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Zetta
@Zetta -
18 days ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
On 30 May 1697 King William III of England received an extraordinary letter from his favourite of three decades, fellow Dutchman Hans Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland. Bentinck wrote:Sire … the kindness that you have for a young man and the way it seems to authorize these f...continued
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Teagan
@Teagan -
about 1 month ago
Calling Time on BC and AD
It is obvious to say that the orthodox dating convention of Before Christ (BC) and Anno Domini (AD), Latin for ‘In the year of our Lord’, are constructs which have framed the passing of our daily lives and how we record the events therein for more than 1,000 years. Yet BC...continued
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Rowan
@Rowan -
about 4 years ago
August Quiz
[unable to retrieve full-text content]August QuizHistory Today What was Roman Fever? When was the Black Panther party founded?Source: History Today Feed
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Ericka
@Ericka -
11 months ago
The Flies, Fleas and Rotting Flesh of Medieval Monks
In December 1170, in the hours after the shocking murder of Thomas Becket, the monks of Canterbury Cathedral prepared his body for burial. While doing so, they made a surprising discovery: the archbishop, a former courtier who was not particularly known for his piety, was...continued
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Cynthia
@Cynthia -
7 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial | History Today
In mid-June 1725 the Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer published a list of noteworthy London deaths over the previous week: three drowned, one who fell from a cart, one killed with a sword, and a child ‘overlain’ – a co-sleeping accident. Unusually, someone was also ‘Pr...continued
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Elaina
@Elaina -
18 days ago
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin
Civilian violence in wartime reveals what is usually hidden in people’s lives: the fault lines in families and communities pushed to the brink by the pressures of conflict. In London during the Second World War, the city’s residents struggled to cope with the blackouts, t...continued
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Cameron
@Cameron -
7 months ago
The Golden Age of Medieval Nostalgia
‘In my day, the kingdom was as good and as full as an egg.’ So the late-14th-century knight Philippe de Mézières expressed his longing for the old days: ‘Things have changed a lot I feel’, he mourned, plaintively. It is an odd image, but a very recognisable sentiment; nos...continued
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Jeffrey
@Jeffrey -
16 days ago
Edward VII’s Forgotten Colonial Conflicts
The British Empire saw peaks and troughs of violence. The early Edwardian period, from 1901 to 1905, was one of the peaks. During the first five years of the reign of Edward VII about three dozen colonial conflicts were reported in The Times, while many more went unreport...continued
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Elaina
@Elaina -
almost 5 years ago
History Today Quiz: October
[unable to retrieve full-text content]History Today Quiz: OctoberHistory Today Who – or what – was Martha? What was founded by Octavia Hill in 1895?
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Izaiah
@Izaiah -
almost 5 years ago
History Today Quiz: November
[unable to retrieve full-text content]History Today Quiz: NovemberHistory Today Which presidents are depicted on Mount Rushmore? Who apologised for dying?
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Zackery
@Zackery -
8 months ago
Sand War: The Cold War in North Africa
On 25 September 1963 Moroccan army units, numbering around a thousand men, crossed into Algeria and seized the two border posts of Hassi Beida and Tindjoub, escalating a crisis which had been simmering since Algerian independence in July 1962. In the following days both c...continued
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Jaydon
@Jaydon -
4 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Anabob, Town and Country Magazine reminded its readers in 1771, ‘is a person who in the East-India Company’s service has by art, fraud, cruelty, and imposition obtained the fortune of an Asiatic prince and returned to England to display his folly and vanity and ambition’....continued
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Jessika
@Jessika -
over 4 years ago
Christmas Quiz
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Christmas QuizHistory Today What tradition did Martin Luther begin? In what year was ‘Good King Wenceslas’ assassinated?
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Priscilla
@Priscilla -
almost 5 years ago
December Quiz
[unable to retrieve full-text content]December QuizHistory Today Who was the ‘Father of History’? Do you know which was the first city to be bombed from the air?
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Rahsaan
@Rahsaan -
about 5 years ago
History Today Quiz: September
[unable to retrieve full-text content]History Today Quiz: SeptemberHistory Today Test your history knowledge in the monthly History Today quiz.
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Webster
@Webster -
over 4 years ago
Don’t Be Evil
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Don’t Be EvilPaul Lay A warning housed in one of the jewels of the Italian Renaissance is as pertinent now as ever.
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Teagan
@Teagan -
over 4 years ago
March Quiz
[unable to retrieve full-text content]March QuizHistory Today How long was the presidency of William Henry Harrison? Which country lasted only one day?
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Bart
@Bart -
10 months ago
First World War: The Fight on the Home Front
Trench warfare, attrition, the dominance of artillery, the consumption of shells and the need for tanks: these are the outward manifestations of war waged between industrialised societies. Such societies are capable of applying advanced technologies to mass production, eq...continued
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Kristina
@Kristina -
6 months ago
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
In December 1952 a man named Cecil Robins – also known as Robin and described, cryptically, as a ‘fashion supervisor’ – appeared in court in Lisburn, a town on the periphery of Belfast. Robins was charged with ‘acts of gross indecency’ involving a 19-year-old soldier at a...continued
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Elliott
@Elliott -
about 5 years ago
History Today Quiz: August
[unable to retrieve full-text content]History Today Quiz: AugustHistory Today Test your history knowledge in our monthly quiz.
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Eleanora
@Eleanora -
over 4 years ago
February Quiz
[unable to retrieve full-text content]February QuizHistory Today Which president appears on the $5,000 bill? When was the Reichstag Fire?
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Marjory
@Marjory -
3 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
In 1898 – some 12 years before it was subsumed into the Union of South Africa – the Cape Colony held what would be the most factious and divisive election in its history. What was more, it was an election that saw the mining magnate and self-professed racist Cecil John Rh...continued
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Alan
@Alan -
9 months ago
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Ancient writers could think of no more compelling a villain than an ambitious queen. Stories about men of virtue and the women who tried to bring them down were so popular that historians sometimes seem to have made them up. Such narratives are as old as that of Queen Jez...continued
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Rowan
@Rowan -
3 months ago
Robert the Bruce: Born To Be King?
Robert Bruce, future king of Scots, was born 750 years ago on 11 July 1274. The date, we know – as do we know that he entered an aristocratic world in which, since the late 11th century, ‘English’ and ‘Scottish’ noble houses had held lands and, just like their respective ...continued
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