history
Welcome to History!
A community dedicated to sharing and discussing fascinating historical facts from all periods and regions.
Rules:
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Post about history. Ask a question about the past, share a link to an article about something historical, or talk about something related to history that interests you. Discussion is encouraged.
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No memes. No ads. No promos. No politics. No spam.
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No porn.
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We like facts and reliable sources here. While sources like Quora/Reddit/Wikipedia can be great tools for quick searches, we do not allow such user-generated content as primary source. What’s wrong with Wikipedia?
NOTE: Personal attacks and insults will not be tolerated. Stick to talking about the historical topic at hand in your comments. Insults and personal attacks will get you an immediate ban.
- Submitted 4 months ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com | 0 comments
- Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchesterwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago by Venduan@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago by commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com | 8 comments
- The story of how a 1709 Stradivarius violin, looted during the Nazi era, resurfaced in Japanenglish.elpais.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago by TheDwZ@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago by HellenicMysteries@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 4 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Submitted 9 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml | 47 comments
- The scandalous story of Fred Trump: how Donald Trump's father made his millionsuk.finance.yahoo.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago by Klimaschutz@feddit.org | 7 comments
- The spies of the pharaohs and the double agents of the Caesars: How intelligence services operated in antiquityenglish.elpais.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago by blackseal@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago by SoyTDI@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- What were the Greeks and Romans like? Their letters suggest they weren’t so different from ustheconversation.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago by SoyTDI@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Submitted 2 months ago by Curmuffin@fedia.io | 0 comments
- ‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcastwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago by fraiserouge@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish Explorer, spent two and a half years on an island off Greenland waiting to be rescued.www.vintag.es ↗Submitted 5 months ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca | 1 comment
- Submitted 5 months ago by mettwurstkaninchen@feddit.org | 5 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by Frazala1@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago by Amoxtli@thelemmy.club | 0 comments
- How an 18th-century portrait stolen by the Nazis was recovered 80 years later in Argentinawww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- I was Hitler’s neighbour: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca | 2 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago by fort_burp@feddit.nl | 0 comments
- The financial scandal that rocked Franco’s Spain and ended with a suicide in Lausanneenglish.elpais.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago by Wuno@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 5 months ago by RockBottom@feddit.org | 17 comments
- On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered his famous “What to the American slave is your 4th of July?” speech in Rochester, NY.lemmy.ml ↗Submitted 5 months ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml | 0 comments
- Submitted 8 months ago by owlinsight@lemm.ee | 3 comments
- Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold With Glass - Atlas Obscurawww.atlasobscura.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago by mettwurstkaninchen@feddit.org | 1 comment
- Submitted 3 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world | 3 comments
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- Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern Englandwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com | 5 comments
- Submitted 4 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone | 0 comments
- Unexpectedly Beautiful Women’s Fashion in the Soviet Union from the 1960s and 1970s [no, this is not an argument that tankies are right]rarehistoricalphotos.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago by 33550336@lemmy.world | 3 comments