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Joe
@Joe -
over 2 years ago
Legalised Lawlessness | History Today
A search for arms on the Jerusalem-Jaffa Road, 1938. Library of Congress.Historians of the British Empire have a fondness for writing very long books. If the global scale of the subject helps to explain this tendency so, perhaps, does the lure of Gibbonian glory. Jan Morr...continued
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Myles
@Myles -
about 5 years ago
What Counts as a Concentration Camp?
When US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prompted a public debate in June by using the words ‘concentration camps’ to describe detention centres at the southern US border, historians were quick to jump into the fray. Whether or not they agreed with Ocasio-Cortez hin...continued
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Garnet
@Garnet -
over 4 years ago
The State of Myanmar | History Today
In late 2019 Myanmar was summoned to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. A delegation led by Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi attended the hearing in order to defend the state against charges of genocide against the country’s Rohingya minority....continued
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Rex
@Rex -
almost 5 years ago
Cambodia's Crimes Unpunished | History Today
To be Cambodian is to have one’s life touched by the Khmer Rouge. The regime was in power for just three years, eight months and 20 days, but was responsible for an estimated 1.7 million deaths, about a quarter of the population. Forty years after its fall in January 1979...continued
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Muriel
@Muriel -
about 2 months ago
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
In 1866 James Hole, a writer from Leeds, called for ‘a little wholesome despotism’ in tackling the problems of housing the urban working classes. He was not alone in favouring a no-nonsense, top-down approach. ‘You must have little short of a despotism with respect to the...continued
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Cyril
@Cyril -
about 1 year ago
Sun Tzu and the Art of Becoming Famous
Chinese warlord Cao Cao – who wrote one of the earliest military commentaries to Sun Tzu’s Art of War – meeting with politician Hua Xin, Chinese, late 19th-early 20th century. Album/Alamy Stock Photo.Sunzi’s (Sun Tzu) Art of War is rightly seen in China and the West as on...continued
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Rahsaan
@Rahsaan -
10 months ago
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
In September 1945, shortly before his arrest by Allied soldiers, Japan’s wartime prime minister Tōjō Hideki was asked by an American reporter who he considered responsible for the war. ‘You are the victors’, replied Tōjō, ‘and you are able to name him now … But historians...continued
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Jarod
@Jarod -
over 4 years ago
Rediscovering Trans History | History Today
Charles Hamilton, a travelling medicine-seller in 18th-century Somerset, was a dapper, charming suitor, wooing a landlady’s niece and settling into the role of husband until, in 1746, the newlywed bride denounced their marriage as fraudulent. After a Glastonbury jury rule...continued
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Casper
@Casper -
over 1 year ago
Gossip Pages | History Today
Olga in an Armchair, by Pablo Picasso, 1918. Wikimedia CommonsFlorian Illies’ new book is full of gossip. Did you know that Simone de Beauvoir stood Jean-Paul Sartre up on their first date, instructing her sister to go to the café and deliver her apologies to someone who ...continued
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Kari
@Kari -
almost 5 years ago
Politics and Poetry | History Today
Today, we largely think of Persian as the national language of Iran. But this region is merely the core remnant of a once enormous swathe of the Eurasian landmass in which Persian was the lingua franca for nearly 1,000 years. Stretching from the Bosphorus to the Brahmaput...continued
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Giovanni
@Giovanni -
over 1 year ago
From the Protector’s Mouth | History Today
Cromwell in the Battle of Naseby in 1645, by Charles Landseer, 1851. Wikimedia CommonsAmong the most extraordinary figures from English history, Oliver Cromwell stands out for a number of reasons: at the age of 40 in 1640 he was merely a backbench MP and minor gentleman, ...continued
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Hannah
@Hannah -
over 2 years ago
Pirate Voyage | History Today
The Emanuele Accame, 20th century. Alfio Bernabei Personal Collection.Two months before the March on Rome of October 1922, Benito Mussolini was faced with the first antifascist protest outside of Italy, which threatened to derail efforts to present his party as an accepta...continued
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Devin
@Devin -
almost 2 years ago
Kalifornia Dreaming | History Today
