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Horatio Bottomley was in gaol. The notorious swindler's misdeeds had finally caught up with him and now here he was in the prison workshop, sewing mailbags.
A former acquaintance happened to be visiting the prison, inspecting conditions, and...
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Nazi policy has become the definition of depravity. Seen today as a central episode in 20th-century history, the Holocaust, however, was not always presented as such. Indeed, its position in public memory has changed considerably over the...
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On 13 April 1919 in Amritsar, soldiers under British command fired 1,650 rounds of ammunition into an unarmed crowd, without warning. It was the worst atrocity committed in British India, a defining moment that surrendered the moral high ground...
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Did Calvin Coolidge move to London in 1888 to study law? And other questions
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A Cambridge archaeologist has declared 54 decapitated skeletons discovered in a mass grave at Ridgeway Hill, Dorset, in 2009, to be Viking mercenaries. Carbon dating and isotype tests have revealed the bodies were Scandinavian and date from the...
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BBC History Magazine's Dave Musgrove will be talking about his recent book, 100 Places That Made Britain, at Kenwood House in London this weekend, as part of the Kenwood Literary Season.
Dave asked foremost British historians such as Dominic...
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A unique exhibition will tell the life stories of Jews in South Wales when it opens in Cardiff this year. Hineni – Hebrew for ‘Here I am’ – will explore the history and culture of Cardiff’s Jewish Reform community...
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It’s hard to imagine it now, but this green and pleasant wooded gorge and the two smaller river valleys leading into it once formed one of the most important industrial sites in the world. Coal had been mined and limestone quarried in the...
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You might not think it’s that odd to find an old book, dating from the 1820s, in a museum. You probably wouldn’t find it that surprising to note that the contents of said book are an account of a murder trial, nor indeed to learn...
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It had not been in vain, claimed Winston Churchill to the House of Commons, and had helped achieve “a further all-important bound forward in the north”.
He was referring to Operation Market Garden, the bold attempt in September 1944...
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Coventry University is to catalogue, digitise and develop a searchable online archive of almost half a million photographs, documents and correspondence preserved by BT over the last 165 years. We bring you some of the remarkable images
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In an Antarctic expedition special, Elin Simonsson talks about Captain Scott’s scientific legacy while Sophie Gordon considers the power of the Antarctic photographs taken on Scott and Shackleton’s expeditions.
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It's a Saturday lunchtime one day in the early 1950s. Dad has finished his shift at the factory and rides his bike home faster than usual because he's promised little Jimmy, his seven-year-old son, that he'll take him to the big game between...
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This week's quiz is a Hannibal special. It has been compiled by Ben, Danny and Sam Wood, whose TV series On Hannibal's Trail begins on Friday 20 January at 8.30pm on BBC Two. How much do you know about the Carthaginian general?
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A collection of fossils, including some belonging to Charles Darwin, has been rediscovered in the vaults of the British Geological Survey headquarters near Keyworth in Nottinghamshire. The fossils had been assembled by one of Darwin’s...
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It is surprising, perhaps, that Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the primary architect of the Holocaust, has not attracted the attentions of more biographers. For all his central importance to the history of the Third Reich, he appears...
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Some of the delights you’ll find if you go in search of history in our cities.
On this day...
Birth of Paul Jackson Pollock
28 January
1912
American Abstract Impressionist painter Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming. In 1945 he married fellow artist Lee Krasner.
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