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A59a299a48e660a4cad891f05afdefa8 Geovany @Geovany - over 3 years ago
Just a Book? | History Today
Ensconced in his Virginia estate, Thomas Jefferson had a secret project. It called for Enlightenment values, biological adhesives and a penknife. For decades Jefferson, the primary drafter of the Declaration of Independence, set his mind to producing another text: his own...continued
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C8fdc7c246b9dd38f4ef160727d6eec5 Monserrat @Monserrat - over 3 years ago
Breaking Time’s Arrow | History Today
‘Historians were key architects of empire’, writes Priya Satia, in her meditative, intensive and sweeping critique of the discipline of history. Questions of agency and intention have long been at the heart of historical explanation and critique, but Satia wishes to expos...continued
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1adaf62f6727e453ef8e84f05a069975 Oren @Oren - almost 4 years ago
‘Manless Climbing’ | History Today
Shiela Grant Duff was 21 and fresh out of university when she witnessed the violence that followed the Saar plebiscite in 1935. ‘The Nazis can tell their enemies by their eyes’, she wrote in her report for the Observer, warning of the German people’s growing support for N...continued
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5f2a5d252075b249ec8e8890761ce609 Arvid @Arvid - over 3 years ago
New Year’s Revolutions | History Today
For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 1949 was the year of liberation from foreign oppression and feudal backwardness: the beginning of New China, an optimistic vision shared by many non-communists. For their opponents, the year represented the loss of China, as Chiang Ka...continued
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A6c0c46e61817f7ae594dd513e06b21d Elliott @Elliott - over 3 years ago
An Odious Story | History Today
Some 75 years after their demise, Hitler and the Third Reich are arguably bigger business now than they have ever been. Their story still dominates television history, while popular history publishing is seemingly as dependent as ever on repackaging and reselling the bale...continued
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041490c94bd26a3efdf85d49d9b013ba Alexie @Alexie - almost 4 years ago
The Spy who Loved | History Today
In 1989, as the twice-decorated KGB agent Colonel Ursula Kuczynski shored up the floundering GDR at public rallies in East Berlin, British spy writers turned to tired cliches. ‘Agent Sonya’, wrote Chapman Pincher, had ‘no doubt, obliged her comrades with some easy sex.’ T...continued
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69ab36bf73ce82cc3579c8f2504f3bac Gregoria @Gregoria - almost 3 years ago
What Chips did Next | History Today
The second volume of the unexpurgated diaries of the parliamentarian and social butterfly Chips Channon covers the period spanning Chamberlain’s meeting with Hitler in October 1938 to the fall of Mussolini in July 1943. Channon not only records momentous world events, but...continued
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37ec91099450fc2fc637c77e78953759 Anderson @Anderson - over 2 years ago
Normal Normans? | History Today
For many, the Normans epitomise the medieval period: known today for their actions as conquerors, castle-builders, kings and warriors, our perceptions of this most prominent of medieval peoples continue to shape our understanding of European history between 900 and 1200.H...continued
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Ac7d6ae4836b778c0e45d9f73deed0cb Delia @Delia - almost 3 years ago
In the Thick of It
In this highly readable series of essays, the American foreign correspondent Virginia Cowles chronicles her coverage of European conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Britain’s ‘Invasion Weekend’ of 1941. First printed that year and a bestseller, this reissue opens with...continued
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3917a54ef2e71f0b2d57dd0d63e0f2fb Cameron @Cameron - over 3 years ago
The Invisible | History Today
The First World War centenary gave us a better understanding of the vast contribution made by the Indian Army to that conflict. The focus, though, was on the soldiers and little was made of the thousands of Indians who travelled to France and Mesopotamia as ‘followers’ an...continued
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7bcb1d07c0ef7a8d3ef21a145cb66a5c Giovanni @Giovanni - over 3 years ago
All Change | History Today
‘There had been dramatic changes in outlook in the course of this remarkable century’, writes Margarette Lincoln in her vast and vivid account of the 100 years that took London from the Gunpowder Plot to the Toleration Act, through civil wars, plague and fire, terrorism a...continued
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F83221f06565aed5272a3e729d6efe18 Alexander @Alexander - about 3 years ago
Beginning at the End | History Today
Picture a little girl clinging to the legs of her childhood hero. The man is long dead, so she holds on to his crumbling bronze image. The statue is battered and dented; somebody has sawn off its head. The wry smile underneath the fatherly moustache is gone, so is the mir...continued
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B4a2c9b63fd68a080a47d2a35293e167 Webster @Webster - almost 3 years ago
Half a Life | History Today
