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A Tudor life in the time of plague (2020)(historytoday.com)

43 points by pepys 12 days ago | 3 comments

History Today article on how plague shaped Tudor life, starting with the christening of Henry VIII's heir Edward VI.

'Neanderthals Among Us' review(historytoday.com)

77 points by pepys 22 days ago | 78 comments

History Today review of Peter Sahlins' book 'Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human'.

The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors(historytoday.com)

36 points by prismatic 1 month ago | 19 comments

A History Today column arguing that the Bayeux Tapestry, returning to England, is a Norman artwork and that Anglo-Saxon perspectives must be sought elsewhere.

William Buckland's Theology of Geology(historytoday.com)

4 points by Petiver 1 month ago | 0 comments

A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023)(historytoday.com)

42 points by pepys 1 month ago | 38 comments

'Fakers' by Rory Cormac Review(historytoday.com)

4 points by pepys 1 month ago | 0 comments

Otto Dix, Nietzsche, and the Great War (2019)(historytoday.com)

36 points by samizdis 2 months ago | 22 comments

The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)(historytoday.com)

57 points by samizdis 2 months ago | 13 comments

'The Cheese and the Worms' by Carlo Ginzburg Review(historytoday.com)

12 points by Petiver 2 months ago | 3 comments

Willoughbyland: England's Forgotten South American Colony(historytoday.com)

7 points by benbreen 2 months ago | 1 comments

The Absurdity of Albert Camus(historytoday.com)

159 points by apollinaire 2 months ago | 76 comments

Britain's New World of Tobacco (2017)(historytoday.com)

15 points by benbreen 2 months ago | 0 comments

Satan's 19th-Century Bank Note (2017)(historytoday.com)

40 points by Caiero 3 months ago | 6 comments

Human Canaries: Remembering the Munitionettes(historytoday.com)

18 points by Thevet 3 months ago | 3 comments

The Victorian War on Rabies(historytoday.com)

16 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 15 comments

The Meadows of Medieval Summer(historytoday.com)

11 points by lermontov 4 months ago | 9 comments

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)(historytoday.com)

135 points by pepys 4 months ago | 129 comments

The rise and fall of snake oil(historytoday.com)

69 points by samizdis 5 months ago | 37 comments

Inventing Cyrillic (2024)(historytoday.com)

39 points by lermontov 5 months ago | 81 comments

Panipat: The rise of the Mughals(historytoday.com)

52 points by Thevet 6 months ago | 59 comments

Leonardo, Borgia, and Machiavelli: A Fateful Collusion(historytoday.com)

47 points by apollinaire 6 months ago | 0 comments

Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty(historytoday.com)

107 points by lermontov 6 months ago | 20 comments

Rock Star: Reading the Rosetta Stone(historytoday.com)

11 points by samizdis 7 months ago | 0 comments

The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV(historytoday.com)

68 points by Petiver 7 months ago | 13 comments

How important was the Battle of Hastings?(historytoday.com)

80 points by benbreen 7 months ago | 54 comments

Those who can, teach history(historytoday.com)

40 points by hhs 8 months ago | 36 comments

Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)(historytoday.com)

67 points by Thevet 8 months ago | 55 comments

The Mongol Khans of Medieval France(historytoday.com)

88 points by Thevet 8 months ago | 48 comments

The Contagious Taste of Cancer(historytoday.com)

29 points by Thevet 8 months ago | 17 comments

A History of Haggis (2019)(historytoday.com)

34 points by Petiver 9 months ago | 10 comments

William Golding's Island of Savagery(historytoday.com)

30 points by samclemens 10 months ago | 39 comments

Understanding the Northern Lights(historytoday.com)

17 points by benbreen 10 months ago | 3 comments

'Turncoat' by Dennis Sewell Review(historytoday.com)

4 points by prismatic 11 months ago | 0 comments

What influence has the BBC had on history?(historytoday.com)

