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‘The Revolution to Come’ and ‘Revolutions: A New History’ review

Much of the world’s population lives under revolutionary regimes. Cambodia, China, France, Greece, Haiti, Iran, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, the United

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Scholars Say Many Beliefs About Vikings Are Based On Medieval Fiction

Scholars Say Many Beliefs About Vikings Are Based On Medieval Fiction Scandinavian studies scholars at the University of Münster have

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Roman Occupation Exposed Britons to Disease and Class Divides

Roman Occupation Exposed Britons to Disease and Class Divides The Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD brought with it

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Why Ghosts Haunt England at Christmas but Steer Clear of America

Why Ghosts Haunt England at Christmas but Steer Clear of America A few years ago, the Downton Abbey Christmas special featured a

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Renaissance Gallows Unearthed in France With 32 Executed Victims

Renaissance Gallows Unearthed in France With 32 Executed Victims Archaeologists working in Grenoble, France, have made a chilling discovery that sheds

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Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites

Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites Many of the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia

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Mysterious Ancient Hittite Tablets And 8,000-Year-Old Ornaments Discovered In Kateřinská Cave, Czech Republic

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Katerinská Cave, located in the Moravian Karst of the Czech Republic, is a significant archaeological site

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‘The French Revolution: A Political History’ by John Hardman review

What was revolutionary about the French Revolution? Contemporary critics such as Edmund Burke lamented that France’s tyro politicians had squandered

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‘A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda’ by Derek R. Peterson review

Idi Amin is often considered Africa’s most notorious postcolonial dictator. Around the time of his government’s fall in 1979, dozens

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Joyce Butler and the Sex Discrimination Act

The 50th anniversary of women’s suffrage in 1968 prompted a moment of soul searching for many women frustrated at how