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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
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Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
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Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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What 5 Simple Stoic Practices Can You Integrate in Your Life?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
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When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
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When Did Britain’s Age of Deference End – and Why?
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Homo Floresiensis: What Do We Know about the Hobbit People?
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
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What Is the Difference Between Candomblé and Umbanda?
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922)
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What Are the Key Influences That Shaped the French New Wave?
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Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
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Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
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7 Museums to Visit in Athens
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland
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The Unknown Artworks of Kahlil Gibran
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The Reconstruction Era: Integrating the American South After the Civil War
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‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
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Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
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Some Day I'll Be an Aerospace Engineer (1967)
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Snapshots of People Posing with Statues : A Cast of Thousands
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Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959
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Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
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Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
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6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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Was Alexandre Dumas Black?
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History Today Feed
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)
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Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s
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What is the Relationship Between Politics and Art? 3 Answers
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Overcoming Bias
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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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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Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert...
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Vanity Fair’s Bifurcated Girls: The Article That Introduced America To Girlie Magazines, 1903
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What Led to the Assassination of Emperor Caligula?
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Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s
We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times?
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How Did Hokusai & Hiroshige Become so Famous?
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Ancient Rome Vs Pontus: The Mithridatic Wars (88-63 BCE)
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Is There More to Life Than This? Beyond the Material World
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism)
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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Story of Magic & Heartbreak
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How Does Psychoanalysis Work According to Lacan?
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Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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History Today Feed
The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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JamesHoare
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
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“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
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a year ago
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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One of the central themes of my new book is how the practice of shaving has changed over time and, more importantly, who has been responsible for it. From the second half of the eighteenth century, individual men began to take more responsibility for shaving themselves, helped on...
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
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‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
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‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil?
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
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Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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