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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…
In an otherwise fascinating read about changes in Charleston, I found the following paragraph… to be inconsistent and misleading. But it’s impossible to ignore for both white and Black Americans trying to grapple with the country’s original sin, …
It’s an interesting footnote in history, how a Swedish antisemite had painted a swastika as the Finnish Air Force emblem. Eric von Rosen had no Nazi associations at the time of his 1918 gift, he did subsequently become a leading figure in Sweden&…
Research shows our imaginations grow richer with age so the charity is giving grownups a chance to have funParents are used to watching their children eagerly dress up as a knight or a gladiator before going bananas when they visit castles, forts and s…
Stamp for papers that enabled ‘fast-track’ through purgatory will be on show at a Hampshire prioryA seal matrix used to authenticate medieval indulgences and offer a fast track to heaven in exchange for cash is to go on display at a Hampshire priory af…