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Bart @Bart - over 4 years ago

Kingdoms Come Apart | History Today

For more than 30 years, the study of the rebellions and revolution that convulsed the British Isles in the mid-17th century has been dominated by a single line of explanation. It has been focused on the problems faced by the Stuarts in ruling multiple kingdoms differing i...continued

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Giles @Giles - about 2 years ago

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Second Act | History Today

Roosevelt displays a version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1949. Image courtesy of the FDR Presidential Library & Museum.In February 1946 a group of men from the US delegation huddled at the United Nations General Assembly in London, attempting to make ...continued

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Bart @Bart - over 3 years ago

America’s Western Problem | History Today

A Navajo woman and two young men at Ford Defiance, in what was then New Mexico, 1873. Photo by Timothy H O’Sullivan © Getty Images.The end of the American Civil War brought freedom to enslaved labourers in the South, but not to those in the West. Neither of the measures t...continued

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Alvah @Alvah - over 1 year ago

Korea the Kingmaker | History Today

Satirical illustration of the Russo-Japanese War, depicting a Japanese soldier stepping on a Korean as a Russian looks on. By Georges Ferdinand Bigot, Paris, c.1904. Chronicle of World History / Alamy Stock PhotoWhen the Korean peninsula was arbitrarily divided at the 38t...continued

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Wilmer @Wilmer - over 3 years ago

The Fall of Tenochtitlan | History Today

The destruction of Tenochtitlan, Spanish, 16th century © Bridgeman Images.Five hundred years ago, the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan fell. While this anniversary is being commemorated in Spain, Mexico has demanded apologies from the Vatican and from its former colonial master...continued

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Alan @Alan - over 1 year ago

The One True Emperor on Earth

Portrait of Süleyman by Nakkaş Osman, 1579 © Tom Graves Archive/Bridgeman Images.In the spring of 1566, Süleyman, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was old and unwell. He had suffered from gout for more than two decades and was barely able to move. He was not alone – cour...continued

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Ericka @Ericka - over 1 year ago

Asia and Africa Unite | History Today

Place markers in preparation for the Bandung Conference, 1955 © Photo by Howard Sochurek/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock.In April 1955, the young Indonesian state invited the nations of Asia and Africa to unite in Bandung, West Java. Just a decade after the decla...continued

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Geovany @Geovany - almost 3 years ago

A ‘Creative Microhistory’ of a Medieval Manor

A cooking scene, from The Luttrell Psalter. English, c.1330 © British Library Board/Bridgeman Images.Historians have been increasingly interested in the ‘everyday’. The scale of the everyday – in time and in place – offers up opportunities to view the past in ways that ar...continued

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Jeffrey @Jeffrey - over 3 years ago

Here be Dragomans | History Today

A dragoman in an Egyptian temple, 1880s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.A steamer approaches the shores of Palestine in the middle of the 19th century and the Holy Land comes into view: the port of Jaffa and its houses; the plains beyond; and, in the far distanc...continued

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Marjory @Marjory - almost 2 years ago

Roses are Red? | History Today

Left: Edward IV, c.1550 © Philip Mould Ltd, London/Bridgeman Images. Right: Henry VI, c.1540 © National Portrait Gallery, London.An extraordinary event happened at St John’s Field in London on 28 February 1461 – assuming that an anonymous chronicler writing in the late 15...continued

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Gregoria @Gregoria - about 2 years 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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Adelia @Adelia - over 2 years ago

The Other Elizabeth | History Today

Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen of Bohemia, after Michiel van Mierevelt, c.1615 © akg-images.In August 1596 Queen Anna of Denmark provided her two-year-old son Henry with a sister. The proud father, King James VI of Scotland, immediately roped the bairn into his grand strat...continued

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Erik @Erik - 4 months ago

‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review

Tudor and Stuart spies appear to be coming in from the cold this summer. The Cecils – subject of a now-complete trilogy by Stephen Alford – were the most powerful royal ministers for over five decades, a reign begun by William, 1st Baron Burghley and inherited by his son,...continued

