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Bart @Bart - 6 months ago

Death from Above | History Today

The fumigation of Westminster Hall, 1971 © Hulton Deutsch/ Contributor via Getting images. Corbis Historical Collection.In the late summer of 1917, as a weary and grieving Britain braced itself for a fourth year of the First World War, a battle against a millions-strong a...continued

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Casper @Casper - 6 months ago

The Body as Machine | History Today

George Balanchine, New York City Ballet, 1960. Neil Libbert/Bridgeman Images.George Balanchine, founder of the New York City Ballet (NYCB), pursued pure abstraction in his choreography, emphasising the physical virtuosity of his dancers by foregoing narrative and theatric...continued

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Dayton @Dayton - 6 months ago

Classical Dinosaur | History Today

Bust of Marcus Licinius Crassus, fifth century AD. Bridgeman Images.Shakespeare gave us an abiding image of Caesar. Pompey promoted himself as the second coming of Alexander the Great. But when it comes to the mysterious third man who pulled the strings and turned the gea...continued

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Alexandro @Alexandro - 6 months ago

An Eggless Christmas | History Today

Detail from the Ministry of Food’s ‘Christmas Recipes’, December 1945. LSHTM Library & Archives Service.Before the Second World War, 70 per cent of Britain’s food was imported, including 50 per cent of meat, 91 per cent of butter and 70 per cent of cheese and sugar. W...continued

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Torey @Torey - 6 months ago

How Angels Found their Wings

The Ladder of Divine Ascent, fresco at Suceviţa Monastery in Moldavia, Romania, 16th century © Yvan Travert/ akg-images.Angels did not always have wings. It was only in the fourth century that the familiar image of the winged angel emerged. In the Roman church of Santa Pu...continued

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Alexzander @Alexzander - 6 months ago

Khans of Crimea | 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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Anderson @Anderson - 6 months ago

The Finnish Club War | History Today

Charles IX of Sweden. Bridgeman Images.Sweden was on a war footing in the late 16th century. Taxes fell disproportionally on the peasantry, who in Finland – then under Swedish dominion – had to accept the billeting of troops in their villages. Soldiers were allowed to plu...continued

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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - 6 months ago

Books of the Year 2022

This article contains affiliate links to bookshop.org: we may earn a commission on these, or you can choose to support your local bookshop.‘Tracing colonial officials who left utterly dislocated societies in their wake’R.J.B. Bosworth, Author of Politics, Murder and Love ...continued

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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - 7 months ago

Are ‘Dark Ages’ Inevitable? | History Today

Roundhouse reconstruction at Emain Macha (Navan Fort) near Armagh. Photographed in 2010. Wiki Commons/Notafly.‘The Bronze Age came to a crashing halt around 1200 BC, thanks to a “systems collapse”’James I. Porter, Author of Homer: The Very Idea (University of Chicago Pres...continued

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Mariano @Mariano - 6 months ago

Death of Thomas Tallis | History Today

Thomas Tallis in a stained glass window at St Alfege Church, Greenwich. Wiki Commons/AndyScott.Thomas Tallis, one of the first and greatest composers of English Protestant church music, began his career in monastic service. He is initially seen as an organist for the smal...continued

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Allene @Allene - 7 months ago

Ulster’s ‘Lost Counties’ | History Today

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Marie @Marie - 7 months ago

Chaucer on Trial | History Today

It is not often the case that a medieval English poet makes headlines in the New York Times, or is a trending topic on Twitter. But this is what happened in October 2022 when two new legal documents were unveiled relating to the life of later medieval England’s most famou...continued

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Gregoria @Gregoria - 7 months ago

Age of Doubt: Saints and Sceptics

Saint Thomas Becket curing a man in his sickbed, stained glass window (detail), Canterbury Cathedral, early 13th century. Canterbury Cathedral/ Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter, Canterbury Cathedral/ Bridgeman Images.Medieval society is often viewed as exceptionally rel...continued

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Juliet @Juliet - 7 months ago

‘A Baptism of Blood’ | History Today

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Juliet @Juliet - 7 months ago

Renaissance Wonder Women | History Today

Bronze parade mask perhaps worn by male soldiers representing the Amazons. Nola, Italy, second century. Photo © The British Museum/ Trustees of the British Museum.First conceived in the ancient world, the legend of the Amazons resurfaced in the age of Shakespeare to becom...continued

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Patrick @Patrick - 7 months ago

The ‘Jena Set’ | History Today

At the Fürstengraben, 1779. From ‘Jena from its origins to the present day’, published 1850, British Library HMNTS 10260.d.42.A quiet university town in the middle of Germany, Jena was, as Andrea Wulf writes, ‘so small that it took less than ten minutes to cross’. How cou...continued

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Manley @Manley - 7 months ago

On the Spot: Jessey J.C. Choo

Vairocana Buddha at the Fengxian Temple, Longmen Grottoes, completed during the Tang dynasty rule. Wiki Commons/Zhangzhugang. Work on this temple was intensified under Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian.Why are you a historian of medieval China?Because becoming a historian of ...continued

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Hulda @Hulda - 7 months ago

For the Love of Manuscripts

A scribe (probably Bede) writing, from Life and Miracles of Saint Cuthbert by Bede, 12th century. Bridgeman Images.The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club is a logical sequel to Christopher de Hamel’s Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (2016), in which he introduc...continued

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Marlon @Marlon - 7 months ago

Sign of the Times | History Today

Ben JonesOn 18 March this year thousands of people from the British Deaf community gathered at Trafalgar Square to support the British Sign Language (BSL) Bill on its third reading in the House of Commons. The BSL Act, which came into law in June, promised momentous chang...continued

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Nelson @Nelson - 7 months ago

In Bed with the Tudors

The nightmare of Henry I in 1130, from the Worcester Chronicle, c.1130-40. Courtesy of British Museum Images.History is the ‘shipwreck of time’. Innumerable examples of domestic furniture from early modern England have been lost because of natural wastage, changing fashio...continued

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Alexie @Alexie - 7 months ago

The Army that Walked on Water

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Sandrine @Sandrine - 7 months ago

For God (and us) | History Today

Wells Cathedral, photographed by Alfred Capel Cure in 1857. Metropolitan Museum of Art.Many cathedrals are so old, large and familiar that it’s tempting to see them more as a landscape feature than as something someone built. Like an ancient crag, they sit at the heart of...continued

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Zetta @Zetta - 7 months ago

The Computer in the Aegean

Mechanism of Antikythera, Fragment C. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Wiki Commons/Zde.In April 1900 a startled telegraph operator based in Athens decoded a signal reporting the discovery of a vast treasure trove beneath the Aegean Sea. Government authorities di...continued

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Bart @Bart - 7 months ago

Putting Up Fences | History Today

Mr and Mrs Andrews, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1748-50. Wikimedia Commons.Enclosure in Britain was a long, slow process. Bit by bit and then all at once, swathes of the countryside were fenced off for the exclusive use of landowners. It arguably began with the Norman Conques...continued

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Americo @Americo - 7 months ago

Appease Yourself | History Today

David Lloyd George meets Adolf Hitler at the Berghof, 1936. Bridgeman Images.Like much else, the Russo-Ukrainian war and its build-up have drawn comparisons with the Nazi period. With other historical analogies seemingly lacking, some have cast 1989 and the subsequent col...continued

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