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Felicita
@Felicita -
about 1 year ago
Deaf Expression in Renaissance Art
Ceiling of the Choir in St Maria del Popolo, Rome, by the deaf artist Bernardino di Betto, 15th century. Bridgeman Images.Throughout his long career, Leonardo da Vinci kept a series of notebooks in which he jotted down his thoughts about art to help future students. These...continued
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Muriel
@Muriel -
over 3 years ago
Animal Attraction | 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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Juliet
@Juliet -
over 2 years ago
On the Ballot | History Today
Covent Garden Market during the Westminster election, by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin, c.1810. Alamy.On 18 July 1872 ‘An Act to amend the Law relating to Procedure at Parliamentary and Municipal Elections’ received the royal assent. Known as the ‘Ballot Ac...continued
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Ericka
@Ericka -
26 days ago
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
Like many Egyptologists, the Ptolemies make me rather uncomfortable. It is a cliché to say that the Ptolemaic period (323-30 BC) has been thought of as too Egyptian for most classicists and too Greek for many Egyptologists. Much has been written about the period from both...continued
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Liliane
@Liliane -
about 3 years ago
Paranormal Politics | History Today
Epworth Rectory, 19th century. Alamy.On the first day of December 1716 one of the Wesley family’s maids heard groans in the rectory. She described them as sounding like someone on the point of death. It was the first appearance of the ghost that for four months would haun...continued
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Jimmy
@Jimmy -
almost 4 years ago
Madam Butterfly and the Forging of Japanese Identity
Rosina Storchio in the first production of Madam Butterfly at La Scala, Milan, 1904 © Lebrecht Music & Arts/Bridgeman Images.The broad outlines of Japan’s historical encounters with western culture are well known. They began with the arrival of Jesuit priests from Por...continued
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Minnie
@Minnie -
over 2 years ago
The Maid Who Restored the Monarchy
Anne Monck, from an 18th-century copy of a contemporary engraving. Florilegius/Alamy.In the early months of 1660 the taciturn West Country soldier George Monck held the fate of the British Isles in his hands. Oliver Cromwell was dead and the British republic had descended...continued
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Alvah
@Alvah -
over 1 year ago
A Life of Retirement | History Today
Portrait from a shrine, Faiyum, c.100 AD. Bridgeman Images.Nothing really prepares you for the moment when your drive through the arid desert is interrupted by the looming presence of an oasis. Leaving Cairo, the road takes you 40 minutes southwest through a desolate land...continued
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Alexie
@Alexie -
over 2 years ago
Frederick Douglass on Tour | History Today
Frederick Douglass, c.1855. Bettmann/Getty Images.A striking figure and powerful stage presence, the 27-year-old Frederick Douglass embarked on a tour of Britain and Ireland in the summer of 1845, soon after the publication of his incendiary autobiography Narrative of the...continued
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Jarod
@Jarod -
over 3 years ago
The Chosen Peoples | History Today
Menasseh ben Israel, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636 © akg-images.Members of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Society gathered in London in February 1906 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the readmission of Jews into England, which took place during the Protectorate of Olive...continued
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Roger
@Roger -
almost 2 years ago
Save Your Ass | History Today
Protests against US involvement in Angola, 22 January 1976 © CSU Archives/Everett Collection/Bridgeman Images.Richard Bissell, the CIA’s former Deputy Director for Plans (DDP) was called to testify in front of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations w...continued
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Izaiah
@Izaiah -
over 3 years ago
Salamis: the Battle that Made History
The Battle of Salamis, 19th-century engraving © akg-images.The atmosphere was febrile. For years the enemy had been constructing roads, stockpiling food, carrying out reconnaissance, cementing alliances with key territories in northern Greece and trumpeting their preparat...continued
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Anderson
@Anderson -
over 5 years ago
The Book That Can’t Be Read
The past is full of unsolved mysteries. Gaps in the historical record leave countless details unknown and tantalising puzzles to be solved. Some puzzles, however, seem to fall more readily into the preserve of enthusiasts – or ‘scholar adventurers’, as Richard D. Altick t...continued
