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🔴 🇺🇸 **Musket balls from first major battle of revolutionary war found near Boston**

"_The latest evidence of that firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man national historical park in Concord. Early analysis of the balls – gray with sizes ranging from a pea to a marble – indicates colonial militia members fired them at British forces on 19 April 1775._"

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 3: Populate or Perish**

"_The government adopts the slogan "populate or perish" after World War II and immigration changes the face of Australia. This influx of labor and the diversification of the economy delivers increasing prosperity._"

length: forty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=d2hNF91Og5

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 2: Shifting Allegiances**

"_Sport and comedy offer some relief from the hunger and hopelessness of the Great Depression - at least until the war breaks out. Australia sends troops to Europe to fight beside Britain but when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the nation turns to America for protection and pulls troops out of the Middle East._"

length: forty seven minutes and forty five seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=aytnob10oT

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire**

"_Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. "Australia in Colour" is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color._"

length: forty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=aWLHMh8ov9

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🔴 📖 **Medicine in an Age of Revolution**

"_This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine._"

Elmer, Peter, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853, accessed 9 July 2024.

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🔴 **Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace**

"_Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce._"

Anthony Pagden; Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace. Daedalus 2005; 134 (2): 46–57. doi: doi.org/10.1162/00115260538873

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🔴 **Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West**

"_Drawing on recent research that stresses the heterogeneity of Viking war-bands—and their early involvement in Francia and England—it proposes a ‘southern route’ through which Viking influence flowed towards the North Atlantic._"

Griffiths, D. (2019) ‘Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West’, Antiquity, 93(368), pp. 468–477. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.199.

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🔴 **Great Britain and the Confederacy**

"_This essay describes the efforts of the Confederate States of America to convince Great Britain to support its secession from the United States. Although the South's leaders were confident that Britain's need for cotton would lead it to become an ally, numerous factors—including the British public's aversion to slavery—contributed to the country remaining neutral._"

Slinger M. (2023) Great Britain and the Confederacy. British Journal of American Legal Studies, Vol.12 (Issue 2), pp. 357-376. doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2023-002

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**Why Alexander the Great really was better than the average imperialist conqueror**

"_Kousser brings us into the story in time for the infamous burning of Persepolis, jewel of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Alexander’s consolidation of power, conquest of Asia Minor and founding of Alexandria were all behind him at this point. When he burned Persepolis, he had just returned from Egypt, where he had proclaimed himself the son of a god._"

latimes.com/opinion/story/2024

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**From willow bark to aspirin: The evolution of modern medicine, through the rise and fall of ancient and medieval empires**

"_There is a lot to learn from ancient medical treatises and scholars, not to only discover potential novel treatments, but also to learn the history of modern medicine, and appreciate the work that has been done thousands of years ago._"

oxsci.org/from-willow-bark-to-

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📚 **Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698**

"_Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire._"

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-7013

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **Revealed: How mass tourism helped England after the Black Death**

"_The new investigations into the management and economics of the medieval pilgrimage industry has revealed that each major pilgrimage centre (often cathedrals) would seek to market their ‘pilgrimage offer’ only around four times a year - so as to deliberately concentrate mass tourism in their specific town into a manageable series of very short seasons._

_This maximised efficiency and profit, while minimising mass tourism’s impact on normal ecclesiastical life._"

independent.co.uk/news/science

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**Archaeologists find site of epic clash between Spartacus and Roman army**

"_Archaeologists have uncovered a stone wall in an Italian forest that was used by the Roman army during an epic “clash” against slave revolt leader and gladiator Spartacus and his men._"

independent.co.uk/news/science

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**Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers**

"_These results demonstrate that the Neolithic plague was prevalent and potentially lethal. Together with the fact that these plague cases are found in one of the last populations with Neolithic Farmer ancestry observed in Scandinavia, we believe that plague could have been a contributing factor to the Neolithic decline._"

Seersholm, F.V., Sjögren, KG., Koelman, J. et al. Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-076

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**The Danelaw: The Scandinavian Influence on English Identity**

"_Perhaps it is a possibility that these English noblemen and clergymen and some portion of the common people felt a certain fear of these foreigners, not just because of the invading force that the Great Armies were comprised of, but because these men and women from across the sea were so different yet so similar and perhaps it was because of these similarities that these two cultures were able to form a cultural hybrid in the eastern half of England where even today we can still find faint traces of Scandinavian influence._"

scholarsarchive.library.albany

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**A Romano-Sarmatian soldier in circa 2nd c. AD Britain**

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

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**Diverting the Gulf Stream**

"_A brief look at a US senator's proposal to divert the Gulf Stream away from Europe._"

🎥 length: fifty three seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=J2li3AGjiE

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**Split Infinitives in Early Middle English**

"_The split infinitive is one of seven syntactic properties that English is said to share with Old Norse, and I will show that, on the basis of the area and date of its first occurrence, Norse origin is unlikely._"

van Gelderen, E. (2016). Split Infinitives in Early Middle English. Language Dynamics and Change 6, 1, 18-20, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00601 [Accessed 07 July 2024]

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**The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’**

"_....this study explores the comparative archaeologies and histories of slave markets in order to examine the potential form and function of these sites, and how they might have operated as part of the wider, interconnected Viking world._"

Raffield, B. (2019) ‘The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’’, Slavery & Abolition, 40(4), pp. 682–705. doi: doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2019..

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**Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province**

"_Here, we examine evidence for three different socioeconomic rates that are available from the archaeological record for Roman Britain. We find that all three measures show increasing returns to scale with settlement population, with a common elasticity that is consistent with the expectation from settlement scaling theory._"

Scott G. Ortman et al., Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk5517 (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk5517

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