Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964)
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961.
Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
TheCollector
The Battle of Pharsalus: How Rome Became an Empire
undefined
a month 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
African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894)
Urbanism in the forest region.
a year ago
Urbanism in the forest region.
Trying to Understand...
War, Peace, And That Other Thing.
Understanding political violence.
a year ago
Understanding political violence.
Flashbak
Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection...
a year ago
If you’ve not seen little people on vintage Christmas cards, please do. It’s a terrific collection of images. A dip into Robert E. Jackson’s sublime collection of snapshots never disappoints. And when you’ve seen the cards, you should enjoy his pictures of revellers rocking...
TheCollector
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Could Fetch $1 Million
undefined
2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
TheCollector
The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Monet Haystack Painting Could Fetch $30 Million at Auction Next Month
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Stolen Masterpieces: 5 Famous Artworks That Are Still Missing
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
7 Depictions of War by Famous Artists Everyone Should Know
undefined
21 hours ago
History Today Feed
Columbine 25 Years On
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
8 months ago
Columbine 25 Years On
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:42
TheCollector
Siege of the Sogdian Rock, 327 BCE: Alexander’s Winged Men
undefined
3 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
2 weeks ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
TheCollector
5 Female Canadian Authors You Should Read
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
10 Surprising Facts About the Great Beaver Wars
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
England’s Medieval Angevin Empire Explained
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
undefined
4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
a month ago
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
TheCollector
10 South American Artists You Should Know
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Is BRICS and Why Is it Important?
undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 12, 2024
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car...
8 months ago
Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for the annual Society for Military History conference coming at the end of next week. In an...
Flashbak
Y Viva Espana: The Great British Package Holiday In Photos
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of...
7 months ago
When in June 1987, Shirley Baker photographed passengers at England’s Manchester Airport, many of them would have been on their way to sunny Spain as part of their package holiday. Jake Clark first arrived there in the late 1960s when his parents moved to a fishing village in...
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd
undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
a year ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
TheCollector
Study Shows ‘Starry Night’ Swirls Are Scientifically Accurate
undefined
3 months 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...
Classical Wisdom
The Death of Literary Fiction.... And its Resurrection?
A New -different- Event
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Belgium Become a Country?
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Cotton & How It Changed the World
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
An Art Lover’s Guide to Santa Fe
undefined
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go?
Important Notice
a month ago
TheCollector
Quechua: A Dead Language? Not at All
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Transcendentalism?
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Martha Graham: 15 Facts About the Mother of Modern Dance
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
How Does Mona Hatoum Turn Ordinary Objects into Artworks?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman the Greatest Film of All Time?
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
U.S. Returns Looted Artifacts Worth $10 Million to India
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Sacred Objects & Places in the Inca World: Interview With Dr. Cummins
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Rediscovered Quentin Metsys Madonna Heads to Auction
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Scientism and Anti-Scientism: What Is the Difference?
undefined
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.
2 months ago
"The Zulus appeared almost to grow out of the earth.
Flashbak
Moe’s Photos of Jacob Riis House On New York City’s Lower East Side 1977-1983
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th...
5 months ago
In 1977, Moe a resident of the Jacob Riis Houses decided to capture his neighborhood from East 10th Street to East 12th Street on Avenue D, Lower East Side, New York City, writes Efrain ‘Kid Love’ Rodriguez. The Summer was hot, the Son of Sam was terrorizing the streets of New...
TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
undefined
4 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
Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
undefined
10 months ago
African History...
Economic growth and social transformation in 19th century Somalia.
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
a year ago
Desert caravans, coastal cities and population movements
Flashbak
On The Streets of America in the Early 1980s : Relaxing WIth Cigarettes And No AC
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned...
10 months ago
‘These photographs were made between 1979 and 1985 in a pre-digital, largely non-air-conditioned era, when people fled the heat of their houses to hang out in their yards and on the street. I notice a kind of relaxed sensuality in many of the pictures. Time moved more slowly;...
TheCollector
Scottish Independence Movements Through the Ages
undefined
12 months ago
Global Inequality...
Trump and the Rise of Asia
My interview with "Atlantico"
a month ago
My interview with "Atlantico"
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
JamesHoare
Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
Flashbak
In the Night Garden: The Magical World of George Shiras
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and...
