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Kraig @Kraig - over 1 year ago

Building a ‘Mistery’ | History Today

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Anderson @Anderson - over 1 year ago

Charity Begins at Home | History Today

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Elvie @Elvie - over 1 year ago

The Fall of Isfahan | History Today

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Mariano @Mariano - over 1 year ago

Learning Japanese | History Today

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Delia @Delia - over 1 year ago

Saving Face | History Today

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Alexandro @Alexandro - over 1 year ago

Crime in the City of Brotherly Love

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Jany @Jany - over 1 year ago

A Woman’s Place | History Today

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Clarissa @Clarissa - over 1 year ago

Zoroastrian Zeligs | History Today

Picture this: a firm handshake between a suited tycoon, one of India’s biggest, and a kurta-clad satrap, ruler of the Republic’s largest communist enclave, a blue company logo prominently displayed on the rostrum, the backdrop otherwise a sea of red flags. Ratan Tata, the...continued

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Jarod @Jarod - over 1 year ago

No Girl Left Behind | History Today

The lives of British women were transformed between 1870 and the outbreak of the Second World War. Among the changes, the arrival of female physicians in the medical profession signalled a new approach to women’s health and, in particular, how they should live their lives...continued

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Marlon @Marlon - over 1 year ago

How did 9/11 change the way the world sees the United States?

‘With Iraq in flames, America’s standing in the world was at rock bottom’Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and author of Making the Arab World (Princeton, 2018) The morning after the terrorist attacks on the US, the Frenc...continued

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Raoul @Raoul - almost 2 years ago

‘Can’t Tek No More’ | History Today

In 1981 long-standing anger about racism, unemployment and social deprivation broke out into violent protests across many of Britain’s inner cities. It began in Brixton in April, when heavy handed police tactics provoked three days of rioting, and similar outbreaks follow...continued

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Monserrat @Monserrat - almost 2 years ago

Urban Encounters | History Today

The Mohawk chief Joseph Brant (detail), by William Berczy, 19th century © Getty Images.In most artistic depictions of 18th-century American cities, busy harbours jostle with brick houses and grand civic buildings, while church steeples dominate the skyline. Representing p...continued

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Iva @Iva - almost 2 years ago

The Pandemic and History | History Today

‘The last year has underlined the interconnected nature of events’Alex von Tunzelmann, Author of Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis that Shook the World (Simon & Schuster, 2016)Strictly, the answer to this question is no: the facts of this pandemic and the r...continued

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Juliet @Juliet - almost 2 years ago

Placing the Platypus | History Today

On 29 August 1884 William Hay Caldwell sent the most important telegram ever written about a platypus. Then just 25 years old, he had spent four months searching for its eggs on the banks of the Burnett River in North Queensland – with little success. After much splashing...continued

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Jessika @Jessika - about 2 years ago

Yemen’s Endless Wars | History Today

Mountainous and dry, with a tendency to anarchy in the ample spaces between its cities, Yemen has long been hospitable to insurgency. Yet in ancient times it was home to the Sabaeans and had claims to be the biblical land of the Queen of Sheba. Its fertility and beauty we...continued

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Monserrat @Monserrat - about 2 years ago

Breaking Time’s Arrow | History Today

‘Historians were key architects of empire’, writes Priya Satia, in her meditative, intensive and sweeping critique of the discipline of history. Questions of agency and intention have long been at the heart of historical explanation and critique, but Satia wishes to expos...continued

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Alexander @Alexander - about 2 years ago

Fiume for Fiumians | History Today

Before the Habsburg monarchy’s collapse, the port city of Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia) was a corpus separatum, or semi-autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Hungary. It had its own council under a governor appointed by Budapest, rather than being subordinate to Hung...continued

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Clarissa @Clarissa - almost 3 years ago

On Her Most Serene Republic’s Secret Service

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Clarissa @Clarissa - about 3 years ago

Does Boom Always Follow Bust?

For this historian, the next boom feels a long way off Catherine Schenk, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford The quick answer to this question is ‘no’, of course, since ‘always’ never happens in history. Ignoring that word, we can fall bac...continued

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