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Our mission is historical literacy for all. To be able to make decisions about the future it is imperative that we understand the past.
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1. When did France begin colonising Vietnam?
History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.293
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https://historyguild.org/weekly-history-quiz-no-293/
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November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
History class can cultivate critical thinking – but only if teachers and schools understand what critical thinking really means.

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November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Picasso’s revolutionary style was shaped by African masks and sculptures, a revelation that pushed him into new artistic territory but also reflected the exploitative dynamics of empire.

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November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Wars of the Roses weren’t just dynastic squabbles—they were battles over governance, foreign policy, and England’s place in wider European politics.

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November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
However, in the Netherlands a massive public debate was sparked when an archive with the files of over 400.000 people suspected of collaboration with the Germans during World War 2 was to be opened up. Read more ‘‰ https://lttr.ai/Ak0VR #history
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
No sooner was Denard in Brussels than he turned right around - “wrapped in bandages and carrying papers identifying him as a Belgian civilian injured crocodile hunting,” he turned up at Colonel Faulques’s headquarters once more.

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November 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In many ways, Australia was a world leader – forging both a civic and an ethnic idea of nation.

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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The CDC studied 600 Black men in Alabama, 400 of whom had syphilis and 200 who did not, starting in 1932. They did not inform the men why they were being studied (telling them it was “bad blood”) and provided no treatment,.

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November 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
And while the borders outlined in the agreement did not eventuate, Britain and France still managed to get most of the territory they wanted, with little consideration of local populations. Read more ‘‰ https://lttr.ai/Aktch #history
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November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
1. When did the Spanish Civil War begin?
History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.292
See how your history knowledge stacks up!
https://historyguild.org/weekly-history-quiz-no-292/
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November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission in Arnhem Land in the 1930s, blends stories (and languages) from Indigenous Nations across the region.

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November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In a war where millions died on all sides, the Battle of Castle Itter seems like a relatively small-scale battle, involving just a few hundred men. Read more ‘‰ https://lttr.ai/Aktgm #history
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Vickers REP monoplane, once envisioned as a sky-scout or sledge-hauling marvel, ended up buried in snowdrifts, its wings left behind in Australia. Read more ‘‰ https://lttr.ai/AktRJ #history
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
He ensured that the Greek context would have a part to play in the way that the Australian sojourn at Gallipoli would be remembered. Read more ‘‰ https://lttr.ai/Akq1O #history
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Sick soldiers waiting to be evacuated from Anzac Cove, August 1915. Read more about the living conditions at Gallipoli ‘‰ https://lttr.ai/AkqoK #history
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A full and forensic examination of the Historia Regum Britanniae, has demonstrated that Geoffrey’s account was no simple work of make-believe.

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November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Captain George S. Anthony, a sailor from the age of 15. Despite not having “a drop of Irish blood in his veins,” according to Devoy, Anthony demonstrated exceptional courage and resourcefulness in completing the rescue mission.

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November 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The Australian airman was forever irritated that a ‘tough but fair’ image of the Turks came to prevail in the years following the war.

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November 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In the years that followed (1200-1230), anonymous writers of prose romances fixated upon the Last Supper’s Holy Chalice and made the Grail the subject of a quest by various knights of King Arthur’s court.

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November 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Here is a brief history of guest rights in Medieval England, including how they came into being and how they protected travellers. Read more ‘‰ https://lttr.ai/AkgoR #history
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Let’s remember the casualties and the mistakes, but equally let’s understand that the Gallipoli campaign did have a vital strategic purpose, even if its design and execution were fatally flawed.

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November 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Captain Cook’s 1770 chart of Botany Bay transformed a little-known coastline into a focal point of British imperial planning.

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November 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
1. Which Roman Emperor oversaw the destruction of the independent Jewish state in Judaea in 135CE?

History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.291
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https://historyguild.org/weekly-history-quiz-no-291/
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October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The theory behind Perkins’ tractors had already been debunked: the Connecticut Medical Society decried the principle as having been “gleaned up from the miserable remains of animal magnetism.”

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October 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies has supposed that the origins of knapping stone tools by our ancestors – that is, chipping away flakes from a stone to make a tool – were linked to the emergence of the genus Homo.

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October 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM