Suffragette Rosa May Billinghurst used her tricycle wheelchair to obstruct police.
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Disability is often omitted from popular narratives of important figures from history.
Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873)
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A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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The evolution of sexual behaviour is a long and complicated tale. Taking a long view involves a degree of speculation.
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Since the Victorian age, tobacco has been a form of stress relief.
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The 24-hour system was independently invented multiple times.
The Mari Lwyd makes a welcome appearance in Chepstow.
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The Mari Lwyd and the plygain are two prominent Welsh traditions celebrated over Christmas and the new year.
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Early products focused on tanning. Others roasted you like a chicken. Which of these claims can you remember?
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Ridley Scott’s film is not intended to paint a romanticised image of Napoleon, but rather immerse the viewer in the dilemmas and complexities of power.
The gingerbread house traces its origins to 18th-century Germany.
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Ginger, a staple spice in this Christmas confection, may help reduce the risk of colds and help with digestion.
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Napoleon has unleashed a torrent of objections to the film’s historical errors. More important for historians should be whether creative works pass the test of authenticity.
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The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
Too Many Blackamoors by Heather Agyepong (2021).
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The exhibition celebrates and interrogates the cultural afterlives of Victorian Britain.
Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads in west Wales. The Illustrated London News, 1843.
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The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Waiting By The Window by Carl Holsøe.
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Hybrid flowers became a metaphor for sterility at the end of the 19th century.
Austrian-Jewish child refugees aboard the ship Prague on its arrival at Harwich during the Kindertransport in 1938.
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10,000 children, from mostly Jewish families, were saved from the Nazis by the Kindertransport visa-waiver scheme, which started in 1938.
Plato, Seneca and Aristotle in an illustration from a medieval manuscript circa 1325.
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The sheer quantity of data these processes will make available has significant ramifications for scholarship.
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Old and new money come into conflict in this American ‘prequel’ to Downton Abbey.
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Hundreds of Australians wrote to Jackie Kennedy after her husband was killed. The letters paint a revealing portrait of who we were and who we wanted to be.
Students become more emotionally engaged with history when it’s presented in an interactive way, research shows.
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Rather than have students memorize names and dates, this history curriculum invites students to grapple with real-life issues faced by people from the past.
Entries in the Springsure Native Mounted Police Diary.
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Frontier violence was widespread across colonial Queensland and has real life implications for contemporary Australia.