Sarajevo: the crossroads of history – FT.com On a street corner here 100 years ago, a 19-year-old Serb nationalist shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and triggered the first world war. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, is still a potent and divisive symbol.
Syria Crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers has war scars
Syria Crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers has war scars Government troops in Syria have recaptured the historic Crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers from rebels, close to the border with Lebanon.
Vatican Library to digitise archives
Vatican Library to digitise archives with Japanese support The Vatican Library has begun digitising its priceless collection of ancient manuscripts dating from the origins of the Church.
British Library purchases the Catholicon Anglicum
British Library purchases the Catholicon Anglicum The British Library has paid £92,500 in order to keep a 500-year old dictionary from leaving the United Kingdom. They announced earlier this week that they had completed the purchase of the Catholicon Anglicum, a 15th-century English-Latin dictionary.
20 Booksellers Who Blog | AbeBooks’ Reading Copy
20 Booksellers Who Blog | AbeBooks’ Reading Copy Many AbeBooks booksellers are also dedicated bloggers. Each seller’s blog is one of a kind, created with a deep love of books – from sharing images of vintage cover art, to cataloging recent acquisitions and sales, to publishing in-depth educational articles, to recounting highly entertaining stories of…
Stanford professor looks underwater for history of the Roman Empire
Stanford professor looks underwater for history of the Roman Empire Using archaeological evidence from shipwrecks and harbors, classics scholar Justin Leidwanger uncovers the story of economic networks during a millennium of classical antiquity.
Gettysburg Book Wins $50,000 History Prize
Gettysburg Book Wins $50,000 History Prize | TIME.com Allen C. Guelzo’s “Gettysburg: The Last Invasion” has received the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History.
Espionage in the 16th century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-betweens and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry
Espionage in the 16th century Mediterranean: Secret Diplomacy, Mediterranean Go-betweens and the Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry Spies played a crucial role in early modern imperial rivalries. While past scholars have emphasized the Islam/Christendom divide in the Mediterranean, these go-betweens, who mastered the codes of both cultures, easily crossed invisible boundaries between civilizations and connected the Ottomans and…
Conference on Early Medieval Illustrated Texts in Budapest
Conference on Early Medieval Illustrated Texts in Budapest There will be an international conference dedicated to early modern illustrated texts next week at the National Széchényi Library in Budapest. The symposium, organized jointly by the Library and Pázmány Péter Catholic University, is titled: Facing and Forming the Tradition. Illustrated Texts on the Way from Late Antiquity…
Ukraine maps chart Crimea’s troubled past
Ukraine maps chart Crimea’s troubled past If Crimea were to join Russia after the planned referendum on 17 March, it would be the latest of many changes to the map of Ukraine during the country’s troubled past.
How warm weather led to the rise of Genghis Khan
How warm weather led to the rise of Genghis Khan In the thirteenth-century a Mongol warrior named Genghis Khan took control of the nomadic tribes on the Great Steppe and launched a series of invasions that would see a vast empire being established from China to Eastern Europe. Now a team of researchers have shown…
Louis Raemaekers’ First World War Propaganda Cards
Louis Raemaekers’ First World War Propaganda Cards | History Today On this page are a handful of cigarette cards issued in 1916, featuring illustrations by the Dutch-born artist Louis Raemaekers.
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