31 points by pepys 11 months ago | 36 comments

The Transformations of Fernand Braudel(historytoday.com)

8 points by benbreen 11 months ago | 2 comments

Count Folke Bernadotte: Sweden's Servant of Peace (2010)(historytoday.com)

46 points by apollinaire 1 year ago | 37 comments

Slavery After Abolition: Revolt on the Amelia(historytoday.com)

40 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 8 comments

The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel (2010)(historytoday.com)

40 points by Caiero 1 year ago | 15 comments

Wimpy vs. McDonald's: The Battle of the Burgers(historytoday.com)

12 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 11 comments

The Middle Earth(historytoday.com)

25 points by Vigier 1 year ago | 3 comments

Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)(historytoday.com)

24 points by pepys 1 year ago | 7 comments

Galileo’s telescopes: Seeing is believing (2010)(historytoday.com)

26 points by hhs 1 year ago | 10 comments

The battle for Britain’s first book of the month club(historytoday.com)

9 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 1 comments

Swahili on the Road(historytoday.com)

32 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 4 comments

Does a Focus on Royalty Obscure British History?(historytoday.com)

30 points by pepys 1 year ago | 8 comments

The Diary of Samuel Pepys(historytoday.com)

55 points by pepys 1 year ago | 31 comments

War and Wilderness: British Soldiers in Revolutionary America(historytoday.com)

50 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 30 comments

Medieval Fogge: In Defence of the Middle Ages(historytoday.com)

9 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 3 comments

The Maid Who Restored Charles II(historytoday.com)

66 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 25 comments

Portugal, the Mamluks, and the Age of Discovery(historytoday.com)

7 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 0 comments

Martin Crusius' Armchair Voyage(historytoday.com)

4 points by Petiver 1 year ago | 1 comments

The Merovingians: 'Do-Nothing Kings'?(historytoday.com)

8 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 2 comments

The Ghosts of Gaelic(historytoday.com)

51 points by apollinaire 1 year ago | 35 comments

‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review(historytoday.com)

100 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 39 comments

Restoring Faith: Crete's Ancient Minoan Civilisation (2009)(historytoday.com)

30 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 5 comments

Pompey's Greatest Show on Earth(historytoday.com)

6 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 1 comments

An Uneasy Propaganda Alliance(historytoday.com)

32 points by pepys 1 year ago | 21 comments

The Nabataeans Are Coming(historytoday.com)

30 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 12 comments

Forgeries, Fakes, and Phantom Time(historytoday.com)

32 points by samclemens 1 year ago | 11 comments

Could the Soviet Union have survived?(historytoday.com)

23 points by pepys 1 year ago | 39 comments

Absinthe: From green fairy to moral panic(historytoday.com)

37 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 24 comments

Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist(historytoday.com)

21 points by apollinaire 1 year ago | 1 comments

Atoms for Peace: Learning to Love the Bomb(historytoday.com)

16 points by Hooke 1 year ago | 9 comments

The Pilgrim as a Historian(historytoday.com)

26 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 5 comments

Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia(historytoday.com)

6 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 2 comments

Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes(historytoday.com)

4 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 2 comments

Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel(historytoday.com)

19 points by Thevet 1 year ago | 3 comments

Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?(historytoday.com)

6 points by drdee 1 year ago | 3 comments

The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022)(historytoday.com)

101 points by pepys 2 years ago | 117 comments

Robert Fergusson: Scotia's Bard(historytoday.com)

4 points by pepys 2 years ago | 0 comments

The Ballad of the Inquisition's Greatest Witch Trial(historytoday.com)

8 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 1 comments

Manuscripts reveal the details of everyday life on the Silk Road(historytoday.com)

89 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 17 comments

Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds(historytoday.com)

108 points by pepys 2 years ago | 68 comments

Aliens and the Enlightenment(historytoday.com)

39 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 39 comments

Reassessing William the Conqueror(historytoday.com)

