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The decision by courts seems bonkers, but also probably cruelly calculated by a CEO who allegedly flaunts himself as untouchable and above the law. The stakes are higher in the trial this week, and in other cases, because people died. Tesla and plainti…
Historian says ignorance and indifference between UK nations could pose biggest threat to future of unionSchools in the UK need to teach the history of all four nations, the historian David Olusoga has said, warning that ambivalence and indifference ri…
America is slowly catching up to the historical work done at England’s Bletchley Park, with regard to WWII code breakers. Here is a new story in DCist with some notable details about “Building E on the Foreign Service Institute’s leafy Arli…
An impressively astute book review has been published on Defector. He welcomes the return of a space race, not between rival superpowers, but between capitalists indulging in healthy competition “like that of the railway barons a century earlier.” This…
Annotations in eighth-century manuscript point to work of revered English monk, scholar and saintHis life of service through scholarship earned him the title “venerable”. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the post-Roman world, an…
The nomination for Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week agoHakim Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a prof…
The concept of e-scooters is as old as electric cars, with clear evidence going back to the early 1900s. It’s worth pointing that out because if anyone ever really thought they were a good idea, they would have been in Paris all this time survivi…
Nobody really, truly believed a “severely impaired” (couldn’t see in right or left eye) and basically ignorant loner such as the Dutch Van der Lubbe could have burned an entire German government building down quickly and single-handed…
A professor at WSB University in Bydgoszcz, Poland has published an impressive biography of the amazing codebreaker Marian Rejewski. We are very fortunate since Rejewski largely has been completely ignored by Americans and British who have fixated on A…
Multiple reports and interviews have blossomed out of a well-known historian’s discovery of video footage from 1945, which clearly documents the moment U.S. soldiers liberated thousands from a Nazi death camp train. On April 7, 1945, 2,500 Jewish…