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How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state.
Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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The Problem with Britain’s Pensions
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November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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Willis Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning, was born #OnThisDay in 1876.
Air conditioning across the US brought an industrial boom – at a cost to the environment.
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Air conditioning across the US brought an industrial boom – at a cost to the environment.
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The Rise of Air Conditioning
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November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Willis Carrier, the inventor of modern air conditioning, was born #OnThisDay in 1876.
Air conditioning across the US brought an industrial boom – at a cost to the environment.
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Air conditioning across the US brought an industrial boom – at a cost to the environment.
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In #colonial New South Wales, there was no parliament. Instead, public dinners were held and toasts were made to demonstrate political support – or dissent
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🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive
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Drinking to Australian Democracy
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November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
In #colonial New South Wales, there was no parliament. Instead, public dinners were held and toasts were made to demonstrate political support – or dissent
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🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive
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How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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The Problem with Britain’s Pensions
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November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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By the turn of the 20th century Carl Hagenbeck’s Tierpark had revolutionised zoo exhibits – and the exotic animal trade.
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Carl Hagenbeck's Eight Thousand Tortoises
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November 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
By the turn of the 20th century Carl Hagenbeck’s Tierpark had revolutionised zoo exhibits – and the exotic animal trade.
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🔓 Nigel Rothfels’ new History Matters is free for 7 days
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In this week’s Miscellanies: the first 10 of 20 historians choose their favourite new #history books of 2025.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In this week’s Miscellanies: the first 10 of 20 historians choose their favourite new #history books of 2025.
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905 years #OnThisDay the White Ship sank.
The loss of the vessel carrying the English king Henry I’s sole heir was a disaster from which anarchy would follow.
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The loss of the vessel carrying the English king Henry I’s sole heir was a disaster from which anarchy would follow.
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The White Ship: A Crown Lost at Sea
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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
905 years #OnThisDay the White Ship sank.
The loss of the vessel carrying the English king Henry I’s sole heir was a disaster from which anarchy would follow.
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The loss of the vessel carrying the English king Henry I’s sole heir was a disaster from which anarchy would follow.
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When putting the #MiddleAges on screen, drama is no substitute for the historical sources.
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The Secret to Successful Medieval Movies
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November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
When putting the #MiddleAges on screen, drama is no substitute for the historical sources.
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The #DecembristRevolt of 1825 saw Russia’s nobility attempt to depose a tsar.
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🔒 Susanna Rabow-Edling’s article from the December issue can be found in the archive
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The Decembrists: Russia’s First Revolution
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November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The #DecembristRevolt of 1825 saw Russia’s nobility attempt to depose a tsar.
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🔒 Susanna Rabow-Edling’s article from the December issue can be found in the archive
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King James V was defeated at the Battle of Solway Moss #OnThisDay in 1542.
During his brief lifetime, James V was a popular ruler who aimed to maintain Scotland’s independence from England. Did it cost him his life?
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During his brief lifetime, James V was a popular ruler who aimed to maintain Scotland’s independence from England. Did it cost him his life?
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James V: The Lost King of Scotland
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November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
King James V was defeated at the Battle of Solway Moss #OnThisDay in 1542.
During his brief lifetime, James V was a popular ruler who aimed to maintain Scotland’s independence from England. Did it cost him his life?
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During his brief lifetime, James V was a popular ruler who aimed to maintain Scotland’s independence from England. Did it cost him his life?
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In this week’s email newsletter: the first 10 of 20 historians choose their favourite new #historybooks of 2025.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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From a #cult’s rogue personalities to its foundational ideologies, how have fringe beliefs guided the direction of the American dream?
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How Have Cults Shaped American History?
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November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
From a #cult’s rogue personalities to its foundational ideologies, how have fringe beliefs guided the direction of the American dream?
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Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean #Slavery by Miranda Kaufman follows the money to reveal how Britain’s women of means profited from plantations.
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✍️ Misha Ewen reviews the recent #history book
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‘Heiresses’ by Miranda Kaufman review
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November 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean #Slavery by Miranda Kaufman follows the money to reveal how Britain’s women of means profited from plantations.
