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The Past, Fully Present. Find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians.
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New restored and colorized incredible moments of history thanks to Unseen Histories — available on Unsplash. 🎨✨
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We're pleased to announce our restored and colorized Antartica images from the Terra Nova expedition of 1911 are now featured on the official Unsplash blog!
#FalconScott #TerraNova
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As April begins we preview ten history books that will be published over the month ahead. Including titles by Sarah Wise, Paul Cooper, Noah Angell and Zeinab Badawi
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A look ahead to new history books in March from peter pomerantsev, Michael Taylor, Joseph Hone, joadrwren, Mike Jay and others
#History #Books
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February brings a range of anticipated new history books from Rory Muir Josephine Quinn Judith Flanders Myke Cole Michael Livingston and others.
See our full list at the link below 👇
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'The great statue of ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’, to be erected at the entrance of New York harbour will certainly be about the biggest thing of its kind in existence.' This photograph from 1882 takes us inside the workshop where the statue was made.
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This image of Santa Claus from the 1890s captures his identity in a moment of emergence. It contains a great deal of Saint Nicholas, a dash of Charles Dickens, a fair amount of the artist Thomas Nast and more than a hint of Old Father Christmas. #Christmas
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In this excerpt, Justin Marozzi introduces us to Bābur, the 'pioneering, genre-bending warrior-poet-king, an opium-eating, hashish-smoking, wine-drinking, chess-playing diarist, gardener and calligrapher' who founded the Mughal Empire.
Read it below👇
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'The first decade of the 20th century was a time of ambition and expansion. It was the age of empires and the age of science. In 1907 all of these forces coalesced to create a wholly new kind of competition: the Peking to Paris race.' Unseen Histories unseenhistories.com/the-race-to-th…
Today is the first day of meteorological winter. What better book to mark the occasion than Max Leonard's luminous 'A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice'? Here he introduces his new book to Unseen Histories. Interview below👇
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