3 points by pepys 2 years ago | 0 comments

An Ottoman Winter in Toulon(historytoday.com)

12 points by Thevet 2 years ago | 1 comments

King John's Lost Treasure(historytoday.com)

16 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 3 comments

On the Record: Music before mass production (2018)(historytoday.com)

38 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 3 comments

The Powers of Soviet Puppetry(historytoday.com)

40 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 12 comments

1935: Britain's First Milk Bar Opens(historytoday.com)

52 points by pepys 2 years ago | 49 comments

Giving Life to Æthelstan(historytoday.com)

85 points by pepys 2 years ago | 6 comments

Behind Victorian Bars(historytoday.com)

4 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 2 comments

Weighing Up Galileo's Evidence(historytoday.com)

61 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 28 comments

Babylon's Mystery Goddess(historytoday.com)

49 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 13 comments

Napoleon: An Extraordinary Rendition (2010)(historytoday.com)

24 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece(historytoday.com)

37 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 1 comments

Roman Women and the Oppian Law(historytoday.com)

72 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 56 comments

What use is prehistory to the historian?(historytoday.com)

26 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 18 comments

The Elusive Byzantine Empire (2019)(historytoday.com)

52 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 18 comments

Inventing Cyrillic(historytoday.com)

24 points by drdee 2 years ago | 29 comments

The Death of a Mnemonist(historytoday.com)

52 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 17 comments

Original Pirate Material(historytoday.com)

49 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 23 comments

William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun(historytoday.com)

94 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 46 comments

Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain(historytoday.com)

16 points by pepys 2 years ago | 0 comments

'Sparta and the Commemoration of War' and 'The Killing Ground' Review(historytoday.com)

6 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 2 comments

Beware the Lides of March(historytoday.com)

24 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 2 comments

Measuring the Shape of the Earth(historytoday.com)

11 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 3 comments

What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire?(historytoday.com)

72 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 70 comments

Ancient Rome's failed building projects(historytoday.com)

125 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 69 comments

The end of Britain's weeks-long general elections(historytoday.com)

47 points by pepys 2 years ago | 63 comments

Jackie Coogan and the fall of Hollywood's child stars(historytoday.com)

33 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 37 comments

How French was medieval England?(historytoday.com)

152 points by drdee 2 years ago | 196 comments

Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake(historytoday.com)

15 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 1 comments

'With her own hair': A Victorian prisoner's art(historytoday.com)

20 points by Caiero 2 years ago | 1 comments

Queen Victoria's Stalker(historytoday.com)

34 points by pepys 2 years ago | 7 comments

How to Revive Wassailing(historytoday.com)

37 points by tintinnabula 2 years ago | 15 comments

Medieval Icelandic Feasts(historytoday.com)

44 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 7 comments

The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis(historytoday.com)

31 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 25 comments

The Death of Caspar Hauser(historytoday.com)

5 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 0 comments

Victorian romantic rituals and charms(historytoday.com)

65 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 7 comments

Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles(historytoday.com)

20 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 4 comments

How did Christianity change the Roman Empire?(historytoday.com)

70 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 64 comments

The 50 Years That Made America(historytoday.com)

59 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 42 comments

Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death(historytoday.com)

46 points by pepys 2 years ago | 56 comments

Edmund of Abingdon's Dream Job(historytoday.com)

11 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 6 comments

'The Revolutionary Temper' by Robert Darnton Review(historytoday.com)

4 points by apollinaire 2 years ago | 1 comments

Power and populism in ancient Greek courts(historytoday.com)

30 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 7 comments

The Bruneri-Canella Case(historytoday.com)

19 points by Hooke 3 years ago | 0 comments

Solving the Riddle of Reproduction(historytoday.com)

9 points by Vigier 3 years ago | 2 comments

Cleopatra's Daughter (2018)(historytoday.com)

23 points by diodorus 3 years ago | 2 comments