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Expedition seeks lost Battle of Hudson Bay ships

Expedition seeks lost Battle of Hudson Bay ships – Manitoba – CBC News

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This Day in History

Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport is bombed by Chechen terrorists
Larry Nassar, a former doctor for USA Gymnastics, is sentenced to prison for sexual assault
Winston Churchill dies
Walt Disney announces $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar
Japanese soldier found hiding on Guam
First canned beer goes on sale
General Paulus to Hitler: Let us surrender!
Gold discovered at Sutter’s Creek
Author Edith Wharton is born
Emmett Till murderers make magazine confession

The World Next Week

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With David Malpass
Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty—Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Transition 2021 Series: The First 100 Days and Beyond
A Conversation With Chairman Kimberly Reed
Frontier Market Entrepreneurship: Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley and Term Member Happy Hour
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event With John Campbell
Virtual Roundtable: How Nonviolent Resistance Succeeds
A Conversation With Robert Redfield
Rescuing States and Cities Amid the Pandemic
Screening and Discussion of "A La Calle"

AbeBooks Blog

The story of Takaya Lone Wolf
The most desirable rare book of 2020 – A Wonderful Time by Slim Aarons
DreamHaven Books – Minneapolis’ haven for sci-fi, fantasy & horror
American poet Louise Glück wins 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature
Spend the night in Gladstone’s Library

Smithsonian History Feed

How the Rugged F4F Wildcat Held the Line During World War II
The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars
How 19th-Century Activists Ditched Corsets for One-Piece Long Underwear
Proactive Tips for Speaking With Children About Violence, Racism and Tragic Events
When Radio Stations Stopped a Public Figure From Spreading Dangerous Lies
Smithsonian Educators Offer Tips for Talking to Children After a Traumatic Event
A New Film Details the FBI's Relentless Pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr.
The True History Behind 'One Night in Miami'
Why Kamala Harris' Pearls Have a Special Significance
From a Small, Rural Schoolhouse, One Teacher Challenged Nativist Attacks Against Immigration

History Today

Dissonant Horn
Execution of the Tailor-King
The Crowd-Funded War
In the Shadow of Angkor
To Frame a Painter
Rules of Engagement
Laocoön
Backing Tyranny
Belarus Remembers
Harold Moody’s Fight for Racial Equality

History Today Podcasts

Medicine Woman
The Crown Lost at Sea
The Wars of the Roses: The Queen who Lost Everything
Foreign Correspondents in the Soviet Union
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds
‘The Terrible Lioness’
Terror on Wall Street
The Power of the Royal Mistress
The Rise of the Valkyries
Henry VIII Meets his Match

Medievalists Blog

“Would you like to see his head?”: The battlefield and the bishop from 13th century Italy
Abstaining from alcohol in medieval China
QAnon: A Medieval Millennial Movement for Modern Times
Medieval Manuscripts: The Val-Dieu Apocalypse
The Medieval (Military) Theory of John of Salisbury

In the Middle – Medieval Blog

Why the Hate? The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, and Race, Racism, and Premodern Critical Race Studies Today
In Support and Solidarity
Open Letter from Medievalists In Support of the Wet'suwet'en Protectors
A Graduate Student in the (Farmers') Marketplace of Ideas
On hidden scars and the passive voice

Medieval Hungary

The Restoration of the High Altar of Kisszeben
In memoriam Zsuzsa Urbach (1933-2020)
Mapping Eastern Europe Website Launched
Croatia and Hungary. 800 Years of Common Heritage
10 Years of the Medieval Hungary blog

History Extra Podcasts

The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know
The shipwreck that sunk a royal dynasty
The NHS: a brief history
Rebuilding Europe after WW2
How oceans shaped human civilisation
Searching for freedom after the Holocaust
The race for vaccines: lessons from history
Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know
MI9’s secret escape missions
Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war

Ask the Past

How to Freshen Your Face, 1565
How to Increase Your Energy, 15th century
How to Cure Your Cough, 1558
How to Interpret Forehead Wrinkles, 1562
How to Pest-Proof Your House, 1639
How to Bathe in January, c. 7th century
How to Make It Through November, c. 7th c.
How to Eat a Pumpkin, 1597
How to Survive a Mermaid Attack, 1527
How to Treat the Freshmen, 1367

CBC Ideas Podcasts

The Rise of H.P. Lovecraft
A Baldwin Revival: In Good Times and In Bad
Everything at Once
The Black Jacobin: Part Three
The Warfare State: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
The Desert: a well-spring of the imagination
The Rising Star of Judith Shklar, the skeptical liberal
The Bionic Society
The Black Jacobin: Part Two
Rethinking menopause: Authors argue dreaded life change has an upside

Council on Foreign Relations

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With David Malpass
Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty—Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
Transition 2021 Series: The First 100 Days and Beyond
A Conversation With Chairman Kimberly Reed
Frontier Market Entrepreneurship: Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley and Term Member Happy Hour
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event With John Campbell
Virtual Roundtable: How Nonviolent Resistance Succeeds
A Conversation With Robert Redfield
Rescuing States and Cities Amid the Pandemic
Screening and Discussion of "A La Calle"

