Britain declared war on Germany #OnThisDay in 1914
Military history is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four scholars consider its value – and its future.
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In this week’s Miscellanies: the case for #KingArthur
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Sailors looking for work in the 19th century risked getting crimped – or shanghaied – and caught in a whirlpool of exploitation and corruption.
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The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the #Tudor dissolution of the monasteries.
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Early Stuart England saw the emergence of mass petitioning. These expressions of collective grievance would advance popular politics, uncover division, and lay the road to war.
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Louis Le Prince, the world’s first filmmaker, disappeared without trace. Are we watching his outtakes?
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#Jamaica became independent #OnThisDay in 1962.
The Windrush generation witnessed the Caribbean colonies from which they had emigrated achieve independence. Despite being an ocean away, they were not passive observers.
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The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century by Andrew Pettegree reveals the hard graft and innovation behind the book trade.
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In Mao’s China hospitality workers were on the front line, showcasing the new state to foreign guests from beyond the ‘bamboo curtain’.
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Empress Matilda died #OnThisDay in 1167
Following the death of Henry I, England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered.
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The Simele Massacre took place #OnThisDay in 1933
Foreign armies acted with impunity in Iraq from the first decade of independence. In response, the Iraqi military became a tool of internal repression.
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Desk Revolutionaries: The Men of the French Directory, 1795-9 by Biancamaria Fontana sets the record straight on the French Revolution’s great experiment in governance.
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Desk Revolutionaries: The Men of the French Directory, 1795-9 by Biancamaria Fontana sets the record straight on the #FrenchRevolution’s great experiment in governance.
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The Victorian reading public had access to a vast array of classical literature from Asia in multiple translations by experts and amateurs. What did they read, and why?
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#AlbertSpeer died 45 years ago #OnThisDay
‘Hitler’s architect’ denied all responsibility for the ruthless exploitation of millions of slave labourers. Yet he was head of a bureaucratic machine that did just that.
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The Rise and Fall of American Europe by Glyn Morgan finds a continent powerless before a capricious United States. Is it too late to teach an old world new tricks?
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The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald by Walter Reid finds the romance behind Labour’s great betrayer.
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What’s the meaning of the galloping herds painted on the walls of Lascaux’s cave system?
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Chinggis Khan died #OnThisDay in 1227
Women may be largely absent from traditional accounts of the Mongol conquests, but they played a crucial role in creating the largest of all land empires.
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The distinction between centre and periphery was vital to the #RomanEmpire’s conception of itself. For centuries a rugged frontier, the land north of the Danube would produce one of Rome’s greatest foes.
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#ChopSuey arrived with the Gold Rush, spread with the railway and endured Prohibition. Although Chinese in origin, it was claimed by America.
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The Blitz began #OnThisDay in 1940.
The devastation and chaos inflicted on London provided an opportunity for murderers to conceal their crimes.
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In its earliest days, the East India Company was seen not as a threat to Asia’s elites, but as a means of strengthening their powers.
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The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries under #HenryVIII.
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Sabbatai Zevi died 350 years ago #OnThisDay
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In 1935 Turkmen farmers rode their horses 4,300 kilometres across the #SovietUnion to impress Moscow.
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In 1935 Turkmen farmers rode their horses 4,300 kilometres across the Soviet Union to impress Moscow.
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A sophisticated ninth-century forgery became a core part of Church law. Its influence endured for centuries – even after its deceit was accepted.
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Newfoundland was England’s first overseas colony, but its settlement did not follow the usual patterns: its communities were nomadic, moving around the island with the seasons.
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The short-lived English colony of Willoughbyland, in what is now Suriname, was both verdant and dangerous. In the end, it was exchanged for New York.
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Louis Le Prince, the world’s first #filmmaker, disappeared without trace. Are we watching his outtakes?
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In 1943 letters reporting starvation and death in Bengal began to reach Indian soldiers serving overseas. Despite censorship, their testimonies revealed the devastating reality of famine.
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In this week’s Miscellanies: in 1935 Turkmen farmers rode their horses 4,300 kilometres across the #SovietUnion to impress Moscow.
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Darwin’s theory of sexual selection was even more controversial than evolution. It offended Victorian morality, and his own feelings about human courtship.
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The first Irish Republican bomb detonated on English soil was not intended as an act of terrorism, but its impact – and death toll – sent shockwaves through #Victorian London.
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Where relations between Armenia and Turkey are concerned, the #11thcentury never ended.
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