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Torey @Torey - 8 months ago

Military State | History Today

Said Bay, emir of the Yazidis (centre), in Sinjar, northern Iraq, 1932. Alamy.On 3 October 1932 Iraq joined the League of Nations. Symbolically, the assembly’s vote to admit Iraq, which terminated Britain’s mandate over the country, marked its independence. But true sover...continued

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Roger @Roger - 8 months ago

Gone But Not Forgotten | History Today

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Alexzander @Alexzander - 8 months ago

The Great Alpaca Heist | History Today

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Colin @Colin - 8 months ago

The Menorah | History Today

Representation of the Prophet Zachariah’s vision of a menorah between two olive trees, by Joseph Ha-Zarefati in the Cervera Bible, c.1300. Bridgeman Images.The seven-branched menorah, an instantly recognisable symbol of Judaism, is much older than the Star of David. It ha...continued

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Immanuel @Immanuel - 9 months ago

Turning on the Waterworks | History Today

The waterworks built beneath old London Bridge by Peter Morice in 1581 to supply water to the City, c.1600. Heritage Images/Getty Images.In 1581 Peter Morice began paying the City of London ten shillings a year to rent the northernmost arch of London Bridge. Under the arc...continued

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Zetta @Zetta - 9 months ago

A Century of Fascism | History Today

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Iva @Iva - 9 months ago

Cuban Missile Crisis: the View from Havana

Cuban soldiers stand by an anti-aircraft gun, Havana, 1962. Bettman/Getty Images.On the morning of 29 May 1962 Cuba’s leaders welcomed a delegation of ‘hydrotechnic specialists’ from the Soviet Union. To the Cubans’ surprise, the Soviet delegation also included top milita...continued

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Zackery @Zackery - 9 months ago

Written in Heraldry | History Today

Henry VI on horseback with a coat of arms, 15th century. Bridgeman Images.In the largely illiterate 14th to 17th centuries, heraldry could be read by all. As Victor Hugo wrote: ‘For those who can decipher it, heraldry is an algebra, a language. The whole history of the se...continued

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Immanuel @Immanuel - 9 months ago

Death of a Master Forger

‘An inquiry into the genuineness of the manuscript corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier’s annotated Shakspere, folio, 1632: and of certain Shaksperian documents likewise published by Mr. Collier’, by N.E.S.A. Hamilton, 1860. Special Collections, University of Delaware Libr...continued

An inquiry into the genuineness of the manuscript corrections in mr. j. payne colliers annotated shakspere folio 1632 e1579732251322

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Sandrine @Sandrine - 9 months ago

Filling the Gaps | History Today

17th-century manicule and notes in the margin of translations of Aristotle. Courtesy of the Penn Library.Writing in a book is a divisive action in the modern day. The degree of severity of this potential offence often depends on the nature of the book being marked and th...continued

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Webster @Webster - 9 months ago

Sri Lanka’s Deep Wounds | History Today

Ben JonesOn 31 March 2022 a public protest occurred in the vicinity of the home of the Sri Lankan president Gotabhaya Rajapakse. The protest marked frustration at the shortages of essential commodities (gas, medicines, fuel) and the gruelling ten-to-13-hour power cuts imp...continued

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Raoul @Raoul - 9 months ago

Mapping It

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Mapping ItKatie HolyoakTue, 09/13/2022 - 09:29Source: History Today Feed

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Felicita @Felicita - 9 months ago

Assassin’s Creed | History Today

Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, early 20th century. Library of Congress.There has been a welcome proliferation of publications marking the centenary of the Irish Civil War. This book from the Irish Times journalist Ronan McGreevy should be required reading on that conflic...continued

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Kristina @Kristina - 9 months ago

The Face of Beatrice Cenci

‘Portrait of Beatrice Cenci’ (detail), attributed to Ginevra Cantofoli, 17th century. J.T. Vintage/Bridgeman Images.Charles Dickens, visiting Rome early in 1845, found himself haunted by a painting. It was, he said, ‘almost impossible to be forgotten’. It was of a young w...continued

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George @George - 9 months ago

Has a War on Drugs Ever Been Won?

Detail from an oil painting of a man smoking an opium pipe, date unknown. This picture hung in an opium den in London’s Victoria Street, run by Ah Sing (d. 1890). Sing’s opium den was probably the most famous of the dens in Victorian London, and was the model for the one ...continued

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Elliott @Elliott - 9 months ago

Knobs or Points? | History Today

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, by Benjamin West, c.1816. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.Like all long-awaited events, Benjamin Wilson’s big day arrived at last. After years of bitter in-fighting, in 1777 the fashionable artist staged a spe...continued

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Dayton @Dayton - 9 months ago

Easy as ABC | History Today

A fragment of text inscribed on the Mesha Stele, c.840 BC. Louvre/Wiki Commons.Few technologies are as important to our daily lives as the alphabet. But, as Johanna Drucker argues, we rarely give its history any thought at all. Despite its title, her book is not about the...continued

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Izaiah @Izaiah - 9 months ago

On the Spot: Hakim Adi

Favourite archive: Black Cultural Archives, Brixton. Photographed in 2014. Wiki Commons/Mark Longair.Why are you a historian of Africa and the African diaspora?I wanted to research and teach a subject that had been denied to me.What’s the most important lesson history has...continued

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Giles @Giles - 9 months ago

Ifá Divination | History Today

Agere Ifá, early 20th century. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College © Bridgeman Images.Ifá divination has been central to the culture of the Yoruba people in south-western Nigeria for about 2,500 years. It is based on the teachings of a Yoruba sage named Ọrunmila, also known ...continued

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Kraig @Kraig - 9 months ago

This Great Stage of Fools

Study for King Lear (detail), 1897, by Edwin Austin Abbey. Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection/Yale University Art Gallery.First aired in 2018, the HBO TV series Succession tells the story of Logan Roy, CEO of Waystar Royco, a vast media conglomerate. It begins with th...continued

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Izaiah @Izaiah - 9 months ago

Survival of the Least Fit

Poster of the ‘Birth of the Soviets and the Different Organs of Soviet Power’, depicting the hierarchical organisation of Soviet Power, c. 1920. LSE Library.The era of large tomes about Russia has given way to shorter overviews, often with a personal narrative bias. The h...continued

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Madalyn @Madalyn - 9 months ago

Cromwell in America | History Today

Statue of Oliver Cromwell, erected in 1901. Mike OBrien/Alamy. The posthumous fate of Oliver Cromwell is as interesting as the life itself, given that his reputation has pivoted in so many different directions. Cromwell appeared in Italian plays, French polemics, German l...continued

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Immanuel @Immanuel - 9 months ago

Total War | History Today

Vietnamese soldiers during the First Indochina War. Alamy.Christopher Goscha’s The Road to Dien Bien Phu is a brilliantly revised and expanded version of his 2011 French-language work Vietnam: Un État né de la guerre, 1945-1954. It explores the means, tactics and strategi...continued

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Jany @Jany - 9 months ago

The Man behind the Leader

Bayard Rustin with a map showing the route of the March on Washington, 13 August 1963. Bettman Archive via Getty Images.Bayard Rustin is the most important African American civil rights leader you have never heard of. Yet his legacy in overcoming racism, eradicating pover...continued

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Cyril @Cyril - 10 months ago

Safe Passage | History Today

A Fleet of East Indiamen at Sea, by Nicholas Pocock, 1803. These large ships were armed and often sailed in convoy in eastern seas without warship escort © National Maritime Museum.Between 1803 and 1815 Britain was at war with ten countries. The Napoleonic Wars comprised ...continued

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