The History Hoard

Highlights

History and its myths (28 December 2019)
Gender, sexuality and history (17 January 2019)

Nautical Slang in Common Usage

2021

There are no white knights (19 March 2021)
Ancient Native Americans were among the world’s first coppersmiths (19 March 2021)
Vikings May Not Be Who We Thought They Were, Dna Study Finds (18 February 2021)
On history versus chronicles (16 February 2021)
Kickass Women in History: Queen Nanny (13 February 2021)
The “Scientific” Antifeminists of Victorian England (31 January 2021)
The Mona Lisa Wasn't Really That Famous Until It Was Stolen In 1911 (12 January 2021)

2020

Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii (26 December 2020)
Alcohol possibly from Prohibition era found in walls of Queen Anne home (15 September 2020)
How To Get Away with Murder: Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges. (9 September 2020)
Seven Indomitable Women of World War II (2 September 2020)
In the land of Kush (19 August 2020)
Thousands of Rare Artifacts Discovered Beneath Tudor Manor’s Attic Floorboards (17 August 2020)
All the servants of a rich Gilded Age household (10 August 2020)
It’s incorrect to say there was no resistance to safety measures around the Blitz (23 July 2020)
Earliest evidence for humans in the Americas (22 July 2020)
A Silk Road Renaissance (July 2020): Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century A.D.
Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’ (20 May 2020)
Combat experiments reveal fighting techniques of Bronze-Age warriors (27 April 2020)
Lost recipe for medieval blue ink found (20 April 2020)
On the King’s two bodies and modern myth making (30 April 2020)
British Archaeologists Discover Huge Stash of Victorian-Era Beer (25 March 2020)
The Medieval Invention of Toilet Paper (March 2020)
Graduate Student Discovers One of World’s Oldest Swords in Mislabeled Monastery Display (16 March 2020)
Backstage at the Paris Opera House in 1937 📷 (6 March 2020)
30 curse tablets found in Athenian well (6 February 2020)

2019

Too Good Looking to Die: How to get saved from an execution in the Middle Ages (December 2019)
We’ll Call her Story a Real-Life “Handmaid’s Tale” (27 November 2019)
The discovery of the ancient Greek city of Tenea (15 September 2019)
On colonialism, imperialism, and ignoring medieval history (26 July 2019)
Thaddeus Kosciusko: The Polish Engineer You Never Heard of who Saved America (9 July 2019)
African samurai: The legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan (19 May 2019)
A Brief History of British and Irish Languages (1 March 2019)

2018

The history of Jews, Chinese food, and Christmas, explained by a rabbi (21 December 2018)
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (November 2018)
The history of navy strength gin (12 November 2018)
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture (29 October 2018)
The earliest tomb of a Scythian prince discovered (3 September 2018)
The Hoxne Hoard: How a Mislaid Hammer Led to the Largest Roman Treasure in Britain (4 August 2018)
An open letter to pretty much every linguistic Voynich theorist ever (2 February 2018)
6 Fascinating, Mythical Places That Most Likely Never Existed (8 January 2018)

2017

How did Victorian Muslims celebrate Christmas? (December 2017)
These may be the world’s first images of dogs—and they’re wearing leashes (November 2017)
The History of the Ampersand (15 October 2017)
‘Allah’ Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes (14 October 2017)
The nuclear bomb didn't beat Japan — Stalin did (August 2017)
Cosmopolitanism on the Move: Port Said around 1900 (20 June 2017)
Today is the anniversary of the first woman in space (16 June 2017)
Hattusa: The Ancient Capital of The Hittites (June 2017)
Roman Roads (3 June 2017)
Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin 📷 (31 May 2017)

2016

Finding North America’s lost medieval city (December 2016)
‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found (12 November 2016)
Birdhouses: Miniature mansions of Istanbul (21 October 2016)
Ancient Egyptian works to be published together in English for first time (23 August 2016)
Seldom-seen photos show what America looked like in the 1940s…in color (22 August 2016)
Once a magnificent medieval city and home to 200,000 people, the ghost city of Ani is now completely abandoned and has stood empty for centuries (15 August 2016)
Why A German Pilot Escorted An American Bomber To Safety During World War II (27 May 2016)
Clothing from 1600s Shipwreck Shows How the One Percent Lived (May 2016)
The Myth of the Barter Economy (February 2016)
Astonishing, rare images of the Vietnam War from the winning side (5 February 2016)

