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Jarod
@Jarod -
almost 4 years ago
Rediscovering Trans History | History Today
Charles Hamilton, a travelling medicine-seller in 18th-century Somerset, was a dapper, charming suitor, wooing a landlady’s niece and settling into the role of husband until, in 1746, the newlywed bride denounced their marriage as fraudulent. After a Glastonbury jury rule...continued
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Casper
@Casper -
9 months ago
Gossip Pages | History Today
Olga in an Armchair, by Pablo Picasso, 1918. Wikimedia CommonsFlorian Illies’ new book is full of gossip. Did you know that Simone de Beauvoir stood Jean-Paul Sartre up on their first date, instructing her sister to go to the café and deliver her apologies to someone who ...continued
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Kari
@Kari -
about 4 years ago
Politics and Poetry | History Today
Today, we largely think of Persian as the national language of Iran. But this region is merely the core remnant of a once enormous swathe of the Eurasian landmass in which Persian was the lingua franca for nearly 1,000 years. Stretching from the Bosphorus to the Brahmaput...continued
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Giovanni
@Giovanni -
10 months ago
From the Protector’s Mouth | History Today
Cromwell in the Battle of Naseby in 1645, by Charles Landseer, 1851. Wikimedia CommonsAmong the most extraordinary figures from English history, Oliver Cromwell stands out for a number of reasons: at the age of 40 in 1640 he was merely a backbench MP and minor gentleman, ...continued
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Hannah
@Hannah -
almost 2 years ago
Pirate Voyage | History Today
The Emanuele Accame, 20th century. Alfio Bernabei Personal Collection.Two months before the March on Rome of October 1922, Benito Mussolini was faced with the first antifascist protest outside of Italy, which threatened to derail efforts to present his party as an accepta...continued
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Devin
@Devin -
about 1 year ago
Kalifornia Dreaming | History Today
Swami Vivekananda, photographed in Chicago, September 1893. On the left (cropped) Vivekananda wrote in his own handwriting: ‘One infinite pure and holy – beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee.’ Wiki Commons.Gwyneth Paltrow would have us believe she discovered...continued
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Mariano
@Mariano -
over 4 years ago
Pause and Effect | History Today
We send each other millions of faces each day, hoping to press complex emotional tones into waywardly arranged punctuation marks: a colon, a dash, half a bracket, closed if happy, open if sad. This seems like a radical reinvention of these marks, yet the real leap of thou...continued
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Monserrat
@Monserrat -
3 days ago
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
‘Understand that you will have to leave your temporary dwelling, your home and native land. It is not known where your lord will send you then, when you can no longer enjoy life, a home in your own country, as you did before.’ This is a quotation from an anonymous Anglo-S...continued
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Hulda
@Hulda -
over 1 year ago
Minor Monarchs | History Today
The coronation of Henry VI in Paris, from the Anciennes chroniques d’Angleterre, 15th century. Alamy.Boy kings have often been viewed as paradoxical to medieval ideals of royal rulership. This is thanks, in part, to the longstanding myth that strong, adult kingship equall...continued
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Bart
@Bart -
over 4 years ago
Paris' Problem with the Dead
There’s a scene in the US political thriller House of Cards in which Claire Underwood, played by Robin Wright, goes for a run in a cemetery and, to her shock, is berated for doing so by an elderly woman who is there to mourn. Aside from underlining the moral complexity o...continued
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Eleanora
@Eleanora -
6 months ago
The Welfare of Pit Ponies
Britons, we are often told, are an animal-loving people. This comforting national myth has a long pedigree. As far back as 1860 The Times reassured its readers that:‘Whatever may be our shortcomings as a nation ... we have little to blame ourselves with as far as animals ...continued
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Iva
@Iva -
over 4 years ago
Park Life | History Today
December 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. The Act created the legal framework for National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and introduced reforms designed to allow greater access to the countryside...continued
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Rahsaan
@Rahsaan -
10 months ago
The Life Aquatic | History Today
Sui seung yan boats, Aberdeen Harbour, 1950s. Chronicle / Alamy Stock PhotoIn the late 1950s, the colonial government of Hong Kong decided to conduct a census for the first time since the Second World War. With a territory of just over 1,000 square miles over land and sea...continued
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Allene
@Allene -
almost 2 years ago
Lifting the Flap | History Today
Anatomical fugitive sheet, female. Wellcome Collection.We think of reading as a primarily mental activity. Medieval and early modern audiences saw reading as a physical activity as well. They did not just turn the pages of their manuscripts. They wrote in the margins, und...continued
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Teagan
@Teagan -
over 3 years ago
Broken Windows | History Today
In 1982, George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson published an article in the Atlantic which transformed policing in the United States. Titled ‘Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety’, it argued that city police should aggressively clamp down on low-level street ...continued
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Nestor
@Nestor -
5 months ago
Was the 1926 Floating University a Failure?
