Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives. Link ...
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Unpublished Black History
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Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives. Link ...
Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives. Link ...
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Winston Churchill
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Thousands lined the streets to pay their respects to Winston Churchill, in one of Britain’s biggest-ever state funerals, on this day in 1965. Did you know the former prime minister had a patchy school record and was one of the first adopters of the onesie?
Elizabeth Cromwell
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In 1661, Oliver Cromwell's corpse was exhumed from Westminster Abbey to be ‘executed’ for treason. But what do we know about his wife?
historical recipes
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A healthy snack thought to have been enjoyed in Egypt around 3,500 years ago...
fatal accidents in 16th-century England
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"One in 10 fatal accidents in 16th-century England involved animals, and horses and cattle were the prime culprits but birds caused the widest variety of accidents..."
Napoleon's exile to St. Helena
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A thought-provoking article from HistoryToday archive on Napoleon's exile to St Helena in October 1815. Was the tiny Atlantic island an early precursor to Guantanamo Bay?
medieval origins of inflation
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The medieval origins of inflation, and its effect on Tudor England.
The Fall of Fur
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From the height of luxury to fashion faux pas: the rise and fall of the fur coat.
Medmenham: RAF Interpretation Unit in WW2
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Pictures of life at Medmenham, home to the RAF's aerial photo interpreters during the Second World War.
Castlereagh
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Denounced as a murderous tyrant and hissed at during his own funeral procession: few domestic British politicians have been as hated as Viscount Castlereagh, yet he was instrumental in forging Europe's post-Napoleon consensus.
End of the Hundred Years War
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When did the Hundred Years War end? On October 19th, 1453, with the surrender of Bordeaux?
French Peasants in the Hundred Years War
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The Hundred Years War ended on October 19th, 1453, but how did the conflicts impact the lives of French rural communities? An interesting article from our 1983 archive...
Britain’s Willing Imperialists
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Were Victorians proud of the British Empire?
beauty in ancient Rome
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On cosmetics and make-up in ancient Rome.
history cartoons
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An underwhelming reaction to John Logie Baird's 'televisor' demonstration in 1926.
Christopher Columbus's Earth Theory
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The story of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World continues to be accompanied by a persistent and monumental error: that Columbus 'proved' that the earth is round.
Birth of Lewis Carroll
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The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was born on January 27th, 1832.
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