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The uneasy coexistence of “American Bandstand” and “Soul Train”Continue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »

The Female Giants had to overcome strong opposition just to play baseball.Continue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »

Nudity and virtue… true or not, the legend has the makings of a medieval blockbusterContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »

Some of the creepiest facts about a time obsessed with death and morbid curiosities (that are actually true).Queen Victoria, herself. Sourced: official royals.uk websiteIt’s fairly common knowledge that the Victorians had some quirky and, quite frankly, dangerous habits. This article denotes three of the most shocking Victorian facts.Your beauty routine could... Read more »

A Tragedy and An InspirationContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »

When animals were tried as humans.Continue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »

These are some of the darkest chapters in British historyContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »

The golden records carried on the Voyager Space ProbesContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »

History is filled with unending surprises and unsolved mysteriesContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »

On the Spot: Gene A. Jarrett Katie Holyoak Tue, 07/05/2022 - 11:35... Read more »

Gutter Press Katie Holyoak Tue, 07/05/2022 - 09:09... Read more »

In the Penal Colony Katie Holyoak Mon, 07/04/2022 - 09:31... Read more »

Hong Kong and the Huguenots Katie Holyoak Fri, 07/01/2022 - 09:34... Read more »

Illustrious Ancestors Katie Holyoak Fri, 07/01/2022 - 09:27... Read more »

Is Algeria Still Defined by its Liberation Struggle? Katie Holyoak Thu, 06/30/2022 - 09:26... Read more »

Professor Ptthmllnsprts Versus Old Bones Katie Holyoak Wed, 06/29/2022 - 09:12... Read more »

Love on the Wire Katie Holyoak Tue, 06/28/2022 - 09:01... Read more »

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night... Katie Holyoak Mon, 06/27/2022 - 09:14... Read more »

.image-13782631 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } Richard Tregaskis believed his reporting should support U.S. policy.... Read more »

.image-13782622 { max-height: 100%; --left: 59.11%; --top: 46.56%; } What happens when a movie star and a Civil War historian meet and talk about one of the towering figures of Gettysburg?... Read more »

.image-13749017 { max-height: 100%; --left: 45.47%; --top: 29.18%; } Colin Powell in 1997 on the founding U.S. document.... Read more »

.image-13778657 { max-height: 100%; --left: 61.32%; --top: 16.69%; } The Acropolis, for millennia the focal point of the city skyline, was the site of a fabled first act of resistance in World War II.... Read more »

.image-13782383 { max-height: 100%; --left: 36.85%; --top: 43.01%; } Washington’s DuPont Historical Museum relates the history of the explosives factory, the company town and Puget Sound.... Read more »

.image-13749249 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.87%; --top: 40.64%; } Did a Missouri woodcutter really find hidden treasure from the James Gang's robbery of a train in Gads Hill?... Read more »

The McMillan TAC-50, it has proven more than adequate in real-life (or death) situations.... Read more »

.image-13782480 { max-height: 100%; --left: 53.79%; --top: 29.07%; } Three of the top five longest confirmed kills in history are from Canadians.... Read more »

.image-13782341 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } Why is George Meade, the Army of the Potomac’s most accomplished commander, so often overlooked in histories of the war?... Read more »

In 1832, Thomas Sarpy, a fur trader married to an Oglala Lakota, met his untimely and violent end in the Dakotas.... Read more »

.image-13782461 { max-height: 100%; --left: 77.60%; --top: 54.78%; } Mike Fithian's grandfather flew this airplane type before World War I.... Read more »

.image-13782411 { max-height: 100%; --left: 37.19%; --top: 31.37%; } Aside from ruling their owners’ homes (and the Internet), cats have also turned out to be rulers of the waves.... Read more »

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.image-13781612 { max-height: 100%; --left: 51.03%; --top: 34.21%; } An interview with John D. Warner Jr., author of "Riders in the Storm."... Read more »

Food plays a critical role in many Jewish religious festivities, such as challah bread at weekly Shabbat services or holidays. Whether baked into two long braids or a round domed crown, this bread, doused in shiny egg wash, is also covered with fabric for religious and functional purposes. Given the... Read more »

