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How French Was Medieval England?
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‘The End of Enlightenment’ by Richard Whatmore review
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
j.hoare
Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Plutarch and Pleasure
a year ago
TheCollector
The History of Porto & 21 Amazing Historic Sites You Should Visit
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4 months ago
TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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3 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
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a year ago
Flashbak
Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
8 months ago
From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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a month ago
Flashbak
Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
3 months ago
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
TheCollector
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition: What is an Active Life?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Enuma Elish: Discover the Babylonian Poem of Creation
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a year ago
TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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4 weeks 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...
TheCollector
Edward IV: The Life of a Man Who Was King Twice
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
6 months ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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a month ago
TheCollector
Homo Habilis: The First Humans?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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a year ago
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Putting Mothers on Death Row
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
TheCollector
Attritional Warfare: Stalemate on the Western Front During WWI
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
3 weeks ago
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
Trying to Understand...
How About a Victory for the Left Occasionally?
Here are a few modest ideas.
a year ago
Here are a few modest ideas.
Patterns in Humanity
Recidivism in Norway
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
6 months ago
Did rehabilitation reforms dramatically reduce Norwegian recidivism?
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Pablo Picasso’s Composition Techniques Explained Through 6 Works
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Tragedy of Ajax
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
7 months ago
Greece's Second Greatest Soldier?
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War
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8 months ago
TheCollector
10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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a year ago
TheCollector
“Singular” Spanish Painting Reappears After Vanishing in 1890
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
What Is Anti-Natalism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Early Years of Jesus
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Last Chance!
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History?
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
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11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Historical Places to Visit in Cornwall
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
TheCollector
What Do Anti-Natalists Say About Existence and Consent?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
The Scramble for Africa: How Europe Conquered a Continent
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5 months ago
African History...
A complete history of the old city of Gao ca. 700-1898.
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
5 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 12
TheCollector
The Louvre As a Civil Party in the Case Against Its Former Director
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a year ago
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire?
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
TheCollector
The State of Franklin? A Forgotten Almost-State in the US
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4 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Love, love, love
10 months ago
Global Inequality...
Three steps to freedom
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
10 months ago
Secessionism and the collapse of Communist federations
TheCollector
What Does Alice Represent in Alice in Wonderland?
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Trip (1958)
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made...
a year ago
Some of you are familiar with the Ley-Polgreen 4 book "Adventures in Space series (Man-Made Satellites, Space Pilots, Space Stations and Space Travel)."
This is about a 4 book space series you may never have seen. Michael Chester and William Nephew also did a great series of...
TheCollector
Napoleon’s Hundred Days: The French Emperor’s Brief Return to Power
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century) What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
TheCollector
Daniel Boone: The Life & Legend of an American Pioneer
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Solipsism?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Battle at Chosin Reservoir: Turning Point in the Korean War
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World
War Stoppers and God Makers
8 months ago
War Stoppers and God Makers
TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
6 Cultural Trends That Defined the Roaring Twenties
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part I
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review...
2 weeks ago
This week, I want to talk a bit about the recent release of Gladiator II. Now I’ve written a review of the film for Foreign Policy, which you can find here (behind the paywall). I also discussed it with Jason Herbert and Sarah Bond over at Historians at the Movies, which is a...
TheCollector
What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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a year ago
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13 Logical Fallacies from Aristotle’s ‘Sophistical Refutations’
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a year ago
TheCollector
Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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4 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Was Jerome of Stridon?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Empedocles
The Philosopher God?
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did the Inca Master Textile Art?
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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3 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Funny Pictures Magazine May (1976)
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue...
a year ago
Another children's magazine from Russia. I enjoy the space pictures and the simple art. This issue has a nice space story comic.
Весёлые Картинки (Funny Pictures.) ( Komsomol “Veselye Kartinki”.) nr. 4, April 1976.
TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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a year ago
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How Napoleon Redefined French Artillery During the Napoleonic Wars
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5 months ago
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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4 months ago
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Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Hidden Gem for Animal Lovers
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5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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5 months ago
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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7 months ago
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5 Legendary European Theater Directors You Should Know
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8 months ago
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5 Female Heroes of World War II
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9 months ago
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6 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Salem Witch Trials
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a year ago
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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4 months ago
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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a year ago
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The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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a year ago
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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4 months ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
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10 months ago
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