Thiaroye massacre
It’s been nearly 80 years since hundreds of Black West African soldiers who fought for France’s freedom against Nazi Germany during WWII were killed in cold blood by their fellow…
The Victorian Flower Garden
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The magicians’ cemetery
It feels a little tired to write about Houdini and Halloween, like a last resort. You know the basics: Houdini died in Detroit on Oct. 31, 1926, at Grace Hospital…
legislate people’s existence away
laws being passed to limit the rights of groups of people
Looking for a lost photo of a badass hippie protester, @UCLA 1970
a dad tells a story about his friend at an anti war protest
Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain
To mark his 1000th episode of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg talks to Mishal Husain for Radio 4's Today programme. {listen}
Download 222 Belle Époque Art Posters: An Online Archive of Masterpieces from the “Golden Age of the Poster” (1880-1918)
The period between the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, best known by its French name La Belle Époque
Meet Daniel Sofer
You won’t find him on wikipedia, but his work is woven into the music of Madonna, New Order, The Police and countless others. @beachboyz2men shares more about how Dan got…
Farha on Netflix
The Nakba, which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Before the Nakba, Palestine was a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural…
Gnosticism
Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized:gnōstikós, Koine Greek:, 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early…