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Abbie @Abbie - over 1 year ago

Gifts for the Nation | History Today

Ben JonesFew contemporary philanthropists would consider giving money to ease the national debt. But in 1928, Winston Churchill – then the Chancellor of the Exchequer – announced an anonymous charitable gift of £500,000 to a new fund, set up to pay off the UK’s substantia...continued

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Jaydon @Jaydon - over 1 year ago

How did the Victorians Become a Reference Point for Joyless Prudery?

Anonymous group portrait, c.1866. Rijksmuseum.‘Lytton Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians’ did much to sow the seeds’Thomas Dixon, Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London and author of Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (Oxford University Press, 2...continued

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Marie @Marie - about 1 year 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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Devin @Devin - over 1 year ago

Hong Kong and the Huguenots

Ben JonesAs the long shadow of China’s National Security Law fell over Hong Kong in June 2020 the ‘one country, two systems’ appeared to be dead in the water. First formulated by Deng Xiaoping in his negotiations with Margaret Thatcher’s government in the lead up to the D...continued

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Jeffrey @Jeffrey - over 3 years ago

Who is History’s Worst Political Adviser?

‘Many bristled at Nikephoros’ tactless behaviour’ Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford History, as we know, does not repeat itself. It is simply a coincidence that in the Byzantine Empire in the second half of the 11th century an advis...continued

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Torey @Torey - over 3 years ago

What is History? | History Today

‘History is the study of people, actions, decisions, interactions and behaviours’ Francesca Morphakis, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Leeds History is narratives. From chaos comes order. We seek to understand the past by determining and ordering ‘facts’; an...continued

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Minnie @Minnie - over 4 years ago

Statues, Politics and The Past

What purpose do statues serve? This question came to the fore when former prime minister Theresa May announced plans in June 2019 for a memorial in London’s Waterloo station commemorating the arrival to Britain in 1948 of the first of the Windrush generation. The Windrush...continued

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Minnie @Minnie - 11 months ago

Decline and Fall | History Today

Ben JonesWhen describing America or ‘the West’ more broadly, ‘decadence’ is often invoked. Certain factions in Western democracies fret that, as economic power shifts towards Asia, their once-powerful societies have been irrevocably diminished and are rife with inertia. M...continued

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Americo @Americo - over 4 years ago

Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Nightmare | History Today

Seventy years ago, an explosion in a far-flung corner of Soviet-ruled Kazakhstan set off an arms race that took the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon. Four years earlier, the US had ended the Second World War by dropping atomic bombs on Japan. Joseph Stalin’s USSR ...continued

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Clarissa @Clarissa - over 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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Ariel @Ariel - over 2 years ago

The Lives of Napoleon | History Today

Two hundred years after his death, what more is there to say about Napoleon Bonaparte? He remains a perennially popular subject for works of history aimed at the general reader, whether conventional biographies or more specialised studies on aspects of his life, regime an...continued

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Casper @Casper - 12 months ago

What Have Strikes Achieved? | History Today

‘Una huelga de obreros en Vizcaya (A strike of workers in Biscay)’, Vicente Cutanda, 1892. Museo del Prado/Wiki Commons.‘In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the women of Greece unite together in a sex-strike’Lynette Mitchell, Professor in Greek History and Politics at the Univer...continued

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Josiah @Josiah - over 3 years ago

What can History tell us about Epidemics?

‘Strategies to cope with plague have formed the basis for later policies’ John Henderson, Professor of Italian Renaissance History at Birkbeck, University of London and author of Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (Yale, 2019) News about the sp...continued

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Marie @Marie - over 1 year ago

When did the Medieval Period End?

‘The medieval persists’: stained glass depicting two minstrels c.1885, attributed to James Egan, a former employee of William Morris. Art Institute of Chicago.‘Humanist scholars certainly thought themselves to be living in a new age’Bridget Heal, Professor of Early Modern...continued

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Rowan @Rowan - almost 4 years ago

What is the Value of Economic History?

Economics is one of the reasons for the lacklustre reputation of economic history Rory Naismith, Lecturer in the History of England before the Norman Conquest, University of Cambridge There is a long-standing tendency to think of ‘the economy’ as a detached yet volatile f...continued

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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - over 3 years ago

Disraeli or Churchill? | History Today

In March 1846, at the height of the destructive debate over the repeal of the Corn Laws, the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, rounded on his chief tormentor, Benjamin Disraeli, and asked how it was that if, as Disraeli claimed, he so disapproved of the Government, he had ...continued

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Nestor @Nestor - over 3 years ago

Is the Story of ‘The Few’ More Myth Than Reality?

‘British industry outproduced German fighter output by a wide margin’ Richard Overy, Professor of History at the University of Exeter Embedded in British popular memory of the Second World War is the image of ‘the Few’ of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain. It i...continued

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Ericka @Ericka - over 1 year ago

Is Algeria Still Defined by its Liberation Struggle?

Soldiers of the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War of Independence, 1958. Museum of African Art (Belgrade)/Wiki Commons.‘The war gave rise to an anti-colonial hyper-memory: one where the fallen are a constant presence’Martin Evans, Professor of Modern Europe...continued

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Roger @Roger - almost 4 years ago

A Uighurs' History of China

Towards the end of 2018 reports began to emerge that China was building a widespread network of compounds in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. It was being used to detain hundreds of thousands of – some estimates suggested over a million – members of the Muslim Uighu...continued

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Alvah @Alvah - almost 4 years ago

A Uighurs’ History of China

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Maureen @Maureen - about 4 years ago

Is it the Duty of Historians to Correct National Mythologies?

History is, to some extent, inescapably nationalist Colin Kidd, Professor of History, University of St Andrews Historians as an academic profession get by without a Hippocratic Oath. There are no prescribed duties. But various market-like mechanisms serve to keep us hones...continued

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Hannah @Hannah - almost 4 years ago

Has Monarchy Had its Day?

With everything changing, what has stayed the same? Kate Maltby, critic, columnist and final year PhD student in the English Department at University College London. ‘For things to stay as they are, everything must change’: the maxim of the aristocrat Tancredi in Lampedus...continued

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Izaiah @Izaiah - almost 4 years ago

Why is the Public so Obsessed with the Nazis?

‘The level of fascination leaves many historians scratching their heads’ Roger Moorhouse, Author of First to Fight: the Polish War 1939 (Bodley Head, 2019) The popular obsession with Hitler and the Nazis is at once wholly understandable and rather baffling. On one level...continued

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Kraig @Kraig - almost 4 years ago

Why is the Public So Obsessed with the Nazis?

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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - about 1 year 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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