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Marie @Marie - over 2 years ago

When did the Medieval Period End?

‘The medieval persists’: stained glass depicting two minstrels c.1885, attributed to James Egan, a former employee of William Morris. Art Institute of Chicago.‘Humanist scholars certainly thought themselves to be living in a new age’Bridget Heal, Professor of Early Modern...continued

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Rowan @Rowan - almost 5 years ago

What is the Value of Economic History?

Economics is one of the reasons for the lacklustre reputation of economic history Rory Naismith, Lecturer in the History of England before the Norman Conquest, University of Cambridge There is a long-standing tendency to think of ‘the economy’ as a detached yet volatile f...continued

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Roger @Roger - 10 months ago

Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake

‘Small Earthquake in Chile, Not many dead.’ The journalist Claud Cockburn supposedly won a prize for dreaming up this notoriously dull newspaper headline, although it seems never to have been used. In contrast, the very real Valparaiso earthquake of 19 November 1822 was i...continued

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Rahsaan @Rahsaan - over 4 years ago

Disraeli or Churchill? | History Today

In March 1846, at the height of the destructive debate over the repeal of the Corn Laws, the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, rounded on his chief tormentor, Benjamin Disraeli, and asked how it was that if, as Disraeli claimed, he so disapproved of the Government, he had ...continued

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Nestor @Nestor - about 4 years ago

Is the Story of ‘The Few’ More Myth Than Reality?

‘British industry outproduced German fighter output by a wide margin’ Richard Overy, Professor of History at the University of Exeter Embedded in British popular memory of the Second World War is the image of ‘the Few’ of the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain. It i...continued

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Ericka @Ericka - over 2 years ago

Is Algeria Still Defined by its Liberation Struggle?

Soldiers of the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War of Independence, 1958. Museum of African Art (Belgrade)/Wiki Commons.‘The war gave rise to an anti-colonial hyper-memory: one where the fallen are a constant presence’Martin Evans, Professor of Modern Europe...continued

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Alvah @Alvah - almost 5 years ago

A Uighurs’ History of China

Towards the end of 2018 reports began to emerge that China was building a widespread network of compounds in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. It was being used to detain hundreds of thousands of – some estimates suggested over a million – members of the Muslim Uighu...continued

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Roger @Roger - almost 5 years ago

A Uighurs' History of China

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Maureen @Maureen - about 5 years ago

Is it the Duty of Historians to Correct National Mythologies?

History is, to some extent, inescapably nationalist Colin Kidd, Professor of History, University of St Andrews Historians as an academic profession get by without a Hippocratic Oath. There are no prescribed duties. But various market-like mechanisms serve to keep us hones...continued

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Hannah @Hannah - almost 5 years ago

Has Monarchy Had its Day?

With everything changing, what has stayed the same? Kate Maltby, critic, columnist and final year PhD student in the English Department at University College London. ‘For things to stay as they are, everything must change’: the maxim of the aristocrat Tancredi in Lampedus...continued

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Izaiah @Izaiah - over 4 years ago

Why is the Public so Obsessed with the Nazis?

‘The level of fascination leaves many historians scratching their heads’ Roger Moorhouse, Author of First to Fight: the Polish War 1939 (Bodley Head, 2019) The popular obsession with Hitler and the Nazis is at once wholly understandable and rather baffling. On one level...continued

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Kraig @Kraig - over 4 years ago

Why is the Public So Obsessed with the Nazis?

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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - almost 2 years ago

Are ‘Dark Ages’ Inevitable? | History Today

Roundhouse reconstruction at Emain Macha (Navan Fort) near Armagh. Photographed in 2010. Wiki Commons/Notafly.‘The Bronze Age came to a crashing halt around 1200 BC, thanks to a “systems collapse”’James I. Porter, Author of Homer: The Very Idea (University of Chicago Pres...continued

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Allene @Allene - 10 months ago

‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art

A Deptford woman named Annie Parker sat in a dank, cold cell in Kent’s Maidstone Gaol in 1879. Jailed for drunkenness, this was not her first time behind prison bars; of the past 365 days she had spent 350 in prison and, by the time of her death six years later, had been ...continued

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Kraig @Kraig - almost 5 years ago

Is Social Media Good for History?

‘Social media favours the quirky, the visual, the gruesome’ Catherine Fletcher, Professor of History, Manchester Metropolitan University and author of The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance (Bodley Head, 2020) At its best, social medi...continued

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Muriel @Muriel - over 5 years ago

Are Empires Always Bad? | History Today

Being part of the Aztec federation was not without its advantages Caroline Dodds Pennock, Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield Stereotyping ‘empire’ as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ is not only deeply flawed and ahistorical, but also misses the fact t...continued

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Jessika @Jessika - over 5 years ago

What are the Enduring Legacies of the American Civil War?

The Civil War left far too much the same Susan-Mary Grant, Professor of American History at Newcastle University In The Gilded Age, the novel that named the postwar era, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had ‘uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the...continued

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Jimmy @Jimmy - over 1 year ago

Armenia’s Eleventh Century | History Today

Ben JonesNow the Seljuk king came with many armed troops and entered our land, spreading fear and terror among those far and near. He trampled on and overturned many lands until he reached the city of Ani. The armed troops made their way over the wall and poured into the ...continued

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Jany @Jany - over 4 years ago

Who’s Afraid of the Stasi?

When one thinks about East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, or Stasi, images spring to mind of a ubiquitous, all-pervading secret police whose tentacles extended into every last nook and cranny of public and private life. For many, the word Stasi will doubtless conj...continued

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Cynthia @Cynthia - about 5 years ago

Are There Any Meaningful Historical Analogies for Brexit?

Simplistic analogies shed far more heat than light Ali Ansari, Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews There are lessons to be learnt from our collective historical experience but what we are witnessing at the moment, in our febrile political atmosphere, is ...continued

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Geovany @Geovany - about 5 years ago

Is There Still Value in ‘Great Man’ History?

Big Beasts are especially good at changing a general mood in society Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford University and author of Thomas Cromwell: a Life (Allen Lane, 2018) Having written a couple of biographies of Tudor chaps, I’m well-dis...continued

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Elody @Elody - almost 4 years ago

Books of the Year 2020

‘A bold story of a society dramatically different from our own’ Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Author of Valkyrie: Women of the Viking World (Bloomsbury, 2020). Neil Price’s The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings is a wide-ranging and engaging account o...continued

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Gregoria @Gregoria - over 2 years ago

Potted Histories | History Today

Monstera deliciosa Liebm, specimen collected by E. Kerber, May 1883. National Museum of Natural History/Smithsonian Collections.House plants are big business. In 2019 US trade was valued at $1.7 billion. The industry originates from a historical convergence of tropical bo...continued

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Izaiah @Izaiah - about 2 years ago

Survival of the Least Fit

Poster of the ‘Birth of the Soviets and the Different Organs of Soviet Power’, depicting the hierarchical organisation of Soviet Power, c. 1920. LSE Library.The era of large tomes about Russia has given way to shorter overviews, often with a personal narrative bias. The h...continued

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Myles @Myles - about 1 year ago

The Rise and Fall of Mein Kampf

Foyles employees use copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf to protect their room from possible German bombs, London, 5 September 1939. Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.Books hold a special power. We read, we buy or borrow, we support public libraries and campaign to k...continued

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