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The agreements that shaped the region may be forgotten in the west, but in the Middle East their significance still looms large 
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Welcome to my blog! I am an academic historian of medicine and the body, and 2014 AHRC/BBC 'New Generation Thinker'. Please enjoy and let me know what you think. (by Dr Alun Withey)
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A brief history of beards by Alun Withey.
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'Four short films combine to illustrate key developments in the history of firearms from the matchlock and flintlock muskets through the development of the percussion cap, Minié ball and rifling to the importance of cartridges and breech loading.'
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The Concord Review is the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic research papers of secondary students.
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At 5am on 11th November 1918 in the personal railway carriage of Ferdinand Foch the Généralissime of the Allied Armies an armistice agreement which ended the Great War was signed. For poetic licenc...
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yourhistoryteacher on wearing poppies, its history and its meaning.
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the fourth timeRussian air strikes on Syria have revived painful memories for the soldiers the USSR sent into Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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By acting in Syria 'Russia is saving Europe for the fourth time' according to a Russian television documentary but their actions bring back memories of Afghanistan.
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Rowan Williams' wonderful documentary from 2013, Goodbye to Canterbury.
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More than 40 years after Kim Phuc was photographed running naked from a napalm attack, treatment in the US will also help ease her pain
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“So many years I thought that I have no more scars, no more pain when I’m in heaven. But now – heaven on earth for me!” Phuc says upon her arrival in Miami to see a dermatologist who specialises in laser treatments for burn patients.
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A close examination of Celtic craftsmanship reveals a scientifically sophisticated people with good links to the rest of Europe
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'A farmer, ploughing a field near Snettisham in Norfolk in 1948, turned up what he thought was a bit of an old brass bedstead. But it was gold, not brass, which he’d discovered and this was just the first piece of the richest iron age hoard ever discovered in Europe.'
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Detailed archival and aerial photographic research carried out by British maritime historian, Ian Friel, has pinpointed a 30 metre stretch of the River Hamble near Southampton as the final resting place of one of Henry V’s largest warships – the Holigost (in modern English, the Holy Ghost). The vessel is entombed in deep mud under the bed of the river.
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'Historians and archaeologists have tentatively identified the location of one of medieval England’s greatest ships.'
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' ...biography, especially heroic biography, can at times displace and obscure history rather than explain or deepen it. This is because the life stories of the men and women who make up the pantheon of black heroes are not wide enough, even when viewed together, to encompass the global scale and variety of black history.'
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The full text of Howard Zinn's radical interpretation of US history, first published in 1980.
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The historian brings the past to life in his insightful and gossipy accounts of the portraits that shaped Britain
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'In 1954, for the occasion of Winston Churchill's 80th birthday, Graham Sutherland was called upon to create an image of the great man that would be housed in parliament and live down the ages. It was a commission the war artist could not refuse; but he approached it with trepidation.'
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'The issue of "comfort women" - a euphemism for those forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels - has long plagued Japan-South Korea ties.'
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Russian film stars and a cosmonaut are among 1,300 people giving a marathon reading of Tolstoy's epic War and Peace on the internet.
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'Russian film stars, a cosmonaut and French actress Fanny Ardant are among 1,300 people reading Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace live on the internet - a 60-hour marathon spread over four days.'
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It's a history lesson worth considering now.
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Written in the context of the Syrian refugee crisis, here is Ishaan Tharoor's Washington Post piece on attitudes to Jewish refugees in pre-War America.
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Anna Whitelock considers the role of the historian, and the new challenges and opportunities of the digital age...
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'Far from being backward-looking and rooted in the past, the study of history is the ultimate passport to the future.'
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NOT many Canterbury buildings have three date stones to help the local historian, but this is the case with Dunelm and Carpet Right in Wincheap. The three dates are 1869, 2001 and 2002. So what do...
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For those who have lain awake at night wondering, here is a brief history of Canterbury's water works and the Kent College water tower.
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Russia tightens pressure on the human rights group Memorial, treating it as a "foreign agent" and accusing it of meddling in politics.
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'Russia's justice ministry has put the Memorial human rights group in St Petersburg on a list of organisations labelled as "foreign agents".'
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This wonderful short film was shot by early film pioneer Claude Friese-Greene in 1927, and is some of the first-ever colour film footage of London. Terrible music though.
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Thomas Penn and his colleagues have embarked on a project to publish a series of short biographies of England’s and, subsequently, Britain’s monarchs. Why is the study of kings and queens still relevant in our less than deferential age?
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'Thomas Penn and his colleagues have embarked on a project to publish a series of short biographies of England’s and, subsequently, Britain’s monarchs. Why is the study of kings and queens still relevant in our less than deferential age?'
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'Since its foundation in 1965, the Landmark Trust has rescued nearly 200 endangered historic buildings in Britain, restoring them to their former glory and making them available for holiday rental as a way to preserve the structures for the future.'
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It's what we've been waiting for: the history of high heels.
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'A Vietnam demonstration ends in violence at Grosvenor Square, London. A Technicolor news report released in cinemas on 25th July 1968.'
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The Egyptian pharaoh queen Nefertiti could be buried in two newly-discovered rooms in King Tutankhamun's tomb, according to a British archaeologist.
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The Egyptian pharaoh queen Nefertiti could be buried in two newly-discovered rooms in King Tutankhamun's tomb, according to a British archaeologist.
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Ian Black, Middle East editor of the Guardian: 'In an idle moment between cocktail parties in the Arab capital where they served, a British and French diplomat were chatting recently about their respective countries’ legacies in the Middle East: why not commemorate them with a new rock band? And they could call it Sykes-Picot and the Balfour Declaration.'