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Bobby
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about 11 hours ago
A Haitian Queen in Georgian Britain
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Elaina
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1 day ago
Gold Llama | History Today
The Inca Empire emerged out of Peru’s Andean highlands in the 13th century and, at its greatest extent, stretched for about 3,500 miles down the western flank of South America. It was then the largest empire in the world, ruling a population of around 11 million. The Inca...continued
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Dayton
@Dayton -
4 days ago
On the Spot: Danielle Terrazas Williams
The Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City. Wiki Commons/Gobierno CDMX.Why are you a historian of colonial Mexico?As an African American and Mexican American, I wanted to research the African diaspora through my heritage.What’s the most important lesson history has taught y...continued
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Alexander
@Alexander -
5 days ago
Latest History Books | History Today
Normal Normans?For many, the Normans epitomise the medieval period: known today for their actions as conquerors, castle-builders, kings and warriors, our perceptions of this most prominent of medieval peoples continue to shape our understanding of European history between...continued
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Josiah
@Josiah -
5 days ago
The War in Words | History Today
The Ringgold Light Artillery Battery of the Union Army on drill, c.1860 © Courtesy Brady National Photographic Art Gallery Washington DC.The American Civil War burned itself into the American identity as the Union and Confederacy fought across large swathes of the country...continued
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Giles
@Giles -
6 days ago
Sea Change | History Today
Detail of the Mary Seacole statue at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London. Matt Brown/Wiki Commons.Helen Rappaport’s In Search of Mary Seacole is a major new study of its Jamaican-born subject, voted top of the list in a 2004 poll of ‘100 Great Black Britons’ and previously the s...continued
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Rose
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6 days ago
Noisy Neighbour | History Today
Old St Paul's Cathedral, from Early Christian Architecture by Francis Bond. Wiki Commons.St Paul’s Cathedral is London’s premier church. Dedicated to the City’s patron saint, from its elevated position on Ludgate Hill it has been the focal point of the City of London sinc...continued
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Assunta
@Assunta -
7 days ago
No Dinner Party | History Today
As Mao Zedong put it, a revolution is ‘not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture’, but ‘an act of violence by which one class overthrows another’. Lenin would not have disagreed but preferred to extol revolution as ‘the festival of the oppressed and t...continued
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Colin
@Colin -
7 days ago
All That Is Not Good
Stained glass window showing Julian of Norwich, Norwich Cathedral. Alamy.When the news is full of images of suffering, it feels difficult – almost wrong – to concentrate on anything else. How can ordinary work, meetings, emails, teaching or writing matter, when the world ...continued
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
8 days ago
Scotland Too | History Today
Scotland’s involvement with transatlantic slavery has become increasingly well known in recent years, but remains something of a controversial topic. Some Scots still prefer to characterise the history of their nation in terms of victimhood (of English imperialism), while...continued
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Anderson
@Anderson -
11 days ago
Normal Normans? | History Today
For many, the Normans epitomise the medieval period: known today for their actions as conquerors, castle-builders, kings and warriors, our perceptions of this most prominent of medieval peoples continue to shape our understanding of European history between 900 and 1200.H...continued
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Joe
@Joe -
11 days ago
Legalised Lawlessness | History Today
A search for arms on the Jerusalem-Jaffa Road, 1938. Library of Congress.Historians of the British Empire have a fondness for writing very long books. If the global scale of the subject helps to explain this tendency so, perhaps, does the lure of Gibbonian glory. Jan Morr...continued
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Marie
@Marie -
12 days ago
When did the Medieval Period End?
‘The medieval persists’: stained glass depicting two minstrels c.1885, attributed to James Egan, a former employee of William Morris. Art Institute of Chicago.‘Humanist scholars certainly thought themselves to be living in a new age’Bridget Heal, Professor of Early Modern...continued
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Giovanni
@Giovanni -
13 days ago
Weighing up the Evidence | History Today
Map of the universe according to the theories of Tycho Brahe, from Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1660 © Granger/Bridgeman Images.It is one of the most famous quotations that was never said: Eppur si muove (And yet it moves). Galileo Galilei’s muttered protest ...continued
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Angus
@Angus -
14 days ago
Are You Not Entertained? | History Today
Wilson Barrett and Maud Jeffrie in The Sign of the Cross, 1932. Chronicle/Alamy.The chariot scene from Ben Hur (1959) remains one of the most spectacular moments ever committed to celluloid. Costing around a quarter of the film’s total budget and shot using a team of 70 s...continued
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Roger
@Roger -
18 days ago
Concrete Plans | History Today
The fame of Albert Speer, the minor classical architect who rose to become the industrial boss of the Third Reich, has brought about a notion that each dictator has an architect on hand to translate his dreams into built reality. Actually, Hitler was fairly exceptional in...continued
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Priscilla
@Priscilla -
19 days ago
A Worthy Cause? | History Today
At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 Mr Frederick Gonner Worth was a junior business partner in the wine merchants Messrs. Delattre and Worth. Based in Canon Street, he was responsible for the London side of the business, while his associate, Monsieur Delatt...continued
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Abbie
@Abbie -
20 days ago
Gifts for the Nation | History Today
Ben JonesFew contemporary philanthropists would consider giving money to ease the national debt. But in 1928, Winston Churchill – then the Chancellor of the Exchequer – announced an anonymous charitable gift of £500,000 to a new fund, set up to pay off the UK’s substantia...continued
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Monserrat
@Monserrat -
21 days ago
The Long Shadow of the First Crusade
Charles V of France and Emperor Charles IV feast while the Siege of Jerusalem is re-enacted, from the Grandes Chroniques de France, c.1380. Alain Le Toquin/akg-images.Called by Pope Urban II in Clermont in 1095 with the aim of taking Jerusalem and other Holy sites from ...continued
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Angus
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22 days ago
Confess Your Sins | History Today
In a confessional box in Tuscany in 1639, a priest named Francesco Mei took a confetto and put in his mouth. He then he told 17-year-old Brigida Gorini to take it in her own mouth and suck it, before forcing her hand on his penis. Gorini reported his abuse anywhere betwee...continued
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Leda
@Leda -
25 days ago
Moscow’s Divide and Rule | History Today
A Red Army tank in Rakov during the Soviet invasion of Eastern Poland, 1939 © akg-images/Universal Images.The overwhelming support for Ukrainian refugees in Poland suggests that the two nations have overcome decades of mutual hatred which had allowed Russia to divide and ...continued
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Garnet
@Garnet -
26 days ago
The Black Legend of the House of Dudley
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Jeffrey
@Jeffrey -
27 days ago
When the World Came to Shanghai
Buck Clayton, c.1930. Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy.I reached the international city of Shanghai in July [1933], with the sun beating down on the Bund, the harbor full of Chinese junks, foreign liners and warships from all over the world. It was hot as blazes. I di...continued
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
28 days ago
The Murder of Hintsa | History Today
Chief Hintsa of the Gcaleka Xhosa, c.1800s © Africa Media Online/Mary Evans Picture Library.There are many inconsistencies in the stories surrounding the murder of the Xhosa chief Hintsa, executed by British forces in the Cape Colony in 1835. What is incontrovertible is t...continued
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Jimmy
@Jimmy -
about 1 month ago
Mind the Authority Gap | History Today
Choose wisely: Woman in a Bookshop, cover design for the quarterly magazine, ‘The Yellow Book’, by Aubrey Beardsley, c.1895. The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Images.This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Wolfson History Prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for hi...continued
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