I never knew about this.

The secret history of the pain au chocolat. (Or chocolatine?)

Jacques Barzun died this week at 104. This is a 2007 interview with the great historian and writer.

Tinfoil secrets revealed by digital scanning.

Micro-study of historical feminism in Manchester.

Tony looks at the Princes in the Tower.

University administrator trying unsuccessfully to hide his excitement!

Not convinced by explanation that feminist gains were reversed due to factional conflict within the wider revolutionary movement. I would eant to see evidence that Republicanism had really internalized feminism in the first place. My suspicion is that, like the Labour movement, politicized women were convenient allies for the leadership of SF (and…

Max Born and Rudolf Hess.

The role of the state.

Some of these are sounds you might never have wanted to hear again...

A military order in 1862, immediately countermanded by Lincoln and repented by Grant in later life.

Yet another example of Wikipedia's obsession with process rather than actual accuracy of content.

The untold story - fascinating.

Forecasts from 1900.

Re the proposed 1945 US land invasion of Japan: "The Military was so certain things were about to go very badly for U.S. soldiers that 500,000 Purple Hearts were made in preparation, a number so large that the medals have been used to supply every single war since, including Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I and Iraq II, with about 100,000 still left ov…

Countries that once were and in some cases are again.

"trying to achieve historical transparency and context is not about increasing attendance at exhibitions and selling products; it is about seeking to arrive at some semblance of the truth. Writers and artists are not exempt from that scrutiny."

Interesting analysis in a 2007 study.

Brilliant on-line atlas of the history of war.

I'm glad to say that by the time I was a sporadic student journalist, computers had already taken over. But my teenage fanzine publications were a different matter...

Provides access to two online historic atlases : The Irish Famine Population Data Atlas 1841-2002 and The Atlas of Irish Famine Data 1841 - 1851. Fascinating stuff.

Skull of 1879 murder victim found in David Attenborough's garden.

Looking at the memorials to the conflict in the Big Apple, including one very obvious one not usually put in that category.

The public transport map of East Berlin.

Careers advice from zombie Marie Curie!

Wesley Osam looks at Richard III and Josephine Tey.

The key medieval astronomical instrument.