On the morning of 6 November 1926, readers of the Detroit Free Press woke to sensational front-page headlines: ‘Sea Collegians Startle Japan with Rum Orgy.’ ‘More than a hundred students, among whom six girls were to be noticed, were doing intensive laboratory work this e...continued
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Immanuel
@Immanuel -
9 months ago
Dangerous Reds
John Huston in the Red Bank in Dublin, 1954. Science History Images/Alamy Stock PhotoTargeted as a ‘Red’ by Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, John Huston did not enjoy the Los Angeles premiere of his latest film, Moulin Rouge, in 1952. Supporters of Senator Joseph ...continued
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Kraig
@Kraig -
over 4 years ago
A Tale of Plagues | History Today
Three cases of plague in China made the headlines last November, reminding us that the Plague, the medieval disease par excellence, still exists today. A wildlife refuge was closed last summer near Denver, Colorado, when infected prairie dogs were discovered. And, in 2017...continued
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Abbie
@Abbie -
almost 5 years ago
The First Tanker War | History Today
The war between Iran and Iraq that lasted for most of the 1980s was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the late 20th century. Casualties for both armies numbered in the hundreds of thousands. At times the combat zones bore more than a passing resemblance to the battlefield...continued
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Alexie
@Alexie -
3 months ago
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars
Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length feature film, The Kid (1921), remains one of the great masterpieces of silent cinema. It was an ambitious, risky project; industry professionals were cynical about his ambition to combine heartfelt pathos with slapstick comedy. Chaplin,...continued
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Jany
@Jany -
over 1 year 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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Giles
@Giles -
about 1 year ago
The Power of Protests | History Today
Student boycott rally on the University Mall at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), 2 September 2019 © Justin Chin/Bloomberg via Getty Images.Scandals associated with China’s Zero-Covid policy, in particular the tragedy of the Ürümqi residential block fire, trigge...continued
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Nelson
@Nelson -
over 1 year ago
Hawk this Way | History Today
The Shrimp Girl, by William Hogarth, c.1745 © Bridgeman Images.One Saturday morning in July 1897, John Hurley opened his fruit stall on the side of Essex Road, a busy artery a mile north of London’s old centre. A couple of children walked up and asked for some ‘specks’, p...continued
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Hulda
@Hulda -
about 2 months ago
Keeping Blinded Veterans in View
During the First World War thousands of charities were established in Britain to support servicemen. These organisations needed to be ‘seen’ by the public in order to secure donations. Thanks to the creative methods it used to raise awareness and funds, the most visible o...continued
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Iva
@Iva -
over 1 year ago
Clean Sheets | History Today
Pietro Miliani’s paper mill in Fabriano, Italy in the mid-15th century. Illustration Pictures from History/ Bridgeman Images.In 1668, Edmund Waller wrote the following poetic lines about paper:Fair hand that can on virgin Paper write,Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it ...continued
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