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One of the oldest artefacts in the collection at Chequers, the prime minister’s country residence, is also among its smallest. It’s a tiny, exquisitely crafted ring, fashioned from mother-of-pearl and embossed with rubies and diamonds, which opens to reveal two portraits.
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“Just as there’s more to Auschwitz than its role as a death camp, there is more to the Holocaust than Auschwitz,” says Nikolaus Wachsmann
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Tony Foulds was 8 years old when he witnessed a fatal US bomber crash in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, where he was scuffling with fellow schoolchildren. Now 82, Tony has tended the memorial of the 10 fallen airmen ever since
#RememberTheTen
#TonyGotAFlypast
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75 years ago today, Allied forces launched the largest seaborne invasion in history, marking the beginning of the campaign to liberate north-west Europe from German occupation
#DDay75
#DDay
#WW2
#DDayLanding
#LestWeForget
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering all our readers unlimited online access to , where you can find a world of exciting history features. Start exploring now…
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"No one questions military history, because we all accept large scale violence as normal, but because sex is naughty people can act as though studying sexuality is just a bit of a giggle," says Dr Eleanor Janega (
@GoingMedieval
)
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#OnThisDay
in 2013, archaeologists confirmed that a skeleton discovered in a Leicester car park was, as they suspected,
#RichardIII
…
#OTD
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The world stopped and watched Neil Armstrong take man’s first step on the moon
#OnThisDay
in 1969.
@AmyShiraTeitel
explores the history and legacy of the first landing…
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The survival skills of Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s 4th wife, have been underestimated, says
@Lucy_Worsley
…
#Tudors
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The astonishing Æthelstan:
@holland_tom
describes how the brilliant
#AngloSaxon
king managed to forge a new country
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Tony got his fly-past! 🙌🏻 It will take place on 22 February, on the 75th anniversary of the crash
@mrdanwalker
@BBCNews
#WW2
#GetTonyAFlypast
Just met an amazing man in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield. Tony Foulds was an 8-yr-old playing in the park when a US plane crashed in Feb 1944. He has diligently maintained the memorial ever since. He was planting new flowers. Almost 75 yrs of service. What a man. I’m in bits 😢👏🏻
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Jan van Eyck’s 15th-century masterpiece The Arnolfini Portrait has intrigued art historians for centuries, but what secrets does it contain?
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Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr, on this day in 1543. Was she really a middle-aged, pious 'frump'?
#KatherineParr
#HenryVIII
#Tudors
#OTD
#OnThisDay
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Historical author
@BernardCornwell
on writing historical fiction and his blockbuster series
@TheLastKingdom
#Vikings
#AngloSaxon
#WarOfTheWolf
#TheLastKingdom
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#OnThisDay
in 1921, Marie Stopes opened Britain's first family planning clinic, the Mothers' Clinic, in Holloway, north London. In 1925 the clinic moved to Whitfield Street in central London, where it remains to this day.
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How do historians research the history of sex? Dr Kate Lister (
@WhoresOfYore
) shares the sources that help to lay the past bare – and help us learn a little about ourselves, too…
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Stop referring to
#MiddleAges
as 'Dark Ages' because it was an 'enlightened era', British Library expert says (via
@Telegraph
)
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"The truth is there is no written evidence that 31 October was linked to the supernatural in England before the 19th century"
#Halloween
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Coronavirus lockdown: BBC Radio 4 launches history lessons for kids presented by Horrible Histories' Greg Jenner (via
@theipaper
)
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Do we need to consider the lives of ‘ordinary’ people as much as monarchs or leaders when studying
#history
? (We may print comments)
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"That some of the impetus for abolition came from the enslaved people themselves, who rose up in a series of rebellions, is all too often overlooked," says
@DavidOlusoga
in a 2015 article for BBC History Magazine
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Computer scientists create virtual model of castle where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned (via
@BBCNews
)
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“Far from illiterate barbarians, the
#Vikings
were some of the greatest naval engineers and travellers the world had seen,” says
@DrJaninaRamirez
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Storm Emma unearths remains of ‘fifth-largest’ aqueduct in the
#Roman
Empire (via
@Telegraph
)
#archaeology
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"She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, first female professor at the University of Paris, and the first person – note the use of person there, not woman – to win a second Nobel Prize." Patricia Fara explains why Marie Curie topped our
#100WomenPoll
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"George VI had seen himself as a
#king
of empire; Elizabeth became a
#queen
of Commonwealth"
#RoyalFamily
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It's
#NationalReadABookDay
! What are your favourite history books you'd recommend to fellow readers?
