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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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How Did Christianity Change the Roman Empire?
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Who Was Tertullian?
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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4 Greek Myths That Inspired Cinema
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Roman Goddess: Who Is Pomona?
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The Appian Way: Rome’s Greatest Achievement?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast
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The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
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5 Quotes by Locke Explained
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over a year ago
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
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over a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
How to Deal with Change: Advice from the Stoics
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
3 months ago
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
TheCollector
New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House”
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TheCollector
5 Artworks by John Baldessari You Should Know
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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
2 months ago
In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
TheCollector
8 Works of Art & Architecture Commissioned by the Medicis
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What Is Populism?
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Banksy’s Latest Artwork Is a Goat on a Ledge in London
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African History...
A social history of the Lamu city-state (1370-1885)
Journal of African cities chapter 5
a year ago
Journal of African cities chapter 5
TheCollector
What Is Voguing?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
TheCollector
Fall of Constantinople (1453): The Siege That Changed the World
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4 months ago
Open Culture
The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically...
Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have...
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Life evolves, but machines are invented: this dichotomy hardly conflicts with what most of us have learned about biology and technology. But certain specimens roaming around in the world can blur that line — and in the curious case of the Strandbeesten, they really are roaming...
Flashbak
Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in...
10 months ago
Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
TheCollector
Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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7 months ago
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
TheCollector
The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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10 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.
TheCollector
What Are the Most Significant Battles of World War II?
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TheCollector
Who Was Gertrude Stein? More Than a Poet & Collector
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11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
leleuvia
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
over a year ago
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji.
This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
2 months ago
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
TheCollector
Brooklyn Museum Adds Art by Black and Asian-American Artists
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Last Call for Classical Gifts
Shipping Cutoff imminent
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Impressionism Get Its Name?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
9 months ago
Flashbak
Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
6 months ago
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
TheCollector
Human Sacrifice in the Pre-Columbian Americas: Fact vs Fiction
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
2 months ago
“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
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6 Must-See National Trust Properties in the UK
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What is Appalachian Culture?
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Conquest of Space (1962?)
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a...
a year ago
I last blogged about this book in 2015 so it is time for a revisit. I got a second copy that has a couple of things I had not seen before. The Conquest of Space is a 1962 (?) Australian stamp album. It is intended for children to collect paper stamps they get in Nestle chocolate...
TheCollector
More Banksy Animals Appear Across London
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4 months ago
TheCollector
4 Ancient Greek Sculptors You Need to Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Serop Simonian Art Dealer Arrested by German Polica
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
And some bits and pieces.
3 months ago
And some bits and pieces.
TheCollector
How Did Romania Become a Country?
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2 months ago
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Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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10 months ago
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Constantine Replica Statue Lands in Rome
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10 months ago
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 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
Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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TheCollector
15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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8 months ago
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10 Artworks by Yoko Ono You Should Know
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love History
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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10 Cultural Sites in New York City You Should See
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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2 months ago
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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3 weeks ago
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
a month ago
“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
Dreams of Space -...
Skyjets for Fliers of Tomorrow (1954)
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which...
11 months ago
So this is one of the stranger books I have found over the years. It is about a future in which people will get individual jet-powered wings to fly. It is set a little like a fantasy and a little like a dream. It has "perfect" 1950s illustrations about how the future might...
Flashbak
El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
3 months ago
At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Do We Want What We Think We Want? Jacques Lacan on Desire
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a year ago
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The “Good Italian” Myth in Postwar Italy: Dangers of Erasing the Past
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a year ago
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What Is First Thessalonians About?
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4 Samurai Swords that Defined an Era
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a year ago
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Top 10 Museums to Visit in New York City
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4 months ago
Flashbak
L’Ornement Polychrome by Albert Racinet – A Gorgeous Book Of World Art (1869–73)
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative...
5 months ago
Albert Racinet (1825–1893) created his L’ornement Polychrome as a visual record of the decorative arts from antiquity to the late nineteenth century and represents the work of cultures all over the world. He published a second series which included later works, too. Raninet...
TheCollector
Who Was Dorothy Day? The Radical Life of a Catholic Anarchist
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History Today Feed
Death of the King of Siam
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
2 months ago
Death of the King of Siam
JamesHoare
Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:26
TheCollector
9 Places to Visit Between San Diego and Glacier National Park
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7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Papa To The Rescue.
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
3 months ago
And stop saying "it's not fair!"
Flashbak
Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
4 months ago
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
TheCollector
Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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a year ago
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What Did Americans Eat During the Great Depression?
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2 months ago
Open Culture
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
3 days ago
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Strategic Objectives During the Battle of Narvik?
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Cannister Shells’ Devastating Effect: Nightmare of the Infantry
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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6 months ago
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Yayoi Kusama Unveils New Public Sculpture in London
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4 months ago
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What Is the Hierarchy of Angels in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
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11 months ago
TheCollector
The Congress of Vienna: How Europe Was Redrawn
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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10 months ago
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What Are the Romance Languages?
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a year ago
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Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
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a year ago
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How Did the Soviet Union Influence the World?
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Harvey Milk: Champion of LGBTQ & Civil Rights
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4 months ago
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Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?
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3 months ago
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Who Was Paracelsus? 11 Things You Should Know
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8 months ago
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5 Military Geniuses From History
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9 months ago
African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Conceptual Photography?
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6 months ago
African History...
A history of the Loango kingdom (ca.1500-1883) : Power, Ivory and Art in west-central Africa.
Africa's past carved in ivory
a year ago
Africa's past carved in ivory
Flashbak
At Large in Leyton – A Walk Around The East London Manor 1989-1994
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the...
11 months ago
On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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
Res Obscura
How well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
An experiment with historical simulation
a year ago
An experiment with historical simulation
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
Flashbak
President Johnson Orders Trousers from Joe Haggar – big enough for his ‘nuts’, ‘bunghole’ and knife
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a...
a month ago
On August 9 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973) ordered a pair of trousers from Joe Haggar of the Haggar Clothing Co. based in Dallas, Texas. Not a shy man, Johnson was known for conducting official business whilst sat on the toilet and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Hera, Queen of the Gods
8 months ago
History Today Feed
History Today Review of the Year
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
12 months ago
History Today Review of the Year
j.hoare
Thu, 12/28/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
10 Things You Should Know About Henri Cartier-Bresson
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a year ago
TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
TheCollector
The Meidias Hydria Vase Landed to Greece by The British Museum
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a year ago
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
5 Key Myths About the Greek God Hades
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6 months ago
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur?
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
a month ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
5 Most Influential Blues Musicians of All Time
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When Was D-Day?
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
a month ago
American polarisation: part 2
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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New Woman: The Concept that Challenged Victorian Norms
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4 months ago
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8 Places in Munich Addressing National Socialism’s Problematic Legacy
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11 months ago
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Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
19 Surprising Facts about the History of Potatoes
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10 months ago
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5 Must-Read Works by Aldous Huxley
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11 months ago
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Jericho: An Ancient City Filled with Secrets
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a year ago
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Shakespeare’s Richard III: Everything You Need to Know
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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The Origins of the Democratic Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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2 months ago
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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a year ago
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Bali’s 8 Finest Historic Sites: A Feast for the Senses
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4 months ago
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Colonization of the Philippines: Strategic Lands Wanted by Many
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9 months ago
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