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A Blog About History - 24-May-2014

A wooden notebook has been found in a Byzantine-era shipwreck found in Istanbul. Calling the objects the “miracle of Yenikap?,” Kocaba? said, “In one of the ships, we found something like today’s notebook. It is made of wood and can be opened like a notebook. It has a few pages and you can take notes ...

History Today - 24-May-2014

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Giuseppi Garibaldi, 1807-1882 By Denis Mack Smith Published in History Today     Military   Political   Social   Modern   Italy   The prototype of nationalist hero, yet a great internationalist, Garibaldi believed passionately in freedom but did not, writes Denis Mack Smith, disdain dictatorial methods. Giuseppe...

History Today - 24-May-2014

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: From Gladstone to Asquith: The Late Victorian Pattern of Liberal Leadership By Roy Jenkins Published in History Today     Political   Victorian   Britain   Herbert Henry Asquith   From 1868 until 1916, writes Roy Jenkins, in the days of high Imperialism, the Liberal Party held office at Westminster for no less...

History Today - 24-May-2014

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 27 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Friedrich Engels and the England of the 1840s By W.H. Chaloner W.O. Henderson Published in History Today     Communism   Social classes   Economic History   Political   Social   Victorian   Ireland   W.O. Henderson and W.H. Chalonert describe how it was from incomplete evidence, and in a spirit of political prejudice,...

A Blog About History - 23-May-2014

A Roman-era Basilica has been found in the ancient city of Bursa in Turkey. We tought that the remains were from an early Roman-era basilica and decided to deepen the excavations considering that the remains would shed light on Bursa’s history of architecture. This is why a single-floor structure on the remains has been expropriated ...

A Blog About History - 23-May-2014

Looters in Turkey have blown up an ancient tomb found in the archaeological site of Olba. A 12,000-year-old tomb made of rock in the southern province of Mersin’s Silifke district has been blown up with dynamite by treasure hunters. The assistant head of Olba archaeological excavations, Murat Özy?ld?rm said during a visit to the ancient ...

A Blog About History - 22-May-2014

Thieves have destroyed a 5,000-year-old UNESCO-listed rock-art panel in Spain after a botched removal attempt. Local mayor Juan Caminero said the painting was now “irreparable” and condemned the act of vandalism as “heartless”, Spanish daily La Vanguardia reported on Monday. News of the attempted theft first emerged on Saturday after visitors to the Los Escolares ...

A Blog About History - 22-May-2014

New research suggests that ancient Egyptians may have been able to move massive stone blocks for building by using wet sand. Physicists at the University of Amsterdam investigated the forces needed to pull weighty objects on a giant sled over desert sand, and discovered that dampening the sand in front of the primitive device reduces ...

History Today - 22-May-2014

India's Wildest Dream History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: India's Wildest Dream By Mihir Bose Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       First World War   India   The Great War raised hopes of Indian independence, but it would take another conflict to make it a reality. The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War is just...

History Today - 22-May-2014

History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Sex and the American GI in World War II By David Ellwood Posted 21st May 2014, 14:49     Second World War   France   North America   What Soldiers Do Sex and the American GI in World War II France Mary Louise Roberts University of Chicago Press   368pp   £21 This fascinating book tells a lurid, in many ways atrocious...

A Blog About History - 21-May-2014

The H.L. Hunley, a Civil War submarine, is set to undergo a procedure to remove concretions of sand and shell that have accumulated along the hull. The 76,000-gallon holding tank the Hunley rests in will be filled for the first time with a chemical solution designed to save the fragile iron submarine from deterioration. During ...

History Today - 21-May-2014

History Today Jump to Navigation Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Last King in India By Andrew Robinson Posted 20th May 2014, 15:40     India   The Last King in India Wajid Ali Shah Rosie Llewellyn-Jones Hurst   288pp   £20 After the eclipse of Mughal power in the early 18th century, the repository of Mughal culture moved from Delhi to Lucknow, capital of the rich north...

A Blog About History - 21-May-2014

Four buried caches of artifacts, known as foundation deposits, have been unearthed in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. “Foundation deposits are ritual offerings placed in front of or around a tomb or temple most likely at its commencement. While each deposit is only a square meter or less in size, such deposits contain a fascinating ...

History Today - 20-May-2014

History Today Jump to Navigation Tuesday, 20 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: A Matter of Judgement By Suzannah Lipscomb Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       An inherent tension between the past and the present becomes explicit when we make our assessments of historical figures, argues Suzannah Lipscomb. Were the lampooning authors of  1066 and All That  actually...

Discovery News - 20-May-2014

The 9th-century wooden object is about the same shape (though not thickness) of an iPad, and was a notebook -- and tool - in one. Continue reading → ...

History Today - 20-May-2014

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 19 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: Whose History is This? By Ian Mortimer Published in History Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6   2014       Academic history is crucial to the health of the discipline, but there are many other ways of engaging with the past. History After Hobsbawm , a major international conference ‘exploring where the study of history...

History Today - 19-May-2014

History Today Jump to Navigation Monday, 19 May 2014 Login / Register Search this site: The Women Who Spied for Britain By Clare Mulley Posted 19th May 2014, 10:00     The Women Who Spied for Britain Female Secret Agents of the Second World War Robyn Walker Amberley   208pp   £16.99 Female spies are back. Possibly they never left – hard to know – but they are now certainly very visible. Over the last...


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