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5f2a5d252075b249ec8e8890761ce609 Arvid @Arvid - 6 months ago
When the Swastikas Came to White Hart Lane
Fixtures against Germany have defined – or at least preoccupied – English football ever since the two nations played their first full international in Berlin on 10 May 1930. Games against the Germans evoke all sorts of images and stories, memories and moments: of English ...continued
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61d3ff630fa6a556085f59f9ba20938e Assunta @Assunta - over 1 year ago
David Reubeni and Africa’s Lost Tribe of Israel
The Chafariz d’El-Rey (King’s Fountain), Lisbon. Unknown artist, Netherlands, 1570-80. The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock PhotoIn 1524 a Black man named David Reubeni arrived in Venice with a bold plan to save the Jews. No one doubted that the Jews needed saving. Over...continued
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Dd00644dc8212e2e9fd2e6ce7a756bbf Jerrold @Jerrold - over 2 years ago
The Birth and Death of the Office
The Tetley Brewers’ headquarters,  Leeds, 1968 © Worldwide Photography/Heritage Images/TopFoto.When lockdowns first started in 2020, many white-collar workers came home to find that their jobs were already there waiting for them. Technology had long attained sufficient im...continued
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Aafc872a384e36f0c748991d0e7580c6 Minnie @Minnie - over 2 years ago
Absent Treasure | History Today
Gold mask of Kofi Karikari, 19th century. Photo 12/Alamy.A game-changing exhibition has been on view in Cotonou in Benin since February of this year. Titled Restitution – Revelation, the display includes ancient and monumental royal statues and thrones, removed by the Fre...continued
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13026bc1164d1ff880b91138506d70e7 Ismael @Ismael - over 1 year ago
Crowning Triumph | History Today
Visionary: Henry III and the facade of Westminster Abbey, from the Chronicle of England, by Peter Langtoft, 1307-27. incamerastock/Alamy Stock PhotoWe owe Westminster Abbey to one of the lesser-known kings of England, Henry III. Henry, the son of King John, was nine when ...continued
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40e54b9707df84c11f580308a13132cb Hulda @Hulda - about 5 years ago
The Land of Frustrated Revolutions
‘A frustrated revolution’ is how Eric Hobsbawm described the anarchic conflict in the Colombian countryside in the 1940s and 1950s, known simply as la Violencia. But this appraisal also describes the history of left-wing insurrections across all of Latin America. Latin Am...continued
Revolutions
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292890d964de1c8eba1a56fae0ed91c0 Alexzander @Alexzander - about 2 years ago
‘Because they were German’ | History Today
Austria becomes German: entry of the German police in Imst (Tyrol), Austria, March 1938. National Archives at College Park.‘Germany must strive to become a leading power’ and accept ‘military force as a legitimate political tool’, Lars Klingbeil, co-leader of Germany’s ru...continued
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40e54b9707df84c11f580308a13132cb Hulda @Hulda - almost 2 years ago
Utopian Dreams, Earthly Realities | History Today
Vera Pragnell, early 20th century. Courtesy the Author.The dream of escaping to the country retains a powerful hold on our imagination. It had a particular purchase during the interwar era, as demonstrated by the rise across Europe of a back-to-nature philosophy that embr...continued
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367ec04c80b95de4cfdf036599b35350 Garnet @Garnet - over 1 year ago
Literary Heroine | History Today
Marija Jurić Zagorka, mid-20th century. Courtesy Memorial Apartment of Marija Jurić Zagorka/Center for Women’s Studies.Marija Jurić Zagorka has always had plenty of readers, both during her lifetime and now, 150 years after her birth. However, in the last 15 years, thanks...continued
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0cefff9aac729a36835c46e07795e1e7 Mariano @Mariano - over 1 year ago
Long Live the Ancien Régime!
Edward the Confessor, enthroned, in the opening scene of the Bayeux Tapestry. Wikimedia CommonsNone of the pleasures afforded to historians fortunate enough to live in the only extant ancien régime can match that of witnessing the coronation of the monarch, as we were all...continued
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F4e69330da03b74c81cc5fa3f895fb24 Nelson @Nelson - about 2 years 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
Beds
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222d8c41bd81f4a6d7b47e2341f0ffca Jarod @Jarod - about 1 year ago
‘Fool’ by Peter K. Andersson review
Somer’s day: page from the Psalter of Henry VIII showing Henry with William Somer, by Jean Maillart (or Mallard), c.1540. Bridgeman Images.Was there anything, aside from consanguinity, that united the Tudor dynasty as it lurched back and forth from Catholicism to Protesta...continued
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292890d964de1c8eba1a56fae0ed91c0 Alexzander @Alexzander - over 2 years ago
It’s Not Easy Being Green
The Fiat 147 production line, 5 July 1979. Image: Fiat/Stellantis.Moving away from petrol-powered vehicles is possible, as Brazil has proven. The country’s history of sugar-ethanol production provides both an inspiring vision of what a rapid shift away from petroleum migh...continued
Cars
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F8901f0cff3b25b34627127dbc99fb89 Allene @Allene - 3 months ago
An Ottoman Winter in Toulon
The Franco-Ottoman alliance, formed in the 1530s between the king of France, François I, and the Turkish ruler of the Ottoman Empire, Kanuni Sultan Süleiman (‘the Magnificent’), was arguably the first diplomatic alliance between a Christian state and a Muslim empire. It c...continued
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151d593186e8e56663df3ed32962360f Dayton @Dayton - over 5 years ago
What Have the Romans Done for Us?
