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 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 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 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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...
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 ...
Archaeologists working on two small Caribbean islands have found artifacts intentionally buried beneath two 18th-century plantation houses. ...
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...
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 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...
Why are thousands of students struggling to keep these monstrosities on their heads this month? ...
An albino woman in Africa was murdered so that her body parts could be used in magic spells. And she's not the only one. Continue reading → ...
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 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 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...