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Ericka @Ericka - 12 months ago

The Flies, Fleas and Rotting Flesh of Medieval Monks

In December 1170, in the hours after the shocking murder of Thomas Becket, the monks of Canterbury Cathedral prepared his body for burial. While doing so, they made a surprising discovery: the archbishop, a former courtier who was not particularly known for his piety, was...continued

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Cynthia @Cynthia - 8 months ago

Putting Pirates on Trial | History Today

In mid-June 1725 the Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer published a list of noteworthy London deaths over the previous week: three drowned, one who fell from a cart, one killed with a sword, and a child ‘overlain’ – a co-sleeping accident. Unusually, someone was also ‘Pr...continued

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Elaina @Elaina - about 2 months ago

Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin

Civilian violence in wartime reveals what is usually hidden in people’s lives: the fault lines in families and communities pushed to the brink by the pressures of conflict. In London during the Second World War, the city’s residents struggled to cope with the blackouts, t...continued

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Cameron @Cameron - 8 months ago

The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia

‘In my day, the kingdom was as good and as full as an egg.’ So the late-14th-century knight Philippe de Mézières expressed his longing for the old days: ‘Things have changed a lot I feel’, he mourned, plaintively. It is an odd image, but a very recognisable sentiment; nos...continued

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Jeffrey @Jeffrey - about 2 months ago

Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts

The British Empire saw peaks and troughs of violence. The early Edwardian period, from 1901 to 1905, was one of the peaks. During the first five years of the reign of Edward VII about three dozen colonial conflicts were reported in The Times, while many more went unreport...continued

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Elaina @Elaina - about 5 years ago

History Today Quiz: October

[unable to retrieve full-text content]History Today Quiz: OctoberHistory Today Who – or what – was Martha? What was founded by Octavia Hill in 1895?

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Izaiah @Izaiah - almost 5 years ago

History Today Quiz: November

[unable to retrieve full-text content]History Today Quiz: NovemberHistory Today Which presidents are depicted on Mount Rushmore? Who apologised for dying?

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Zackery @Zackery - 9 months ago

Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa

On 25 September 1963 Moroccan army units, numbering around a thousand men, crossed into Algeria and seized the two border posts of Hassi Beida and Tindjoub, escalating a crisis which had been simmering since Algerian independence in July 1962. In the following days both c...continued

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Jaydon @Jaydon - 6 months ago

Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs

Anabob, Town and Country Magazine reminded its readers in 1771, ‘is a person who in the East-India Company’s service has by art, fraud, cruelty, and imposition obtained the fortune of an Asiatic prince and returned to England to display his folly and vanity and ambition’....continued

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Jessika @Jessika - almost 5 years ago

Christmas Quiz

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Christmas QuizHistory Today What tradition did Martin Luther begin? In what year was ‘Good King Wenceslas’ assassinated?

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Priscilla @Priscilla - almost 5 years ago

December Quiz

[unable to retrieve full-text content]December QuizHistory Today Who was the ‘Father of History’? Do you know which was the first city to be bombed from the air?

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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - about 5 years ago

History Today Quiz: September

[unable to retrieve full-text content]History Today Quiz: SeptemberHistory Today Test your history knowledge in the monthly History Today quiz.

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Webster @Webster - over 4 years ago

Don’t Be Evil

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Don’t Be EvilPaul Lay A warning housed in one of the jewels of the Italian Renaissance is as pertinent now as ever.

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Teagan @Teagan - over 4 years ago

March Quiz

[unable to retrieve full-text content]March QuizHistory Today How long was the presidency of William Henry Harrison? Which country lasted only one day?

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Bart @Bart - 11 months ago

First World War: The Fight on the Home Front

Trench warfare, attrition, the dominance of artillery, the consumption of shells and the need for tanks: these are the outward manifestations of war waged between industrialised societies. Such societies are capable of applying advanced technologies to mass production, eq...continued

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Kristina @Kristina - 7 months ago

Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t

In December 1952 a man named Cecil Robins – also known as Robin and described, cryptically, as a ‘fashion supervisor’ – appeared in court in Lisburn, a town on the periphery of Belfast. Robins was charged with ‘acts of gross indecency’ involving a 19-year-old soldier at a...continued

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Elliott @Elliott - about 5 years ago

History Today Quiz: August

[unable to retrieve full-text content]History Today Quiz: AugustHistory Today Test your history knowledge in our monthly quiz.

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Eleanora @Eleanora - over 4 years ago

February Quiz

[unable to retrieve full-text content]February QuizHistory Today Which president appears on the $5,000 bill? When was the Reichstag Fire?

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Marjory @Marjory - 4 months ago

The Election That Caused the Boer War

In 1898 – some 12 years before it was subsumed into the Union of South Africa – the Cape Colony held what would be the most factious and divisive election in its history. What was more, it was an election that saw the mining magnate and self-professed racist Cecil John Rh...continued

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Alan @Alan - 10 months ago

Byzantine Bishops at War with Women

Ancient writers could think of no more compelling a villain than an ambitious queen. Stories about men of virtue and the women who tried to bring them down were so popular that historians sometimes seem to have made them up. Such narratives are as old as that of Queen Jez...continued

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Rowan @Rowan - 4 months ago

Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?

Robert Bruce, future king of Scots, was born 750 years ago on 11 July 1274. The date, we know – as do we know that he entered an aristocratic world in which, since the late 11th century, ‘English’ and ‘Scottish’ noble houses had held lands and, just like their respective ...continued

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Americo @Americo - over 3 years ago

Alternative Histories: Jerusalem, A.D. 30

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Alternative Histories: Jerusalem, A.D. 30Katie HolyoakWed, 04/28/2021 - 15:35Source: History Today Feed

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Alexzander @Alexzander - about 4 years ago

The First Blind Medical Trials

In his satirical poem, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Lord Byron mocked medical charlatans who repeatedly introduced new gimmicks in order to extort large sums of money from gullible customers:What varied wonders tempt us as they pass!The Cow-pox, Tractors, Ga...continued

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Cynthia @Cynthia - about 4 years ago

The Shanghai Race Club | History Today

Starting in the 1850s, horse racing in China was a symbol of British colonialism, but was embraced by both locals and expatriates. The sport spread to dozens of ‘treaty ports’, from Harbin in Manchuria near the border with Russia, to Canton in the south and as far west as...continued

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Marjory @Marjory - about 3 years ago

September Quiz

[unable to retrieve full-text content]September QuizKatie HolyoakFri, 09/24/2021 - 14:53Source: History Today Feed

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