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Bretrick
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When was your Country's first bank robbery?

13 September 1828 was the day Sydney’s, and Australia’s, first bank robbery took place when the Bank of Australia strongroom was breached...
/history
3 46 6
2025-12-19 13:36:27 UTC
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Geli
Science & Environment: Chat / Discussions

Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen

Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen 4th November 1922.
/history/ancient-egypt
59 256 26
2025-11-25 12:50:57 UTC
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Geli
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Gunfight at the OK corral

October 26th 1881 at around 3pm Tombstone Arizona. Bothers Virgil, Wyatt, & Morgan Earp. Togther with Wyatt’s close friend John Henr...
/films/history#cowboys
5 81 2
2025-10-27 23:48:51 UTC
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Dextrous63
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Black History Month

Hope this is in the right place. As it is currently black history month, I thought that for a change, I’d actually read up on matters an...
/history/celebration#race
20 338 7
2025-12-19 21:52:46 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

Standing on Higher Ground; The History of the Papacy

So, I hear you all moan, he’s lost it at last. After vampires, serial killers, histories of this country and that country, animation and ...
/religion/history#pope
0 219 8
2025-06-04 18:39:40 UTC
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Trollheart
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I am Woman Hear Me Roar: The Good, the Bad and the Forgotten Women in History

Yes, in a perfect world there would be little or no distinction between the sexes, certainly no bias on one side or the other, but sadly ...
/history/women/famous
16 441 22
2025-07-09 21:27:54 UTC
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Trollheart
TV & Film: Chat / Discussions

For the Shield or for the Cash? Trollheart investigates TV Crime Drama

For the Shield or for the Cash? Trollheart Investigates the History of Television Crime Drama Crime drama has been with us for a while ...
/tv/nostalgia/history/crime#cop-show
1 306 26
2025-06-04 15:13:37 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

Standing on Higher Ground; The History of the Papacy

So, I hear you all moan, he’s lost it at last. After vampires, serial killers, histories of this country and that country, animation and ...
/religion/history#pope
0 219 8
2025-06-04 18:39:40 UTC
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Geli
Science & Environment: Chat / Discussions

Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen

Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen 4th November 1922.
/history/ancient-egypt
59 256 26
2025-11-25 12:50:57 UTC
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Dextrous63
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Black History Month

Hope this is in the right place. As it is currently black history month, I thought that for a change, I’d actually read up on matters an...
/history/celebration#race
20 338 7
2025-12-19 21:52:46 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

Above the Clouds: Trollheart's Aviation Journal

I am, of course, a total nerd, as anyone knows, and while I never quite sunk to the level of being a trainspotter (freaks!) I was, for s...
/history#aviation#transport
0 181 11
2025-06-01 21:08:03 UTC
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Geli
Chat / Discussions

Gunfight at the OK corral

October 26th 1881 at around 3pm Tombstone Arizona. Bothers Virgil, Wyatt, & Morgan Earp. Togther with Wyatt’s close friend John Henr...
/films/history#cowboys
5 81 2
2025-10-27 23:48:51 UTC
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Bretrick
Chat / Discussions

When was your Country's first bank robbery?

13 September 1828 was the day Sydney’s, and Australia’s, first bank robbery took place when the Bank of Australia strongroom was breached...
/history
3 46 6
2025-12-19 13:36:27 UTC
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Furryanimal
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Britain in the Seventies

School and University for me.
/history
50 1148 34
2023-11-26 03:20:58 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

Fast Horse Outta Town: Trollheart Explores the Legend of the American West

Cowboys. The word conjures up so many images, from playing cowboys and indians as kids, to western movies, cowboy play suits, and cowboy-...
/history#cowboys#america#wild-west
30 937 39
2025-06-01 15:54:25 UTC
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Furryanimal
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Crazy Seventies Items

/history
26 862 17
2023-11-03 22:15:58 UTC
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Chilliboot
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

Historical mapping

I thought I might share this link. It’s a terrific resource that allows you to delve into the past and check out the loca history of your...
/history
44 705 29
2024-04-28 20:31:03 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

A Soul Full of Darkness: The Horrifying, Twisted History of the Serial Killer

What makes someone kill? I’ll be damned if I know, and in this journal this is something we will not be investigating. I’m no psychiatris...
/history#serial-killers
0 687 6
2025-06-03 01:05:24 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

The Men Who Drew the Map of the World: Trollheart's History of World Exploration

Note before I begin: when I started this some years ago I was somewhat ignorant that there were also women explorers, given the times we’...
/travel/history#exploration#adventure
0 612 5
2025-06-03 03:59:09 UTC
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Bretrick
Chat / Discussions

How well do you know your country's history?

