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Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Indian Citizenship Act
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
6 months ago
The Indian Citizenship Act
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 11:42
TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Will There Be “Crazy” People?
Symposium on the Seas...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Artist to Recreate Missing Piece of Bayeux Tapestry
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TheCollector
A Luta Continua! Mozambique’s Struggle for Independence
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Thanksgiving?
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a year ago
Res Obscura
Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
a year ago
Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
TheCollector
How Did Gnosticism Influence Early Christianity?
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
What is Digital Art? A Brief History and Tips for Collecting
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TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
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2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Become Anti-Human?
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
a year ago
Is this a problem? And Can/Should it be Helped?
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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7 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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a month ago
TheCollector
Should We Interpret Literature in Its Social Context? Adorno’s Answer
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Muscovy Become Russia?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on Africa's Scientific Manuscripts
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
a year ago
plus; the history of Medicine in Africa.
TheCollector
Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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2 months ago
TheCollector
UK Gallery to Recreate “Groundbreaking” 1907 Exhibition
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3 months ago
TheCollector
The Many Faces of King David: Warrior, Poet, Adulterer
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2 months ago
TheCollector
4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What Happens When We Die? And Does That Impact How We Live?
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
a month ago
Homer’s Hell: The Afterlife in Greek Mythology
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques
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a week ago
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
over a year ago
Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
TheCollector
Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Actions of the American Indian Movement
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Artists Associated With Magic Realism You Should Know
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
12 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
British-Controlled Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948): A History
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6 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Robert Mapplethorpe?
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Is Ancient Greece Really the Cradle of Western Civilization?
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a year ago
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Where Did Paul Cezanne Live?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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10 months ago
Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
7 months ago
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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...
a week ago
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...
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London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
11 months ago
London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend
j.hoare
Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:15
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
TheCollector
10 Historic Small Towns in Georgia You Should Visit
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Cubism and Collage: How Picasso and Braque Revolutionized Art
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a week ago
TheCollector
What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
Flashbak
Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no...
11 months ago
American artist Robert Cumming (October 7, 1943 – December 16, 2021) appreciated fun. He saw no point in trying to achieve anything else in life. As he put it: “If it’s not fun, there’s no point!” A new book of his conceptual photographs illustrates the point. Above, you can see...
TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting
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4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
2 months ago
The Silence of the Elephants
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
10 Representations of Judith Slaying Holofernes in Painting
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7 months ago
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
2 weeks ago
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
TheCollector
5 Famous Artists Who Were Inspired by Alphanumerics
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TheCollector
Why Did Damien Hirst Build a Pharmacy?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Historic Sites to Visit in Los Angeles
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5 months ago
TheCollector
How Were the Conditional Biblical Prophecies Fulfilled in the Bible?
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a month ago
TheCollector
History of Tanks: From Renaissance Sketches to the Modern Battlefield
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Monet’s London Paintings to Reunite After 120 Years
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5 months ago
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
TheCollector
The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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a year ago
TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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7 months ago
TheCollector
5 of George Washington’s Right Hands: All the General’s Men (& Woman)
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3 months ago
Flashbak
Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
8 months ago
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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
4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
11 months ago
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
TheCollector
When Was the First Flight in History?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Valkyries: Get to Know the Norse Demons of the Dead
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
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a year ago
African History...
A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
a year ago
The legacy of west African travel to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo Exhibition Heads to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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2 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
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
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
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
End of an Era: Why Did the Beatles Break Up?
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a year ago
TheCollector
The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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4 months ago
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large...
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
a week ago
For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
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
Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister to Be Assassinated
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6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
Trying to Understand...
The Evils Of Professionalism
In politics, anyway.
6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Legendary Mountain Men of the Old West?
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a month ago
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‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
5 months ago
‘Final Verdict’ by Tobias Buck review
JamesHoare
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 09:44
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Monsters and Myths
a year ago
Flashbak
Quincy Jones Knew who Killed JFK and Saw the Pope’s ‘Pimp Shoes’
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the...
a month ago
Quincy Jones knew who killed JFK, Quincy Jones (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was one of the world’s great musicians, producer and arranger. Best known for his smash hits with Michael Jackson, notable on the singer’s Thriller album, Jones won 28 Grammys in a career that...
TheCollector
The Electoral College Explained
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Henri Cartier Bresson?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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8 months ago
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
a year ago
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
j.hoare
Mon, 11/27/2023 - 12:04
TheCollector
The History of Social Welfare Programs (& Current Debates)
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
a month ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
TheCollector
Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
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6 months ago
African History...
The myth of Mansa Musa's enslaved entourage
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the...
a year ago
"Stories about his [Mansa Musa's] journey have numerous anecdotes which are not true and which the mind refuses to admit".
TheCollector
UFOs in Art History: Is It a Spaceship or a Cloud?
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7 months ago
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
Benedict Arnold: The Epitome of Betrayal
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7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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10 months ago
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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2 months ago
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When Was the Battle of Stalingrad?
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a year ago
TheCollector
10 Architectural Landmarks You Must See in Valencia
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Discover Norman Rockwell’s America (& His Legacy)
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3 months ago
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Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
8 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
TheCollector
Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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2 months ago
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks
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12 months ago
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7 Iconic Works of the De Stijl Movement
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7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion?
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
How Has the Tower of London Changed Over Time?
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2 months ago
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world.
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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...
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