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Calling all history graduates. Are you ferociously pedantic? Would you like to earn extra
cash? If so, you could be just what we're looking for, because we're on the hunt for fact-checkers for BBC History Magazine. Interested? Send your CV to spencer.mizen
@immediate
.co.uk
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“Sir Winston Churchill agreed to General Charles de Gaulle’s presence at his funeral on condition that the train taking his body to its final resting-place did not leave from Paddington but from Waterloo – a wicked posthumous putdown…”
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Henry VIII married his second wife, Anne Boleyn,
#OnThisDay
in 1533…
#AnneBoleyn
#HenryVII
#Tudors
#OTD
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Words of wisdom from Monty Python star Terry Jones, who has passed away at the age of 77
#WednesdayWisdom
#TerryJones
#Pythons
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“It is thought that she rescued around 300 slaves directly – including some of her brothers, their families and her own parents – and gave instructions to help dozens more…”
#Harriet
#HarrietTubman
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Which historical children's books did you read when you were younger that sparked your interest in history? (We may print comments)
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Britain's last surviving female
#SecondWorldWar
pilot remembers her days flying Spitfires (via
@MailOnline
)
#WW2
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How did a north African, born in the early seventh century, end up changing the course of English history?
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"Decolonising history means addressing unequivocally the issue of the low number of people of colour hired in these institutions to teach those histories" says
@OlivetteOtele
#decolonise
#history
#debate
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Wilfred Owen, remembered for writing some of the most iconic poetry of the First World War, was born
#OnThisDay
in 1893…
#OTD
#WW1
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Marrying for love, building castles and marshalling armies –
#medieval
princesses could do more than you perhaps thought…
@kwilsonlee
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#OnThisDay
in 1944 was the Great Escape. As night fell on 24 March, the men chosen for the escape attempt assembled in Hut 104. By the time the Germans realised the prisoners were getting out, 76 men had crawled to freedom.
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This is available to watch on iPlayer for another 6 days. Not to be missed
Peter Jackson’s new documentary,
#TheyShallNotGrowOld
, will be broadcast on
@BBCTwo
at 9.30pm tonight
#Remembrance
#Armistice
#LestWeForget
#FirstWorldWar
#WW1
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Why were so many innocent people suspected of witchcraft? Historian and broadcaster
@sixteenthCgirl
explains...
#HocusPocus
#witches
#Halloween
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Many of our ancestors slept in linen sheets to keep cool and hung pieces of cow dung at the foot of the bed to keep bedbugs at bay...
#heatwave
#DidYouKnow
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Dr Kate Lister (
@WhoresOfYore
) on the role and struggles of a sex historian – ft
@GoingMedieval
,
@FernRiddell
and
@HallieRubenhold
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“Even before the atrocities uncovered in Bucha, the International Criminal Court had opened a war crimes investigation. This will be the first time such a judicial process has opened while the conflict concerned is still in progress” |
@militaryhistori
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Can't decide which shows to watch or listen to this week? Here are the latest history radio and TV programmes airing in the UK that you won't want to miss
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Olivette Otele, the UK’s first female black history professor, is to research Bristol’s links to the slave trade |
@OlivetteOtele
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Catherine of Aragon’s reputation may be defined by her marriage to
#HenryVIII
. But she proved herself a resolute war leader, a formidable intellect and the darling of the English people, says John Edwards…
#CatherineOfAragon
#TheSpanishPrincess
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Elizabeth I inherited a large number of books from her mother. The oldest is an exquisitely illuminated Book of Hours from the mid-15th century. Anne inscribed it: “Le temps viendra/je Anne Boleyn” (“The time will come/I Anne Boleyn”).
