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‘A Priori’ and ‘A Posteriori’ Knowledge: What Are They?
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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Who is Buried in the Valley of the Kings?
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Dreams of Space -...
Planet Trip (1960)
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester...
a year ago
To continue out journey through this wonderful space quartet by William Nephew and Michael Chester is Planet Trip. The next logical step to them was exploring the solar system. They started with Mars and the books ends with Venus.
Nephew, William and Michael Chester....
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England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 Features of Qing Dynasty Art
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4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
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
How to Understand the Book of Revelation: 4 Common Readings
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4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence
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Noumenal and Phenomenal: What Were Kant’s ‘Two Worlds’?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Was Alexander Great?
3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Classical Wisdom
Socrates and the Soul
And the Immortal Soul
5 months ago
Flashbak
Listen To The 1985 Gig When R.E.M. Were Raw, Real and Unscripted and Ready To Fight The Crowd
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the...
a year ago
Not everyone was into R.E.M. when they were raw and unscripted. The indie act who became one of the world’s biggest bands of the late 1980s and early ‘90s started local and unplanned. As Robert Dean Lurie writes in Begin the Begin: R.E.M.‘s Early Years: R.E.M. began their live...
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The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism
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TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections
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4 American Presidents Who Were Assassinated
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History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
6 days ago
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Sirens
The Original Femme Fatales?
a year ago
The Original Femme Fatales?
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a...
11 months ago
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this month). That said, it seemed like a good time to discuss trade, the sea and...
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller
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5 months 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
Classical Wisdom
Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
a month ago
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
TheCollector
9 Unskippable Memorials in Washington DC
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TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Flashbak
The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
3 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
TheCollector
How Did the Roman Empire Affect Christianity?
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Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
4 months ago
Immigration data kept behind closed doors
Trying to Understand...
The Year's Midnight.
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
over a year ago
Kindness can be a revolutionary act.
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
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TheCollector
7 Ways in Which Ancient Egypt Influenced Greece
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TheCollector
10 Art Techniques You Should Know
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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TheCollector
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War: A Step Toward Toppling the World Order
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TheCollector
Aristotle on Knowledge, Truth, and Error (6 Arguments)
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TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
Classical Wisdom
What is the Soul?
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
9 months ago
Putting the Psyche back in Psychology...
TheCollector
Arachne: What Is the Real Meaning of the Myth?
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TheCollector
What Are Patricia Piccinini’s Works About?
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TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
French & Belgian Occupation of the Ruhr: A Postwar Reparations Crisis
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TheCollector
It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
2 weeks ago
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
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TheCollector
What Is the Legacy of Genghis Khan’s Promiscuity?
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TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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African History...
The colonial myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in medieval Islamic geography: the view from Egypt and...
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10 months ago
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
7 months ago
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...
TheCollector
The Great Romantic: Who Was Catullus?
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Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
5 months ago
In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
TheCollector
What Role Did the Sea Peoples Play in the Bronze Age Collapse?
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TheCollector
What Is Friluftsliv, The Norwegian Way of Life in Harmony with Nature?
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TheCollector
Is It Rational to Believe in God? 5 Objections to Pascal’s Wager
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5 months ago
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903)
journal of African cities chapter 9
a year ago
journal of African cities chapter 9
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948)
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
2 days ago
With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
Stolen Rubens Returns to Germany After 80 Years
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TheCollector
The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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TheCollector
The Orlando Museum of Art Faces Financial Distress
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Flashbak
Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery: Portraits of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred...
3 weeks ago
The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other… Consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of...
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
3 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
TheCollector
Hendrik Verwoerd’s Life & Death: The Architect of Apartheid
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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How Did Lucas Cranach the Elder Support the Protestant Reformation?
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TheCollector
The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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TheCollector
Empress of the Blues: Who Was Bessie Smith?
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Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages?
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TheCollector
Lucio Fontana Piece Could Set Auction Record at Sotheby’s
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TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks
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TheCollector
Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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Classical Wisdom
12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
a year ago
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
TheCollector
Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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Trying to Understand...
Bringing It All Back Home
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
a year ago
If we can't patronise them over there, we'll do it over here.
Flashbak
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...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Trailblazing Women: 22 Female Photographers Who Redefined Photography
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TheCollector
Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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TheCollector
Is Free Will an Illusion? If So, That’s Okay
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Flashbak
Snapshots of People Meeting Abraham Lincoln
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me...
10 months ago
“I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me, and I presume you expected me to speak from it.” ― Abraham Lincoln The most famous statue of Abraham Lincoln (12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865) is the ginormous one sculpted by Daniel Chester French...
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Arguing with the Dead
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
10 months ago
Arguing with the Dead
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 10:37
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation?
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TheCollector
Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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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
The 3 Greatest Nubian Kings of Egypt
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TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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TheCollector
Alicia Keys Art Show at The Brooklyn Museum
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African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
TheCollector
Plato’s Phaedo: Is The Soul Immortal?
