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    The new issue of History Today is in UK stores now. Featuring: Papal conclaves, the murder of #AungSan, #Pericles, British #fascism, forestry in the #FrenchRevolution, and more. Find out what else is inside and order it directly from our store at buff.ly/h97sXpE
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    Menstruation is rarely a topic that comes to mind when we think about the Holocaust. But this shared experience was a source of both shame and salvation for the Nazis’ female victims.
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    Congratulations to @OlivetteOtele on becoming the first black woman to be made a professor of history in Britain. Here she is 'On the Spot' earlier this year. historytoday.com/history-today/…
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    Elizabeth Garrett Anderson passed her medical exams #OnThisDay in 1865. The following year she opened a hospital solely for women, staffed solely by women, which drew crowds of patients.
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    Replying to @Joanne_Paul_ @cath_fletcher and @rain_later
    David Starkey is no longer a member of the History Today editorial advisory board. – Andy Patterson, Publisher.
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    #OnThisDay in 1865, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson passed her medical exams. The following year she opened a hospital solely for women, staffed solely by women, which drew crowds of patients. bit.ly/2YOt002
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    Cat wearing jetpack in 16th century drawing baffles historians deathandtaxesmag.com/216391/cat-wea… via @DeathAndTaxes
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    β€˜More than a third of the city’s population now immigrants.’ Today that reads like a shock tabloid headline, but 450 years ago in Norwich, refugees were welcomed. historytoday.com/frank-meeres/w…
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    The Romans introduced at least 50 new species of plant foods to Britain. These included fruits, such as peach, pear, fig, mulberry, sour cherry, plum, damson, date and pomegranate, along with almond, pine nut, sweet chestnut and walnut.
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    Indonesia’s bloody past has produced a country populated with ghosts. Now, they are sharing their stories on YouTube. ✍️ @Tito_Ambyo
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    Middle-aged women of the 18th century were seen as extremely erotic – though it may surprise historians fixated on spinsters and widows. History Today-@RoyalHistSoc 2019 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize: bit.ly/2N4Teb0
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    The blood-soaked uniform Archduke Franz Ferdinand was wearing when he was assassinated in on this day in 1914
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    A former slave who led a revolution and became Napoleon’s foe, Toussaint Louverture’s destruction by the French state was not forgotten. From the forthcoming June issue:
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    Boudica, Boudicca, Boadicea, Boudicea, Buddug. Who was she? historytoday.com/martha-vandrei…