
- Dr. Vincenzo Francaviglia, and the Re-Erection of the Great Aksum Obelisk
- Aksum Obelisk Being Dismantled
- Axum Diary (The Guardian)
- A Historic Photograph
- Aksum Obelisk Update
- The Aksum Obelisk and the "Tempo" Newspaper
Preserving Ethiopian History
- A Stolen Ethiopian Icon: The Story of the Kwer'ata Re`esu Hits the Headlines,
- Africa's Stolen Cultural Property
- The Preservation of Ethiopian Culture
- Ethiopia's Culture in Grave Crisis: The Old City of Danqaz: an Urgent Question for the Authorities
- Ethiopia's Crumbling Historical Heritage
- How to Destory Your History: The Temple of Yeha, and its Killer Trees
- How to Conceal Your History: The Hidden Inscriptions of Aksum
- How to Lose Your History: The Microfilming of Ethiopian Manuscripts: A Nostalgic View
- How to Lose Your History: Lives of Ethiopian Saints
- How to Lose Your History: The Mysterious Case of the Ethiopian Archives
- How to Preserve Your Culture: Professor Richard Pankhurst's Observation of Workshop
- How to Write, or Lose, One's History: In Praise of Historical Memoirs, and Autobiographies
- How to Remember Your History: Ethiopia's Missing Statues
- Professor Richard Pankhurst's Observations of Workshop on Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage
- About Ethiopian National Archives
- Ethiopian National Archives: "Folly" and "Disaster" Justified
- American Ambassador Encourages Preservation of Ethiopia's Cultural Heritage
Book Reviews
- Another New History of Ethiopia Published
- A Japanese Photographic Masterpiece on Ethiopia
- Now At Long Last They are Heard! An Important New Book by Dr. Fekade Azeze
- Book Review "One Hip Too Far: I Opened My Heart to Ethiopia"
About or Mentioning Dr Pankhurst
- The Tragic Fire at Dabra Damo Monastic Library
- Dr. Richard Pankhurst - Historian
- Professor Haggai Erlich presented a public lecture on the Ethiopian-Eritrean Conflict
- Maitre Artist Afewerk Tekle
- Ethiopia and New World Blacks: Part I
- Ethiopia and New World Blacks: Part II
- Visit to The Cannon of Tewodros
- On Deportations
- American Ambassador Encourages Preservation of Ethiopia's Cultural Heritage
- Letter to the Editor
- A Tale of Four Churches
- Debre Tabor Part I
- Debre Tabor Part II
- Ethiopia and War Crimes
On Sylvia Pankhurst
- A Glimpse at My Mother's Archives, 1
- A Glimpse at My Mother's Archives, 2
- Sylvia Pankhurst, Friend of Ethiopia, Statue Proposed
- Letter to the Editor
- Extracts from My Mother's Archives
- Extracts from My Mother's Archives
- Dr Melaku Bayen, the Ethiopian World Federation, the Anglo-Italian Agreement of 1938
- Further Extracts from My Mother's Archives
On Art and Artist
- Ato Sebhatu Gebre Yesus - Gardening to Create the "Country Of Flowers"
- Saint Matthew, and Two Eighteenth Century Italian Artists, and Their Ethiopian Vision
- Over 300 Historical and Cultural Arts Illegally Smuggled out side Ethiopia
- Ethiopian History, and Art
Other
- Professor Chojnacki, Martula Mariam, and Gorgora
- The Effect of the British Elections on Ethiopia
- The Secret Massacre of Engecha: Hundreds of Bodies Denied Proper Burial for Sixty-One Years
- A Matter of Trees: A Problem for Addis Ababa Municipality
- Another Matter of Trees: How to De-beautify Addis Ababa
- Romania, a Long - Time Supporter for Ethiopia
- Lucy, Australopithecus Afarensis
- An Important Ethiopian Exhibition in Amsterdam
- "Always Something New Out of Africa"
- Ethiopia's Image Abroad: Menelik Road, London, Gondar Gardens, and All That