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Clarissa @Clarissa - 17 days ago

A Test Case for Tolerance

Jean Calas with his family ahead of his execution, French coloured engraving, 18th century © Stefano Bianchetti/Bridgeman Images.It was the evening of 13 October 1761. Pierre Calas found the body of his older brother, 29-year-old Marc-Antoine, hanging in a downstairs door...continued

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Americo @Americo - 3 days ago

American Moppets | History Today

‘The ‘Belarus-5’ in an ordinary Soviet house,’ photographed in the 1960s. Wiki Commons/Карпенко Микола Михайлович.In the 1990s, a version of the satirical puppet show Spitting Image arrived on Russian television. A Muscovite once told the story of his father, who took gr...continued

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Alexie @Alexie - 4 days ago

The First Folio | History Today

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George @George - 5 days ago

Codes and Crowns | History Today

Cipher used between Mary, Queen of Scots and Guillaume de l’Aubespine, Mauvissière’s replacement as ambassador, late 16th century. The National Archives.Mary, Queen of Scots was a prolific letter-writer. Thousands of her letters survive in collections across the world, in...continued

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Delia @Delia - 5 days ago

On the Spot: Richard J. Blackett

Martin Robison Delany, by an unidentified artist. Print published c. 1865. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.Why are you a historian of 19th-century America?Arriving in Pittsburgh, my interest was piqued by the life of Martin Delany, a leading intellectua...continued

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Erik @Erik - 5 days ago

Fostering the Foundlings | History Today

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Ericka @Ericka - 5 days ago

Asia and Africa Unite | History Today

Place markers in preparation for the Bandung Conference, 1955 © Photo by Howard Sochurek/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock.In April 1955, the young Indonesian state invited the nations of Asia and Africa to unite in Bandung, West Java. Just a decade after the decla...continued

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Alvah @Alvah - 5 days ago

A Life of Retirement | History Today

Portrait from a shrine, Faiyum, c.100 AD. Bridgeman Images.Nothing really prepares you for the moment when your drive through the arid desert is interrupted by the looming presence of an oasis. Leaving Cairo, the road takes you 40 minutes southwest through a desolate land...continued

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Meggie @Meggie - 18 days ago

Outlaws at War | History Today

English army with banner, from the Chroniques de France ou de St Denis, late 14th century © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images.Edward I’s unconventional methods of recruiting an army for war against the French in 1294 have received a substantial a...continued

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Zackery @Zackery - 18 days ago

No Edens | History Today

Mosaic depicting the Flood, Basilica di San Marco, Venice, 13th century. Bridgeman Images.There is a sense of achievement when you complete The Earth Transformed, which at times feels like reading the Testaments of the World, illustrated by the photographs of Sebastião Sa...continued

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Jimmy @Jimmy - 19 days ago

Armenia’s Eleventh Century | History Today

Ben JonesNow the Seljuk king came with many armed troops and entered our land, spreading fear and terror among those far and near. He trampled on and overturned many lands until he reached the city of Ani. The armed troops made their way over the wall and poured into the ...continued

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Wilmer @Wilmer - 21 days ago

This Flammable Isle | History Today

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo.The Blazing World tells of how the people of England challenged the divine right of kings, toppled tyrants and rejected absolutism by resisting military mobilisation, petitioning and, where necessary, r...continued

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Abbie @Abbie - 20 days ago

Is Violence the Answer? | History Today

Demonstrators outside Leeds Crown Court on the first day of the trial of the Leeds Bonfire Night 12, June 1975. Photograph by Max Farrar © Max Farrer.‘We do not advocate unprovoked violence but if we are attacked then we are left with no alternative but to defend ourselve...continued

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Alan @Alan - 25 days ago

The One True Emperor on Earth

Portrait of Süleyman by Nakkaş Osman, 1579 © Tom Graves Archive/Bridgeman Images.In the spring of 1566, Süleyman, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was old and unwell. He had suffered from gout for more than two decades and was barely able to move. He was not alone – cour...continued

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Garnet @Garnet - 26 days ago

Literary Heroine | History Today

Marija Jurić Zagorka, mid-20th century. Courtesy Memorial Apartment of Marija Jurić Zagorka/Center for Women’s Studies.Marija Jurić Zagorka has always had plenty of readers, both during her lifetime and now, 150 years after her birth. However, in the last 15 years, thanks...continued

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Webster @Webster - 27 days ago

The Birth of Time | History Today

Creation of the world, decoration from the Ål Stavkirke, Norway, late 13th century © A. Dagli Orti/NPL - DeA Picture Library/Bridgeman Images.‘Though all the months are adorned with various kinds of joy and honour, March is the most so.’ That was the opinion of an 11...continued

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Gregoria @Gregoria - 28 days ago

Continental Shame | History Today

A woman with children at Auschwitz II in May or June 1944. Part of the Auschwitz Album. Wiki Commons. German Federal Archives.One might wonder why we need another book on the Holocaust. As Dan Stone points out, ‘the historiography of the Holocaust has been unimaginably la...continued

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Abbie @Abbie - about 1 month ago

Hot Gossip | History Today

D.W. Griffith, c.1918 © Granger/Bridgeman Images.‘This is the true story of Hollywood. The most cruel, most despicable town in the world.’ That’s the opinion of Ridgeway Callow, who worked as assistant director on dozens of Hollywood films and TV programmes, writer and pr...continued

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Americo @Americo - about 1 month ago

No Silver Bullet | History Today

Citadelle Laferrière, c.1963 © Granger/Bridgeman Images.The life of Henry Christophe – King of Haiti from 1811 until his death in 1820 – is crying out for a modern dramatisation. It follows a steep and spectacular arc, intersecting with explosive historical events. Paul C...continued

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Liliane @Liliane - about 1 month ago

Glory or Gravity? | History Today

‘Newton after William Blake’, statue by Eduardo Paolozzi, London, 1995. Photo: Wikimedia/Creative Commons/British Library.Thanks to funding from the football pools, Eduardo Paolozzi’s massive bronze statue of Isaac Newton looms over the courtyard of the British Library. S...continued

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Maureen @Maureen - about 1 month ago

Toad Testicles, Foul-Beard and Broad-Arse

Edmund ‘Ironside’, from the Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings, late 13th century © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images.If we were to visit Winchester in the latter years of the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), we might have bumped...continued

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Giles @Giles - about 1 month ago

The Power of Protests | History Today

Student boycott rally on the University Mall at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2 September 2019 © Justin Chin/Bloomberg via Getty Images.Scandals associated with China’s Zero-Covid policy, in particular the tragedy of the Ürümqi residential block fire, trigge...continued

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Priscilla @Priscilla - about 1 month ago

The Lost Tudor | History Today

Monastic choir, from the Psalter of Henry VI, French, c.1420 © Bridgeman Images/British Library Collection.In about 1430, Katherine de Valois, widow of Henry V, secretly married a young Welsh squire named Owen Tudor. Their union, which was not widely known until after her...continued

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Geovany @Geovany - about 1 month ago

Treason of the Clerics | History Today

The Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, c.1867 © Universal Images Group via Getty Images.History can be hard to erase. Supporters of Delhi’s current ruler, who promises to end the ‘1,200 years of slavery’ that oppressed Hindus have apparently endured at the hands of Muslims, are learn...continued

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Casper @Casper - about 1 month ago

Getting Away with Murder | History Today

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