2015

An expansive photo record of Native American life in the early 1900s (25 November 2015)
Chivalry Isn’t Dead, You Just Don’t Know What the Fuck it is (12 October 2015)
In the Shadow of the Kowloon Walled City (September 2015)
Whatever Happened to the Wild Camels of the American West? (6 August 2015)
Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times (10 July 2015)
Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school (6 June 2015)
The Real "No-Go Zone" of France: A Forbidden No Man's Land Poisoned by War (26 May 2015)
What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like (20 March 2015)
If Disney Princesses Were Historically Accurate (20 February 2015)
A Trip to West Virginia’s Slave Market in Wheeling (17 January 2015)
Drawing the prophet: Islam’s hidden history of Muhammad images (10 January 2015)

2014

The Medieval Tube Map (December 2014)
A Teenager’s Written Account of the Very First Thanksgiving, 1621 (18 November 2014)
Romeo and Juliet Has No Balcony (28 October 2014)
History of the Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Map of the United States in 1803 (16 October 2014)
The History Of The English Language In One Chart (1 October 2014)
Amazon Warriors' Names Revealed Amid "Gibberish" on Ancient Greek Vases (September 2014)
A Man Renovating His Home Discovered A Tunnel... To A Massive Underground City (24 August 2014)
Before the Great War, people travelled freely without passports or identification (18 August 2014)
Deciphered Roman Soldier’s Papyrus to Family Complains: ‘You Never Wrote Back to Me’ (19 March 2014)
How the north ended up on top of the map (February 2014)
David Galjaard photographs Albanian bunkers in his photo book Concresco (24 January 2014)
Haunting Photos of a Crumbling Post-Communist World (January 2014)
The Bowl, The Ram And The Folded Map: Navigating The Complicated World (3 January 2014)

2013

The Week in Death: The Dictator’s Architect (3 November 2013)
Why Didn't People Smile in Old Portraits? (September 2013)
The 1931 Histomap: The entire history of the world distilled into a single map/chart (12 August 2013)
The house that time forgot: Red brick semi is frozen in the 1920s with original decoration, food and furniture untouched for 90 YEARS (12 July 2013)
Check Out These Gorgeous Color Photos From World War II (30 June 2013)
Using Metadata to find Paul Revere (9 June 2013)
Bob Fletcher Dies at 101; Saved Farms of Interned Japanese-Americans (7 June 2013)
Ancient Mayan pyramid destroyed for road fill (14 May 2013)
What if people told European history like they told Native American history? (9 May 2013)
The Data Center Inside a Cold War Nuclear Bunker (2 May 2013)
'Entire streets' of Roman London uncovered in the City (9 April 2013)
National Archives: Searching for the Seventies (March 2013)
Everything Was Fake but Her Wealth (23 January 2013) Ida Wood, who lived for decades as a recluse in a New York City hotel, would have taken her secrets to the grave—if here sister hadn’t gotten there first
Greeks, Romans wiped their asses with pottery discs (21 January 2013)
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners And Modern Management (16 January 2013)

2012

Stockholm Olympics photos: What did Olympians look like in 1912? (July 2012)
Photos reveal 'scandalous' burlesque dancers of the 1890s (13 March 2012)
Lead Poisoning in Rome - The Skeletal Evidence (January 2012)

2010-2011

What a Carry On (4 July 2011)
USS Robin – The Victorious U.S. Carrier that Didn’t Exist (16 February 2011)
World War II Marred By Poor Plotting and Unrealistic One-Dimensional Characters (12 July 2010)

2008

How 'Dallas' Won the Cold War (25 April 2008)

Unsorted

Hussite Wars 1419-1434 - European Wars of Religion (4 March 2018)
In 1982, a 10-year-old American wrote to the head of the U.S.S.R. He wrote back and she became our youngest diplomat (9 December 2018)
This 7,000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, archeologists say (17 February 2020)
Scientists find that tin found in Israel from 3,000 years ago comes from Cornwall (22 September 2019)
When Dancing Plagues Struck Medieval Europe (10 January 2019)
The Mystery of Florida's Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort (4 July 2019)
This badass Edinburgh photo shows two ladies in long dresses and hats rock climbing in the 1900s (24 December 2020)
How Britain stole $45 trillion from India (19 December 2018)
How to Explain the Holocaust in One Simple Statistic (2 May 2019)
Eat Like The Ancient Babylonians: Researchers Cook Up Nearly 4,000-Year-Old Recipes (16 November 2019)
Was Emily Brontё's Heathcliff black? (25 October 2017)
The day Irish and Jewish joined forces against British fascists (26 February 2018)
Lovers of Modena skeletons holding hands were both men (12 September 2019)
Crossword Panic of 1944 (1 June 2019)
Lost Dark Ages Fort Found in Scotland (22 January 2017)
Dacian-Roman Emperors - Romanian History and Culture
The truth about Easter Island: a sustainable society has been falsely blamed for its own demise (12 October 2017)
Getting to the Bottom of the Flat Earth (13 June 2019)