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Medieval Watermills: The Work, Rights and Rivers Behind the Wheel
From an Irish tidal mill to English manorial accounts, water-powered grinding joined skilled work, engineered rivers and contested rights to a share of the harvest.
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The Trojan Horse: A Famous Story and the Evidence Beneath Troy
The wooden horse is ancient, but its history is not the same as Troy’s archaeology. Follow the story from Homer and Mykonos to Virgil, excavations and later art.
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Cahokia: The Fields, Mounds and Neighbourhoods Behind a North American City
The great earthworks were only part of Cahokia. Houses, food, migration and changing interpretations reveal the inhabited landscape behind a monumental centre.
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The Environment After War: Why the Damage Outlasts the Fighting
From Passchendaele and Vietnam to Kuwait’s oil fires, the history behind the UN’s 6 November observance explains why environmental recovery follows its own calendar.
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World Audiovisual Heritage Day 2026: Why a Digital Copy Is Only the Beginning
Radio Mogadishu’s endangered recordings connect a current preservation effort to a longer history of fragile media, obsolete machines and the evidence that must travel with a copy.
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The Environment After War: Why the Damage Outlasts the Fighting
From Passchendaele and Vietnam to Kuwait’s oil fires, the history behind the UN’s 6 November observance explains why environmental recovery follows its own calendar.
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The Once and Future World Order: Who Gets to Make the Rules?
Amitav Acharya’s 2025 book challenges a Western monopoly on world order. Five historical perspectives help readers test its questions without turning the past into a guaranteed future.
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Death by Lightning: Garfield, Patronage and the Long Crisis After the Shooting
The history behind Death by Lightning connects Garfield’s assassination with patronage, uncertain medicine, civil-service reform and Lucretia Garfield’s preservation of his papers.
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The Trojan Horse: A Famous Story and the Evidence Beneath Troy
The wooden horse is ancient, but its history is not the same as Troy’s archaeology. Follow the story from Homer and Mykonos to Virgil, excavations and later art.
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Salamis, 480 BCE: The Coalition That Held Together in the Straits
At Salamis, a divided alliance turned narrow waters into an advantage. Ancient testimony reveals the coalition, its rowing crews and the limits of a famous victory.
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Ludlow, 1914: The Tent City Behind the Massacre
The coal strike was sustained by households as well as miners. Its destruction exposed the reach of company power, the duties of public authority and the limits of reform.
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