Swami Vivekananda, photographed in Chicago, September 1893. On the left (cropped) Vivekananda wrote in his own handwriting: ‘One infinite pure and holy – beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee.’ Wiki Commons.Gwyneth Paltrow would have us believe she discovered...continued
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Mariano
@Mariano -
almost 5 years ago
Pause and Effect | History Today
We send each other millions of faces each day, hoping to press complex emotional tones into waywardly arranged punctuation marks: a colon, a dash, half a bracket, closed if happy, open if sad. This seems like a radical reinvention of these marks, yet the real leap of thou...continued
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Rahsaan
@Rahsaan -
3 months ago
How the South Became Republican
On the evening of 1 August 1952 General Dwight D.Eisenhower, the newly nominated Republican presidential nominee, met with his advisers at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver where his party’s publicity director Robert Humphreys was to present the blueprint for that year’s c...continued
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Garnet
@Garnet -
6 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour | History Today
On 6 June 1984 American audiences watched Ronald Reagan deliver his address on the 40th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. Speaking at Pointe du Hoc, the promontory around three miles west of Omaha Beach captured by American troops on 8 June 1944, the speech was part of a ...continued
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Hulda
@Hulda -
about 2 years ago
Minor Monarchs | History Today
The coronation of Henry VI in Paris, from the Anciennes chroniques d’Angleterre, 15th century. Alamy.Boy kings have often been viewed as paradoxical to medieval ideals of royal rulership. This is thanks, in part, to the longstanding myth that strong, adult kingship equall...continued
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Bart
@Bart -
about 5 years ago
Paris' Problem with the Dead
There’s a scene in the US political thriller House of Cards in which Claire Underwood, played by Robin Wright, goes for a run in a cemetery and, to her shock, is berated for doing so by an elderly woman who is there to mourn. Aside from underlining the moral complexity o...continued
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Eleanora
@Eleanora -
about 1 year ago
The Welfare of Pit Ponies
Britons, we are often told, are an animal-loving people. This comforting national myth has a long pedigree. As far back as 1860 The Times reassured its readers that:‘Whatever may be our shortcomings as a nation ... we have little to blame ourselves with as far as animals ...continued
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Moises
@Moises -
7 months ago
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
The recent controversy at the Garrick Club has shone a fresh light on the question of women being admitted to private members’ clubs. Yet the history of London clubs is not – as is often thought – as simple as men keeping women at bay.London has long been the global ‘capi...continued
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Iva
@Iva -
almost 5 years ago
Park Life | History Today
December 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. The Act created the legal framework for National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and introduced reforms designed to allow greater access to the countryside...continued
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Rahsaan
@Rahsaan -
over 1 year ago
The Life Aquatic | History Today
Sui seung yan boats, Aberdeen Harbour, 1950s. Chronicle / Alamy Stock PhotoIn the late 1950s, the colonial government of Hong Kong decided to conduct a census for the first time since the Second World War. With a territory of just over 1,000 square miles over land and sea...continued
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Allene
@Allene -
over 2 years ago
Lifting the Flap | History Today
Anatomical fugitive sheet, female. Wellcome Collection.We think of reading as a primarily mental activity. Medieval and early modern audiences saw reading as a physical activity as well. They did not just turn the pages of their manuscripts. They wrote in the margins, und...continued
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Manley
@Manley -
3 months ago
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
We like to think that we know what the Second World War was fought for: freedom, democracy and the defeat of Germany and the evils of fascism. Compared to subsequent conflicts, the aims of the war seem self-evident and straightforward. But back in 1939, none of this was c...continued
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Casper
@Casper -
3 days ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
Just over 800 years ago, in the autumn of 1224, a small band of strangely dressed men landed at Dover. They were the first ambassadors in England of a new religious movement that was sweeping across Europe, inspired by the preaching and example of Francis of Assisi. These...continued
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