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History of Yesterday
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- ● Two TV Shows Illustrating America’s Racial DivideThe uneasy coexistence of “American Bandstand” and “Soul Train”Continue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 5, 2022 - 5:02 pm
- ● The 1913 New York Female Giants Fought to Make a Place for Women In SportsThe Female Giants had to overcome strong opposition just to play baseball.Continue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 5, 2022 - 2:03 pm
- ● Lady Godiva — A Godly and Goodly Real-Life Legend?Nudity and virtue… true or not, the legend has the makings of a medieval blockbusterContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 5, 2022 - 11:01 am
- ● 3 Horrifying Facts about Victorian EnglandSome 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 »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 5, 2022 - 8:01 am
- How the Worlds Ugliest Woman Become the Face of Feminism and MotherhoodA Tragedy and An InspirationContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 4, 2022 - 8:02 pm
- 3 Ridiculous Animal Trials From HistoryWhen animals were tried as humans.Continue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 4, 2022 - 5:03 pm
- 5 Terrible Tragedies From British HistoryThese are some of the darkest chapters in British historyContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 4, 2022 - 2:01 pm
- Humanity’s Stellar Ambassador To Extraterrestrial Civilizations: MusicThe golden records carried on the Voyager Space ProbesContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 4, 2022 - 11:03 am
- Four Mysterious Findings From the Ancient World That Will Surprise YouHistory is filled with unending surprises and unsolved mysteriesContinue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 4, 2022 - 8:03 am
- The Strength of Spartans Caused their DeclineFind out how the strength of these battlefield menaces proved to be the reason for their demise.Continue reading on History of Yesterday »... Read more »Source: History of Yesterday - Medium | Published: July 2, 2022 - 2:03 pm
History of Yesterday - Medium
History Today
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- ● On the Spot: Gene A. JarrettOn the Spot: Gene A. Jarrett Katie Holyoak Tue, 07/05/2022 - 11:35... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: July 5, 2022 - 10:35 am
- ● Gutter PressGutter Press Katie Holyoak Tue, 07/05/2022 - 09:09... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: July 5, 2022 - 8:09 am
- In the Penal ColonyIn the Penal Colony Katie Holyoak Mon, 07/04/2022 - 09:31... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: July 4, 2022 - 8:31 am
- Hong Kong and the HuguenotsHong Kong and the Huguenots Katie Holyoak Fri, 07/01/2022 - 09:34... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: July 1, 2022 - 8:34 am
- Illustrious AncestorsIllustrious Ancestors Katie Holyoak Fri, 07/01/2022 - 09:27... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: July 1, 2022 - 8:27 am
- Is Algeria Still Defined by its Liberation Struggle?Is Algeria Still Defined by its Liberation Struggle? Katie Holyoak Thu, 06/30/2022 - 09:26... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: June 30, 2022 - 8:26 am
- Professor Ptthmllnsprts Versus Old BonesProfessor Ptthmllnsprts Versus Old Bones Katie Holyoak Wed, 06/29/2022 - 09:12... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: June 29, 2022 - 8:12 am
- Love on the WireLove on the Wire Katie Holyoak Tue, 06/28/2022 - 09:01... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: June 28, 2022 - 8:01 am
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...It Was a Dark and Stormy Night... Katie Holyoak Mon, 06/27/2022 - 09:14... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: June 27, 2022 - 8:14 am
- The Berbice RebellionThe Berbice Rebellion Katie Holyoak Mon, 06/27/2022 - 09:14... Read more »Source: History Today Feed | Published: June 27, 2022 - 8:14 am
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History.com
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- 14 Everyday Objects of Ancient EgyptAncient Egyptians left behind a trove of artifacts that shed light on daily life during the civilization's 3000-year existence.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: July 1, 2022 - 1:15 pm
- 5 Famous Ancient Roman GladiatorsWho were the most renowned Roman gladiators? From slave rebel Spartacus to debauched emperor Commodus, they varied widely.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 30, 2022 - 9:56 pm
- How the Declaration of Independence Was Printed—and ProtectedAmerica’s earliest founding document survived war, fire, mistreatment, insects and the ravages of time prior to landing at its current home in the National Archives.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 28, 2022 - 1:51 pm
