Modern Medicine Traces Its Scientific Roots to the Middle Ages (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Keeping the classics alive: how archivists are preserving video game history (www.theverge.com)
The English Plan to Colonise Russia | When England’s search for a Northwest Passage via sea failed, an audacious plan to forge a land route was hatched by the Muscovy Company. (www.historytoday.com)
The Mystic Heart of Thailand (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Digital Florentine Codex: An Encyclopaedia of 16th-Century Indigenous Mexico (florentinecodex.getty.edu)
‘Father of cell phone’ reflects on making first call and history 50 years ago (whyy.org)
What Really Happened to JFK? (nymag.com)
The Surprisingly Bloody History of the Barber Pole (www.snopes.com)
Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine (blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)
A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last (www.nytimes.com)
Kristallnacht, 85 years ago, marks the point Hitler moved from an emotional antisemitism to a systematic antisemitism of laws and government violence (theconversation.com)
Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe (www.youtube.com)
Full Yale Lecture Series on Ancient Greek History (www.youtube.com)
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Renaissance Knives Had Music Engraved on the Blades and Now You Can Hear the Songs Performed by Modern Singers | Open Culture (www.openculture.com)
A Photo Appreciation of Star Forts (www.theatlantic.com)
The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century (resobscura.substack.com)
Sorry Computer, You're Not a Teapot - The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
The rise and fall of ‘propaganda’ as a positive concept: a digital reading of Swedish parliamentary records, 1867–2019 (www.tandfonline.com)
The world very nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days (www.washingtonpost.com)
What is propaganda? (1944) (www.historians.org)
Why Does the UK Celebrate Guy Fawkes Night? (www.thecollector.com)
Gratitude (sh.itjust.works)
I’ve been learning a ton about the history of the Soviet Union. Often, I need a slow history documentary to fall asleep. But Currently absorbing everything of the Soviets, again for the 3rd time. The saying “but then it got worse”, helps to understand why. I genuinely am not coming at this with any judgement. I love to...