BibliOdyssey

Viridarium Novum
All Hail Lord Carrington!
Military ABC Book
Humble Heather
Japanese Falconry
Sci-Art Pedigree
Fiore dei Liberi
Peking Opera Figures
Schönschreibmeister
Folies Bergère

Today’s Document from the National Archives

Gold Mine in the Sierra Nevada

The History Blog

Shipwreck neckerchief covered in Masonic symbols
A final denoument for Mucha’s Slav Epic?
Medieval coin hoard found in Hungary
9th c. temple complex found in southwest China
3,000 grave goods unearthed from Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Northamptonshire
Marigold found with tobacco in Maya vessels
World’s oldest known cave art animal found in Indonesia
Roman child buried with puppy found in France
45 pre-Inca ceremonial pieces found in Tiwanaku
Endangered Diego Rivera mural to get landmark status

History of the Ancient World

A History of Ancient Rome in 10 Buildings
10 Self-Help Tips from a Roman Emperor
The Search for Early Christian Egypt: Archaeology and the Treasures of the Desert
Basel papyrus is an ancient medical text, researchers find
Spells, charms, erotic dolls: love magic in the ancient Mediterranean
Pliny the Elder’s History: Recording the past in the Naturalis Historia
Guide to the classics: the Epic of Gilgamesh
Rome’s Flaminian Obelisk: an epic journey from divine Egyptian symbol to tourist attraction
Religions of Ancient Italy
Research network sheds new light on drinking and eating habits in the Roman world

Got Medieval

Medieval Batman Cosplay Worth the Click-Through
The Medieval Secret To Besieging Castles That THEY Don’t Want You To Know (Wmm… Marginalia #118)
A Little Something Classy for the Patron (Mmm… Marginalia #116)
Speaking of Horses (Mmm… Marginalia #115)
Finally, a reason to call fundamentalists ‘medieval’
Make Like a Manuscript and Leaf (Mmm… Marginalia #114)
Adventures in Adaptation
On Horses, Getting Back On Them (Mmm… Marginalia #113)
Gravity in the Margins, again (Mmm… Marginalia #112)
Blasphemy, Blaspheyou, Blaspheverybody (Mmm… Marginalia #108)

History and Women

Boudicca - Rage Against the Dying Light
Martha Graham's Cold War
The Aloha Spirit - The Life of Carmen Dolores Jaime Medeiros Rodrigues
Edith of Wessex - The Confessor's Wife
George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) 1804-1876
Those Not-So Wicked Sporting Ladies of the Wicked West - Pearl DeVere
The Pioneer Women of California - Ellen VanValkenburgh, Emily Williams, and Eva VanValkenburg
Tituba - The First Witch of Salem
Mary De Morgan - A Writer of Fairy Tales
Suffragettes - Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflins

Roman Times

Persian cavalry before the cataphractarii
Armor from the original Pyrrhic victory
Lebes gamikos: ceremonial wedding jars
Primitive Cypriot figurines of the Archaic Period
Ancient rhetoric
Megarian bowls
Ancient theater in Greece and Rome
Achelous and the origin of the Horn of Plenty
Janiform art in Greece and Rome
The Anthropological Implications of Laconian Art

Stuff You Missed in History Class

SYMHC Classics: The Wilmington Coup of 1898, Part 2
Behind the Scenes Minis: Olympe and Dalton
John Dalton’s Anomalous Color Vision
Olympe de Gouges
SYMHC Classics: The Wilmington Coup of 1898, Part 1
Behind the Scenes Minis: Late 2020 Wrap Up
Unearthed! Year-end 2020, Part 2
Unearthed! Year-end 2020, Part 1
SYMHC Classics: Knitting's Early History
Behind the Scenes Minis: Transfusions

Intelligent Life

Sorry Scotland, haggis is actually English
Fear and hope on Biden’s inauguration day
How the pandemic wiped the smile off our faces (literally)
Why “Bridgerton” won’t start a craze for corsets
Where there’s muck there’s brass: making money from sewage in Kolkata
Shot in the arm: how the pandemic transformed protest slang
They stormed the Capitol, then posed for selfies
I feel bad about my lockdown
The puritans’ progress: time to slosh back the non-alcoholic spirits
From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad

The Victorian Era

Guest post: Wife beating in Victorian England …The ‘Rule of Thumb’
The history of schooling in Victorian Britain (guest post)
The mysterious case of the Foxborough bike racks
Take a stroll through a map (sponsored post)
The History Of The Bed: From Horse Hair To Now. How Have They Changed?
A Pocket of 19th Century Fashion in 21st Century Africa (guest post)
Guest post: Women’s Education in 19th century
My Inner Victorian
Yesterday enchanting today & the first domestic goddess
Sailing the world with spices and a monkey puzzle tree…

Ancient Foods

The Moonshine Era
Triangle Trade
Happy 2021
Desert Wine
Forging Wari Alliances
A Taste for the Exotic
Socializing at the Symposium
Before the Pilgrims, Floridians celebrated the ‘real’ first Thanksgiving
Achaemenid Wine Connoisseurs
Spirits for the Dead

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