On 16 October 1930 Britain’s sense of its historical greatness was skewered with the release of 1066 and All That.
A t the core of environmental history lies a simple feedback loop: that humanity and the environment are in a perpetual and ...
In the chaos unleashed by the October Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov found a past become fragmented and confused, and history ...
On his return in 1768 Wilkes dedicated himself to securing re-election for Parliament. He found allies within the City of ...
In conclusion, Hölscher suggests that the images of the symposium and the diver in the Paestum tomb provide a powerful ...
On 9 October 1676 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek – the ‘Father of Microbiology’ – presented his findings to the Royal Society.
In Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World , John Blair proves that you can’t keep a good ...
The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in the 1950s.
In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared ...
Most of us know the story of Noah, the Flood, and the Ark. In just four chapters of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, we are told the story of God’s decision to destroy the Earth through a ...
About a mile north of the Ithakan town of Stavros, halfway up a mountain, lies an archaeological site traditionally known as the School of Homer. It is a Mycenaean-era palace complex, with roads, ...
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