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TheCollector
Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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TheCollector
Stolen Picasso and Chagall Paintings Found in Antwerp
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Flashbak
Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Virtue?
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
3 months ago
Can We Define it for Ourselves or Others?
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
8 months ago
New Cabins *NOW* Available
TheCollector
Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
5 days ago
New Year, Old Books
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
TheCollector
9 Paintings by Claude Monet You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
History Today Feed
How Iran Won the West
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
3 weeks ago
How Iran Won the West
JamesHoare
Tue, 11/26/2024 - 09:40
CrimethInc.
Georgia: The Firework Protests : A Report and Video Footage from the Streets of Tbilisi
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government...
2 weeks ago
Tuesday, December 3 marked the sixth consecutive night of clashes between police and anti-government protesters in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. We offer the following short report and video footage courtesy of Georgian anarchists.
The demonstrators are responding to the...
Res Obscura
The (history of) spice must flow
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
10 months ago
Why the spice trade is even more important for world history than you might have thought
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
Trying to Understand...
The End of Power Projection?
We can't get there from here, anymore.
a year ago
We can't get there from here, anymore.
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
2 months ago
Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
TheCollector
The Capture of the Ceryneian Hind: The Third Labor of Heracles
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TheCollector
Largest UK Holbein Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery
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TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference?
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Thai Fortune-Telling Manuscript, Before 1844
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of...
9 months ago
A beautiful paper accordion manuscript from Thailand that features hand-painted illustrations of zodiac figures accompanied with text. It was made before 1844. “Maria Revere Balestier (daughter of Paul Revere and wife to the first American consulate to Singapore) was the...
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Secrets of the Scythians
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who is Adrian Piper? The Most Important Conceptual Artist of Our Time
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TheCollector
How Did Bebop Influence Jazz?
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TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
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TheCollector
Restored Delacroix Masterpiece Goes Back on Show at Louvre
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7 months ago
African History...
a brief note on contacts between ancient African kingdoms and Rome.
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
6 months ago
finding the lost city of Rhapta on the east African coast.
TheCollector
Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Putting Pirates on Trial
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
Putting Pirates on Trial
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
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TheCollector
How Does Street Art Shape Cities?
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classics Gifts!
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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Classical Wisdom
How to Give a Speech
Secrets from Cicero
4 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Christianity Conquer an Empire in 300 Years?
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TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know
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TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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3 months ago
TheCollector
John Sellars on Aristotle’s Life, Philosophy, and Relevance Today
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greece's Master Sculptor
The Life and Work of Pheidias
a year ago
The Life and Work of Pheidias
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
Get to Know Tamara de Lempicka Through 8 Works
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a year ago
Flashbak
When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground...
5 months ago
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a co-founder of Rip Off Press in San Francisco in 1969. Shelton...
TheCollector
The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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TheCollector
Banksy’s Animal Series Continues at London Zoo
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Arizona State University Professor Creates City Hall’s Digital Art
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11 months ago
TheCollector
3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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TheCollector
Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Calm in the Face of Crisis
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
5 days ago
Putting the Greek Back into Stoicism
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek God Poseidon
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TheCollector
Pace Gallery to Represent Paul Thek Estate
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11 months ago
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
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Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
10 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
4 months ago
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
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TheCollector
American Modernist Florine Stettheimer Gets Catalogue Raisonné
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TheCollector
How Does the Electoral College Work?
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African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912)
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
a year ago
Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
TheCollector
Twice-Stolen Titian Sets Artist Record at Auction
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TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences
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Dr Alun Withey
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’...
over a year ago
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:...
TheCollector
Self-Employed Creatives and US New Anti-Money Laundering Law
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TheCollector
The Bay of Pigs Invasion: The US Fails to Overthrow Communist Cuba
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
On the Spot: William Dalrymple
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/24/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
How Did the Tet Offensive Impact American Morale?
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TheCollector
The First Black President: Barack Obama’s Historic Election in 2008
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TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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TheCollector
Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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TheCollector
Iakim Volkov’s Wedding: An Illustration of a Complicated History
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Flashbak
Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his...
4 months ago
Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
History Today Feed
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
8 months ago
Kapo Trials: How Israel Judged the Jewish Collaborators
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:00
TheCollector
Igniting the Cold War: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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TheCollector
What Are the Main Themes of Modern Essentialism?
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TheCollector
Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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TheCollector
7 Rules For Collecting Paintings
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Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves?
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
TheCollector
The Grand Egyptian Museum Soon Opens for Visitors
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TheCollector
What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Be More Naked?
Is modesty too modern?
a year ago
TheCollector
A Modern Sacred Band? Homosexuality in Nazi Germany
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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History Today Feed
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
6 months ago
The Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
JamesHoare
Fri, 06/07/2024 - 09:29
African History...
A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
a year ago
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
TheCollector
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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2 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (May 1947)
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The...
over a year ago
Continuing with my post from last week, some excerpts from the May 1947 issue of Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight.
