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Remedios Varo: The Surrealist Artist in 7 Works and 7 Facts
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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What Is Populism?
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Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All?
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
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Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
African History...
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.
TheCollector
What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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TheCollector
What Was the Great Migration in the US?
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
They know what they think.
a year ago
They know what they think.
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
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Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the...
4 months ago
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writing – so they will have to wait for next week. It’s not yet clear to me if … Continue...
TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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TheCollector
What Is the Political Structure of the Vatican?
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TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
3 weeks ago
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
TheCollector
Yuefenpai: 8 Facts About the Iconic Chinese Calendar Advertisements
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Global Inequality...
Changes in income distributions in China, India and the United States, 2018-23
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
2 months ago
The effects of covid and the return to “normalcy”
TheCollector
Get to Know Audrey Flack, Icon of Photorealism
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TheCollector
Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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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...
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
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Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
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
Flashbak
42 Various Apocalyptic Scenes from Raphael’s Prophetic Messenger of Astrology (1827–61)
The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the...
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The future is portrayed as dramatic, dangerous and dynamic in these visions published in the astrological magazine The Prophetic Messenger (1827 to 1861). More commonly known as Raphael’s Almanac in a nod to the Jewish archangel Raphael, the name was used a nom de plume by a...
Open Culture
How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra
Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim...
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Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place for that length of time: after the fall of Toledo in 1085, Al-Andalus, as the territory was called, continued to lose cities over...
TheCollector
How Accurate Were the Fight Scenes in Gladiator?
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Flashbak
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country.
A book review from the future.
5 months ago
A book review from the future.
TheCollector
Which Reforms Shaped Ancient Sparta?
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TheCollector
Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II?
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TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
First Nations of the Canadian Northwest: A Brief History
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
TheCollector
4 Places You Must See in Delhi (If You Love Art & History)
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TheCollector
Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology
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Dreams of Space -...
Into Space: Man's First Controlled Space Flight (1961)
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to...
a year ago
A bit of ephemera today. This is a pamphlet from a Revell Model Kit. They issued this kit quickly to take advantage of the excitement about this launch. So they had to include a booklet to explain why this slightly inaccurate model was so special. Imagine opening the model kit...
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
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For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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a year ago
History Today Feed
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
The Lost Tudor Domesday Book
JamesHoare
Tue, 02/20/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Happy Holidays
From Anya, Joel and Frida
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From Anya, Joel and Frida
African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th...
The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
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The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on a global scale in which African travelers were active agents.
TheCollector
Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge
What is True?
8 months ago
History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
JamesHoare
Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
Trying to Understand...
People, States and Borders.
And other dubious ideas.
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Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
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Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
Classical Wisdom
How to Save Democracy
The Importance of the Civic Bargain
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The Importance of the Civic Bargain
TheCollector
Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets
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TheCollector
10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Res Obscura
Margaret Mead, Technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide
The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
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The anthropologist helped popularize both techno-optimism and the concept of existential risk
TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
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“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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Top Aces of World War II: 7 Talented Fighter Pilots
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TheCollector
Who Was Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi?
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TheCollector
These Countries Have the Most World Heritage Sites
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African History...
The kingdom of Ndongo and the Portuguese: Queen Njinga and the dynasty of women sovereigns...
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
a year ago
The effects of early colonial warfare in central Africa
TheCollector
Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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Classical Wisdom
Dionysus
The God of Wine!
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African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of the Old world
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
a year ago
plus: the African discovery of north-western Europe.
TheCollector
Tiffany Stained Glass Window Poised to Set New Auction Record
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TheCollector
The Liberation of Paris in World War II: Did the City Burn?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Battle of Okinawa: The Most Intense Battle of WWII’s Pacific Theater
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Classical Wisdom
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Venice Plan for Damaged Banksy Mural Concerns Locals
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling?
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TheCollector
What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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TheCollector
A Video Interview with Luis Royo: TheCollector Chats with Fantasy Artist
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Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
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TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
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The Death of Clive of India
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
a month ago
The Death of Clive of India
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:55
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
a month ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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a year ago
Flashbak
Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s...
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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TheCollector
Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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TheCollector
How the Nazis Captured the Minds of Germany’s Youth
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TheCollector
Why Are Aristotle’s “Categories” Fundamental to Logic?
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8 months ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
10 months ago
The decline and fall of the print media.
TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous?
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History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
TheCollector
Who Were the Toughest Women in the Old West?
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Classical Wisdom
Spartan Training
The Ultimate Regime
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TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
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10 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The case for a Global Sanctuary City
What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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What if the Syrians can’t return home?
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Organization Todt?
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5 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met
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8 months ago
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