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Alexzander @Alexzander - almost 4 years ago

The Postwar History of a Nazi Film

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Myles @Myles - about 2 years ago

Love on the Wire | History Today

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Adelia @Adelia - almost 2 years 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 - over 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 - almost 4 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 - over 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 - over 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 - about 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 - almost 4 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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Monserrat @Monserrat - 3 months ago

Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England

‘Understand that you will have to leave your temporary dwelling, your home and native land. It is not known where your lord will send you then, when you can no longer enjoy life, a home in your own country, as you did before.’ This is a quotation from an anonymous Anglo-S...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 - over 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 - over 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 - almost 4 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 - 6 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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Alan @Alan - 5 months ago

On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell

Why are you a historian of Latin America? Studying languages led me from Michigan to Paraguay and then Brazil. I became interested in the history of US presence in the region.What’s the most important lesson history has taught you? Small things matter.Which history book h...continued

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Moises @Moises - over 2 years ago

No Grand Plan | History Today

On 4 August 1540 Thomas Epsam, a former Benedictine monk at Westminster, was brought before the justices at Newgate. He had been a prisoner for three years, but still ‘he wold not aske the kynges pardon nor be sworne to be true to him’, the chronicler Edward Hall wrote. E...continued

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Alexie @Alexie - almost 4 years ago

Buying Nazism | History Today

Moritz Föllmer’s study of culture in the Third Reich first appeared in German in 2016. Now it is available in English. It is a surprising book in some ways. If we reflect on culture under Nazism, we might think of the films of Leni Riefenstahl, or the attempt to create dr...continued

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Elliott @Elliott - over 3 years ago

A Historic Turning Point? | History Today

Few of us would have believed at the end of 2019 that the coming year would be more awful than the year past. But 2019 had one final gift for us: 31 December was the day that authorities in Wuhan, China confirmed they were treating dozens of cases of an unknown illness. T...continued

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George @George - over 2 years ago

History of a Memory | History Today

In Milan, St Ambrose (c.339-97) is the ubiquitous anchor of civic identity. Every year the city honours its most deserving inhabitants with a prestigious gold medal named after the saint. A basilica, institutions and public celebrations such as the Ambrosian Carnival all ...continued

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Muriel @Muriel - over 2 years ago

Do You Exist? | History Today

In Britain we pride ourselves on our freedom. We don’t let the government issue us with identity cards, except in wartime. It’s a fiction, of course: we’re unlikely to get through the day without producing a photo ID. Elsewhere in the world, having the right identity docu...continued

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