The History Hoard

Highlights

• African samurai: The legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan (19 May 2019)

• How the north ended up on top of the map (February 2014)
• The Bowl, The Ram And The Folded Map: Navigating The Complicated World (3 January 2014)

• The History Girls: Sword and Scalpel by Karen Maitland (May 2013)
• The Master List of Historical Women in Combat

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

• Top 10 Pirate Flags from the Golden Age of Piracy
• Top 10 Famous Pirate Flags and What They Mean
• Famous Pirate Flags

• Nautical Slang in Common Usage

• Fantasy Transmutations of Medieval Urbanism
• The Labyrinthine Realities of the Medieval City, A Designer’s Primer
• Medieval Demographics Made Easy

Antiquity

• The whitewashing of Rome (25 June 2021): White supremacists fetishise ancient Rome – but antiquity was more diverse and polychromatic than racists will admit
• Ancient Native Americans were among the world’s first coppersmiths (19 March 2021)
• Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii (26 December 2020)
• How To Get Away with Murder: Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headaches for its judges. (9 September 2020)
• In the land of Kush (19 August 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)
• Graduate Student Discovers One of World’s Oldest Swords in Mislabeled Monastery Display (16 March 2020)
• This 7,000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, archeologists say (17 February 2020)
• 30 curse tablets found in Athenian well (6 February 2020)
• Eat Like The Ancient Babylonians: Researchers Cook Up Nearly 4,000-Year-Old Recipes (16 November 2019)
• Scientists find that tin found in Israel from 3,000 years ago comes from Cornwall (22 September 2019)
• The discovery of the ancient Greek city of Tenea (15 September 2019)
• Lovers of Modena skeletons holding hands were both men (12 September 2019)
• Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (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)
• These may be the world’s first images of dogs—and they’re wearing leashes (November 2017)
• Hattusa: The Ancient Capital of The Hittites (June 2017)
• Roman Roads (3 June 2017)
• ‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found (12 November 2016)
• Ancient Egyptian works to be published together in English for first time (23 August 2016)
• 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)
• Deciphered Roman Soldier’s Papyrus to Family Complains: ‘You Never Wrote Back to Me’ (19 March 2014)
• Ancient Mayan pyramid destroyed for road fill (14 May 2013)
• 'Entire streets' of Roman London uncovered in the City (9 April 2013)
• Dacian-Roman Emperors - Romanian History and Culture

Middle Ages

• Explore this Fascinating Map of Medieval Europe (25 June 2021)
• Vikings May Not Be Who We Thought They Were, Dna Study Finds (18 February 2021)
• Lost recipe for medieval blue ink found (20 April 2020)
• The Medieval Invention of Toilet Paper (March 2020)
• Too Good Looking to Die: How to get saved from an execution in the Middle Ages (December 2019)
• On colonialism, imperialism, and ignoring medieval history (26 July 2019)
• When Dancing Plagues Struck Medieval Europe (10 January 2019)
• Researchers Find Physical Evidence for the Existence of a Female Pope (3 September 2018)
• Hussite Wars 1419-1434 - European Wars of Religion (4 March 2018)
• ‘Allah’ Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes (14 October 2017)
• Lost Dark Ages Fort Found in Scotland (22 January 2017)
• 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)
• Chivalry Isn’t Dead, You Just Don’t Know What the Fuck it is (12 October 2015)
• Decoding the Medieval Volvelle (23 July 2015): Made from circles of paper or parchment, the volvelle was part timepiece, part floppy disk, and part crystal ball
• Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times (10 July 2015)
• The Medieval Tube Map (December 2014)

Renaissance and early modern

• Kickass Women in History: Queen Nanny (13 February 2021)
• Thousands of Rare Artifacts Discovered Beneath Tudor Manor’s Attic Floorboards (17 August 2020)
• Life in Renaissance England

Victorian era and Gilded Age

• The “Scientific” Antifeminists of Victorian England (31 January 2021)
• This badass Edinburgh photo shows two ladies in long dresses and hats rock climbing in the 1900s (24 December 2020)
• All the servants of a rich Gilded Age household (10 August 2020)
• British Archaeologists Discover Huge Stash of Victorian-Era Beer (25 March 2020)
• How Britain stole $45 trillion from India (19 December 2018)
• How did Victorian Muslims celebrate Christmas? (December 2017)
• Clothing from 1600s Shipwreck Shows How the One Percent Lived (May 2016)
• Photos reveal 'scandalous' burlesque dancers of the 1890s (13 March 2012)

