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Weekly History Quiz No.280
1. Who painted The Hunters in the Snow in 1565?
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How opening an archive caused consternation in the Netherlands
Reading time: 1 minute Generally speaking, making an archive accessible to the public isn’t...
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Wars of the Roses: how the French meddled in this very English conflict
Reading time: 6 minutes
The Wars of the Roses are normally portrayed as a series of battles between two warring houses, York and Lancaster, over who was rightly king of England. However, they were about much more than that. In many ways, the wars were really about standards of government.
Weekly History Quiz No.279
1. Where was Marco Polo born?
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Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Restoring Equity in Higher Education
Reading time: 10 minutes The following Open Letter was sent by the Australian Historical...
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Military History
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The story of Nancy Wake
Reading time: 7 minutes Nancy Wake (1912–2011) was an agent for the Special Operations Executive and the most wanted woman in France during the Second World War. Dubbed the 'White Mouse' by the Nazis, she was the one who always got away.
Political and Economic History
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A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France: the weird and wonderful history of man-made borders
Reading time: 5 minutes Nations establish their borders through treaties. Rivers are sometimes relied on to set boundaries, but even here tensions rise when there are disputes about interpretation. Is the boundary on the river banks, the deepest part of the river, or the very centre of the flow?
Social and Cultural History
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Talking heads: what toilets and sewers tell us about ancient Roman sanitation
Reading time: 9 minutes Focusing on life in ancient Rome, Pompeii, Herculaneum and Ostia, I’m deeply impressed by the brilliant engineers who designed these underground marvels and the magnificent architecture that masks their functional purpose. Sewer galleries didn’t run under every street, nor service every area. But in some cities, including Rome itself, the length and breadth of the main sewer, the Cloaca Maxima, rivals the extent of the main sewer lines in many of today’s cities. We shouldn’t assume, though, that Roman toilets, sewers and water systems were constructed with our same modern sanitary goals in mind.
History Quizzes
Weekly History Quiz No.278
1. Which line divides North and South Korea?
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Weekly History Quiz No.277
1. Which line of English monarchs originated in Wales?
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Weekly History Quiz No.276
1. When did the Japanese Shogun impose a sakoku (seclusion) policy?
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Weekly History Quiz No.275
1. When did Nicolaus Copernicus publish ‘On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres’ which explained that the Earth orbits around the Sun?
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Weekly History Quiz No.274
1. When did the Exxon Valdez oil spill occur?
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Weekly History Quiz No.273
1. Who was the first person to fly solo around the world?
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Weekly History Quiz No.272
1. Who led the 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition?
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Weekly History Quiz No.271
1. When was the first Sino-Indian War?
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Weekly History Quiz No.270
1. Which country fought alongside the French and British against the Egyptians during the Suez crisis?
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Weekly History Quiz No.269
1. What is the 1916 armed insurrection against British rule in Ireland known as?
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Weekly History Quiz No.268
1. Where did Joanna Plantagenet, sister of Richard I Lionheart, become Queen?
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Weekly History Quiz No.267
1. In the 1300s, which Empire produced approximately half the world’s gold?
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Weekly History Quiz No.266
1. Which Empire operated the Manila Galleon trade?
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Weekly History Quiz No.265
1. When did the Wars of the Roses end?
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Weekly History Quiz No.264
1. Who painted ‘The Basket of Apples’ in 1893?
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Weekly History Quiz No.263
1. Who led the victorious army at the Battle of Poltava?
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Weekly History Quiz No.262
1. Which conflict did the Battle of Culloden bring to a close?
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Weekly History Quiz No.261
1. Which Greek God did the Colossus of Rhodes represent?
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Weekly History Quiz No.260
1. In 1947, what was the first living thing sent into space?
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Weekly History Quiz No.259
1. When did the Berlin wall fall?
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Weekly History Quiz No.258
1. When did the Spanish Empire reach its greatest extent?
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Weekly History Quiz No.257
1. After Shackleton’s ship was crushed by ice in Antarctica in 1916, where did he sail an open boat to in order to organise rescue?
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Weekly History Quiz No.256
1. When did the first crusade begin?
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Weekly History Quiz No.255
1. Who painted Liberty Leading the People in 1830?
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Weekly History Quiz No.254
1. How does history view the English King who agreed to Magna Carta?
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Weekly History Quiz No.253
1. Which previous empire did the Byzantine Empire grow out of?
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Weekly History Quiz No.252
1. Who painted The Creation of Adam in 1512?
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Weekly History Quiz No.251
1. When was the term ‘The Silk Road’ first used?
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Weekly History Quiz No.250
1. What is the town of Bury St Edmunds named after?
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Weekly History Quiz No.249
1. Who painted Boating on the Seine in 1879?
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