✍️ Misha Ewen reviews the recent #history book
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✍️ Misha Ewen reviews the recent #history book
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead, author of best-selling studies of ‘primitive’ peoples, became a major influence on US thinking during the #SecondWorldWar.
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Margaret Mead: Waging War with Anthropology
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November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Anthropologist Margaret Mead, author of best-selling studies of ‘primitive’ peoples, became a major influence on US thinking during the #SecondWorldWar.
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Colonial New South Wales did not have its own parliament until 1856, but it did have a tradition of public dinners and politically charged toasts.
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🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive
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Drinking to Australian Democracy
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November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Colonial New South Wales did not have its own parliament until 1856, but it did have a tradition of public dinners and politically charged toasts.
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🔒 Matthew Allen’s new article is now in the archive
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Anthropologist #MargaretMead, author of best-selling studies of ‘primitive’ peoples, became a major influence on US military thinking during the #SecondWorldWar.
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Margaret Mead: Waging War with Anthropology
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November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Anthropologist #MargaretMead, author of best-selling studies of ‘primitive’ peoples, became a major influence on US military thinking during the #SecondWorldWar.
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Bern after reading: Switzerland was a hub for communist China’s spy networks in the Cold War.
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The Secrets of China’s Cold War Spy Centre
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November 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Bern after reading: Switzerland was a hub for communist China’s spy networks in the Cold War.
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How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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The Problem with Britain’s Pensions
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November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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🔓 Chris Renwick’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days
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#BayardRustin was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom #OnThisDay in 2013.
African American civil rights leader Rustin was also a pacifist, a socialist, and a gay rights activist.
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African American civil rights leader Rustin was also a pacifist, a socialist, and a gay rights activist.
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Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the Leader
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November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#BayardRustin was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom #OnThisDay in 2013.
African American civil rights leader Rustin was also a pacifist, a socialist, and a gay rights activist.
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African American civil rights leader Rustin was also a pacifist, a socialist, and a gay rights activist.
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The December issue of History Today is in all good newsagents from today!
Featuring #HenryVII’s break with Rome, the secret history of occupied #Tibet, Russia’s first revolution, and more.
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Featuring #HenryVII’s break with Rome, the secret history of occupied #Tibet, Russia’s first revolution, and more.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The December issue of History Today is in all good newsagents from today!
Featuring #HenryVII’s break with Rome, the secret history of occupied #Tibet, Russia’s first revolution, and more.
Find out what else is inside and where to get it at www.historytoday.com/magazine
Featuring #HenryVII’s break with Rome, the secret history of occupied #Tibet, Russia’s first revolution, and more.
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#HenryVIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?
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🔒 Paulina Kewes and Frederick Smith’s cover story is now in the archive
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The Excommunication of Henry VIII
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November 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#HenryVIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?
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🔒 Paulina Kewes and Frederick Smith’s cover story is now in the archive
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How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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The Problem with Britain’s Pensions
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November 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
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🔓 Chris Renwick’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days
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Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the #16thcentury, but its attitude to its own poor could be very different.
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Pilgrims and Poverty in Renaissance Rome
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November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the #16thcentury, but its attitude to its own poor could be very different.
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The #BBC has sought to ‘inform, educate and entertain’ for a century. Facing an uncertain future, what impact has it had on the past?
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What Influence Has the BBC Had on History?
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November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The #BBC has sought to ‘inform, educate and entertain’ for a century. Facing an uncertain future, what impact has it had on the past?
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In Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s Spy, Dennis Sewell asks whether George Downing was the ‘biggest scoundrel in #Stuart England’?
✍️ Jackie Eales reviews the recent #history book
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✍️ Jackie Eales reviews the recent #history book
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‘Turncoat’ by Dennis Sewell review
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November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
In Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s Spy, Dennis Sewell asks whether George Downing was the ‘biggest scoundrel in #Stuart England’?
✍️ Jackie Eales reviews the recent #history book
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✍️ Jackie Eales reviews the recent #history book
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