Rabbits hit the headlines earlier this year. A fragment of tibia, unearthed in the 1960s during an archaeological dig at Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex, was radiocarbon dated by researchers at the University of Exeter. The analysis showed it to be almost 2,000 yea...continued
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367ec04c80b95de4cfdf036599b35350 Garnet @Garnet - about 1 year ago
‘Bismarck’s War’ by Rachel Chrastil review
Photogravure plate after painting by Neuville, 1882; group of French soldiers relaxing in building yard during the Franco-Prussian War. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. Publi...continued
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37ec91099450fc2fc637c77e78953759 Anderson @Anderson - over 1 year ago
Springtime for Europe | History Today
On the barricades on the Rue Soufflot, Paris, 1848, by Horace Vernet. Wikimedia Commons.One afternoon in January 1848, in the Sicilian city of Palermo, the streets began to fill with crowds. What brought people out of their homes en masse, or what they wanted, no one was ...continued
Revs
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C8fdc7c246b9dd38f4ef160727d6eec5 Monserrat @Monserrat - about 5 years ago
The Case for High Wages
The recent Conservative leadership campaign saw candidates offer both tax cuts and increased government spending, which led to much critical commentary, especially over whether the Conservative Party had abandoned its historic reputation for financial rectitude. Following...continued
Beaverbrook
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6232f8a636fcadbbec0b89d4f6ded6e2 Ericka @Ericka - over 1 year ago
It’s Not 1984
A still from the animated movie based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, 1954. Alamy Stock PhotoGeorge Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 are two of the uncontested classics of 20th-century English literature, the first a satirical fable about the rise, corruption and fall of Sov...continued
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C1e15b7459468dc79542fc656b7a9fa2 Madalyn @Madalyn - over 1 year ago
Many Happy Returns | History Today
Portrait of  James Francis Edward Stuart, by Antonio David, c.1720. The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo.On 21 February 1713, the Jacobite claimant to the throne of Britain and Ireland, James Francis Edward Stuart, left France to find refuge in the neighbouring ...continued
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6fbf27ec08c2f7663e39dc017353475e Josiah @Josiah - about 3 years ago
The First Soviet in Ireland
The burgeoning Soviet Union and the nascent Irish Republic seemed to give inspiration to each other, despite – or maybe precisely because of – the peculiar mixes of class and national interests they shared. Lenin, who reportedly spoke English with an Irish accent, was an ...continued
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24f317f89bef5f8cefa430eec1cd2f6d Nestor @Nestor - about 1 year ago
Behind Closed Doors: Women and the Inquisition
Chamber of horrors: An imagined depiction of ‘The Inquisition in Session’ from The Story of Our Christianity, by Frederic M. Bird, 1893. © The Holbarn Archive / Bridgeman ImagesIt is a familiar image: a woman in distress, surrounded by men examining her soul in a dimly li...continued
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769b45cbbba62f6d3aa67bb11e7a293f Raoul @Raoul - over 3 years ago
‘Can’t Tek No More’ | History Today
In 1981 long-standing anger about racism, unemployment and social deprivation broke out into violent protests across many of Britain’s inner cities. It began in Brixton in April, when heavy handed police tactics provoked three days of rioting, and similar outbreaks follow...continued
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6b970372434ca9c9def5abb121107916 Rex @Rex - over 4 years ago
The Press in a Mess
The history of the British press is a tortuous mess, bedevilled by the twin dangers of proprietorial interference and insolvency. A bizarre example can be reconstructed from deep within the annals of the Spectator, 10,000 issues old this month. During a whirlwind two year...continued
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3fb9059c39d0a39c0a9f0cf17b7858fc Priscilla @Priscilla - over 2 years ago
Libraries for All | History Today
The library from the parish of Gorton, one of five bequeathed by Humphrey Chetham in the 1650s, now held at Chetham’s Library in Manchester. Only two of the libraries have survived intact.When the Manchester merchant and financier Humphrey Chetham bequeathed five parish l...continued
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