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Ericka @Ericka - about 1 year 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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Geovany @Geovany - over 2 years ago

A ‘Creative Microhistory’ of a Medieval Manor

A cooking scene, from The Luttrell Psalter. English, c.1330 © British Library Board/Bridgeman Images.Historians have been increasingly interested in the ‘everyday’. The scale of the everyday – in time and in place – offers up opportunities to view the past in ways that ar...continued

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Jeffrey @Jeffrey - almost 3 years ago

Here be Dragomans | History Today

A dragoman in an Egyptian temple, 1880s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.A steamer approaches the shores of Palestine in the middle of the 19th century and the Holy Land comes into view: the port of Jaffa and its houses; the plains beyond; and, in the far distanc...continued

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Marjory @Marjory - over 1 year ago

Roses are Red? | History Today

Left: Edward IV, c.1550 © Philip Mould Ltd, London/Bridgeman Images. Right: Henry VI, c.1540 © National Portrait Gallery, London.An extraordinary event happened at St John’s Field in London on 28 February 1461 – assuming that an anonymous chronicler writing in the late 15...continued

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Gregoria @Gregoria - over 1 year ago

Age of Doubt: Saints and Sceptics

Saint Thomas Becket curing a man in his sickbed, stained glass window (detail), Canterbury Cathedral, early 13th century. Canterbury Cathedral/ Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter, Canterbury Cathedral/ Bridgeman Images.Medieval society is often viewed as exceptionally rel...continued

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Adelia @Adelia - over 1 year ago

The Other Elizabeth | History Today

Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen of Bohemia, after Michiel van Mierevelt, c.1615 © akg-images.In August 1596 Queen Anna of Denmark provided her two-year-old son Henry with a sister. The proud father, King James VI of Scotland, immediately roped the bairn into his grand strat...continued

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Alvah @Alvah - almost 2 years ago

The Unbreakable City | History Today

The Felix Dzerzhinsky tractor factory dispatches DT-54 tractors, 1930s. Getty images.In August 1942 Maria Chuprina had just turned 13. A native of Stalingrad, Maria had spent the first year of war on the Eastern Front going about her business much as normal. While she wor...continued

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Manley @Manley - over 3 years ago

Medicine Woman | History Today

Rollins Pass, Moffat Road, 1906 © Bridgeman Images. The narrative landscape of the American West is defined by stories of endurance, compassion and bravery in the face of seemingly impossible odds. In a small mountain town in the Rocky Mountains, Doc Susie Avenue owes i...continued

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Devin @Devin - over 2 years ago

The Death of an Emperor

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, by Édouard Manet, 1868 © Bridgeman Images.On 19 June 1867, Ferdinand Maximilian faced a firing squad in Mexico. At five in the morning, he heard mass and then had breakfast. Shortly afterwards, carriages arrived to take him and two oth...continued

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Geovany @Geovany - about 1 year 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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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - over 3 years ago

Could the Soviet Union Have Survived?

‘No one has suggested a convincing alternative scenario’Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1988-91) and author of Armageddon and Paranoia: the Nuclear Confrontation (Profile, 2017). People still argue about the fall of the Roman Empire. They are n...continued

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Izaiah @Izaiah - over 2 years ago

Grand Old Scandal | History Today

‘Yorkshire Hieroglyphics’, Plates 1 and 2, March 1809. Metropolitan Museum of Art.Almost exactly 200 years ago the British establishment was rocked by a royal and scandal military that led to the dismissal of the commander-in-chief of the army in the middle of the Napoleo...continued

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Torey @Torey - 12 months ago

The Gates of the Ghetto

The first Aliyah, early Jewish immigrants to Ottoman Palestine, 1882-1903. World History Arachvie / Alamy Stock Photo.Living and working in what is now Lithuania in the second half of the 19th century, the Russian Jewish writer Moshe Leib Lilienblum was confident that, wi...continued

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Maureen @Maureen - about 1 year ago

The Balkans: Doomed to Disunity?

‘The Balkans, a false note in the European concert’, German cartoon from Der Wahre Jacob, 12 October 1909.On 10 February 1948, Joseph Stalin welcomed the veteran communists Georgi Dimitrov and Edvard Kardelj to the Kremlin. The Red Army’s sweep across Eastern Europe had p...continued

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Cyril @Cyril - over 1 year ago

Safe Passage | History Today

A Fleet of East Indiamen at Sea, by Nicholas Pocock, 1803. These large ships were armed and often sailed in convoy in eastern seas without warship escort © National Maritime Museum.Between 1803 and 1815 Britain was at war with ten countries. The Napoleonic Wars comprised ...continued

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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - about 3 years ago

East Africa’s Tourist War | History Today

‘Spectacular in Color’ film poster for Serengeti, 1960. Alamy.During a 1960 broadcast of his popular television programme A Place for Animals, the director of Frankfurt Zoo and documentary filmmaker Bernhard Grzimek pulled off one of the biggest bluffs in German televisio...continued

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Emmie @Emmie - almost 2 years ago

Under the Influence | History Today

A postcard from Casablanca, with an advertisment for absinthe, undated. Supplied by the author.On 28 June 1913 a decree was introduced in Tozeur, western Tunisia, by the French colonial government. It prohibited the import, sale, consumption and possession of alcohol ‘for...continued

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Felicita @Felicita - 6 months ago

Deaf Expression in Renaissance Art

Ceiling of the Choir in St Maria del Popolo, Rome, by the deaf artist Bernardino di Betto, 15th century. Bridgeman Images.Throughout his long career, Leonardo da Vinci kept a series of notebooks in which he jotted down his thoughts about art to help future students. These...continued

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Muriel @Muriel - about 3 years ago

Animal Attraction | History Today

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Juliet @Juliet - almost 2 years ago

On the Ballot | History Today

Covent Garden Market during the Westminster election, by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin, c.1810. Alamy.On 18 July 1872 ‘An Act to amend the Law relating to Procedure at Parliamentary and Municipal Elections’ received the royal assent. Known as the ‘Ballot Ac...continued

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Liliane @Liliane - over 2 years ago

Paranormal Politics | History Today

Epworth Rectory, 19th century. Alamy.On the first day of December 1716 one of the Wesley family’s maids heard groans in the rectory. She described them as sounding like someone on the point of death. It was the first appearance of the ghost that for four months would haun...continued

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Jimmy @Jimmy - about 3 years ago

Madam Butterfly and the Forging of Japanese Identity

Rosina Storchio in the first production of Madam Butterfly at La Scala, Milan, 1904 © Lebrecht Music & Arts/Bridgeman Images.The broad outlines of Japan’s historical encounters with western culture are well known. They began with the arrival of Jesuit priests from Por...continued

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Minnie @Minnie - about 2 years ago

The Maid Who Restored the Monarchy

Anne Monck, from an 18th-century copy of a contemporary engraving. Florilegius/Alamy.In the early months of 1660 the taciturn West Country soldier George Monck held the fate of the British Isles in his hands. Oliver Cromwell was dead and the British republic had descended...continued

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Alvah @Alvah - about 1 year 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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Alexie @Alexie - about 2 years ago

Frederick Douglass on Tour | History Today

Frederick Douglass, c.1855. Bettmann/Getty Images.A striking figure and powerful stage presence, the 27-year-old Frederick Douglass embarked on a tour of Britain and Ireland in the summer of 1845, soon after the publication of his incendiary autobiography Narrative of the...continued

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