- Why Eisenhower Added 'Under God' to the Pledge of AllegianceThe pledge, as recited in schools, wasn’t standardized until World War II, and didn’t contain “under God” until the Cold War in 1954.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 22, 2022 - 1:32 pm
- When the Military Expelled LGBTQ Soldiers With 'Blue Discharges'During WWII and beyond, blue ticket discharges carried powerful stigma—and serious negative consequences.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 16, 2022 - 8:40 pm
- 7 LGBTQ Uprisings Before StonewallThe 1969 Stonewall Riots marked a historic turning point for gay rights, but several smaller uprisings preceded Stonewall as LGBTQ communities pushed back against harassment and inequality.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 15, 2022 - 1:42 pm
- The Declaration of Independence Was Also a List of GrievancesThe document was designed to prove to the world (especially France) that the colonists were right to defy King George III's rule.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 13, 2022 - 8:23 pm
- 7 Iconic Photos From the Vietnam War EraGifted photographers and reporters captured images that conveyed the agony and violence of the Vietnam war, and the deep divisions it drove in American society.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 8, 2022 - 1:29 pm
- 8 of the Largest Tools in the WorldFrom a magnet that can lift an aircraft carrier to a turbine blade longer than a football field, these brawny behemoths get the big jobs done.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 7, 2022 - 8:46 pm
- 10 Times America Helped Overthrow a Foreign GovernmentThe US has long facilitated regime change to support its own strategic and business interests.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 7, 2022 - 7:29 pm
- VideoThe Failed 1846 Amendment That Tried to Contain SlaveryDebate over the Wilmot Proviso inflamed North-South divisions ahead of the Civil War.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 7, 2022 - 1:23 pm
- Benjamin Franklin’s Kite Experiment: What Do We Know?There was a key. There was a kite. Otherwise, accounts of the event remain murky.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 6, 2022 - 1:17 pm
- How Timbuktu Flourished During the Golden Age of IslamDuring the 15th and 16th centuries, Timbuktu, located in Mali, served as a major intellectual hub of Islamic civilization.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 6, 2022 - 1:14 pm
- 9 Black Athletes Who Integrated Professional SportsAfter WWII, racial barriers in sports slowly began to drop. Jackie Robinson was not the only athlete on the front lines of these changes.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: June 3, 2022 - 7:53 pm
- The Political Cartoonist Who Helped Lead to 'Boss' Tweed's DownfallThomas Nast gleefully—and bravely—mocked the Tammany Hall boss in multiple cartoons, prompting newspapers and authorities to investigate.... Read more »Source: Stories - HISTORY | Published: May 31, 2022 - 8:42 pm
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History Net
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- ● He Reported From The Trenches From World War II To Vietnam.image-13782631 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } Richard Tregaskis believed his reporting should support U.S. policy.... Read more »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:26 pm
- ● Joshua Chamberlain and Me.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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 5, 2022 - 5:22 pm
- Video● Colin Powell on the Declaration of Independence.image-13749017 { max-height: 100%; --left: 45.47%; --top: 29.18%; } Colin Powell in 1997 on the founding U.S. document.... Read more »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 5, 2022 - 3:34 pm
- ● See Athens Through the Eyes of a World War II Historian.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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 5, 2022 - 11:30 am
- ● The DuPont Historical Museum: A Dynamite Destination.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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 5, 2022 - 10:00 am
- Did Jesse James Hide Treasure in Gads Hill?.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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 1, 2022 - 3:27 pm
- Is the TAC-50 the Most Accurate Sniper Rifle in the World?The McMillan TAC-50, it has proven more than adequate in real-life (or death) situations.... Read more »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 1, 2022 - 1:21 pm
- Small But Mighty: Canada’s Military Has Produced Record-Breaking Snipers.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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 1, 2022 - 12:00 pm
- Distorted Truth: The Legacy of George Gordon Meade.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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 1, 2022 - 12:00 pm