2 months ago
George Shiras (1859 – 1942) began photographing in 1889, and was the first to use camera traps and flash photography when photographing animals. Shiras, a lawyer who became a politician, borrowed a hunting technique he learned from the Ojibwa tribe called jacklighting, when fire...
TheCollector
The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
7 Works by Margaret Keane You Should Know
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
undefined
4 months ago
Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
undefined
4 months ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
TheCollector
Has Depression Always Been Around? The History of a Timeless Disorder
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Glasgow Museum Retrieved Robert Gemmell Hutchison Piece
undefined
11 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs.
Niju,...
TheCollector
How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
5 Fables by Jean de la Fontaine
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Martin Luther Have to Say About Justification?
undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Masterminds Behind Chicago’s Iconic Architecture?
undefined
3 months ago
Flashbak
Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
TheCollector
5 Important Examples of Religious Art From Christian History
undefined
3 months ago
History Today Feed
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
2 months ago
The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial
JamesHoare
Thu, 10/17/2024 - 08:56
TheCollector
Was There Social Mobility in Anglo-Saxon England?
undefined
8 months ago
Flashbak
Teenagers at Home In the 1980s and 90s In 38 Photos
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone...
9 months ago
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz We’re back looking at teenagers at home and in their bedrooms in the 1980 an 1990s. We’ve been back there before, checking our the snapshot …...
Flashbak
Harold Lloyd’s Amazing Christmas Tree
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to...
a week ago
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says preparation began around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November), when her...
Trying to Understand...
Rules, Rules Rules
Because that's all they can do.
9 months ago
Because that's all they can do.
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression)
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
TheCollector
7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
JS Bach in 4 Leipzig Churches
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are Hecate’s Parents?
undefined
a year ago
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Plato’s Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it Be Taught?
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Catholicism: The 10 Most Unusual Patron Saints
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
Was Andy Warhol Religious?
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
undefined
3 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
TheCollector
8 Artists Who Defined the Roaring Twenties
undefined
a month ago
weird medieval guys
The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
a year ago
Christine de Pizan on Circe, Medusa, and other virtuous ladies
TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi?
undefined
3 weeks ago
Trying to Understand...
The Politics of Exhaustion.
And the exhaustion of politics.
6 months ago
And the exhaustion of politics.
History Today Feed
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
yesterday
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Curious Calvin Coolidge: The Coolest President?
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
The Brezhnev Era: Stagnation in the USSR
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Famous Models in Modern Painting?
undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
Classical Wisdom
Do you need to be Good to be a Good leader?
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
a year ago
is it really necessary to be a “paragon of virtue” to rule?
TheCollector
Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
The Great Papal Schism: Two Christian Leaders Against Each Other
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Does Erich Fromm Argue in ‘The Art of Loving’?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
What Are the 7 Most Spoken Languages in the World?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
undefined
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Is an unjust peace better than a just war?
Or does war have its virtues?
10 months ago
Or does war have its virtues?
TheCollector
4 Most Famous Alien Abduction Claims
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
History of Tea: The Drink that Conquered the World
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Titanomachy: Greek Mythology’s Fiercest Battle
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Enclosure Acts?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Five French Republics?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
undefined
5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Space Witch (1959)
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's...
2 months ago
Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.
Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a...
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Germans in Southwest Africa: A History of Colonization & Genocide
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
undefined
9 months ago
History Today Feed
A History of Phantom Pain
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
11 months ago
A History of Phantom Pain
j.hoare
Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:44
TheCollector
Aristophanes: Get to Know the Master of Ancient Greek Comedy
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
The Battle of Oriskany: A Civil War in New York
undefined
7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Jews in the Roman Bathhouse
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
a year ago
Is it time to rethink the relationship between Judaism and Greco-Roman society?
TheCollector
8 Sneaker Trends to be on the Look-out For in 2024
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Romania in WWII: An Important Part of the Eastern Front
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
3 Key Philosophers on Mass Incarceration
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won Sherman’s March to the Sea?
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Charles Baudelaire’s Theory of Art: Is Beauty Universal?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Sound Genius: What Is John Williams Best Known for?
undefined
10 months ago
Open Culture
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and...
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films,...
