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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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The "New" Ancient City
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The Philosopher Poet: Who Was Lucretius?
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Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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The Death of a Mnemonist
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Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:04
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
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Patterns in Humanity
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Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
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7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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‘The Picnic’ by Matthew Longo review
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The Prophecies of Merlin
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How did Alexander the Great Untangle the Gordian Knot?
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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 …...
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Columbine 25 Years On
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What Is the Main Rule of Life Taught by Kant’s Philosophy?
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Artists Rejected from Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
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When Nostalgia Was Deadly
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In Defence of Boring Books
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Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
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The Vienna Secession is Founded
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
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‘Impossible Monsters’ by Michael Taylor review
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Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:24
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the...
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What Was the Hanseatic League?
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African History...
Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
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How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics
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Fireside Friday, March 29, 2024 (On Roman Values)
Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had...
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Fireside this week! Apologies for having two of these in a row, but as I noted last week, I’ve had some unexpected (but good) travel, which has made a bit of havoc in my schedule and I am still trying to catch back up. Nevertheless, I wanted to use this week’s fireside to muse a...
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What Is Freud’s Superego & What Does It Have to Do With Society?
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