Blogs about History
74 blogs about History.
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Airminded
Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 (mostly).
By Brett Holman. 🇦🇺 More infoUpdated
1BoB+ 1BoB is The First Battle of Britain: The Air War Over England, 1917–1918 (hereafter 1BoB), which sounds like a book but is actually a wargame. I bought my copy back in April 2009, not long …
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Alabama Yesterdays
Random wanderings through Alabama history.
By A.J. Wright. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
A Visit to Unclaimed Baggage In August 2019 my brother Richard and I made a trip to Scottsboro and visited among other places Unclaimed Baggage. Their web site will tell you the store's history and how the business works. You …
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The Analog Antiquarian
Chronicles of worldly wonders.
By Jimmy Maher. 🇩🇰 More infoUpdated
Interlude: The Mutineers’ Return During that same fateful spring of 1521 which brought triumph followed by death to Ferdinand Magellan in the Philippines, his adopted liege Charles was grappling with problems of his own half a world away. For …
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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
Weimar Republic 1918-33: great culture, great democracy Pres Paul von HindenburgWikiThe usual image of the Weimar Republic was one of political instability, economic crisis and cultural decadence. That always seemed ridiculous to me since this republic was Germany’s new system of democratic …
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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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Clothing Longevity c.1840-1870, Part 1: An Introduction This project stated with the broad question of "How long did mid-Victorian clothing last?" (and it's reenacting corollary: "Can one justify wear a dress with specifically 1840s style elements at an event set in the …
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Bill Petro Blog
Writes about History, Popular Culture, Tech Trends, and Travel.
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Interview: Why Care About Church History? Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview: Why Care About Church History? I was recently interviewed on Lisa Anderson’s Boundless podcast. She asked me several questions about the value of studying the history of Christianity over just …
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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
Online Course: Ancient Siege Can’t get enough of bookandswordblog? This spring I will be teaching two short courses for the University of Victoria’s Continuing Education program. One of them is online on Tuesday 4 February from 6 to 8 …
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Brian Sandberg: Historical Perspectives
Resources for Historical Thinking.
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On Political Favor and Conflicts of Interest On President-elect Trump’s glaring conflicts of interest…. “During his first administration, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s global business empire created an unprecedented number of conflicts of interest for a sitting president. Ethics experts worried that opportunists …
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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 This week at The Archive we are delighted that iconic story magazine the People’s Friend has become our friend, as we are joined by the first 59 years of the long-running Scottish title. Before we …
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
A look at history and popular culture.
By Bret C Devereaux. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say …
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary.
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Friday 17 January 1661/62 To Westminster with Mr. Moore, and there, after several walks up and down to hear news, I met with Lany, the Frenchman, who told me that he had a letter from France last night, that …
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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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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective Tipping is a hot issue these days. How much should you tip staff in a restaurant or hotel, or even other types of situation? Should you even tip at all? For service staff tips are …
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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