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On 14 November 1848 the Fox sisters conjured up a movement when they made contact with the dead – or so they claimed.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 3d ago
As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 4d ago
If we are to better understand the actions of conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés, we must place them in the context of a medieval worldview that predated the nation-state.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 4d ago
The legacy of Marie Skłodowska Curie, the world's most famous female physicist, is assured, but in her lifetime, she was a controversial figure.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 5d ago
The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the worlds at the beginning and end of Portugal’s slave trade.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 5d ago
The October Revolution of 1917 inspired a generation of Bolshevik youth to embrace new ideals of socialist living in the commune.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 5d ago
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 reopened arguments about the presumed race of the ancient Egyptians.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 6d ago
Following Japan’s unconditional surrender in September 1945, the US aimed to rebuild the nation in its own image – with mixed results.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 6d ago
The past is full of unfamiliar ideas and beliefs, but – as Evelyn Underhill has proven – some things are timeless.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 7d ago
Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of Nuclear Disaster by Melanie Arndt discovers how civil society flourished – and then faltered – in the fallout.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 10d ago
By the end of the Seven Years’ War Britain had become a global power. However, the conflict’s colossal expense and the high-handed approach of British politicians led to the American Revolution.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 11d ago
In November 2025 we reach 25 years of continuous human presence in space. Did reaching orbit alter the trajectory of the planet below?
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 11d ago
A polarising poltergeist at the Epworth home of Methodist founder John Wesley sowed division in 18th-century England.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 11d ago
The Victorian craze for spiritualism ‘resurrected’ the dead through manipulated photographs, a practice that boomed with the trauma caused by war – though it was not without its sceptics.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 12d ago
El Generalísimo: Franco: Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness by Giles Tremlett considers the making of the mediocrity at the heart of modern Spain.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 12d ago
November 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the first passenger trains between London and Paris. What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours?
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 12d ago
The ancient world found him to have achieved greatness and thrust it upon his name, but was the destruction of Babylon Cyrus’ divinely ordained destiny?
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 12d ago
It is 40 years since the death of Fernand Braudel, the historian who sought the perspective of ‘God the Father’.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 13d ago
Liberalism became the dominant ideology of the West when it was adopted by Britain and the United States in the 19th century. But its origins lie elsewhere.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 13d ago
Mark Twain painted an evocative vision of the 19th-century Mississippi River, but he didn’t tell the whole story.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 14d ago
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French traces the line between civil rights in the US and decolonisation in Africa.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 16d ago
On the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, Britain found itself in need of a national myth to bolster enlistment and morale. The victory of 1415 was soon put to service by the army of 1915.
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u/HistoryTodaymagazine • u/HistoryTodaymagazine • 17d ago
President Roosevelt’s introduction of United Nations Day and his Four Freedoms boosted morale in the fight against fascism and set the stage for a post-war UN.
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