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Agincourt is not necessarily one of the most significant battles of the
#medieval
era, argues Dr Sean McGlynn
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The survivor, the "incurable" and the scapegoat:
@Lucy_Worsley
on the extraordinary lives of three ordinary women
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On our latest podcast episode,
@theAliceRoberts
explores how cutting-edge developments in archaeology and genetic science can broaden our understanding of what happened in Britain between the first and tenth centuries AD…
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Jane Austen died
#OnThisDay
in 1817. "There is no indication at all on her gravestone in Winchester Cathedral that she was a writer – her grieving family did not consider it worth recording on the stone," says Helen Amy
#OTD
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With countless historical images, facts and figures shared online each day, how do you go about sorting the real history from the fake? We caught up with
@fakehistoryhunt
to find out more…
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#Listen
: we head to Kensington Palace, once home to the young
#Victoria
, to discuss the queen's life with
@Lucy_Worsley
@HRP_palaces
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@Lucy_Worsley
's Reins of Power, plus 9 other shows you won't want to miss
http://t.co/qOgedsU6Tl
http://t.co/tei6UViZDi
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“During his only visit to Bletchley Park, Churchill described the site as ‘the goose that laid the golden egg but never cackled’. Everyone kept their secrets for more than 30 years…”
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Manuscripts in the
#AngloSaxon
Kingdoms at the
@britishlibrary
:
@cmcurran21
shares 10 things we learned
#BLAngloSaxons
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Anne of Cleves was a popular, pragmatic woman who became
#HenryVIII
’s most successful queen, says
@TracyBorman
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"Perhaps in truth there could be no happy-ever-after for those returning from the Great War. They inhabited a world of pain and suffering beyond comprehension…"
#WW1
#ArmisticeDay
#RemembranceDay
#LestWeForget
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Mysterious woman in Royal Collection portrait identified as Mary Boleyn (via
@Telegraph
) – subscriber only
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“Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, is rightly remembered as having had an important influence upon views on the death penalty…”
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“To annoy the Scots, Welsh or Irish, say ‘England’ when you mean Britain. To annoy historians, say ‘Britain’ when you mean England...”
@sf_lang
#EnglishHistory
#HistoryOfEngland
#BritishHistory
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“Eating eels was thought not to excite the libido, so they could be consumed during Lent” |
@greenleejw
on how eels powered the medieval economy
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Do we need to decolonise history? And if so, how? 10 historians consider
@EleanorNewbigin
@OlivetteOtele
@kehinde_andrews
@holland_tom
@WardleworthNina
@Alden_Young
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“The first myth about
#HenryVIII
and
#AnneBoleyn
is that Henry ditched the dowdy Katherine of Aragon, driven wild by his first glimpse of the beautiful Anne,” says Suzannah Lipscomb (
@sixteenthCgirl
)
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#AncientRome
’s secret service: Archaeologists unearth barracks that may have been used by
#Roman
spies (via
@Telegraph
)
#archaeology
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“Of all the changes to sweep the west over the past 400 years, perhaps none have had a greater impact on women’s lives than the fall in family sizes,” says
@knott_sarah
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Nellie Bly was told it would be impossible for her to journey
#AroundTheWorldIn80Days
like Phileas Fogg. She did it anyway and did it faster, all while racing against a real rival travelling in the opposite direction…
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“This is the only known photograph of a living Jack the Ripper victim,” says
@HallieRubenhold
. “It’s very moving - very different to the morgue pictures we are familiar with...”
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The story of the catastrophic famine of 1932–33 that led to millions of deaths in Soviet
#Ukraine
@anneapplebaum
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The medieval hygiene guide: 5 tips for combating grime in the Middle Ages
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The
#BayeuxTapestry
is the most significant and widely studied record of the tumult of 1066, yet its threads still hold mysteries for the modern historian…
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Peaky Blinders’ newest villain, Oswald Mosley, is based on a real fascist leader of the same name. Mosley was on friendly terms with Mussolini, and Hitler was guest of honour at his second wedding...
#PeakyBlinders6
#DidYouKnow
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Viking ‘warrior women’:
@JudithJesch
, expert in
#Viking
studies, examines the latest evidence
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#OnThisDay
in 1199, Richard the Lionheart roared his last. Richard I died of gangrene after being hit by a chance crossbow shot during a castle siege. He breathed his last in the arms of his mother, Eleanor. His heart was buried in Rouen; his entrails in Châlus.
📸 Getty
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Modern views of the First World War largely focus on the battles in western Europe.
@DavidOlusoga
shines a light on forgotten clashes in distant lands, and on the extensive contributions of Africans and Asians
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“The marriage of King
#HenryVII
and Elizabeth of York was hugely popular, for the union of the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster was seen as bringing peace after years of dynastic war…”
#TheWhitePrincess
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As many of us self-isolate and spend more time indoors, we’re offering free access to all subscriber areas of our site, for two weeks (ends 8 April)
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