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Leda
@Leda -
over 3 years ago
Asia’s Great Survivors | History Today
Prince Bhumibol and King Ananta Mahidol, 1945 © Ullstein Bild/Getty Images. The 20th century was a difficult one for Asia’s monarchies. Colonial rule, nationalist movements and Communist revolution resulted in the abolition of many figureheads, while most of those that su...continued
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Allene
@Allene -
almost 3 years ago
Fake Views | History Today
Plates from an album of spirit photographs, attributed to Frederick Hudson, 1872 © Topfoto.The fact that photographs can be manipulated is familiar and everyday to us now, but, when photography was in its infancy, this revolutionary new technology appeared almost magical ...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
over 1 year ago
What Happens Back Home | History Today
Jamaican men, many of them former RAF servicemen, disembark Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, 22 June 1948. Alamy Stock Photo.In September 1947, Caribbean politicians and British colonial officials met at a conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Those gathered at the Confere...continued
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Alexie
@Alexie -
almost 5 years ago
The First Shots in the Irish War of Independence
On a quiet road in Tipperary, more than 100 years ago, the 20th century’s first truly national revolt against the British Empire began. It was started by a small band of armed men from the vicinity of Tipperary Town – Donohill, Soloheadbeg and Hollyford. The Soloheadbeg a...continued
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Giovanni
@Giovanni -
over 1 year ago
The Year of the Four, Five, Six Emperors
Vitellius led through the streets of Rome by the people, by Georges Rochegrosse, 1883. CPA Media Pte Ltd/ Alamy Stock PhotoDuring the Roman Empire, outbreaks of civil war (and the assassinations which often preceded them) were generally intended to change the emperor, not...continued
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Ismael
@Ismael -
over 1 year ago
Queens of the Crusades | History Today
Battle between Amazons, led by Queen Penthesilea, and Greeks, led by Achilles, from Li livre des ansienes estoires, c.1285. Bridgeman ImagesThe Crusades may seem to be an undertaking for men. Medieval European Christians called them ‘pilgrimages’ (a penitential journey to...continued
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Kristina
@Kristina -
about 3 years ago
By the Grace of God and No One Else
Oliver Cromwell has been the subject of historical attention for centuries, from Hanoverian hostility, through Victorian veneration to revisionist re-examination. As Ronald Hutton acknowledges, this raises the question of whether we need another study of the Lord Protecto...continued
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Alexie
@Alexie -
about 3 years ago
Devadatta in Hell | History Today
Mara, the spirit of evil, tells the Buddha it is time to die and Ananda asks the Buddha three times to remain on earth, from The Life of the Buddha, Burmese, c.1800-20 © British Library Board/Bridgeman Images.In the stories of the Buddha’s life there are two villains. The...continued
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Moises
@Moises -
over 3 years ago
On the Money | History Today
James and Audrey Callaghan shopping in an experimental decimal coinage supermarket, 12 May 1967 © Albert McCabe/Hulton Getty Images.The UK abandoned its ancient coinage of pounds, shillings and pence (£sd) 50 years ago. A new decimal currency was introduced on 15 February...continued
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Cameron
@Cameron -
about 3 years ago
Turning Point: the End of the French Empire
Roosevelt and Churchill seated on the quarter deck of HMS Prince of Wales, 10 August 1941. Imperial War Museum, London.On 9 August 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met aboard the HMS Prince of Wales in Little Placentia Sound just o...continued
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Ryleigh
@Ryleigh -
over 3 years ago
Now We Can See | History Today
In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus defied the Gods and brought fire to mankind. He saved man from darkness, but paid for it cruelly: fastened to a rock, every day an eagle would consume his liver, which would regrow overnight. Millennia later, he would become, in th...continued
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Ryleigh
@Ryleigh -
almost 3 years ago
In Pursuit of Pith | History Today
Ducks and Flowering Water Plants by a Pond, pith paper painting by Sunqua, c.1820. Alamy.Robert Fortune, the Scottish plant collector who ‘stole’ the secrets of tea from China at the behest of the East India Company, spent a day in Formosa – present day Taiwan – during hi...continued
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