Mongolians have a special relationship with golden eagles. Ancient cultures often have traditions that are visually stunning to outsiders, and none may be
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Marie Curie: a guide to the scientist's life, achievements and legacy Hailed as a 'celebrity scientist' in her lifetime, Marie Curie was the first female to win the Nobel Prize in 1903 – for her pioneering research on radioactivity – and the first person to win a second Nobel Prize Who was Marie Curie and what is she famous for? Marie Curie is a Polish-born physicist and chemist who is remembered for being the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1903 for her research into radioactivity
Plot the course of the 116-year war, from the very first land disputes to the final French victory
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Four new episodes of Bridgerton have just landed on Netflix – but how accurate is the drama’s portrayal of Regency Britain? In the first instalment of our four-part video masterclass, Dr Lizzie Rogers discusses the events that shaped the era and introduces us to one of its biggest characters: the Prince Regent.
Portraits of Henry VII typically share a few key traits. They depict a man with a lean, strong face, a shock of brown hair escaping from beneath a black cap. A long nose; often the ghost of a smile. And dark, piercing eyes. Watchful? Wary? Suspicious, even? Certainly that’s how history has remembered him
Abraham Lincoln was reputed to have said, upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, “so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” The book he was referencing was, of course, her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852. The story depicted the cruel treatment of enslaved people, and many think it contributed to polarizing opinions in the period preceding the Civil War. While the book has been criticized for perpetuating negative stereotypes about Black people, its
When the Royalists came back to power in 1660 when the monarchy was restored, they dug up Oliver Cromwell’s body, hanged it and stuck his head on a spike over Westminster Hall for all to see. The head eventually fell off the spike and, by the 18th century, it was circulating as a curio: there was
Having retired in 1748, Benjamin Franklin began his transformation into a gentleman. Not wanting to waste his life in empty pursuits of wealth, he wrote to his mother, Abiah, “I would rather have it said, He lived usefully, than, He died rich.”
As Scotland celebrates the 750th birthday of Robert the Bruce, the national hero lauded for his military exploits against the ‘auld enemy’, Fiona Watson reveals the shadowy side of a ruthless noble who schemed and slaughtered his way to the throne He’s the beleaguered king on the run, finding
The Romans were only too happy to share their pantheon of deities with the native Britons – and learn a little themselves, too
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Environmental activist Greta Thunberg has gathered contributions from more than one hundred experts for a new book which explains the climate crisis.
More and more institutions are commissioning investigations into their historical links to slavery – but the fallout at one Cambridge college suggests these projects are meeting growing resistance
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England in the late Middle Ages was a dangerous place. Violence was rife – both at an interpersonal level, and as enacted in legal punishments. A newly produced medieval murder map (medievalmurdermap.co.uk) points to terrifying levels of brutality. Nevertheless, there is plenty of evidence to show that