2 days ago
Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This year happens to be an especially notable one for connoisseurs of Belgian...
TheCollector
Who Were the Armored Pioneers Between the World Wars?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
10 Baroque Artists You Should Know
undefined
12 months ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Fort Pillow?
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
The Tripartite Pact: How Were the Axis Powers Created?
undefined
8 months ago
Open Culture
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to...
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind....
3 weeks ago
We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it’s hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Eventually, those busts — which occurred when realizable AI technology...
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
3 months ago
László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines. ...
Res Obscura
Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
Some lessons from history and archaeology
a year ago
Some lessons from history and archaeology
TheCollector
Yemen Is Getting Back Two Sculptures From the Met
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Were So Many Women Artists Still Life Painters?
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
a year ago
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
undefined
3 months ago
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes?
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
2 months ago
Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
TheCollector
How Did the Assyrians Shape the Ancient Near East?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Did Julius Caesar Say Before He Died?
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Human Civilization’s First Cities: 7 of the Oldest
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Contemporary Art Movements: What Are the 11 Most Notable?
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery in the USA
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Pioneering Folklore: Who Was John Lomax?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Is Calvinism a Religion or a Philosophy?
undefined
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial?
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy?
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
How Norse Mythology Inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic Like?
undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
Iroquois Confederacy: A Brief History of Haudenosaunee
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
A Roman Sarcophagus Discovered by French Archaeologists
undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us...
a week ago
Photographer Jono Rotman’s arresting portraits of the Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand show us the gang’s members in isolation. To avoid controlling the narrative and anaesthetising their spirit, while “still letting them retain their mystery and privacy”, Rotman took the...
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
undefined
8 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Too Much of Not A Lot
Winning the day and losing the war.
a year ago
Winning the day and losing the war.
TheCollector
6 Most Common Ethical Dilemmas of the 21st Century
undefined
2 days ago
TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
The Myth of Midas and the Golden Touch: A Story of Riches and Regret
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Italian Risorgimento?
undefined
5 months ago
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building
j.hoare
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
TheCollector
The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was Operation Ichi-Go?
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Soldier with a Secret: Who Was Sarah Emma Edmonds?
undefined
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Did Climate Change Cause the Collapse of Egypt’s New Kingdom?
undefined
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Phaistos Disk
And the Palace where it was found...
a year ago
And the Palace where it was found...
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Halley Comet Panic of 1910?
undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
7 Rococo Artists You Need to Know
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Wittgenstein’s Solipsism: Where Language & Limits Collide
undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
The Fallen Angels of Enoch: Vicious Villains or Virtuous Victims?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
6 Facts about the Ancient Olympic Games
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review)
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Which Art Museums in Rome Are Most Noteworthy?
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Medical Practice in the Pre-Conquest Americas: From Coca to Brain Surgery
undefined
4 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
TheCollector
What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Citizen of the World: TheCollector Interviews Composer Omar Rahbany
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Funded Christopher Columbus’ Voyages?
undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
British Grub: A Psychedelic Tribute To British Food From 1960s San Francisco
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease...
8 months ago
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard While we’re in the mood, cold jelly and custard Pease pudding and saveloys, what next is the question? Rich gentlemen have it boys – in-di-gestion! – Food Glorious Food from the muscial oliver by Lionel Bart, 1968 You didn’t need...
TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About?
undefined
a month ago
Dreams of Space -...
Dream to Meet(1958)
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded...
a year ago
A very pictorial Russian book, Dream to Meet, is basically the size of a paperback book but loaded with illustrations. I thought you would enjoy these images.
Lyapunov, B. Illustrated by Seleznev, E. Навстречу Мечте (Dream to Meet.)
Moscow: All-Union Educational Pedagogical...
TheCollector
12 Facts About Marina Abramović and Her Work
undefined
9 months ago
History Today Feed
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
10 months ago
André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/22/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
Who Was Rosalba Carriera?
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Afghanistan Historic Monuments Destroyed in Earthquakes
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Gustav Jung?
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Pina Bausch?
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
French Culture Minister Calls For Climate Activism Penalties
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Is Grace Jones? Androgyny in Art
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Exploring Space (Hebrew) (1960)
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few...
a year ago
The Hebrew version of Exploring Space. If you notice it opens right to left. So you will see a few pages where the Hebrew version "switches" sides. Because this is such a charming book I have loaded the whole thing. As an additional treat I own some of the original illustration...
