Exploring the industrial revolution which changed the landscape and infrastructure of Britain forever. By Dr. Matthew White Visiting...
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The first important transformation of English medieval design practice occurred in a military context, during the reign...
Statue of Constantine the Great in Yorkminster / Creative Commons Even had its Empire never existed, Byzantium...
Proclaiming Claudius Emperor by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1867 / Wikimedia Commons The Praetorian Guards were the personal bodyguards of...
Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in...
Voynich Manuscript. / Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Wikimedia Commons Can we hope to find new remedies by...
By Liz Matthews / 06.20.2018 Art Historian, Artist Wednesday 23 June 1937 I went shopping, whitebait hunting...
Watercolour portrait by William Buckler of Robert Hunt, 1842 — Wellcome Library, Creative Commons In 1848, the mineralogist,...
Bayeux Tapestry – Scene 23: Harold swearing oath on holy relics to William, Duke of Normandy. / Myrabella, Wikimedia Commons There...
Certain technological developments singlehandedly pushed the growth of population across the whole of the continent. By Dimitris Romeo Havlidis...
Wikimedia Commons Looking at the various forms of propaganda in circulation during the Russian Revolution. By Dr. Katya Rogatchevskaia...
Public Domain Exploring how events of the Russian Revolution and civil wars were reported within Russia and abroad,...
In the middle of the Great Basaar in Istanbul / Photo via pxhere, Public Domain Mental representations have...
Photo by Sebacalka, Wikimedia Commons Genghis Khan had a vision to unite all the different tribes under...
Map of the Mongol Empire [The extension of the Mongol Empire from 1206 CE to 1294 CE]....
The Great Mosque of Divriği, photograph by Avniyazici The Paulicians were seeking an area out of the...
Various statues carved on the temple walls depicting the Indian Gods in various moods. / Photo by...
Photo via AAIHS Examining the significant contributions of women and the dynamics of gender at the 1956 Congress...
Centerpiece for a Table, 1754, François-Thomas Germain. Silver, 8 1/4 × 14 1/2 × 9 1/8 in....
Professor David Carpenter and Professor Nicholas Vincent discuss the reign of King John, the grievances of the...
Narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, this animation takes you back in time to medieval England in...
Aeon-Uranus, Gaea, Carpi, Horae and Prometheus / Greco-Roman mosaic, Damascus Museum The ancient Greeks had several different...
The air god Shu, assisted by other gods, holds up Nut, the sky, as Geb, the earth,...
A “prothesis” scene, the lying-in-state of the deceased on a bed, surrounded by his family members, some of...
Although the Vikings’ time in East Anglia was relatively brief, they made many contributions to the area’s...
Viking swords / Wikimedia Commons Historians have used written accounts and archaeological records to determine that Vikings...
Etching of mid-19th century Havana / Creative Commons In the sixty years after 1807, many former slave...
Slaves being branded / Public Domain The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of...
They were portrayed as a sacred mission to reclaim the Holy Land – Jerusalem. However, as most...
Medieval map of Jerusalem by Konrad Grünenberg / Wikimedia Commons The Kingdom of Israel was created after the...