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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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World War II in Africa: The North African Campaign
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over a year ago
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Summary Of Changes
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6 Greek Gods & Their Role in Homer’s Odyssey
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The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections
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Why Did the Germans Struggle in the Battle of Crete?
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What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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a year ago
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Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
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What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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a year ago
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Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore)
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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The Original Bonfire of the Vanities
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Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Love And War And Status
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How Can Stoicism Influence Decision-Making?
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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This is a 1967 Spanish comic book...
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Celebrating 60 years ago when the first woman went into space.
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In Praise of the Preterite
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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JamesHoare
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 10:41
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Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth?
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What Are the Origins of the Word Echo?
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How ASEAN Lost its Way
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Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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British Museum to Digitalize Its Collection
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The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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Mothers of the Ancient World
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Female Hispanic Artists That You Should Know About
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7 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives
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a year ago
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
Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
a year ago
Volcanoes on Tour: Recreating Vesuvius
j.hoare
Fri, 11/24/2023 - 10:14
TheCollector
What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
a month ago
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:36
TheCollector
The Infamous Nanjing Massacre: Here’s What Happened
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10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
7 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Frances Bay, Yuculta and Dent Rapids, Shoal Bay, Port Neville, Telegraph Cove, Port McNeill, Fury Cove, Prince Rupert, B.C. north coast...
TheCollector
Vatican Museums Open Ancient Roman Necropolis
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a year ago
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Klu Klux Klan?
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4 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
Central African Republic: A History of the Wildest State in Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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7 months ago
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories)
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
a month ago
Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Director Karen Milbourne of The Fralin
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is the Mystery Mummy of Tomb KV55? (4 Theories)
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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 July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
Trying to Understand...
So They Want Negotiations, Now.
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
a year ago
Have they any idea what they are talking about?
TheCollector
Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook to Remain in Germany?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What’s So Special About The Thinker by Auguste Rodin?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
TheCollector
Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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3 months ago
Open Culture
Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video...
a week ago
Upon stepping into the hallowed Criterion Closet, stocked with hundreds of that cinephile video label’s finest releases, Francis Ford Coppola speaks of a director who “believed in a film he wanted to make, and used his entire fortune, because the financing system of the time...
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Roman Dolphin Mosaic Found in England
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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TheCollector
How Tall Is Mount Rushmore?
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8 months ago
History Today Feed
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
4 months ago
Gustav Vasa: The Father of Modern Sweden?
JamesHoare
Fri, 08/23/2024 - 08:40
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
10 months ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
TheCollector
Should You Believe in Something Just Because It’s Logical?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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a year ago
TheCollector
Architectural Wizardry: 4 Fascinating Works by Antoni Gaudi
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Patrick of Ireland?
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10 months ago
Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
TheCollector
The “New” Norman Rockwell Turns Toward Civil Rights
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2 months ago
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
TheCollector
The Dutch Under Nazi Rule: German WWII Occupation of the Netherlands
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12 months ago
TheCollector
Women Fight for Fairness at Academies of Art
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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TheCollector
The Great Game: British Empire vs. Tsarist Russia in Afghanistan
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4 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
7 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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11 months ago
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
What Are the Oldest Books in the Bible?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Averroes?
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9 months ago
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
TheCollector
6 of the Greatest Latin American Writers of All Time
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Top 7 Sights to See in Milan?
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TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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10 months ago
TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors
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10 months ago
TheCollector
3 Modern Christian Ethicists You Must Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Magical Realism in Literature?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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a year ago
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...
History Today Feed
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
2 months ago
How Did the First World War Change the Arts?
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/10/2024 - 09:11
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Sociocultural Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Ghost Towns in California You Need to Explore
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TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Second Thessalonians About?
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a month ago
TheCollector
When Is St Patrick’s Day? (Traditions & Festivities Around the World)
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9 months ago
TheCollector
10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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2 days ago
Flashbak
Get ‘Em In! Portraits of Drinkers in London Pubs
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...
11 months ago
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times – Tubthumping by Chumbawumba Pub? Go on, then. Let’s go. And …...
Classical Wisdom
Early Bird is Ending
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
12 months ago
Enroll in the Essential Greeks Now
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
a week ago
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
History Today Feed
Aliens and the Enlightenment
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Aliens and the Enlightenment
JamesHoare
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 07:00
TheCollector
What Were the Main Achievements of the New Deal?
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the...
7 months ago
In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
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10 months ago
African History...
a brief note on European pirates and African states during the 'golden age of piracy.'
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
9 months ago
a pirate stronghold and kingdom in 18th century Madagascar.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Canada?
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4 days ago
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...
10 months ago
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...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Anys Reimann, Contemporary Artist
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4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
3 hours ago
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
over a year ago
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
Flashbak
See The Rolling Stones 1966 Tour Program
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay...
5 months ago
In 1966, The Rolling Stones were on tour, supported by The Yardbirds, Long John Baldry and Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers and Ike & Tina Turner. Formed in 1962, The Stones had their first number one in ‘64 and in 1966 had released what was to be their breakthrough album an...
TheCollector
New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Place of Gold: The Complex Story of Johannesburg
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4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Revolt of the Outer Party.
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
9 months ago
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
Trying to Understand...
A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair.
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
10 months ago
Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
TheCollector
How Did People React to Hitler’s Death & Germany’s Surrender?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
17 Crazy Facts about the History of Chocolate
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11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is the “Mind”?
And How Do We Learn?
a year ago
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
6 months ago
Moving With the Times?
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 10:35
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
TheCollector
How Can We View Tecumseh From an Indigenous Perspective?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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4 days ago
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy
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TheCollector
The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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TheCollector
Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Victorian Great Feather Craze: What Was Its Ecological Impact?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Did the Anglo-Saxons Gain Supremacy Over the Britons?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Muslim Modernisers on the Silk Road
JamesHoare
Fri, 09/20/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
New British Museum Book Brings Egyptian Pharaohs to Life
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where to Stay While in Search of Homer?
***Only 15 Seats Left
2 months ago
TheCollector
Artist Ibrahim Mahama Covers London’s Barbican in Purple Fabric
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Roman-Jewish Wars: Jewish Resistance vs Roman Might
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a year ago
TheCollector
The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
10 Facts About The Extraordinary Writer Stefan Zweig
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Treat Our Enemies?
And how does it reflect on us?
a year ago
And how does it reflect on us?
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