WW1 / WW2 and inter-war

• Alcohol possibly from Prohibition era found in walls of Queen Anne home (15 September 2020)
• Seven Indomitable Women of World War II (2 September 2020)
• It’s incorrect to say there was no resistance to safety measures around the Blitz (23 July 2020)
• Backstage at the Paris Opera House in 1937 📷 (6 March 2020)
• We’ll Call her Story a Real-Life “Handmaid’s Tale” (27 November 2019)
• Crossword Panic of 1944 (1 June 2019)
• How to Explain the Holocaust in One Simple Statistic (2 May 2019)
• Why A German Pilot Escorted An American Bomber To Safety During World War II (27 May 2016)
• Zeppelin Attack – The Friends of Bennerley Viaduct (October 2019)
• The day Irish and Jewish joined forces against British fascists (26 February 2018)
• The nuclear bomb didn't beat Japan — Stalin did (August 2017)
• Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings of Weimar Berlin 📷 (31 May 2017)
• Seldom-seen photos show what America looked like in the 1940s…in color (22 August 2016)
• The Real "No-Go Zone" of France: A Forbidden No Man's Land Poisoned by War (26 May 2015)
• Before the Great War, people travelled freely without passports or identification (18 August 2014)
• 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)
• 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

• 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)

Post-WW2

• 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)
• Astonishing, rare images of the Vietnam War from the winning side (5 February 2016)
• National Archives: Searching for the Seventies (March 2013)

America

• Thaddeus Kosciusko: The Polish Engineer You Never Heard of who Saved America (9 July 2019)
• The Mystery of Florida's Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort (4 July 2019)
• The history of Jews, Chinese food, and Christmas, explained by a rabbi (21 December 2018)
• Finding North America’s lost medieval city (December 2016)

• An expansive photo record of Native American life in the early 1900s (25 November 2015)
• Whatever Happened to the Wild Camels of the American West? (6 August 2015)
• Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school (6 June 2015)

• A Trip to West Virginia’s Slave Market in Wheeling (17 January 2015)
• A Teenager’s Written Account of the Very First Thanksgiving, 1621 (18 November 2014)

• Using Metadata to find Paul Revere (9 June 2013)
• Bob Fletcher Dies at 101; Saved Farms of Interned Japanese-Americans (7 June 2013)
• What if people told European history like they told Native American history? (9 May 2013)

Islamic world

• Cosmopolitanism on the Move: Port Said around 1900 (20 June 2017)
• Birdhouses: Miniature mansions of Istanbul (21 October 2016)
• Drawing the prophet: Islam’s hidden history of Muhammad images (10 January 2015)
• History of the Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Map of the United States in 1803 (16 October 2014)

Language

• What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King Arthur actually sounded like (19 March 2019)
• A Brief History of British and Irish Languages (1 March 2019)
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• The History Of The English Language In One Chart (1 October 2014)
• French as a Mother-Tongue in Medieval England (2001)

Sci-tech

• The Triumvirate: Coal, Iron, and Steam (13 July 2021)
• The Age of Steam: Introduction (18 February 2021)
• 'World's oldest webcam' to be switched off (20 August 2019)
• Getting to the Bottom of the Flat Earth (13 June 2019)
• When a cabinet and an automaton love each other very much… (15 January 2019)
• Cycloramas: The Virtual Reality of the 19th Century (16 December 2018)
• The history of navy strength gin (12 November 2018) https://tedium.co/2018/08/23/curta-calculator-history/ (23 August 2018)
• Speak & Spell History: Texas Instruments' Greatest Product (19 June 2018)
• The Forgotten '80s Home Robots Trend (14 May 2018)
• The Transistor, Part 2: Out Of The Crucible (18 February 2018)
• The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms 📷 (9 January 2018)
• Fly Through 17th Century London (26 October 2017)
• The Little-Known Reason Pencils Are Yellow (24 July 2017)
• How Soviets used IBM Selectric keyloggers to spy on US diplomats (13 October 2015)
• The SECOND Oldest Tube: London's Lost Pneumatic Railway (12 April 2015)
• Rome Reborn: Take a Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 C.E. (20 March 2015)
• Why Didn't People Smile in Old Portraits? (September 2013)
• The Writer Automaton, Switzerland (11 July 2013)
• Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard (3 May 2013)
• The Data Center Inside a Cold War Nuclear Bunker (2 May 2013)
• A Victorian Era Pocket Watch Spy Camera (23 February 2013)
• The Android of Albertus Magnus (19 January 2013)
• The Iron Hand of Gotz Von Berlichingen (March 2008)

• The giant steam clock of Chelsea market, London
• The short "history" of Pocket-TV
• Primele Automobile Fabricate in România
• Soviet Digital Electronics Museum — ELEKTRONIKA B3-14
• Old Organizers Collection — Texas Instruments PS-2400+

Myths

• There are no white knights (19 March 2021)
• 6 Fascinating, Mythical Places That Most Likely Never Existed (8 January 2018)
• The truth about Easter Island: a sustainable society has been falsely blamed for its own demise (12 October 2017)