The Best of History Today
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Original Pirate Material
Shortly before midday on Easter Saturday 28 March 1964, the first medium wave broadcasts were heard from the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline. Based on a converted ferry moored just outside UK…
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What was the Impact of Julius Caesar’s Murder?
‘The Death of Caesar’ (detail), by Vincenzo Camuccini, c.1804. Wiki Commons/Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome. ‘Caesar’s is the only death that still reverberates’ Emma Southon,…
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
On the morning of 1 February 1524 hundreds of Londoners gathered by the Thames in dreadful anticipation. This day had been a long time coming. Preparations had begun months and, in some cases, years…
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Scene from The New Art and Mystery of Gossiping, Being a Genuine Account of All the Women’s Clubs in and about the City and Suburbs of London, c.1760. British Library Board. *** What follows will be…
Goodbye to the Vikings
Ben Jones (detail). There was no such thing as a ‘Viking’ in the medieval period. Use of the term emerged in the 19th century. The word wicing occurred in Old English and víkingr in Old Icelandic, but…
Easy as ABC
A fragment of text inscribed on the Mesha Stele, c.840 BC. Louvre/Wiki Commons. Few technologies are as important to our daily lives as the alphabet. But, as Johanna Drucker argues, we rarely give its…
The Business of Books
It is now 55 years since Robert Darnton first became aware of the vast archive of the Société typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), one of the principal suppliers of books to the French market in the late…
Goodbye to the Vikings
Ben Jones (detail). There was no such thing as a ‘Viking’ in the medieval period. Use of the term emerged in the 19th century. The word wicing occurred in Old English and víkingr in Old Icelandic, but…
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