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General Early Modern

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General Early Modern

Machu Picchu History, Rediscovery & Downfall

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)
General Early Modern

Caroline Dodds Pennock “Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”

Circa 1510, Babur Shah (Zahir ud-Din Muhammad, 1482 - 1530), first of the mughal emperors of India. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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15 minutes of fame Margaret MacMillan chooses Babur

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15 minutes of fame Caroline Dodds Pennock chooses Malintzin

The leader of the Luddites, 1812. Found in the collection of British Museum. Anonymous artist. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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5 of the worst years in British history

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General Modern

Q&A When did people start wearing sunglasses?

Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor meet for a dance in Bridgerton
General Early Modern

Q&A How did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times?

Suspected witch Mary Sutton is “swum” in a Bedfordshire millpond in 1612
General Early Modern

Witchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use?

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Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world

Nineteenth century engraving depicting raining cats and dogs
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Q&A Why do we say ‘raining cats and dogs’?

Colourful illustration of 12 historical figures's heads (Winston Churchill, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Thomas Cromwell, Richard III, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Anne Boleyn, William Marshal, Jane Austen, Hatshepsut, Gandhi and Catherine the Great) shown in a grid pattern.
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Historical figures: 100+ of the most famous people through history – in chronological order

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General Early Modern

Q&A Why do we say 'bury the hatchet'?

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Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories

Women carrying flags and scythes or beating drums - one has a child on her shoulders - march on the Palace of Versailles to protest to the king
General Early Modern

Women in the French Revolution: fighting for equality

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