The start of #PremiumSavingsBonds in 1956 flew in the face of Britain’s avowed values. Why did government policy change?

✍️ Hiroki Shin

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Christianity became Rome’s state religion #OnThisDay in 392.

The Roman Empire had two main populations: gods and humans. By its end, there was only one god left. How, and why, did he reign supreme?

✍️ Paul Fredriksen

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In the decades before the #FirstWorldWar, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people.

✍️ Patrice M. Dabrowski

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The introduction of Premium Savings Bonds in 1956 flew in the face of Britain’s avowed values. Why did government policy change?

✍️ Hiroki Shin

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The #OctoberRevolution began #OnThisDay in 1917.

The coup inspired a generation of #Bolshevik youth to embrace new ways of socialist living in the commune.

✍️ Andy Willimott

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Cigarettes were a threat to both health and communism, but despite the regime’s best efforts, they flourished in the USSR

✍️ Trish Starks

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Relations between #Iran and Britain have often been strained.

Yet the relationship is an old one, marked by mutual admiration.

✍️ Ali Ansari

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70 years ago Hungarians rose up against their #Soviet-facing government, but the meaning of the 1956 #revolution is still unclear.

✍️ Thomas Lorman

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The #OctoberRevolution began #OnThisDay in 1917.

The coup inspired a generation of #Bolshevik youth to embrace new ideals of socialist living in the commune.

✍️ Andy Willimott

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Cigarettes were a threat to both health and communism, but despite the regime’s best efforts, they flourished in the #USSR.

✍️ Trish Starks

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Relations between #Iran and Britain have often been strained. Yet the relationship is an old one, marked by mutual admiration.

✍️ Ali Ansari

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70 years ago Hungarians rose up against their #Soviet-facing government, but the meaning of the 1956 revolution is still unclear.

✍️ Thomas Lorman

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The #OctoberRevolution began #OnThisDay in 1917.

The coup inspired a generation of Bolshevik youth to embrace new ideals of socialist living in the commune.

✍️ Andy Willimott

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Cigarettes were a threat to both health and #communism, but despite the regime’s best efforts, they flourished in the #USSR

✍️ Trish Starks

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Relations between Iran and Britain have often been strained. Yet the relationship is an old one, marked by mutual admiration.

✍️ Ali Ansari

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70 years ago Hungarians rose up against their Soviet-facing government, but the meaning of the 1956 revolution is still unclear.

✍️ Thomas Lorman

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The #PolishRepublic was declared #OnThisDay in 1918

In the decades before the #FirstWorldWar, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people.

✍️ Patrice M. Dabrowski

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The discovery of #Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 reopened arguments about the presumed race of the #ancientEgyptians.

Were they Black, and why did it matter?

✍️ Christina Riggs

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In the 17th century a French writer claimed to have discovered a vast #indigenous realm in the Appalachian Mountains of the American southeast. Could it be true?

✍️ Owen Stanwood

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The #19thcentury saw the birth – and extraordinary spread – of #investigativejournalism.

What sparked this incognito innovation?

✍️ Stephen Donovan and Matthew Rubery

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