Competition: Win Tickets to see King Charles III at London's Almeida Theatre History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 09 September 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Competition: Win Tickets to see King Charles III at London's Almeida Theatre By History Today Published in History Today The Queen is dead: after a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how...
A New Kingdom tomb dating back to 1100 B.C. has been found at Saqqara in Egypt. Archaeologists from Cairo University stumbled upon what is believed to be the tomb of Paser – Egypt’s royal ambassador to foreign countries during the late Ramesside period as well as the army archives holder. The tomb is temple-shaped and ...
The foundations of a 19th-century circular prison block has been unearthed at Pentridge Prison in southern Australia. Archaeologist and ABC TV host Adam Ford said a teenage Ned Kelly, when at Pentridge for three years in the early 1870s, would have spent time in at least one of them. ‘‘He went in to Pentridge a ...
What's really inside hot dogs? Trace is joined by Will Johnson to discuss the history of the frankfurter, and how you might want to think twice before consuming one. ...
An Egyptian tomb which dates back 5,600 years has been found in the ancient city of Hierakonpolis in Egypt. The tomb was built before the rule of king Narmer, the founder of the First Dynasty who unified Upper and Lower Egypt in the 31th century BC, the antiquities ministry said in a statement. The tomb ...
The mummy, found by an expedition in the 1800s, is rediscovered in Florence, Italy. ...
The mummy of the pharaoh Amenhotep II's foster brother may finally have been located in a former Italian monastery. ...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Spain and England in Florida By Louis C. Kleber Published in History Today Empire Early Modern (16th-18thC) Britain USA France Spain Louis C. Kleber writes how Florida was ceded to Britain in 1763; retroceded to Spain after the American Revolution, and acquired by the United States in 1819. When...
Russian History in Turgenev’s Novels History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Russian History in Turgenev’s Novels By Lionel Kochan Published in History Today Literature Cultural Modern Russia Lionel Kochan writes how Turgenev's heroes serve to embody many different aspects of the rapidly changing scene in nineteenth century Russia. In 1880...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Revolution in 18th Century Music By Owain Edwards Published in History Today Music Art Cultural Early Modern (16th-18thC) London Owain Edwards writes about the sea change in classical music composition - and listenership - as the galant music of the Bachs reached London. John Hoyle hit the nail squarely...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Radical Dandy: Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, 1796-1861 By P.W. Kingsford Published in History Today Agricultural Cultural Social England London P.W. Kingsford tells the story of a Regency buck, who became a Parliamentary champion of the depressed classes in early nineteenth-century England. The apparent...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Postcards and History By T.J. Brady Published in History Today Cultural Economic History Victorian England Picture postcards may seem a commonplace means of communication, but, when they first came into use, they caused a revolution in people’s writing habits. T.J. Brady writes how they led to the...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Mutiny at Wilhelmshaven, 1918 By David Woodward Published in History Today Maritime Military First World War 20th Century Germany David Woodward describes how the crews of the destroyer flotilla of the German High Sea Fleet mutinied at the end of the First World War. On October 29th, 1918, the High...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Mozambique: Vicissitudes of an East African Colony, 1505-1955 By C.R. Boxer Published in History Today Slavery & Abolition Empire Africa Portugal Portugal's colonial empire was, at the C.R. Boxer wrote this article in 1956, the oldest in the world, with Mozambique as its most prosperous possession....
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Mercenaries in the British Service By Hereward Senior Published in History Today Empire Military Britain Hereward Senior traces the British employment of foreign professional soldiery, from Danish axemen before the Norman Conquest, to Sepoys in the days of the British East India Company. The re-appearance...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Mannerheim: Marshal of Finland, 1867-1951 By Oliver Warner Published in History Today Military Interwar period Second World War 20th Century Scandinavia The Field Marshal who had led his country to independence in 1918, writes Oliver Warner, was called upon twice to defend his own creation during...
Lysons’ Greater London History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Lysons’ Greater London By Meyrick H. Carré Published in History Today Local Georgian England London When the celebrated antiquarian nicknamed “Stumpity Stump” toured the rustic neighbourhoods that then surrounded London, writes Meyrick H. Carré, the metropolis was on the verge...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Jamaica and Britain By Morris Cargill Published in History Today Slavery & Abolition Empire Britain Caribbean Jamaica, writes Morris Cargill, has been a British possession since the times of Cromwell. Within its small area of 4,470 square miles, Jamaica contains many of the world’s races and exemplifies...
Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861—1865 History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861—1865 By Frank J. Merli Thomas W. Green Published in History Today Maritime Military American Civil War Britain USA The Civil War coincided with an era in naval technology that was revolutionizing sea warfare.”...
History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Grace Darling: The Fate of a Victorian Heroine By Richard Armstrong Published in History Today Literature Cultural Maritime Victorian Britain Scotland The Grace Darling legend as an early manifestation of the terrifying power of sustained publicity; Richard Armstrong writes that she may well have...