England

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/4/2021
  

  Lesley Lloyd: Honor to Have Won First Womens' FA Cup 50 Years Ago

  "On 5 December 1921 the English Football Association had declared the game to be 'quite unsuitable for females' before barring women from playing on grounds belonging to affiliated men’s clubs."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/8/2021
  

  What Euro 2020 Has Revealed About Englishness

  Sporting teams are one of the few officially English, as opposed to British, institutions. The national team's multiracial composition and embrace of social and political causes may be advancing a more inclusive form of Englishness. 

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  8/19/2020
  

  Plague and Protest Go Hand in Hand

  Scholars like Philip Ziegler and Mark Senn have argued that the Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the first large-scale popular revolt in England.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  8/24/2020
  

  Liverpool Identifies First Streets For Slavery Plaques

  Included in the list are well-known locations such as Bold Street, Seel Street and Falkner Square.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/6/2020
  

  News From the Dead

  by Eileen Sperry

  The experiences of convicted women who were "resurrected" after being unsuccessfully hanged illuminate the precarious legal and social standing of women in early modern England. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/14/2020
  

  In an English City, an Early Benefactor Is Now ‘a Toxic Brand’

  Bristol was built with money from the slave trader Edward Colston. Tearing down his statue has reopened a painful reckoning with the city’s racist past.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  5/14/2020
  

  Battle of Lewes: England's First Fight for Democracy?

  King Henry's defeat led to a brief experiment in governing where the king's powers were delegated to a parliament while he remained head of state.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/6/2020
  

  This Day in History: English Channel Tunnel Opens (1994)

  In 1996, the American Society of Civil Engineers identified the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and the Year of COVID-19

  by Frank Palmeri

  Defoe's accomplishment as a work of history lies not so much in the accuracy of its numbers or facts as in its power as a work of fiction, in the observing eye and skeptical intelligence of H.F., and in the stories he tells, which convey through common language and the details of common life what it was like to live through the plague. 

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• SOURCE: Science Magazine
  3/30/2020
  

  Lead Pollution in Ancient Ice Cores May Track the Rise and Fall of Medieval Kings

  Recently, scientists have identified startling spikes of lead deposited in medieval times in Arctic ice cores and in lake sediments in Europe.

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• 1/26/20
  

  History & Law: GW History Professor Jennifer Wells Discusses How Her Study of Law Has Informed her Career in History

  by Mark Detlor

  "I’m more much analytical as a result of law and try to immediately make an assertion and back it up with evidence when I write; I think it’s a very effective way of writing but I’m not sure that I would have mastered it had I not gone to law school."

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/01/2019
  

  'I Shall Never Forget the Kindness.' How England Helped Albert Einstein Escape Nazi Germany

  by Andrew Robinson

  Einstein was widely thought to be public enemy number one of the Nazis.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  October 2, 2019
  

  History Museum Explores Germans’ View of Britain

  by The Associated Press

  As Brexit looms, one of Germany’s main history museums is examining Germans’ views of the British, complete with a countdown clock that may be reset if Britain’s departure from the European Union is delayed.

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• 5/28/19
  

  Edwardian England’s My Fair Lady is Fairly Wonderful

  by Bruce Chadwick

  They will have you dancing all night, and adoring it.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-17-16
  

  England’s Forgotten Muslim History

  by Jerry Brotton

  Isolated from Europe, Elizabeth I turned to the Islamic world.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4-18-16
  

  Viking invaders struck deep into the west of England – and may have stuck around

  Researchers are now uncovering evidence that the Vikings conquered more of the British Isles than was previously thought.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-27-16
  

  Archaeologists in England Tackle Mystery of Prehistoric Village’s Rapid Demise

  No one knows why a catastrophic fire tore through the small settlement that rose by a river channel. Yet answers are emerging, piece by piece, some 3,000 years later.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-13-16
  

  England Weighs Its Own Anthem to Rival ‘God Save the Queen’

  Reacting to growing nationalist sentiments, lawmakers have agreed to debate a bill that, while not scrapping the national anthem, would create another one to be played for England’s sports teams.

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• SOURCE: OZY
  11-10-15
  

  How England's Worst King Spawned Capitalism

  by Simon Constable

  Henry VIII’s decision to dissolve hundreds of monasteries was a revolutionary act by a monarch spouting the need for monastic reform. What this despot with outsize appetites could not have foreseen is that by selling off the monks’ land, he opened it to market forces.

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• SOURCE: The JC
  7-22-15
  

  How far did the UK aristocracy’s love of the Nazis really go?

  by Bernard Wasserstein

  Footage of the Queen giving a fascist salute has revived theories that Britain’s blue bloods were in thrall to Hitler. An eminent historian untangles the myth from the reality.