TheCollector
6 Haunted Historical Sites That Will Scare Your Socks Off
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Bob Dylan Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Brutus: The Rise & Fall of the Senator Who Assassinated Julius Caesar
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
undefined
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Another Of My Essays in French
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
a year ago
Le choc des symboles; ils sont vraiment sérieux.
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
a year ago
TheCollector
Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Grand Experiment Gone Wrong
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Mimir: Get to Know the Wisest God of Norse Mythology
undefined
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Women of Ancient Rome
The First Roman Empress and More...
10 months ago
The First Roman Empress and More...
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
Dune and Greek Mythology: What’s in Common?
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Egypt’s Giza Restoration Bid Faces Backlash From Archaeologists
undefined
11 months ago
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art
undefined
2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
2 months ago
‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973)
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off!
Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
TheCollector
Who Invented the Ukulele?
undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Glass Delusion: Why Did People Think They Were Made of Glass?
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
Rock the Vote! How Music & Pop Culture Influenced Elections
undefined
a month ago
Flashbak
London By Tube, DLR and Overground in The Early 1990s
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra...
4 months ago
Today, I’m gonna take my bike ‘Cause once again the Tube’s on strike The greedy bastards want extra pay For sitting on their arse all day! – London Underground by The Amateur Transplants Peter Marshall shows us pictures of stations on the London Underground, Docklands light...
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE?
undefined
4 months ago
Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
6 days ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
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...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
a week ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
4 months ago
A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
History Today Feed
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
12 months ago
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
j.hoare
Fri, 01/05/2024 - 09:39
TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
undefined
10 months ago
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict
undefined
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
The Essential Greeks
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
6 months ago
***Now Enrolling: Starting July 1st, 2024
TheCollector
Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Must-see Museums in Budapest?
undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Chris Killip and Graham Smith Photographs of England Erased (1975-1987)
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you...
9 months ago
“I wanted to record people’s lives because I valued them. I wanted them to be remembered. If you take a photograph of someone they are immortalised, they’re there forever. For me that was important, that you’re acknowledging people’s lives, and also contextualising people’s...
Flashbak
Disappearing NYC: 1980s Store Fronts on New York’s Upper West Side
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes...
2 months ago
“I moved to the Upper West Side in August, 1978, and immediately loved it with all my heart,” writes Stephen Harmon, a retired lawyer who first lived on New York City’s West End Avenue and 73rd street. “I am a photographer and set out to preserve it on film because I knew the...
TheCollector
Impeachment: What Does It Take to Remove a US Politician From Power?
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes a Piece of Art a Masterpiece?
undefined
a month ago
History Today Feed
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
10 months ago
‘Revolusi’ by David Van Reybrouck review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:48
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
TheCollector
Disappointing Results for Long Museum’s Sale at Sotheby’s
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting?
undefined
6 months ago
History Today Feed
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
a month ago
Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/03/2024 - 08:59
TheCollector
7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Your Guide to the Best of Contemporary Art in Hanoi, Vietnam
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History)
undefined
3 weeks ago
TheCollector
What Are the Abraham Tapestries?
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Here Are the 3 Etruscan Kings of Rome (and Lars Porsenna)
undefined
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
12 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
TheCollector
Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Johnny Cash: A Bio of Country Ballads & Boisterous Song
undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Serpentine Installs 19-Foot Pumpkin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Met Announces First Major Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in the US
undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
3 of the World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities
undefined
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
6 months ago
Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
TheCollector
What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
undefined
11 months ago
Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
2 months ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Prophecies of Merlin
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
8 months ago
The Prophecies of Merlin
JamesHoare
Mon, 04/22/2024 - 11:22
TheCollector
What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Pets Did the Ancient Romans Have?
undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
8 Fun Facts About Montezuma — Starting with His Real Name
undefined
6 months ago
TheCollector
Forgotten Caravaggio Portrait Makes Public Debut in Rome
undefined
a month ago
TheCollector
When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
undefined
a year ago
Full Width 
Shortcuts 
Sign Up 
Log In 
Articles 
Reading List 