History Guild World History Course

The Roman dead: new techniques are revealing just how diverse Roman Britain was

The Roman dead: new techniques are revealing just how diverse Roman Britain was

Jan 30, 2023

Reading time: 6 minutes
Our knowledge about the people who lived in Roman Britain has undergone a sea change over the past decade. New research has rubbished our perception of it as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans. Roman Britain was actually a highly multicultural society which included newcomers and locals with black African ancestry and dual heritage, as well as people from the Middle East.

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How the Ancient Egyptian economy laid the groundwork for building the pyramids

How the Ancient Egyptian economy laid the groundwork for building the pyramids

Jan 26, 2023

Reading time: 5 minutes
In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza, lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials of the kings buried in the far greater structures. These men and women were the ones responsible for building the pyramids: the architects, military men, priests, and high-ranking state administrators. The latter were the ones who ran the country and were in charge of making sure that its finances were healthy enough to construct these monumental royal tombs that would, they hoped, outlast eternity.

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Neanderthals: Javelin athletes helped us show how effective they were at hunting with weapons

Neanderthals: Javelin athletes helped us show how effective they were at hunting with weapons

Jan 23, 2023

Reading time: 5 minutes
Neanderthals used to be portrayed as unintelligent and technologically deficient, a species that went extinct because of its inferiority to humans. But researchers now generally agree that Neanderthals were adept predators, innovative builders and symbolic thinkers. So how were early humans actually different from Neanderthals? It’s getting increasingly difficult to tell. But the capability to kill at a distance – such as with a bow and arrow – has long been thought of thought of as one important threshold in our human success story.

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Why we must better understand our history

Why we must better understand our history

Jan 12, 2023

Reading time: 5 minutes
History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme. Mark Twain.
As a society it is vitally important that we understand our own history, as well as the history of other peoples throughout time. This is the only way we can make informed decisions about how we should approach the challenges that we face in the present and the future.

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Military History

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Left to ruin: we must preserve our forgotten wartime defences

Left to ruin: we must preserve our forgotten wartime defences

Jan 10, 2023

Reading time: 5 minutes Australia built a number of coastal defences to help protect the country from any enemy attack during the second world war. Now, almost 80 years later, some of the physical remnants of those historic facilities lie forgotten and decaying. These monuments to the nation’s home defence are in desperate need of preservation. While their condition varies greatly, too many have faded into obscurity.

Political and Economic History

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100 Years on, a New German Putsch?

100 Years on, a New German Putsch?

Jan 6, 2023

Reading time: 9 minutes On December 7, 2022, German federal police arrested 25 people who were allegedly plotting to violently overthrow the German government. This planned coup resurrected the spectre of a failed coup attempt 100 years before, when Adolf Hitler and his then still nascent Nazi party tried something similar. But is there a link between this modern coup and the one of 1923? Does the history of these events rhyme?

Social and Cultural History

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Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago

Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago

Jan 5, 2023

Reading time: 6 minutes Modern humans were present in Southeast Asia about 20,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence published in Nature today. An international research team led by Macquarie University applied new archaeological techniques to a longstanding question - were the human teeth discovered more than 120 years ago from Lida Ajer cave really modern human? The techniques allowed us to identify and date ancient human teeth from this Sumatran cave.

History Audiobooks

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World – Audiobook

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World – Audiobook

On his first journey Cook mapped the east coast of Australia, on his second the British Admiralty sent him into the vast Southern Ocean. Equipped with one of the first accurate chronometers, Cook pushed his small vessel not merely into the Roaring Forties or the Furious Fifties but become the first explorer to penetrate the Antarctic Circle, reaching an incredible Latitude 71 degrees South, just failing to discover Antarctica.

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