Blogs about History
74 blogs about History.
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Airminded
Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 (mostly).
By Brett Holman. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
What I did in my holidays (sightseeing) – London (2) Nearly at the end of these posts! During my two weeks in London researching, I also managed to fit in some sightseeing (it helped that none of my archives were open on Sundays). Mostly this …
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Alabama Yesterdays
Random wanderings through Alabama history.
By A.J. Wright. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Alabama's Centennial Half-Dollar In 2019 I wrote a blog post about Alabama's 1919 statehood centennial celebrations. One of the featured items was a commemorative half-dollar coin issued by the U.S. Mint. In this post I wanted to delve …
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The Analog Antiquarian
Chronicles of worldly wonders.
By Jimmy Maher. 🇩🇰 More infoUpdated
Chapter 17: A Philippine Thanksgiving March 9 – April 4, 1521 As he watched the island of Guam fade away into sea and sky at the stern of his flagship, Magellan was supremely confident that more land would soon be …
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Antiquarian's Attic
A Farrago of Antiquities routed out of the Rusts and Crusts and Fusts of Time!
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Thetford Priory The remains of The Cluniac Priory of Our Lady of Thetford The Cluniac Priory of Our Lady, Thetford, was first founded on the Suffolk side of the Little Ouse river by Roger Bigod in the …
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ArcheoThoughts
Andre Costopoulos, University of Alberta.
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Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Experience, October 2024: evidence, and the archaeological imagination Graham Hancock was again a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience on October 17th, presumably in support of the release of season two (The Americas) of his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse on October 16th. The …
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ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly
History, art history and architecture of Britain & Empire, Europe, Mediterranean & North America, 1640-1940.
By Hels. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
UK's 1st female parliamentarian: Nancy Astor American Nancy Langhorne (1879-1964) was born in Virginia, daughter of a wealthy railroad entrepreneur. In the 1890s Nancy and her sister Irene were enrolled in a finishing school in New York where they were prepared …
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At the Pictures
About cinemagoing in the past.
By Lawrence. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2024 This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024. This one day event features a range of papers of original research in all areas of film culture in Britain and areas affected by …
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Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog
The outlandish, the anomalous and the curious from the last five thousand years.
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Are Mermaids Fairies? Chris starts our new podcast episode (Mermaid 101) with this question (see title) and I answer ‘yes’. Mermaids (which have featured for over a decade on this site) are social supernatural beings who happen to …
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Beth's Bobbins
Living history and historic costuming, with a particular focus on women's clothing and hairstyles of the Victorian and American Civil War periods.
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Original: Print Dress, c.1825 I like the stripes on this one: the contrast between the vertical stripes on the bodice and skirt, the horizontal stripe on the skirt, and diagonal of the bias-cut sleeves. The maker even made the …
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Bill Petro Blog
Writes about History, Popular Culture, Tech Trends, and Travel.
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Olympic Silver Medal Finally Awarded to Tim Koleto Olympic Silver Medal Finally Awarded to Tim Koleto Today, my friend Tim Koleto was awarded the Olympic Silver Medal with the Japan figure skating team in Paris at the Victory Ceremony near the Eiffel Tower …
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A Blast From The Past
Oddities, striking characters and incidents, strange days... this is history with all the interesting bits left in, by the author of Batavia's Graveyard, Tulipomania and The First Family.
By Mike Dash. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
The Sin-Eaters (a preview) Many apologies to subscribers who received a notification of a new post earlier today. Unfortunately this was an error on my part. I was working on an upcoming essay and managed to hit the “publish” …
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Book and Sword – pontifex minimus
By Sean Manning. 🇨🇦 More infoUpdated
Do Not Cut These Trees! “Odds and Ends,” an oil painting by Emily Carr (1939) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emily_Carr_(1939)_Odds_and_Ends.jpg Low-tech people tend to be good at preserving commons. They have to be, because they don’t have a global supply chain to save them …
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Brian Sandberg: Historical Perspectives
Resources for Historical Thinking.
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DNA Studies of Pompeii Victims New DNA studies have been done the remains of residents of Pompeii who were killed in the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 Common Era (CE). The findings challenge previous interpretations about the identities …
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The British Newspaper Archive Blog
Amazing finds and news from over 300 years of historical newspapers.
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Hot off the Press – New titles this week We’ve added 153,774 pages to 10 regional titles to The Archive this week. We have added seventy-five years worth of material from between 1911 and 2003. Our additions focus on augmenting existing titles including the …
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
A look at history and popular culture.
By Bret C Devereaux. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry …
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary.
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Thursday 14 November 1661 At the office all the morning. At noon I went by appointment to the Sun in Fish Street to a dinner of young Mr. Bernard’s for myself, Mr. Phillips, Davenport, Weaver, &c., where we had …
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distillatio
Medieval alchemy, chemistry related technology and random things distilled from books and artefacts.
By guthriestewart. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Athanor’s, what are they? This post was inspired by the Turba philosophorum lecture on the 4th Feb 2022 An athanor is an alchemical furnace, but what exactly does it mean in practise? And I really do mean practise because …
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Dr Alun Withey
I am an academic historian of medicine and the body, and 2014 AHRC/BBC 'New Generation Thinker'.
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. As a child in the early 1980s, Saturday morning television was a straight choice between two main contenders, each with its own dedicated and fiercely protective following. The first was ITV’s TISWAS, feared by parents …
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Early Modern Notes
crime, women, digital history...
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Time flew This blog is twenty years old. It’s not going away any time soon, but it’s not likely to become a hive of activity either. Not many academic history/humanities blogs I knew in 2004 are still …
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Edwardian Promenade
Your #1 source for Edwardian history!
By Angela Tate. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated