Blogs about History
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Erik Kwakkel
Medieval book historian at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. I post images of medieval books.
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Medieval selfies and the earliest selfie-stickSelfies are by no... Medieval selfies and the earliest selfie-stickSelfies are by no means an exclusively modern phenomenon. During the Middle Ages artists would portray themselves, even realistically. The person seen here made two selfies of himself and even …
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The Fastest Slow Guy You Know
A blog about bicycles, Oakland, California, roads, trails, history.
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THE PERALTA CLAIM. - San Joaquin Republican, Volume 4, Number 9, 12 January 1854 THE PERALTA CLAIM. The Land Commissioners will decide on the merits of the Peralta claim this morning. The Chronicle says that this is one of the most important claims that has come before the Commissioners …
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Flintlock and tomahawk
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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Hessian in the U.K. This portrayal is 2 years in the making. Von Donop 1776. By Marshall Beresford. Very good. Check out his Facebook page here.
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Frog in a Well
The primary purpose … is to promote more communication between those studying and researching in places like the United States with those in other places such as Japan.
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Art and cash We talked about James Cahill’s. The Painter’s Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. . New York: Columbia University Press, 1994 in class recently. You might be under the impression that Chinese artists …
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Georgia Before People
I’m writing this blog because I’m fascinated with what the ecology of southeastern North America was before people colonized the region and ruined it.
By Mark Gelbart. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
A Virtual Visit to Broxton Rocks in Coffee County, Georgia My family and I were considering options for this year’s summer vacation. I thought of Broxton Rocks–a unique site in Georgia where we had never been before. I happened to mention all the rocky crevices …
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The Graveyard Detective
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2022-04-13 10:47 A Grisly End to a Lancashire Policeman.A grisly end. Sergeant William James Bedwell of the Lancashire Mounted Police had tied his legs together, cut his throat and jumped in the River RIbble -buried at Preston …
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An Historian Goes to the Movies
Exploring history on the screen.
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The King: Agincourt One of the reasons I stopped posting during Covid was I got busy right in the middle of a two-part review of The King (2019, dir. David Michôd), a movie I rather disliked. I did …
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Historically Woman
Illuminating women's stories from across history.
By Holly. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
Lesbianism in Medieval Arabia: ‘The Encyclopedia of Pleasure’ Lesbianism was discussed in medieval Arabic writings as far back as the 9th century. One text even tells the tale of the so-called first lesbian couple and how their love was so great that it …
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Historical Ragbag
A site of history's odds and ends, and lots of books.
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Bear’s Castle Bear’s Castle is an enigma. There is little agreement over why it was built, or its purpose, but it truly captures the imagination. Bear’s Castle stands on the edge of the Yan Yean Reservoir, just …
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The History Blog
It’s a blog. About history.
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Fish sauce, new amphora type identified on Roman wreck The first in-depth analysis of the cargo of the 4th century Roman shipwreck found off the coast of Mallorca in 2019 has been published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Researchers took a multipronged …
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History of Knowledge
Research, Resources, and Perspectives.
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‘Collecting’ and Comparing – Skulls, Transatlantic Knowledge Production, and Racial Science On May 29, 1793, Göttingen anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach received a Georgian woman’s skull. It would later become the most prominent representation of the so-called Caucasian variety of humankind. His Russian skull supplier, Georg Thomas …
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The History of Parliament
Blogging on parliament, politics and people, from the History of Parliament.
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Mass-Observation and popular politics at the 1945 General Election Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Rebecca Goldsmith, of Jesus College, Cambridge. On 30 April she will discuss Mass-Observation and popular politics at the 1945 general election. The seminar …
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The history of Witham, Essex
Some Research by Janet Gyford.
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Manors. Witham (Chipping) and Newland. When I was preparing the Post about the Town Hall, I started to write about manorial records, and their value in local history. But this was breaking up the Town Hall story too much, and …
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History Unfolding
A historian's comments on current events, foreign and domestic.
By David Kaiser. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Ask and ye shall be given Nearly two weeks ago, when I concluded a post that referred to George Orwell and Animal Farm by wondering whether a parallel satire might be written about the present day, my old friend and college …
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If I Had My Own Blue Box
Adventures in the Nineteenth Century, and maybe a little beyond -- Anna Worden Bauersmith's Blog.
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My Second Bergère Hat Love how this bergère hat came out. This is one of the designs that became stuck in my head while looking at extant hats and later in an allergen/Benadryl fog. I sewed through Saturday and …
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Images of Old Hawaiʻi
Bringing People, Places, and Events in Hawaiʻi’s past alive through text and media.
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America Lots of things were happening in the Islands around the time Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492 on the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. About that time, four major leaders ruled over various Islands in …
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In the Middle
a medieval studies blog.
By Cord J. Whitaker, Jonathan Hey, Mary Kate Hurley. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The Medieval Modern and Carrying on through Grief by Cord J. Whitaker I am trying to order my thoughts today. They have been disordered by the specter of global war in a world where democracy is dying in the face of fascism, where …
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The Invasion Network
Established to encourage collaboration between researchers working under the broad theme of invasion, with a particular focus on British invasion fears in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
By Dustin Risner, Ailise Bulfin. 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 More infoUpdated
Conference Report for ‘Britain Afraid: Imperial Insecurities and National Fears, 1798- 1945’ SUMMARY OF THE PAPERS Conference report for ‘Britain Afraid: Imperial Insecurities and National Fears, 1798-1945’, organised by Dr James Crossland and hosted by Liverpool John MooresUniversity in collaboration with the Invasion Network, 21–22 June 2022 …
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Lancashire Past – Lancashire History Website and Blog
Lancashire History Website and Blog.
By Adrian Bowden, R Bowden. 🇬🇧 More infoUpdated
A History of Bury Art Museum Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre is described as “probably the best building in Bury” by the famed architectural historian, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. It stands on Silver Street, Bury’s grandest architectural road. Bury Art Gallery …
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LBV Magazine English Edition – History & Culture
Articles and news on history, archeology, art, science, geography, travel and amazing places.
By Guillermo Carvajal, Jorge Alvarez. 🇪🇸 More infoUpdated
Turtle Shells from 50,000 Years Ago Carried as “Living Provisions” by Early Humans or Neanderthals During the Last Ice Age, Found in Germany Numerous gravel quarries in the middle Elbe valley near Magdeburg have already yielded many significant archaeological discoveries from the period between the Middle Pleistocene (Weichselian glaciation) and the modern era. At the Barleben-Adamsee gravel quarry, …