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Abbie @Abbie - almost 4 years ago

The First Tanker War | History Today

The war between Iran and Iraq that lasted for most of the 1980s was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the late 20th century. Casualties for both armies numbered in the hundreds of thousands. At times the combat zones bore more than a passing resemblance to the battlefield...continued

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Alexander @Alexander - almost 4 years ago

The Civil War’s ‘Martyr of Peace’

As Brexit Britain rediscovers the cleansing fervour of political purity and concomitant division, the protagonists of the country’s 17th-century Civil Wars are enjoying renewed attention. But the well-known combatants who exemplify the extremes of history obscure more ap...continued

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Priscilla @Priscilla - almost 4 years ago

Travels Through Time #14 – Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853

Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition to Japan in 1853 changed the course of the nation’s history. Long into the 19th century Japan had been regarded by a growing group of Western nations as a ‘hermit kingdom’, known for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. Prior to Perry...continued

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Jaydon @Jaydon - almost 4 years ago

Apocalypse Then: When The World Didn’t End

In 1624, the poet and cleric John Donne declared in a sermon that ‘creatures of an inferiour nature, are possest with the present; Man is a future Creature’. With this remark, Donne managed to encapsulate the apocalypse fever that had been steadily overwhelming European ...continued

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Anderson @Anderson - almost 4 years ago

The Book That Can’t Be Read

The past is full of unsolved mysteries. Gaps in the historical record leave countless details unknown and tantalising puzzles to be solved. Some puzzles, however, seem to fall more readily into the preserve of enthusiasts – or ‘scholar adventurers’, as Richard D. Altick t...continued

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Gregoria @Gregoria - almost 4 years ago

Nothing to fear but Russia itself

Mark Smith has written a fluent meditation on Russian history, a gallant attempt to reason with those who believe that Russia is condemned to an endless cycle of failed reform and resurgent authoritarianism because Russians have despotism and imperialism ‘in their genes’....continued

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Assunta @Assunta - almost 4 years ago

'The Last Front' of the Freikorps

In the summer of 1919, as the victorious Allied powers were hammering out the terms of the peace settlement after the First World War, the Allied press began to pay closer attention to an area of Europe that had hitherto played little part in the deliberations of the peac...continued

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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - about 4 years ago

Speaking her Mind | History Today

Until the last century, Lal Ded had remained almost unknown beyond the niche corners of Bhakti resistance and poetry. The Bhakti movement, which began in south India in the eighth century and spread north until the 17th, started as a resistance against the caste system an...continued

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Iva @Iva - about 4 years ago

The Wild Hunt of Odin

Odin (Woden, or Wotan), the principal pre-Christian deity of the Germanic peoples and the Norse god of the wind and the dead, raises a sword in command of his Wild Hunt across the midwinter sky. Among the other figures in the procession is Thor, son of Odin and the god o...continued

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Elian @Elian - about 4 years ago

For Argument’s Sake | History Today

The coming of spring, for medieval poets, usually means the chance of something exciting happening. Once flowers, birdsong and sunshine tempt a poet to roam outdoors, spring may be the time for encounters with fairies, lovers and all kinds of marvellous adventures. The 13...continued

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Cameron @Cameron - about 4 years ago

Cohn the Canary | History Today

There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, ...continued

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Iva @Iva - about 4 years ago

Antoine Lavoisier Guillotined | History Today

Born into a noble family, the son of an attorney at the Parlement de Paris, Antoine Lavoisier invested his fortune in the Ferme générale, a tax-farming company that collected tax and customs on behalf of the royal government in return for a handsome cut. With his finances...continued

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Zetta @Zetta - about 4 years ago

Stifled Screams | History Today

In spring 1589, Claude Rouveyrolle, a French woman living in the Protestant city of Nîmes, was violently attacked by two men. They had begun by shouting insults at her, before seizing her and cutting her dress from the bottom hem to her buttocks, calling her a whore. It w...continued

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Bart @Bart - about 4 years ago

On the Spot: Emma Smith

Why are you a historian of Shakespeare?A history of Shakespeare is a cultural and political history of the last 400 years: it enables me to think about topics from cross-gender casting to political theory. What’s the most important lesson history has taught you?We can’t s...continued

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Garnet @Garnet - about 4 years ago

Us and Them | History Today

In 1965 a new reservoir opened at Cwm Tryweryn in north-west Wales. It was created to provide Liverpool with water, but its construction involved the destruction of the Welsh-speaking village of Capel Celyn. The affair created significant ill-feeling and anger in Wales. A...continued

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Joe @Joe - about 4 years ago

Life after Death? | History Today

In this bold new social history, Hallie Rubenhold explores the lives of five women who found fame only in the manner of their deaths. ‘The five’ of the title are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly, who are remembered a...continued

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Clarissa @Clarissa - about 4 years ago

I'm A Believer | History Today

‘Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say, 1500 in our Western society, while in 2000 many of us find this not only easy, but even inescapable?’ This question, posed by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age (2007), is popular with historians these days. Eve...continued

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Ericka @Ericka - 11 months ago

Is Algeria Still Defined by its Liberation Struggle?

Soldiers of the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War of Independence, 1958. Museum of African Art (Belgrade)/Wiki Commons.‘The war gave rise to an anti-colonial hyper-memory: one where the fallen are a constant presence’Martin Evans, Professor of Modern Europe...continued

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Myles @Myles - 11 months ago

Love on the Wire | History Today

To continue reading this article you will need to purchase access to the online archive.Buy Online Access Buy Print & Archive SubscriptionIf you have already purchased access, or are a print & archive subscriber, please ensure you are logged in.Please email digit...continued

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Bobby @Bobby - about 1 year ago

A Haitian Queen in Georgian Britain

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Garnet @Garnet - about 1 year ago

The Black Legend of the House of Dudley

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Meggie @Meggie - about 1 year ago

Kaiser Karl and the End of the Habsburgs

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Jaydon @Jaydon - about 1 year ago

How did the Victorians Become a Reference Point for Joyless Prudery?

Anonymous group portrait, c.1866. Rijksmuseum.‘Lytton Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians’ did much to sow the seeds’Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and author of Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (Oxford University Press, 2...continued

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Teagan @Teagan - about 1 year ago

A History of Violence | History Today

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Liliane @Liliane - about 1 year ago

Born in Babylon | History Today

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