Very condensed History of Australia in 100 words Aborigines arrive 60,000 years ago, had place to themselves until 1770, Captain Cook la...
/history
24 739 24
2023-07-04 12:37:26 UTC
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Furryanimal
Chat / Discussions

A Long Lost Huddersfield Waterway

/history
28 639 20
2023-06-04 10:33:24 UTC
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Trollheart
Music: Chat / Discussions

The Shoulders of Giants: Trollheart's History of Classical Music

Classical music tends to get a bad rap, especially among the younger generations often, but the truth is that without it our music today ...
/history/classical-music#composers
1 575 5
2023-02-18 10:11:09 UTC
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Furryanimal
Science & Environment: Chat / Discussions

The Lost Rivers of Manchester-Cornbrook

Part one Part Two Part three coming soon…and a fourth!
/history
2 552 2
2023-08-09 15:45:21 UTC
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Furryanimal
Chat / Discussions

An Ancient Tradition

Snapshot answer It’s a bale of straw dangling from London’s Millennium Bridge, part of an ancient tradition to warn river traffic that r...
/history
17 552 5
2023-10-20 01:39:19 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

Flames Across the World: Trollheart's Comprehensive History of World War II

Introduction: Don’t mention the war! I’m sure many of those who see this are thinking, what? Another account of the Second World War? Wh...
/history#world-war-2
6 644 19
2025-06-04 14:46:19 UTC
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Furryanimal
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New King Discovered

A new ancient British king has been discovered after an amateur detectorist found a coin bearing his name in a field in Hampshire. Dating...
/history
6 542 0
2023-10-19 13:10:23 UTC
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Furryanimal
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19th Century Occupations

Courtesy of the census It wasn’t until 1841 that a person’s occupation had to be entered on the UK Census—before then, it was simply an ...
/history
16 495 12
2024-06-20 08:39:33 UTC
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Furryanimal
Chat / Discussions

The Bradford Peppermint Incident 1856

/history
2 500 1
2023-10-31 06:46:51 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

Funtasmagoria: The Complete, Moving History of Animation

A few years ago, I tried to get something going on the music forum I frequented which I called “Cartoon Survivor”. Basically, this was to...
#cartoons/history#animation#disney#warnerbros
5 1058 21
2023-04-04 22:04:42 UTC
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Bruce
TV & Film: Chat / Discussions

Stuff the British Stole

I have just been watching the first episode of “Stuff the British Stole”, it is based on a podcast of the same name (I have bookmarked it...
/history/tv-show
46 1771 75
2022-12-15 09:37:49 UTC
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butterscotch
Music: Chat / Discussions

The story behind the song/song lyrics

Continuing the discussion from Songs that make you cry: When I saw the lyrics of Ebony Eyes, I had to look up the history to see if this...
/history/songs#lyrics
4 1242 17
2023-01-24 11:01:04 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

This Sceptred Isle: Trollheart's History of England

I suppose it only seems fair really, if I’m going to badmouth the English in my History of Ireland journal, to give them a chance to talk...
/history#england#great-britain
39 1406 51
2025-06-05 21:08:57 UTC
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DianneWoollie
Books: Chat / Discussions

Four Green Fields: Trollheart’s History of Ireland

A acquaintance of mine writes about History mainly. Anyone who wants to read would be welcomed by him. He has dedicated most of his life...
/journals/history
51 1379 81
2023-02-09 04:16:17 UTC
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Furryanimal
Chat / Discussions

If you could have a drink with anyone from history, who would it be and why?

:clinking_glasses: Anyone at all
/history
101 1172 55
2022-09-05 03:54:25 UTC
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Trollheart
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

21st Century Plague: The Rise and Fall (?) of a Global Pandemic

[i]Opening note: When I wrote this in 2022 things looked bad, and there wasn’t a whole of hope for the future. Now, I see advertisements ...
/covid-19/history
28 1069 40
2023-04-05 15:12:40 UTC
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butterscotch
Health & Diet: Chat / Discussions

Causes of death in London - 1632

The young and the old had a high proportion of deaths. Suicide looked low. Tuberculosis (consumption) was high at the time. Lots of pe...
/history/london#deaths
30 947 25
2021-11-18 03:33:15 UTC
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Eliza
TV & Film: Chat / Discussions

A House Through Time With David Olusoga

A new series starts tonight on BBC 2 at 9pm. Ive enjoyed watching all of these Series this is series 4. Looking into the people who hav...
/history/tv-series
6 552 5
2021-09-08 16:26:57 UTC
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Furryanimal
Chat / Discussions

A Walk around Whitechapel

/history
4 503 4
2023-01-12 10:57:37 UTC
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bakerman
Books: Chat / Discussions

Olde English history - Ken Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth”

For anyone interested in history of England, at the time of Arch-Bishop Thomas Beckett, I strong recommend Ken Follett’s “Pillars of the...
/books/history
1 442 3
2017-10-17 07:50:30 UTC
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Muddy
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King Billy - Australia Day

On Australia Day it has to be remembered that it was a terrible day for the indigenous peoples . King Billy was the first aboriginal per...
/chat/history
2 432 0
2022-01-26 16:22:08 UTC
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DianneWoollie
Hobbies & Pastimes: Chat / Discussions

History via Videos

/videos/history
1 404 2
2021-08-19 08:40:18 UTC
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Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen

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Gunfight at the OK corral

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2025-10-27 23:48:51 UTC

I am Woman Hear Me Roar: The Good, the Bad and the Forgotten Women in History

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