In 2011, one year after the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act failed to pass through the Senate, members of Dream Team Los Angeles (DTLA) met for dinner to strategize. DTLA was unwilling to give up on the national campaign which had been led by several hundred... Read more »

While installing a new exhibition called Really BIG Money, we—collections manager Jennifer and mount maker Laura—faced a number of challenges, mainly mounting really big objects. One of the trickiest tasks we faced was mounting 165 coins together to form a gigantic Roman coin, complete with the head of a Roman... Read more »

Picture it: you're sitting with thousands of other audience members in a darkened arena. Suddenly, a spotlight illuminates a small circle on the ice. Posed under the light, you see Kristi Yamaguchi, ready to skate. For the thousands of people who saw Yamaguchi perform during her professional career, the drama... Read more »

The cover of the December 1960 issue of “ONE: The Homosexual Viewpoint,” titled “Homosexual, Servant of God,” picturing three kings on their journey to Bethlehem, commemorated in Epiphany and Three Kings’ Day. This holiday is closely associated with many different Christian traditions, particularly those of Latinx and Eastern European Christian... Read more »

Long feathers that shimmer in the light. A formidably heavy stone ring. An iron blade taller than most children. A hoard of ancient coins with hundreds of imperial eyes. It’s almost impossible to walk by these attention-grabbing monetary objects and not want to know about the places they come from... Read more »

Poster, “Soldiers without guns.” Courtesy of Library of Congress (2002719121)In 1943, faced with labor shortages during World War II, U.S. Secretary of War Henry Stimson began promoting the “Get Women to Work” campaign. To win the war, Stimson stated, the United States would need to "fully utilize, immediately and effectively,... Read more »

Words are an essential means of communication, yet how we put them down in writing has been continuously shaped over time by technologies, cultural and business needs, and education. Once a universal skill taught in the school classroom, handwriting fell out of favor with the introduction of technologies designed to... Read more »

Like many young men during World War II, Calvin Curtis and his fraternal twin brother, Clarence, were drafted in 1943. They were juniors in high school in San Antonio, Texas, from a farm family. Calvin believed they would be going into the army, but at the end of the day... Read more »

Court records, ship’s papers and mail-in-transit revealing the details of French ships captured during the War of the Austrian Succession are now available online for the first time. The records from ten ships captured by the English from their French opponents between 1740 and 1748 have been uploaded online today... Read more »

The National Archives and Arts Council England are pleased to announce that they have signed a collaboration agreement until 2024, building on a long history of mutual support. Archives, libraries and museums are closely connected in their work and our two organisations have many shared values and goals. Dr Valerie... Read more »

The National Archives has today taken on responsibility for the external publication of court judgments, creating the first publicly available government database of judgments. John Sheridan, Digital Director at The National Archives said: ‘We are taking on this role as keepers of the public record, working under the Public Records... Read more »

The National Archives has welcomed Professor Andrew Wathey CBE as the new Chair of its advisory Board for a three-year term. Professor Wathey succeeds Lesley Cowley OBE, the inaugural holder of the role, who stepped down in March, at the conclusion of a transformative and highly successful six-year tenure. Professor... Read more »

Today we are pleased to announce the successful applicants who have received grants from our Records at Risk Fund. Eight archives from across England and Scotland have each received grants of up to £5,000. The Records at Risk Fund provides support for urgent, short-notice interventions to save historical records, in... Read more »

Today, the first tranche of Ministry of Defence (MOD) service personnel records will go on to our catalogue and be made available for ordering. These are the first of 9.7 million records that will be transferred from MOD over a six-year period. The records are those in series WO 420... Read more »

We have today become one of the first places in the UK to host a SafePod for data research. A SafePod is a small prefabricated room, which provides the necessary security and controls to enable a researcher to access and work on data that requires secure access. In most cases... Read more »

We have all seen the horrific events unfolding in Ukraine. Many of us are looking for different ways to help; as an institution, we are looking at practical ways to help our colleagues in Ukraine preserve their national archival collections that are in peril. We’re really proud to be a... Read more »

The UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce that the following archive services have been awarded accredited status for the first time following the latest panel meeting: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Archives All accredited archive services must apply again for accreditation six... Read more »

Get ready for a trip back to the glitz and glamour of London’s hottest 1920s underground spot, The 43 Club, courtesy of our late event on 20 May. Join us as we party with the notorious and scandalous Kate Meyrick, the ‘Nightclub Queen’ of Soho, in an exciting one-off recreation... Read more »

It was announced earlier today that the Parliamentary Archives, which are currently located in the Palace of Westminster’s Victoria Tower, are going to move to The National Archives. The relocation is expected to take place before summer 2025. Jeff James, Keeper of The National Archives said: ‘The importance of the... Read more »

The National Archives is delighted to announce that CILIP Pathways has been commissioned to develop the end-point assessor organisation process for the new Level 7 Archivist and Records Manager apprenticeship standard. The Level 7 apprenticeship will open up a new technical training route into the archives sector and will be... Read more »

Court records revealing the details of 1,500 ships captured during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars are now searchable online for the first time. Uploaded as part of our Prize Papers project, the digital copies of 55 case books relating to ships seized by the British between 1793 and 1815... Read more »

The following manuscript has been accepted in lieu of tax by the Government: Treaty of Dover, a register of the rights, obligations and arrangements pertaining to Dover Castle and its Constables, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum, c.1390-91. Further details are set out in Arts Council England’s latest... Read more »

In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court has overturned the nationwide legal right to abortion – a right enshrined almost half a century ago, in 1973, through the cast of Roe v Wade. Here, Professor Mary Ziegler charts the history of abortion law in the USA before and after... Read more »

How did Americans extricate themselves from the British empire following the War of Independence? And what tips can we learn from their exit negotiations at the Treaty of Paris in 1783? Tom Cutterham offers some suggestions...... Read more »

Levi Roach explains how the Normans conquered and held regions of Africa during the 12th century... Read more »

As part of our series exploring lost or lesser-known figures from history who deserve their 15 minutes of fame, Emily Briffett interviews Dr Janina Ramirez about the life of Hildegard of Bingen... Read more »

What events happened on 5 July in history? We round up the events, births and deaths…... Read more »

Local council support officer and podcaster Jackie Weaver chooses Elizabeth I as a history hero... Read more »

The seeds of revolution and calls for independence were brewing in Britain’s American colonies many years before a shooting war broke out...... Read more »

Dr Alison Toplis explains the scandalous story behind the world's first "bikini"...... Read more »

The American Revolutionary War (1775–83) began when representatives from 13 North American colonies of the kingdom of Great Britain sought more autonomy within the British Empire. But when did the French intervene? How close did the British come to winning the war? And how tyrannical was the rule of King... Read more »

“That regiment with the castles on their caps is composed of the most obstinate mules I ever saw. They don’t know when they are beaten.” — Napoleon Bonaparte By Brendan Farrell  FOR ALMOST a millennium,... The post Wellington’s Irish Soldiers — Meet the Troops Who Helped the British Hold the... Read more »

“Alexander confronted Persia with the seasoned army his father had created.” By Adrian Goldsworthy ALEXANDER THE GREAT was one of the most successful military commanders in history. In just seven years, he led his army... The post The Macedonian Army – Meet the Elite Ancient Soldiers Who Made Alexander ‘Great’... Read more »

“B-26s were at their best when used in medium-level attacks… [it] flew some of its most important missions in that role.” By Marc Liebman THE NORTH AMERICAN B-25 Mitchell is perhaps one of the most... The post The Martin B-26 – 10 Facts About America’s Forgotten Medium Bomber appeared first... Read more »

“Biblical histories do accord well with contemporaneous records, and even provide insights into military principles of the era.” By Douglas Brown FEW TODAY might consider the Old Testament to be among the most reliable of... The post Old Testament Tactics – Six Battle-Winning Strategies from the Bible that Appear Throughout History... Read more »

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