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
a year ago
It's about having small expectations.
Flashbak
Photos of Britain’s Post-War Youth By Roger Mayne
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in...
5 months ago
British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) documented the lives of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s. Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found...
African History...
Empire building and Government in the Yorubaland: a history of Oyo (1600-1836)
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
over a year ago
Why Africa's internal political processes explain African history better than external actors.
TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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TheCollector
Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Cabal of Naples: The True Story of Naples’ Gang of Baroque Artists
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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4 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
over a year ago
As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Upstate New York Worth Exploring
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a month ago
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
a year ago
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
TheCollector
Risorgimento: The Long Road to the Unification of Italy
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
TheCollector
The Role & Importance of Primaries in the US Election Process
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Eiffel Tower: 12 Facts About the Iconic Parisian Landmark
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4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Works That Define Thomas Gainsborough’s Legacy
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10 months ago
History Today Feed
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
a year ago
Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
j.hoare
Thu, 12/14/2023 - 09:33
TheCollector
What Was the Most Notorious Trial of the 20th Century? 4 Possible Contenders
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Astounding Achievements by Maya Lin
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a year ago
TheCollector
Empire of Mali: The Powerhouse of Western Africa
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
[Video] Roundtable Discussion with Mary Naples
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
a year ago
Watch now (60 min) | Cult of the Capture Bride: How Ancient Women Took Power
TheCollector
Top 10 Historic Sites to See in New York City
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered
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4 months ago
TheCollector
British Museum Recovers More Missing Artifacts
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7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster
And Most Mysterious...
2 months ago
TheCollector
Possible ‘Salvator Mundi’ Location and Exhibition Plans Revealed
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4 months ago
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Inventions to Thank the Aztec, Maya, & Inca For
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia
Greek or Roman?
2 months ago
TheCollector
5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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11 months ago
Flashbak
Identipop, Build Your Own Popstar, 1969
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and...
10 months ago
With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd – they produced similar games, also from the...
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ
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a month ago
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
5 days ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
TheCollector
Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Be Enemies
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
a year ago
Since it seems to be the fashion these days.
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010)
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
TheCollector
William II: The English King…Who Was Murdered by His Brother?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes a Conflict a World War?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father
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5 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
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a year ago
TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Hecate in Macbeth?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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10 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part III: Going To War With the Army...
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more...
6 months ago
This is the third and final part of our three-part (I, II, III) look at how some ‘tribal’ or more correctly, non-state agrarian peoples – particularly the Celtiberians, Gauls and also many Germanic-language speaking peoples on the Rhine and Danube- raised armies to fight the...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, October 27, 2023 (On Politics in Strategy)
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Next week we’ll finally close out the addenda to the How to Roman Republic 101 series with a look at provincial governance, but I don’t think that will be done in time for this week, so I’m throwing a fireside in here in the meantime. That said, I thought it...
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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7 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Racial Homicide Disparities Since 1910
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the...
a year ago
Drawing from uniform crime reports since 1933 and vital statistics since 1910, I document the evolution of black-white homicide disparities in the United States since the early 20th century.
TheCollector
Siege of Tyre: How Alexander the Great Captured the Phoenician City
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a year 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
4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Ban the Book, Banish the Author!
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
3 months ago
Free Speech VS Censorship in the Ancient World and Onwards...
Classical Wisdom
The Furies
Vengeance or Justice?
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Petra and Passports
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
You don't need to know that.
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
TheCollector
Were They Really World Wars? WWI & WWII Outside of Europe
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Art of the Interesting
4 weeks ago
The Art of the Interesting
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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3 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Works by Henri Rousseau
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show
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10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Great Schism of 1054?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
TheCollector
How Does Stoicism Differ from Other Philosophies?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Kenjutsu: Discover Centuries of Japanese Fencing Tradition
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a year ago
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
TheCollector
German Museum Returns Ancient Marble Head to Greece
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Was Geoffrey of Monmouth? The Man Who Made Arthur and Merlin
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11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Diversity Paradox.
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
10 months ago
It's about dignity, efficiency, and things like that.
Patterns in Humanity
When Lightning Strikes... Literally
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
a year ago
A quantification of the risk of dying from a lightning strike and other external sources of harm
TheCollector
Prehistoric Art Examples Found in Turkey
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Interview with Nicolas Party: Pastels, Rosalba Carriera, & More
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
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a week ago
History Today Feed
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
6 days ago
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
History Today Feed
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
11 months ago
The Scandalous Success of the Daily Mail
j.hoare
Mon, 01/01/2024 - 13:07
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
TheCollector
What Supernatural Creatures Appear in the Works of Shakespeare?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Political Effects of the Vietnam War
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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a month ago
African History...
The role of firearms in African military history, and the guns of the Benin kingdom.
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
a month ago
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
4 weeks ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
TheCollector
How Ancient Writing Was Developed For Use in Religion & Magic
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10 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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4 weeks ago
TheCollector
The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
a year ago
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
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a month ago
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