- The 19th-Century Fur Trader Who Mixed Candlelight and Black Powder: A Cautionary TaleIn 1832, Thomas Sarpy, a fur trader married to an Oglala Lakota, met his untimely and violent end in the Dakotas.... Read more »Source: HistoryNet | Published: July 1, 2022 - 10:00 am
- This Was History’s First Bomber. This Guy Made A Replica..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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: June 30, 2022 - 4:38 pm
- ‘Cats in the Navy’: Book Explores the Secret Life of Sea Cats.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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: June 30, 2022 - 3:23 pm
- Biography of Donald Trump... Read more »Source: HistoryNet | Published: June 30, 2022 - 1:40 pm
- A Closer Look at One of the Union’s First Black Cavalry Units.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 »Source: HistoryNet | Published: June 30, 2022 - 12:45 pm
- The History of Summer Vacation.image-13782389 { max-height: 100%; --left: 50.00%; --top: 50.00%; } Turns out it may not be good for students or farmers.... Read more »Source: HistoryNet | Published: June 30, 2022 - 10:42 am
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American History
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- How a Jewish female textile artist folded her identities into a challah coverFood 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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: June 28, 2022 - 5:11 pm
- VideoMaking history happen: Reflecting on DACA and its impactIn 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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: June 14, 2022 - 3:49 pm
- 2 experts, 165 coins, 1 really big headWhile 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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: May 31, 2022 - 7:28 pm
- Sparkles under the spotlight: Designing a costume for Kristi YamaguchiPicture 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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: May 11, 2022 - 6:13 pm
- Servant of God: How a 1960s magazine addressed gay men’s spiritual needsThe 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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: May 6, 2022 - 1:28 pm
- What can really BIG money teach us about our world?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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: March 29, 2022 - 3:40 pm
- Rosie, Wendy, and Government Girls: The women behind the warPoster, “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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: March 16, 2022 - 1:53 pm
- Don’t write off cursive yetWords 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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: February 23, 2022 - 4:38 pm
- VideoCalvin and Clarence Curtis: Montford Point MarinesLike 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 »Source: Blog Feed | Published: February 17, 2022 - 5:44 pm
- Of service and thanks: Collecting after January 6Like many around the world, I spent the afternoon of January 6, 2021, watching the news and absorbing the chaotic events unfolding at the U.S. Capitol. On January 7, I spent several hours surveying the National Mall, collecting abandoned objects that I hoped would one day offer some insight into... Read more »Source: Blog Feed | Published: January 4, 2022 - 7:53 pm
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History News Network
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- ● Will Artificial Intelligence be the Agent of Capitalism's (and Humanity's) Creative Destruction?Alicia Vikander in Ex Machina (Film 4/DNA Films, 2015) In an underrated 2009 film, “Leaves of Grass,” Edward Norton’s character, a Yale professor, is told by a rabbi, “We are animals, Professor Kincaid, with brains that trick us into thinking we aren’t.” Indeed. We are animals cursed with... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Trump’s Involvement in the January 6 Conspiracy Is Easy to ProveDonald Trump addresses the "Stop the Steal" Rally, January 6, 2021 The Italian author Primo Levi, himself a holocaust survivor, proclaimed that “Every age has its own fascism.” Today, Americans wonder whether we are in our own drift towards an undermining of democratic values, which comes not with... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Dr. Gillian Frank on the Decimation of Roe v. WadeWell, that was a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Unprecedented, Precedent-Destroying Week at the Supreme Court. To help make sense of SCOTUS’ reversal of Roe v. Wade, I spoke to Dr. Gillian Frank, a historian of sexuality and religion. This is the first of a series of Skipped conversations... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● "Our Best Memorial to the Dead Would be Our Service to the Living"Women’s Overseas Service League Seattle Unit members on the 50th Anniversary of Armistice, November 11, 1968. From left to right: Mrs. Edna Lord (American RedCross), Mrs. I.M. (Anna) Palmaw (Army Nurse Corps), Miss Rose Glass (YMCA), and Miss Blanche Wenner (YMCA). Women’s Overseas Service League Collection, National WWI Museum and... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Excerpt: The Fires of Stavishche, 1919PROLOGUE: Stavishche: June 15-16, 1919 As dusk fell, a near full moon shone over Stavishche. Isaac and his wife, Rebecca, enjoyed a break from a long workweek, relaxing and celebrating with friends under the moonlight in a courtyard garden. Suddenly, the air erupted with nearby gunshots:... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Florida's Divisive Concepts Bill Mistakes What Historians Do, with Dire ImplicationsConservative activist Christopher Rufo and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with supporters of Florida's HB 7, April 2022. Two weeks ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an Amicus Brief in Falls v. DeSantis maintaining that Florida’s H.B.7, which was passed in April and goes into effect on July... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Why Andrew Jackson Believed in Gun ControlFew American presidents loved guns more than Andrew Jackson. By the time he entered the White House, Jackson had been in over 100 duels and believed fervently that an armed citizenry was freedom’s best defense. “A million of armed freemen,” declared Jackson during his first inaugural address, “can never... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● It's a Mistake to Think the Classics Only Serve a Reactionary Agenda in EducationThe Death of Socrates, Jacques-Louis David, 1787 It’s no secret that the teaching of history in the United States has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. But as I finish a semester of teaching a course on “the classical Mediterranean” at a boarding school for girls... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Organized Defiance May Be the Only Answer to an Undemocratic CourtThe rightwing majority on the Supreme Court is on a rampage against reasonable, non-ideological, interpretations of the law and the Constitution. It may be poised, in the language of Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to “reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● The Traitor King: Edward VIII and The Future of the British MonarchyEdward VIII and Wallis Simpson, 1936 On Friday December 11, 1936, the final vote on the Abdication Bill was passed in Parliament and Edward Vlll ceased to be King. He had reigned for 326 days. His father’s premonition—that within twelve months of his death his son would "ruin himself"—had... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Dark Skies Over SCOTUSIt has really come to this. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada just gave us a lecture on American democracy. In addressing the Supreme Court abortion decision overruling Roe v. Wade he said: Today is a difficult day. The judgment coming out of the United States is... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● 50 Years Ago, a SCOTUS Decision Placed a Moratorium on Executions. It's Time to Revive it, PermanentlyFifty years ago in 1972, as spring faded and summer arrived in late June, America (and the world) was a vastly different place. The United States was still entangled in the quagmire of the Vietnam War, and tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of individuals... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Excerpt: INAUGURAL BALLERS: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball TeamThe 1976 United States women's Olympic basketball team. Photo USA Basketball CHAPTER 1: EVERLASTING The locker room shook with music, women singing along with the Natalie Cole tape blasting from the small speakers in the corner. THIS will be . . . an everlasting love THIS will be... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Where Will America Be by 2030?Editor's Note: This essay was submitted for publication before the official release of the Supreme Court's final round of opinions for the term, including in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. At the time that I wrote this essay, a woman’s access to abortion was technically the... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
- ● Watergate at 50: Did Kennedy Loyalists Squelch a 1968 "October Surprise" that Could Have Beaten Nixon?It was a 1968 October Surprise story that might have changed the course of history. Imagine Hubert Humphrey taking office as President in January 1969, not Richard Nixon. We wouldn’t be at the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, to name just one consequence with wide-reaching effects for... Read more »Source: History News Network - Front Page | Published: July 5, 2022 - 6:23 pm
History News Network - Front Page
The National Archive (UK)
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- Records of French Prizes uploaded to Prize Papers portalCourt 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: June 8, 2022 - 9:00 am