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Alvah @Alvah - over 2 years ago

The Unbreakable City | History Today

The Felix Dzerzhinsky tractor factory dispatches DT-54 tractors, 1930s. Getty images.In August 1942 Maria Chuprina had just turned 13. A native of Stalingrad, Maria had spent the first year of war on the Eastern Front going about her business much as normal. While she wor...continued

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Manley @Manley - about 4 years ago

Medicine Woman | History Today

Rollins Pass, Moffat Road, 1906 © Bridgeman Images. The narrative landscape of the American West is defined by stories of endurance, compassion and bravery in the face of seemingly impossible odds. In a small mountain town in the Rocky Mountains, Doc Susie Avenue owes i...continued

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Alexzander @Alexzander - about 1 month ago

‘Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife’ and ‘God’s Own Gentlewoman’ review

Fed up with reading misogynistic texts about the nature of women, written by men, Christine de Pizan decided she could do better. The Book of the City of Ladies, completed around 1405, was the result, becoming her most famous work. The widowed Christine went on to make a ...continued

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Devin @Devin - almost 3 years ago

The Death of an Emperor

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, by Édouard Manet, 1868 © Bridgeman Images.On 19 June 1867, Ferdinand Maximilian faced a firing squad in Mexico. At five in the morning, he heard mass and then had breakfast. Shortly afterwards, carriages arrived to take him and two oth...continued

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Geovany @Geovany - almost 2 years ago

Treason of the Clerics | History Today

The Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, c.1867 © Universal Images Group via Getty Images.History can be hard to erase. Supporters of Delhi’s current ruler, who promises to end the ‘1,200 years of slavery’ that oppressed Hindus have apparently endured at the hands of Muslims, are learn...continued

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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - about 4 years ago

Could the Soviet Union Have Survived?

‘No one has suggested a convincing alternative scenario’Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1988-91) and author of Armageddon and Paranoia: the Nuclear Confrontation (Profile, 2017). People still argue about the fall of the Roman Empire. They are n...continued

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Izaiah @Izaiah - about 3 years ago

Grand Old Scandal | History Today

‘Yorkshire Hieroglyphics’, Plates 1 and 2, March 1809. Metropolitan Museum of Art.Almost exactly 200 years ago the British establishment was rocked by a royal and scandal military that led to the dismissal of the commander-in-chief of the army in the middle of the Napoleo...continued

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Torey @Torey - over 1 year ago

The Gates of the Ghetto

The first Aliyah, early Jewish immigrants to Ottoman Palestine, 1882-1903. World History Arachvie / Alamy Stock Photo.Living and working in what is now Lithuania in the second half of the 19th century, the Russian Jewish writer Moshe Leib Lilienblum was confident that, wi...continued

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Maureen @Maureen - over 1 year ago

The Balkans: Doomed to Disunity?

‘The Balkans, a false note in the European concert’, German cartoon from Der Wahre Jacob, 12 October 1909.On 10 February 1948, Joseph Stalin welcomed the veteran communists Georgi Dimitrov and Edvard Kardelj to the Kremlin. The Red Army’s sweep across Eastern Europe had p...continued

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Cyril @Cyril - about 2 years 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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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - over 3 years ago

East Africa’s Tourist War | History Today

‘Spectacular in Color’ film poster for Serengeti, 1960. Alamy.During a 1960 broadcast of his popular television programme A Place for Animals, the director of Frankfurt Zoo and documentary filmmaker Bernhard Grzimek pulled off one of the biggest bluffs in German televisio...continued

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Emmie @Emmie - over 2 years ago

Under the Influence | History Today

A postcard from Casablanca, with an advertisment for absinthe, undated. Supplied by the author.On 28 June 1913 a decree was introduced in Tozeur, western Tunisia, by the French colonial government. It prohibited the import, sale, consumption and possession of alcohol ‘for...continued

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