This memoir by one of the world’s foremost philosopher-economists promises enormous intellectual delights, until one sadly discovers that it trails off in 1964, well before his receiving the Nobel Prize or his reign as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. What it does of...continued
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54935a891902e2aabfc16d0ef9ab31da Americo @Americo - over 3 years ago
Rebels in Rubber Soles | History Today
He was known at different times and in different places – from Singapore to West Ealing – as Nguyen Tat Thanh, Nguyen Ai Quoc, Bac Ho, or simply ‘Bac’, meaning ‘uncle’. He was a poet, journalist and political agitator. In June 1919 Nguyen Ai Quoc (‘Nguyen the Patriot’) ci...continued
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B4a2c9b63fd68a080a47d2a35293e167 Webster @Webster - over 3 years ago
Forging Ahead | History Today
Our ability to judge a medieval charter’s authenticity is comparatively new, dating from the advent, in the 19th century, of the study of the development of medieval script and of charters’ formulaic, legal language. Early medieval attempts at forgery, with their generall...continued
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Ed258c85465a50dee9e6425ecf24849d Wilmer @Wilmer - over 2 years ago
Scotland Too | History Today
Scotland’s involvement with transatlantic slavery has become increasingly well known in recent years, but remains something of a controversial topic. Some Scots still prefer to characterise the history of their nation in terms of victimhood (of English imperialism), while...continued
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F8901f0cff3b25b34627127dbc99fb89 Allene @Allene - about 3 years ago
Things, Many and Varied | History Today
On the founding of the Society of Indexers in 1957, prime minister Harold Macmillan took time out of his busy day to write a letter of support, in which he shared some of his favourite anecdotes about indexes (in his defence, his grandfather was the founder of the Macmill...continued
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1f7b605070774dac8bb3c859143de9d2 Jeffrey @Jeffrey - over 3 years ago
Ghetto Girls | History Today
Judy Batalion introduces her groundbreaking study of Polish resistance against the Nazis by describing her 12-year search for the Jewish women who played a vital role. What she uncovers, in excoriating and poignant detail, are the stories of the ‘ghetto girls’ who paid of...continued
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1a4d3a462311ba36d913731c2e16402c Pablo @Pablo - over 3 years ago
Turn on, Tune in, Fight Back
Southern Africa was among the last battlefields of the Cold War, a region where colonialism dug in its heels, eager to outlive its day. Whether it was the Zimbabwe African National Union’s armed struggle in Rhodesia, the Nelson Mandela-led ANC’s fight against Apartheid in...continued
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3c59b35923f7f5e6a11c533088a15138 Jessika @Jessika - over 3 years ago
Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be
How did Elizabethan England produce someone like Shakespeare? Glyn Parry and Cathryn Enis look for answers in the politically charged and financially precarious world of Stratford-upon-Avon. Life here in the 1570s and 1580s shows how legal administration, family ties, cre...continued
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Ed258c85465a50dee9e6425ecf24849d Wilmer @Wilmer - almost 4 years ago
On the Spot: Natalie Zemon Davis
Why are you a historian of the early modern period?I like the interchange between new religious and social forms and traditional ones; and the expansion of contact between European and non-Europeans. What’s the most important lesson history has taught you? Never give up h...continued
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F8901f0cff3b25b34627127dbc99fb89 Allene @Allene - 11 months ago
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
Why are you a historian of the 18th century?I began to study the ‘long’ 18th century for the challenge of researching a period that was comparatively understudied.What’s the most important lesson history has taught you?Not to rush to judgement.Which history book has had t...continued
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Bcc328421e41493288f095ab9a711673 Roger @Roger - about 4 years ago
On the Spot: Sujit Sivasundaram
Why are you a global historian? Because I was born and educated in Sri Lanka, which was a magnet for a range of global forces and invaders. What’s the most important lesson history has taught you? The past has not gone.  Which history book has had the greatest influence o...continued
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292890d964de1c8eba1a56fae0ed91c0 Alexzander @Alexzander - 11 months ago
On the Spot: Chris Clark
Why are you a historian of 19th-century Europe?I began as a passionate medievalist, so it was a long journey to the 19th century. Once I got there, it wouldn’t let me go.What’s the most important lesson history has taught you?That there is always more than one perspective...continued
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Dd00644dc8212e2e9fd2e6ce7a756bbf Jerrold @Jerrold - about 4 years ago
The Death of Seneca | History Today
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher, orator, politician and tutor to the Emperor Nero, stands in a bowl of warm water, preparing for death. Though retired from public life, the Spanish-born ‘Roman Socrates’ had been implicated in the Pisonian Conspiracy of AD 65 agai...continued
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