- The National Archives and Arts Council England embark on a new three-year collaborationThe 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: May 16, 2022 - 10:00 am
- The National Archives to publish court judgmentsThe 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: April 19, 2022 - 9:00 am
- The National Archives welcomes Vice-Chancellor as new Chair of BoardThe 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: April 14, 2022 - 11:00 am
- Records at Risk Fund awards grants to save vulnerable collectionsToday 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: April 14, 2022 - 9:34 am
- First MOD service personnel records now availableToday, 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: April 5, 2022 - 12:38 pm
- SafePod for data research available at KewWe 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: March 29, 2022 - 9:00 am
- Support for UkraineWe 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: March 24, 2022 - 11:05 am
- Latest archive accreditation awardsThe 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: March 24, 2022 - 10:00 am
- Step back in time with our 1920s evening at the 43 ClubGet 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: March 16, 2022 - 1:03 pm
- Parliamentary Archives to relocate to KewIt 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: March 15, 2022 - 3:34 pm
- CILIP Pathways to develop assessment process for archivist apprenticeshipThe 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: March 11, 2022 - 10:45 am
- Prize Papers research portal launchedCourt 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: February 22, 2022 - 10:00 am
- Allocating a manuscript accepted in lieu of taxThe 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 »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: February 4, 2022 - 10:19 am
- DCDC22 Conference: Call for papersThe call for papers is now open for the next DCDC Conference, which will be held virtually from 11 to 15 July 2022. The deadline to submit a proposal for this year’s conference is close of business on Friday, 11 February 2022. DCDC (Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities) is a cross-sectoral... Read more »Source: News Archives - The National Archives | Published: January 18, 2022 - 1:10 pm
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History Extra (BBC)
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- ● A brief history of US abortion law, before and after Roe v WadeIn 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 »Source: HistoryExtra | Published: July 5, 2022 - 2:45 pm
- ● The Treaty of Paris 1783: how to negotiate an exitHow 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 »Source: HistoryExtra | Published: July 5, 2022 - 12:20 pm
- ● The Norman kings of AfricaLevi Roach explains how the Normans conquered and held regions of Africa during the 12th century... Read more »Source: HistoryExtra | Published: July 5, 2022 - 10:35 am
- ● 15 minutes of fame | Janina Ramirez chooses Hildegard of BingenAs 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 »Source: HistoryExtra | Published: July 5, 2022 - 9:06 am
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- ● Tea, taxes and the taking up of arms: a timeline of the American RevolutionThe seeds of revolution and calls for independence were brewing in Britain’s American colonies many years before a shooting war broke out...... Read more »Source: HistoryExtra | Published: July 5, 2022 - 3:02 am
- Why we should remember the launch of the swimsuit that scandalised the worldDr Alison Toplis explains the scandalous story behind the world's first "bikini"...... Read more »Source: HistoryExtra | Published: July 4, 2022 - 1:26 pm
- The American Revolution: your guide to the 18th-century war of independenceThe 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 »Source: HistoryExtra | Published: July 4, 2022 - 9:20 am
- How did the American Revolution begin?Professor Benjamin Carp reveals how growing discontent over British taxes led embittered American colonists to rebel against the Crown and embark on a fight for independence... Read more »Source: HistoryExtra | Published: July 4, 2022 - 7:24 am
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- The Extraordinary Voyage of the Charles W. MorganIn 1916, a 72-year-old sea captain named Benjamin Cleveland decided to take a 75-year-old wooden vessel on one last voyage. So Cleveland, of Martha’s Vineyard, bought the Charles W. Morgan, a square-rigged whaleship laid up in dry dock for the past three years. Cleveland was a skillful whaler, according to... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: July 2, 2022 - 12:45 pm
- From Massachusetts Huts for Shipwreck Survivors Grew the U.S. Coast GuardSometime before the Civil War, Henry David Thoreau and his friend were hiking along the outer edge of Cape Cod when they got caught in a storm. The desolate beach offered no shelter from the biting wind and cold rain, but then they came across a wooden shack. The Massachusetts... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: June 25, 2022 - 8:32 pm
