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Bart @Bart - over 4 years ago

July Quiz

[unable to retrieve full-text content]July QuizHistory Today Who was the first and only prime minister to be assassinated? How many people were in the Council of Ten?Source: History Today Feed

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Zetta @Zetta - 3 months 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 - 4 months 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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Abbie @Abbie - about 1 month ago

Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling | History Today

Tasked with stemming a growing wave of duels, Montevideo Police Chief Virgilio Sampognaro spared no effort in putting officers on the tail of men he identified as potential duellists or seconds in the hope of frustrating the affairs before they happened. Sampognaro’s goal...continued

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Rowan @Rowan - over 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 - about 1 year 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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Josiah @Josiah - 2 months ago

The Fisk Jubilee Singers Across the Atlantic

Eight years after the abolition of slavery in the United States, a choir of 11 African American singers, almost all of whom had been born into bondage, arrived in London. Hoping to raise money for a new college in Nashville, Tennessee, the Fisk Jubilee Singers undertook a...continued

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Cynthia @Cynthia - 9 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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Alexander @Alexander - 2 months ago

The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels

Following her escape and flight from Lochleven Castle in May 1568 after almost a year’s imprisonment, Mary, Queen of Scots was determined to maintain her royal status. She left Scotland seeking Elizabeth I’s support to regain her crown from the Protestant nobles who had f...continued

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Elaina @Elaina - 3 months 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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Josiah @Josiah - about 1 month ago

The Violent Life of the Medieval Monks

When Abbot Abbo of Fleury agreed to travel to Gascony to advise on the reform of the monastery of La Réole, he would not have expected that his trip would result in his death. Yet in 1004 Abbo was the victim of a fatal accident when a fight broke out between a group of mo...continued

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Cameron @Cameron - 9 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 - 3 months 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 - about 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 - about 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 - 10 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 - 7 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 - almost 5 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 - almost 1 year 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 - 8 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 - over 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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