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4 months ago
Rocks of Ages | History Today
Charles Darwin, 1881 © Bridgeman Images.Charles Darwin experienced what he recalled as one of the most significant events of his five year voyage aboard HMS Beagle on 20 February 1835: his first earthquake. He was resting from specimen gathering in woods near the southern...continued
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Hannah
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A Dynasty is Founded | History Today
Zhu Youjian killing his daughter Princess Zhaoren, 20th century © Classic Image/Alamy Stock Photo.Zhu Youjian, the Chongzhen Emperor, was the last of the Ming dynasty to rule China. He came to the imperial throne in 1627 aged 16, but his reign was plagued with threats: fa...continued
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Devin
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4 months ago
Kalifornia Dreaming | History Today
Swami Vivekananda, photographed in Chicago, September 1893. On the left (cropped) Vivekananda wrote in his own handwriting: ‘One infinite pure and holy – beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee.’ Wiki Commons.Gwyneth Paltrow would have us believe she discovered...continued
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Kristina
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Ringing the Changes | History Today
The Ringers of Launcells Tower by Frederick Smallfield, c.1887. Royal Cornwall Museum/Wiki Commons.Ben Jonson called it ‘the poetry of steeples’. In his Bedfordshire youth, John Bunyan was seduced by, if not addicted to, its pleasures. So ubiquitous was bell ringing in En...continued
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Allene
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4 months ago
A Perfect Storm | History Today
Stairwell entrance of Bethnal Green Underground station, by Colin Tait, 29 October 1953 © TfL from the London Transport Museum collection.On the night of Monday 1 March 1943, RAF Bomber Command dispatched 302 heavy bomber aircraft to Berlin. Carrying a mixture of 8,000- a...continued
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Historical Omertà | History Today
Katherine of Aragon, by Lucas Horenbout, c.1525 © Philip Mould Ltd, London/Bridgeman Images.Mariella Frostrup, Kate Codrington, Davina McCall and others have recently been on a mission to end present-day silence around the menopause. But the omertà is deeply historical. T...continued
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Elvie
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4 months ago
The Favourite | History Today
Edda Mussolini presenting a banner at the Banco Commerciale Italiana ground at Edgware, 17 June 1934. Alamy.On 17 June 1934, Benito Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, presided over a fascist parade at Edgware Stadium in north London, flanked by the radio pioneer Guglielmo Marcon...continued
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Jarod
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4 months ago
Are you Experienced? | History Today
The Wife of Bath, the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, c.1410 © Granger/Bridgeman Images.Gap-toothed and garrulous, the Wife of Bath is probably the most memorable of the pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. As Marion Turner shows in this ‘biography’...continued
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Emmie
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4 months ago
Horror for Horror | History Today
Lieutenant Robert R Rogers and Erich Pinkau from the German criminal police inspect the Konsum-Genossenschaftsbäckerei bakery in Nuremberg, 1946. Wiki Commons.Nakam is the Hebrew for ‘revenge’, and the 50 men and women who planned mass poisonings of Germans in the immedia...continued
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Wilmer
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4 months ago
Ghosts of Java | History Today
Ben JonesOn the YouTube video, you can see a young Chinese-Indonesian man, maybe in his early 20s, wearing a green shirt, moving acrobatically with a long staff inside what looks like a garage. A man reciting the Quran through a PA system can be heard somewhere outside th...continued
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Mariano
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The ‘Lost’ Emperor? | History Today
One of the alleged Sponsian coins featuring a bust of the emperor Sponsian, depicted wearing a radiate crown, c.260-70 © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.Carl Gustav Heraeus was not the sort of man who got excited easily. A stiff Swedish-born scholar, he had risen fro...continued
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Abbie
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4 months ago
The Land Between Rivers | History Today
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Torey
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4 months ago
Meet you There | History Today
Engraving from the ‘Compendium Maleficarum’, a witch-hunter’s manual published in Milan, 1608. Wiki Commons.Like most towns, the place where I grew up has a recognisable crossroads at its centre. Strikingly, the west-east thoroughfare is split by one of the largest church...continued
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Gregoria
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5 months ago
Battle of Nsamankow | History Today
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles M’Carthy, 1812 © National Army Museum/Bridgeman Images.The Anglo-Ashanti wars began with a debacle for the British. On 8 January 1824, word reached Cape Coast that the Ashanti were advancing. Sir Charles M’Carthy, newly appointed governor, divid...continued
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Bart
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5 months ago
The Madman of the North
Charles XII at the Battle of Narva, David von Krafft, c.1700 © Fine Art Images/Bridgeman ImagesFrom his childhood Charles XII of Sweden dreamed of being a second Alexander the Great, to the extent that, when questioned about why he would want to emulate a king who died in...continued
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Giovanni
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5 months ago
Discovery Channels | History Today
A contemporary British engraving of the 1762 Cherokee peace delegation arriving in London. Pictured second from right is Ostenaco. Wiki Commons.There is an astounding fact that surfaces periodically in Caroline Dodds Pennock’s inspiring and important new book. How many In...continued
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Arvid
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5 months ago
Secrets of the Silk Road
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Jany
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5 months ago
Genes‘R’Us: Science and Ideology in the Lysenko Controversies
Trofim Lysenko measuring the growth of wheat on one of the kolkhoz fields near Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, c.1930s.Like many wealthy Americans in the first half of the 20th century, the self-made entrepreneur Roger Babson believed fervently in the power of genes. There are onl...continued
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Monserrat
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5 months ago
The Catholic Conundrum | History Today
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Cynthia
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The Nazi Spider in the Spanish Press
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Eleanora
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5 months ago
Chadō | History Today
A mizusashi jar created during the Azuchi-Momoyama period in the Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, 16-17th century © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution/Gift of Charles Lang Freer/Bridgeman Images.Few things are more quintessentially Japanese than the traditional ...continued
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Adelia
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5 months ago
On the Spot: Soe Tjen Marching
A rally held by the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) commemorating its 45th anniversary, 23 May 1965. Wiki Commons.Why are you a historian of 20th-century Indonesia?Because in Indonesia the recent past is still with us. The legacy of the mass killings of 1965-66 has nev...continued
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Minnie
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5 months ago
Decline and Fall | History Today
Ben JonesWhen describing America or ‘the West’ more broadly, ‘decadence’ is often invoked. Certain factions in Western democracies fret that, as economic power shifts towards Asia, their once-powerful societies have been irrevocably diminished and are rife with inertia. M...continued
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5 months ago
Main Man | History Today
Harold Wilson, photographed in his study at home in Westminster, in 1986. Allan Warren/Wiki Commons.Nick Thomas-Symonds has previously written two very good biographies of Labour titans – Clement Attlee and Nye Bevan; now he has turned his attention to Harold Wilson. It i...continued
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Alexandro
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5 months ago
Powerful Inversion | History Today
Yanktonai, Nakota, Sioux buckskin shirt for a chief’s war dress, collected at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 19th century. Courtesy Brooklyn Museum/Creative Commons.Big, successful popular histories generally tell their audience something they would like to hear. This one is n...continued
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