- Ashley Bryan, the Maine Man Who Showed the World Black Is BeautifulAshley Bryan was not what you’d expect living in the Cranberry Isles, a fishing community off Acadia National Park. Born in Harlem during the Great Depression, he came to the islands in the 1950s after surviving World War II. From that tiny Maine island, he spread a message of hope... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: June 15, 2022 - 2:34 pm
- Luke Ryan, Ben Franklin’s Favorite Irish PirateBen Franklin spent most of the American Revolution in Paris, negotiating an alliance with the French. But he had a side hustle: running a small fleet of privateers headed by an Irish pirate named Luke Ryan. Ryan actually tricked Franklin into giving him a privateering commission by using a hapless... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: June 14, 2022 - 9:46 pm
- Edward Fitch, a Massachusetts Martyr in Bleeding KansasDuring the long struggle to abolish slavery in America, Edward Fitch did not hold political office. Nor did he serve as an officer of the Union Army or in any other position typically honored in connection to the Civil War. But without the commitment, fortitude and sacrifice of men like... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: June 11, 2022 - 6:26 pm
- Dartmouth Starts a Campus Navy in World War IIEighteen-year-old George Berkowitz, wearing his brand-new Marine uniform, lined up in military order with his Dartmouth College classmates and awaited his orders. The drill instructor shouted, “Right face!” Berkowitz turned left face. The drill instructor came over to scrutinize him, read his nametag and said, “Berkowitz!” “Yes, sir,” he said.... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: June 4, 2022 - 3:44 pm
- Zouaves and Contrabands: Winslow Homer’s Civil WarBefore the Civil War broke out, a military fashion craze from North Africa took hold of the United States. Men, women and children dressed in Turkish-flavored outfits inspired by the Zouaves, a French infantry unit famous for its fighting prowess in Algeria and the Crimea. When the Civil War broke... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: May 28, 2022 - 4:41 pm
- The Working Girls Vacation Society: Keeping the ‘Sin’ Out of ‘Single’During the Gilded Age, hundreds of thousands of young women worked long hours for low pay in sweat shops and factories. Some couldn’t get enough to eat, and some contracted tuberculosis in the crowded, dirty workplaces. Upper-class women came up with a way to help them: The Working Girls Vacation... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: May 21, 2022 - 9:31 pm
- William Phips, the Massachusetts Governor Who Got Tough on WitchcraftIn the year 1692, Massachusetts’ new royal governor William Phips decided he needed to get tough on witchcraft. The colony was losing the war against the French and Indians in Maine, just 10 years after the devastation of King Philip’s War. Refugees from Maine had streamed into Massachusetts, and many... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: May 15, 2022 - 11:14 am
- Sandwich Glass Builds a Cape Cod TownIn 1907, a businessman named Cardenio F. King arrived in the Cape Cod town of Sandwich, Mass., to a hero’s welcome. He hadn’t done anything yet, but he promised he would. King would restore the old Sandwich glass works to its former glory. The glass works for decades had employed... Read more »Source: New England Historical Society | Published: May 8, 2022 - 11:48 am
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- Wellington’s Irish Soldiers — Meet the Troops Who Helped the British Hold the Line at Waterloo“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 »Source: MilitaryHistoryNow.com | Published: June 17, 2022 - 12:43 am
- The Macedonian Army – Meet the Elite Ancient Soldiers Who Made Alexander ‘Great’“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 »Source: MilitaryHistoryNow.com | Published: June 14, 2022 - 12:14 pm
- The Martin B-26 – 10 Facts About America’s Forgotten Medium Bomber“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 »Source: MilitaryHistoryNow.com | Published: June 14, 2022 - 2:07 am
- Old Testament Tactics – Six Battle-Winning Strategies from the Bible that Appear Throughout History“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 »Source: MilitaryHistoryNow.com | Published: June 3, 2022 - 2:58 pm
- The Battle of Friedland — How the Pivotal 1807 Clash Became a Study in Napoleon’s Famous Maxims“Napoleon laid out a series of martial maxims from which to conduct war and warfare by, he just did not always adhere to them himself.” By Michael G. Stroud EYLAU HAD BEEN a wintry bloodbath.... The post The Battle of Friedland — How the Pivotal 1807 Clash Became a Study... Read more »Source: MilitaryHistoryNow.com | Published: May 10, 2022 - 11:33 pm
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