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BuzzFeed · 1m
Paris Market Fire
Paris’s oldest food market destroyed in overnight fire.
euronews · 1m
Fire destroys historic Paris food market
Paris's oldest food market burns in overnight fire with no casualties.
France24 · 1m
Bayeux Tapestry's London tour inspires Battle of Hastings reenactment
The medieval tapestry's visit to London has prompted history enthusiasts to stage a recreation of the 1066 battle it depicts.
NPR · 1m
Stop hounding Ulster heroes, son of veteran who died while on trial tells minister
Son of veteran who died on trial urges Labour to stop persecuting troops.
Dailymail · 2m
Biden Not Airbrushed Yet
Trump's history rewrite plan faces backlash.
Chicago Sun-Times · 1m
The Odd Letter W: A History of the Alphabet
How the letter W emerged from Roman collapse to shape English spelling.
Literary Hub · 1m
The Peasants' Revolt behind Andrew Garfield's new film
Paul Greengrass turned England's biggest popular uprising into a movie, and historians say the real 1381 is stranger than the script.
Vanity Fair · 4m
Trump backs Irish unity, breaking 30 years of silence
A US president just took a side on Irish reunification, and almost everyone in Dublin, Belfast and London told him to stop.
The Conversation · 2m
The million people nobody knew were there
In 1930 an Australian gold prospector walked into a valley and found a million people who had never met the outside world.
Substack · 4m
Pennsylvania invented the library you use today
From Ben Franklin's stockholder club to Carnegie's matching funds and today's book bans, one state shaped the American public library.
The Conversation · 3m
Australia's population before 1788 was 2.2 million
New modelling says nine in ten Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were wiped out after the first fleet.
the Guardian · 1m
When your portfolio becomes your personality
How a 1917 war bond campaign taught Americans to invest with their feelings, and why that habit now looks dangerous.
TIME · 3m
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When the Bible Was Greek
For the early Church, the Old Testament was a Greek book, and that fact still unsettles how we read scripture.
Los Angeles Review of Books · 4m
What 80 years of palace staff left behind
A whist drive ticket in a lump of rock, pools slips, hobnail boots: the Buckingham Palace rewire dug up the servants' quarters instead of the throne room.
the Guardian · 1m
A 370-year-old cipher, cracked in 44 minutes
Sir Thomas Urquhart hid a royalist prayer in his own book, and everyone spent centuries looking for the key outside it.
Vals · 2m
The secret WWII files in a Waterloo garage
A 74-year-old cleaning out his garage pulled 300 pages of classified POW testimony from a crawlspace nobody knew was there.
Dailymail · 3m
Kansas and Missouri are still fighting the 1850s
Kansas football dropped a hype video that skips trash talk and goes straight to Bleeding Kansas.
Newsweek · 1m
Three Fairmount Park mansions throw a Revolutionary party
Blacksmiths, privateers, hard cider and baby goats fill three 18th-century houses for one October Saturday.
PhillyVoice · 2m
9/11 at 25: still seared into memory
A quarter century on, ABC News gathers what the day left behind: ceremonies, survivors, illness, and a generation too young to remember.
ABC News · 1m
The near misses of 9/11
A kindergarten drop-off, a dermatologist appointment and a golf tournament are why some people lived through September 11.
Fortune · 2m
9/11 at 25: The Choices Behind the Numbers
Twenty-five years on, the toll of September 11 is a statistic to millions who never lived it. The names are what remain.
Dallas Express · 2m
The Uprising: the 1381 revolt that never quite died
Paul Greengrass turns the Peasants' Revolt into one farmer's story, and asks what ordinary people are owed.
TIME · 4m
John Coltrane's Philadelphia Home to Become Heritage Site
The former residence of saxophone pioneer John Coltrane is being transformed into a permanent cultural heritage site in Philadelphia.
NPR · 1m
The Engineer Who Accidentally Flew a Mach 2 Jet
When a routine ground test went wrong, an RAF engineer with zero jet experience accidentally launched himself into the sky.
Wikipedia · 2m