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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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Do We Need Passports? Or Borders?
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TheCollector
A Brief History of Money Throughout World History
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TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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How Did Henri Matisse Evolve as an Artist?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Bronze Age Town Found in Saudi Arabian Desert
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How Did the Ancient Egyptian Religion Change Through the Centuries?
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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Morality Explored: Which Ethical Theories Are Best?
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London Continues to Dominate the European Art Market
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How Did Carl Jung Differ from Sigmund Freud?
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
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Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
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How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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TheCollector
What Is the Significance of the Carnegie Libraries?
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Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols
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What Did Averroes Ask Ibn Arabi?
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Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga?
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10 Must-See Pirate Fortresses and Coastal Strongholds Around the World
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4 Controversial Films: What Horrifies Movie Critics?
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What is Deus Ex Machina in Film?
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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What is Hecate’s Relationship with Alchemy?
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What Animals Appear in Shakespeare’s Plays?
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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What Was Che Guevara Doing in Africa?
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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Paintings & Their Cinematic Counterparts: Film Inspired by Art
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UNESCO Creates a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky
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How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema?
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Protein or Propaganda? The Story Behind America’s Love Affair with Milk
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
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Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
2 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
TheCollector
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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Mehrgarh: One of the Oldest Cities in the Indus Valley
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TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
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journal of African cities chapter 9
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
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Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:10
TheCollector
The Role of Money in US Elections: Can We Achieve Fair Campaign Finance?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
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Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
The Forgotten Second Saint Patrick of the Dark Ages
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TheCollector
The Ancient Cities of Sumeria: Eridu & Uruk
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Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
History Today Feed
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
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Pasternak and Stalin: What Was Said?
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:56
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?
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Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Fate and Free Will
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Overcoming Bias
Beware Value Dashboards
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added new pages: Sointula, Johnstone Strait anchorages, and Central coast anchorages. Updated existing pages: added Yuculta and Dent rapids with...
TheCollector
Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Flashbak
Shopping The Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market in 1990
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand...
5 months ago
We’re browsing the stalls at Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, the wold’s largest antiques and second-hand goods market, in Paris, France. Peter Marshall was staying in Noisy-le-Grand in the city’s eastern suburbs when he mooched to the market. Taken on walks around the area and...
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
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Trying to Understand...
The Modern World Is Boring.
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
6 months ago
Where are the heroes and the adventures now?
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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What Are the Principal Sources of Emperor Caligula’s Reign?
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Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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What Are the 5 Tallest Mountains in the World?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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TheCollector
Front Triennial Canceled Due to Lack of Funding
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TheCollector
Philadelphia’s New Harriet Tubman Statue
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Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
over a year ago
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
Wrong Side of...
Your favourite half-British president
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a month ago
We could win bigly by courting Donald Trump
TheCollector
Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Classical Wisdom
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Advice from the Ancients
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TheCollector
Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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TheCollector
6 Must-See Spanish Castles
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History Today Feed
The True Knights Templar
The True Knights Templar
j.hoare
Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
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The True Knights Templar
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Wed, 01/10/2024 - 09:54
TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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TheCollector
The Second Punic War: How Hannibal Almost Conquered Rome
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TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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TheCollector
The Anat Ebgi Gallery Expands to Tribeca
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TheCollector
Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism
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Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place?
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Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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History Today Feed
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:39
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
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a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
TheCollector
Pompeii: Frozen in Time or an Ever-Evolving Landscape?
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What Was the Edo Period of Japan Best Known For?
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TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Soviet Agent: Who Was Richard Sorge?
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Popular Religion in Ancient Egypt: Everything You Need to Know
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TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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TheCollector
Aleister Crowley & the Occult Order of Thelema: The Wickedest Man?
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Flashbak
Looking For Tibet And A Llama At England’s Pestalozzi Children’s Village – 1959 – 1965
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about...
11 months ago
We love to hear from our readers and earlier this year got a call from Len Clarke who told us about his memories of the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in East Sussex, England, in the 1960s. Len had seen an image on Flashback of a group of Tibetan children playing ball at the...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
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Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
3 months ago
On the Spot: Alice Hunt
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
11 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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Classical Wisdom
A Book 100 Years in the Making
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
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Dear Classical Wisdom Reader,
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
TheCollector
What Were the Seven Ecumenical Councils?
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TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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TheCollector
Fiction vs Fantasy: What’s the Difference?
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Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947)
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
9 months ago
Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster?
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TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism
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TheCollector
What is Writer Gustave Flaubert Known For?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
An In-Depth Guide to the Army of the Seleucid Empire
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TheCollector
7 Fascinating Facts About the Vestal Virgins
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TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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Flashbak
Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’ – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
History Today Feed
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
JamesHoare
Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:14
TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History
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TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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TheCollector
What Makes Yinka Shonibare’s African Fabrics Unique?
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TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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Open Culture
Watch the Sex Pistols’ Christmas Party for Kids–Which Happened to Be Their Final Gig in the UK...
I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a...
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I’m not sure the Sex Pistols had “available for children’s parties” on their press release, but on a cold and grim Christmas in 1977, that’s exactly what happened. While many Britons were settling in for a warm yuletide, the Pistols decided to host a party/benefit for the...
History Today Feed
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
a month ago
How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
Trying to Understand...
Ukraine and the end of "Europe."
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
over a year ago
Nation-states were the problem: supranationality was not the answer.
TheCollector
The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Flashbak
London at Night : Harold Burdekin Photographs A City Between Life And Eternity
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his...
2 months ago
London looked better at night in these pictures by Harold Burdekin (1899-1944). With his collaborator John Morrison, Burdekin photographed London after dark for his book London Night, published in 1934. A year earlier, the photographer George Brassaï had published his influential...
TheCollector
The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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Flashbak
A Shagtastic Tour of Swinging Britain in 1967
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of...
7 months ago
Among British Pathé’s newsreel films made for UK cinemas up until 1970 vis this wonderful time of Swinging Britain capsule from 1967. Shot on 35mm film and backed by the lilting holiday camp music, a narrator these videos are not a little kitsch. In Swinging Britain we take an...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
African History...
Kingdoms at the forest's edge: a history of Mangbetu (ca. 1750-1895)
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has...
7 months ago
The northern region of central Africa between the modern countries of D.R.Congo and South Sudan has a long and complex history shaped by its internal cultural developments and its unique ecology between the savannah and the forest. Among the most remarkable states that emerged in...
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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TheCollector
Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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TheCollector
What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins)
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History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
a month ago
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
a month ago
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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History Today Feed
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
2 weeks ago
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
JamesHoare
Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:36
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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TheCollector
10 English Words Borrowed from Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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11 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II: Government Without States
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly,...
6 months ago
This is the second part of our (planned) three part (I) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples raised armies to fight the Romans (and others) in the third through first centuries BC. Last time, we looked at the subsistence basis of these societies...
TheCollector
5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Classical Wisdom
Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
TheCollector
What Was the Kido Butai?
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TheCollector
“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life
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TheCollector
Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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TheCollector
Giorgio Vasari: 11 Facts About The Father of Art History
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
6 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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TheCollector
5 Hero Archetypes You Should Know
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a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
a year ago
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Patterns in Humanity
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And
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You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism: Is Capitalism Compulsory?
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Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
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An Ancient Ramses II Bust Returned to Egypt
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
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8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
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Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
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The Surprising Alliances Between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons
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5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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7 Scientific Tools Archaeologists Use to Uncover the Viking World
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
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The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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How Jacopo Tintoretto Defined the Renaissance in Venice
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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The ‘Experts’ from Afghanistan
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10 Extraordinary Symbolist Artists: From Munch to Moreau
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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What Caused the Dancing Plague?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
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This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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Should We Be More Naked?
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Will There Be “Crazy” People?
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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10 London Museums You Should Visit
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Dr Alun Withey
The Troublesome Gibbet of John Haines, the ‘Wounded Highwayman’ of Hounslow.
For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the...
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For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about...
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How Did Henri Matisse’s Travels Influence His Art?
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Slavoj Zizek on the 2 Types of Violence
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Rocketry Though the Ages (1959)
This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and...
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This book has really nice rocket illustrations. Each painted images takes you through history and into the anticipated near future. I blogged about this in 2010, so a more complete scan seemed good. Also having the text that goes with each page is a plus, yea for flatbed...
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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Radical Conservatives and the Federal Union
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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What Are the Six Labors of Theseus?
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
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12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
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Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
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Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
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Should you be Skeptical of Ads? Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Consumerism
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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a brief note on the role of Africans in the early Islamic expansion
an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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an African kingdom in southern Italy.
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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