📖 Did you know that our book 'The Forsaken 14th Century: A Global History' is now available in the following formats: 

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✍🏽 Read some fascinating excerpts from our talented Ink of Ages winners and see why they won! 🏆 

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🎂 It's our 16th Birthday!

We want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support over the years. It means more than you know and is the reason why we're still going strong today! 

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Women in the Russian Revolution Women actively participated in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the two revolutions of 1917, which deposed the tsar and established a Bolshevik government. Women worked both within the Bolsheviks...

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🏺 A selection of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE) blue-and-white porcelain. From Chenghua reign, 1465-1487 CE. (British Museum, London). 

📷 Photo ©️ by The British Museum.

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Impressionism Impressionism was an art movement which began in Paris in the last quarter of the 19th century. The impressionists tried to capture the momentary effects of light on colours and forms, often painting...

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RMS Lusitania RMS Lusitania was a British transatlantic liner infamously sunk by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 during the First World War (1914-18). Struck off the coast of southern Ireland, the ship sank in less...

Struck off the coast of southern Ireland, the ship sank in less than 20 minutes, and nearly 1,200 passengers lost their lives.

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Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling In 1508 CE the Pope commissioned the celebrated Florentine sculptor and painter Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) to paint scenes on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. The walls of the chapel had...

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Golden Fleece The golden fleece is the fleece of a flying, winged ram named Crius Chrysomallos, or 'Golden-fleeced Ram', in Greek mythology. It is best known from the story of Jason and the Argonauts, who were sent...

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The Violent and Mysterious Death of Christopher Marlowe On the evening of 30 May 1593, the sounds of a heated argument could be heard emanating from a boarding house in Deptford, a district of London on the south bank of the River Thames. Two of the boarders...

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1453: The Fall of Constantinople The city of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) was founded by Roman emperor Constantine I in 324 CE and it acted as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire as it has later become...

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👑 On this day in 1703: Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.

🖼️ Paintings by Maria Giovanna Clementi and Alexandre Benois. 

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Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses (1455-1487) was a dynastic conflict between the English nobility and monarchy which led to four decades of intermittent battles, executions, and murder plots. The English elite...

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Movement of This map shows the phenomena of the movement of tea, and what it's called around the globe. Around the world, there are mainly 2 root words for tea, 'te' and 'cha', and both of these come from China...

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The Battle of Dun Nectain The Battle of Dun Nechtain (also known as The Battle of Dunnichen, The Battle of Nechtanemere, Lin Garan, and The Battle of Nechtan) was a pivotal engagement between the Northumbrians under their king...

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🐝 Gold bees of King Childeric I (r. c. 458-481). The head and thorax are gold, the wings are encrusted with garnets. On the reverse, a clip. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. 📷 Photo by Bibliothèque nationale de France. 

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Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn (c. 1501-1536) was the second wife of Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547). Anne, sometimes known as 'Anne of a Thousand Days' in reference to her short reign as queen, was accused of adultery...

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🖥️ On this day in 1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

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🎨 On this day in 1510: Sandro Botticelli dies. 

🖼️ Paintings: The Birth of Venus (1480s), Primavera (Spring) (c. 1482), and  Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1490-1492). 

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Paper in Ancient China The widespread use of paper and printing were features of ancient China which distinguished it from other ancient cultures. Traditionally, paper was invented in the early 2nd century CE, but there is...

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📜 History Fact of the Day: The ancient Near East was home to the oldest medical literature on performing abortions and also had the first known laws against abortion. 

📷 Photo ©️ by Osama S.M. Amin.

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💃🏽🕺🏽Happy International Dance Day!

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📷 Photos by The Trustees of the British Museum and The Cleveland Museum of Art. 

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🎂 Happy Birthday, Rome! 

🎉 On this day in 753 BCE: Romulus founds Rome. 

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Assyria Assyria was the region located in the ancient Near East which, under the Neo-Assyrian Empire, reached from Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and down through Egypt. The...

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Read the full article on martyrs by Rebecca Denova here: https://whe.to/ci/2-2682-en/ 

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