An old-fashioned feature of a fusty, inegalitarian past, when did the British stop knowing their place? Four historians share their perspectives.

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#OnThisDay in 1958 Solomon Shereshevsky died. He dreamt of being a hero but achieved greatness of another kind.

✍️ Mathew Lyons explains at https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/death-mnemonist

The new issue of History Today is in stores and on the app today!

Inside: the prophecies of Merlin, Britons in the French Revolution, Orkney between Scandinavia and Scotland, Jewish collaborators on trial, and rehabilitating the East India Company’s nabobs.

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Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement by Susannah Gibson makes a case for #18thcentury proto-feminism. But do these Bluestockings fit?

📚 Read Sophie Coulombeau’s review at the link below

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Before the wall fell, the fence was cut. How did Hungary come to play a key role in the collapse of communism?

📚 Thomas Lorman reviews The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo. Find it at https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/picnic-matthew-longo-review

#OnThisDay in 1945, the British army entered #BergenBelsen concentration camp.

Richard Dimbleby’s account of what he witnessed at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 has become infamous in Britain. Less well known is the work of two other BBC employees who made radio programmes about Belsen shortly after the camp’s liberation.

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‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That it’s a sideshow of a sideshow.’

Ali Ansari, historian of modern #Iran, answers some quickfire questions.

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This and more great writing from leading historians and active researchers can be found in the April issue of History Today.

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When it was first named in 17th-century Switzerland, nostalgia was a very real – and very dangerous – disease.

🔓 Agnes Arnold-Forster’s new History Matters is free to read for the next 7 days at https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/when-nostalgia-was-deadly

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Phillipe Ariès once argued that childhood did not exist in the #MiddleAges. The survival of toys and depictions of games in #medieval manuscripts proves otherwise.

🔓 This popular Archive article from 2001 is still free to read at https://www.historytoday.com/archive/childs-play-medieval-england

Wills in #earlymodern England tell #historians much more than simply who left what to whom, and should not be discarded lightly.

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What is the most boring #historybook you have read, and why? Excruciating tedium can have intellectual value, says George Garnett.

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The #RwandanGenocide was an episode of intense violence many thought impossible in the late 20th century. Failure to prevent it shamed the international community.

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How Finland Survived Stalin: From #WinterWar to #ColdWar by Kimmo Rentola argues that political guile as much as military might stopped the Soviet Union in its tracks.

✍️ James Rodgers reviews the recent book at historytoday.com/archive/review/how-finland-survived-stalin-kimmo-rentola-review

Charles Dimont traces the origin and history of ‘God Save the King’ (or ‘God Save the Queen’), the British national anthem.

🔓 This popular 1953 article from The Archive is still free to read

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‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That it’s a sideshow of a sideshow.’

🎯 We put Ali Ansari... On the Spot with some quickfire questions

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/interview/spot-ali-ansari #persia #persianhistory #historyofiran

#OnThisDay in 1889 John Hore died aged only seven years old. His adventures in East Africa saw him immortalised by #Victorian evangelicals as ‘the boy missionary‘.

✍️ @MathewJLyons picks up the story at https://buff.ly/3U7N65v

What is the most boring #history book you have read, and why? Excruciating tedium can have intellectual value, says George Garnett.

🔓 The latest Making History column is free to read for the next 7 days at https://www.historytoday.com/archive/making-history/defence-boring-books

#OnThisDay in 1949, #NATO was founded.

📚 Yuan Yi Zhu reviewed two recent books on the alliance – Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO and NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance – at https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/deterring-armageddon-peter-apps-and-nato-sten-rynning-review

#Albania’s greatest military hero Gjergj Kastrioti, also known as #Skanderbeg, dedicated his life to fighting for his beleaguered homeland.

🔓 This 2018 Archive article is free to read for the next 7 days at https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/skanderbeg-man-our-times

The origin of bacalhau, the Portuguese national dish with a global past of ingenuity and exploitation.

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