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AI generated image of a ship in a storm (Stream Skins / Adobe Stock) — 08 Dec 2023

The Curse Of The 1715-Spanish Plate Fleet: Run Aground On The Coast Of Treasure

By jim willis

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On July 24, 1715, a convoy of 11 Spanish ships and one French merchantman set sail from Havana, Cuba to Spain. It was called a “Plate Fleet” because their cargo consisted of valuable treasure looted from the so-called “New World”. Plata is...
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AI generated image of a ship in a storm (Stream Skins / Adobe Stock) — 08 Dec 2023

The Curse Of The 1715-Spanish Plate Fleet: Run Aground On The Coast Of Treasure

By jim willis

History & Tradition

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On July 24, 1715, a convoy of 11 Spanish ships and one French merchantman set sail from Havana, Cuba to Spain. It was called a “Plate Fleet” because their cargo consisted of valuable treasure looted from the so-called “New World”. Plata is...
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Marie de France from an illuminated manuscript (Public Domain) — 06 Dec 2023

Anglo Saxon Women’s Wills: Freeing The Enslaved As Testimony Of Piety

By Viki Holton

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Women’s wills which so miraculously have survived from late Anglo-Saxon times deliver some surprising bequests such as the enslaved, which is shocking, but they mirror the societal values which existed at that time. Owning enslaved people might...
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Marie de France from an illuminated manuscript (Public Domain) — 06 Dec 2023

Anglo Saxon Women’s Wills: Freeing The Enslaved As Testimony Of Piety

By Viki Holton

History & Tradition

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Women’s wills which so miraculously have survived from late Anglo-Saxon times deliver some surprising bequests such as the enslaved, which is shocking, but they mirror the societal values which existed at that time. Owning enslaved people might...
Read More

The Beggars of Burgos by Gustave Dore (1875) (Public Domain) — 29 Nov 2023

How The Other 99 Percent Lived In The Ancient World

By Robert Garland

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The Victorian essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle wrote, “No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Carlyle died half a century before women in England, Scotland and Wales received the vote, in...
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The Beggars of Burgos by Gustave Dore (1875) (Public Domain) — 29 Nov 2023

How The Other 99 Percent Lived In The Ancient World

By Robert Garland

History & Tradition

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The Victorian essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle wrote, “No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Carlyle died half a century before women in England, Scotland and Wales received the vote, in...
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The Fall Of The Western Roman Empire - A Military Perspective (405-455 AD) — 27 Nov 2023

The Fall Of The Western Roman Empire - A Military Perspective (405-455 AD)

By Mario Bartolini

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In 376 AD, an alarming number of Visigoths erupted on the Danube frontier and overflowed into the northern Roman provinces of the Balkans. The recent arrival of a new invader in Eastern Europe, originating from the steppes of Central Asia, was at...
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The Fall Of The Western Roman Empire - A Military Perspective (405-455 AD) — 27 Nov 2023

The Fall Of The Western Roman Empire - A Military Perspective (405-455 AD)

By Mario Bartolini

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In 376 AD, an alarming number of Visigoths erupted on the Danube frontier and overflowed into the northern Roman provinces of the Balkans. The recent arrival of a new invader in Eastern Europe, originating from the steppes of Central Asia, was at...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry Plantagenet and their children in a mural found the chapel of Saint Radegund in Chinon, France. (Chinpat / CC BY-SA) — 22 Nov 2023

Formidable Medieval Queens Triumphing Kings And Popes

By Teresa Cole

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In January 1077 a king came to the mountain fortress of Canossa in northern Italy to beg forgiveness from a Pope. In September 1141 two rival armies surrounded Winchester in southern England as besiegers became besieged. In January 1194 a ransom...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry Plantagenet and their children in a mural found the chapel of Saint Radegund in Chinon, France. (Chinpat / CC BY-SA) — 22 Nov 2023

Formidable Medieval Queens Triumphing Kings And Popes

By Teresa Cole

History & Tradition

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In January 1077 a king came to the mountain fortress of Canossa in northern Italy to beg forgiveness from a Pope. In September 1141 two rival armies surrounded Winchester in southern England as besiegers became besieged. In January 1194 a ransom...
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