Marked Brussels

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Europe after the war

Out of the ruins of 1945, western European countries began to join their economies, first in coal and steel in 1951. The European Union grew to 28 members, and in 2020 the United Kingdom left.

Place
Brussels · Rome · Maastricht · Gdańsk · StrasbourgEurope
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IRuins and refugees
  2. IICoal and steel
  3. IIIThe Treaty of Rome
  4. IVEast and west
  5. VAfter the Wall
  6. VIBrexit

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Robert Schuman
  • Jean Monnet
  • Simone Veil
  • Lech Wałęsa
  • Václav Havel

Objects

  • The Schuman Declaration

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1945 to now. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?