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Jany @Jany - over 2 years ago

A Woman’s Place | History Today

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Alexie @Alexie - about 1 year ago

The First Folio | History Today

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Delia @Delia - over 2 years ago

Saving Face | History Today

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Americo @Americo - over 2 years ago

Lords in the Light | History Today

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Bobby @Bobby - about 1 year ago

The Water of Life | History Today

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Marjory @Marjory - almost 3 years ago

Stop Press | History Today

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Alexzander @Alexzander - over 3 years ago

The Postwar History of a Nazi Film

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Myles @Myles - almost 2 years ago

Love on the Wire | History Today

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Adelia @Adelia - over 1 year ago

Good as Gold | History Today

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Minnie @Minnie - over 3 years ago

The Culinary Enlightenment | History Today

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Zackery @Zackery - about 3 years ago

Medieval Minims | History Today

mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uoluntWhile admittedly bizarre, this medieval Latin sentence is nevertheless perfectly comprehensible. It has been translated as: The very short mimes of the gods of snow do not at all wish that ...continued

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Elvie @Elvie - over 3 years ago

Who’s the Reader? | History Today

When we picture the libraries of the Middle Ages, we see heavy tomes chained to wooden benches, far away from an accessible open space. It is a place forbidden, guarded jealously by the hooded librarian of The Name of the Rose, Malachi of Hildesheim – a domain of men. No ...continued

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Zetta @Zetta - over 3 years ago

Pilgrims Processed | History Today

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Garnet @Garnet - over 3 years ago

A Stand on the Streetcar

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Giovanni @Giovanni - about 2 years ago

Playing Saints | History Today

If we believe the documents that appeared in the Kingdom of Naples in the 1650s, there lived in the 12th century a giant named Giovanni Calà. He was so strong that he could kill ferocious beasts with his bare hands. As a soldier in Emperor Henry VI’s army, Giovanni not on...continued

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Zetta @Zetta - over 3 years ago

A Queen on Trial | History Today

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Oren @Oren - about 2 years ago

All that Glitters | History Today

Burgundy is a word that conjures up the richness of red velvets and old wines, as well as the French region from which they both derive. In the Middle Ages this Burgundy was one of three lands known by that name: there was the Kingdom of Burgundy, located in modern Proven...continued

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Moises @Moises - almost 3 years ago

The Spy, The Enigma | History Today

George Blake, who died last year aged 98, is less well known than his fellow spies educated at Cambridge. He was not recruited by his peer group, he operated alone, he was not part of the Establishment and perhaps, as a result, he was treated more harshly than his fellow ...continued

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Arvid @Arvid - over 3 years ago

Castro’s Honeymoon | History Today

In September 1960 – in the second year of his rule and only seven months before the Bay of Pigs invasion – Fidel Castro travelled to New York. His visit included a landmark speech at the United Nations General Assembly and his first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khru...continued

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Zackery @Zackery - over 3 years ago

Flannelled Fools | History Today

Bill Shankly may have been kidding when he remarked that some supporters think ‘football is a matter of life and death, but I assure you, it’s much more serious than that’. Yet it is impossible to understand the English people without an appreciation for the place of spor...continued

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Elvie @Elvie - about 3 years ago

Through a Glass Darkly | History Today

Over the years Hugh Johnson has had a crack at just about everything when it comes to wine writing and in most cases he got there first. His was the first small-format annual guide, his was the first atlas. He is certainly not the first person to write a history of wine –...continued

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Assunta @Assunta - about 2 years ago

Everyday Misery | History Today

The life stories compiled by the Polish journalist Margo Rejmer in Mud Sweeter Than Honey resemble, at times, Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell in their escalating violence, contempt, lies, brutality and emptiness. These were the punishments that Enver Hoxha’s communist regime...continued

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Jany @Jany - over 3 years ago

Taking Note | History Today

Six years ago I wrote a column for this magazine on the need for a code of conduct for historians, provoked by a series of inaccuracies repeated by successive writers and sloppy administrative errors that I had come across in my research. I suggested 11 practices to safeg...continued

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Grayce @Grayce - 3 months ago

On the Spot: Levi Roach

Why are you a historian of medieval Europe? The Middle Ages are the goldilocks period: enough sources that discoveries remain possible, but not so many that you lose perspective.What’s the most important lesson history has taught you? That people at any given time are unl...continued

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Abbie @Abbie - 18 days ago

On the Spot: Ali Ansari

Why are you a historian of modern Iran? Because of heritage, the fact that I’m proficient in Persian, and the sheer fascination of studying a former empire trying to find a role.What’s the most important lesson history has taught you? The importance of context.Which histo...continued

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