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The History Today Quiz: September 2016

By History Today

The Good Duchess

By Jane Dismore

'A New Map of the East India Isles', from Cary's New Universal Atlas (1801), by John Cary

Shadow on the South China Sea

By Bill Hayton

Into battle: an Amazon attacks a Greek warrior, French, c.1808

A Case of Double Standards

By Suzannah Lipscomb

Obituary: Jonathan Riley-Smith

By Jonathan Phillips

Map of the transatlantic cable

Putting a girdle ‘round the globe

By Frank Trentmann

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Effigy of Robert Curthose in Gloucester Cathedral.

Chronicles of the Conquered

By Courtnay Konshuh and Ryan Lavelle

Sappho and her Brothers

By David Gribble

The Map: Tenochtitlan, 1524

By Kate Wiles

Penn's Plan for a United Europe

By Peter Schröder

Valiant Losers

By Katherine Weikert

Redeemed: William the Conqueror riding with his soldiers, English, c.14th century.

William the Conqueror Reassessed

By Marc Morris

From The Archive

Traditional cartographical representative of the Empire as a patchwork, in contrast to other, supposedly unified, European states

The Holy Roman Empire

By Peter H. Wilson

Bridge over the Saale between Hirschberg, Thuringia and Rudolphstein, Upper Franconia

The Autobahn Myth

By Uwe Oster

Campaigners at a polling station in Berlin

Who Voted for the Nazis?

By Dick Geary

Welcome

Sebastian Munster's map, published in 1540, the first to show America as a continent.
So, Who Did Discover America?
Funeral pyramids and temples from the Kingdom of Kush dating from 800 BC to AD 350 at Meroe, Sudan
Desert Legions: The Romans in Africa
British ammunition wagons move up to the front alongside the Ypres-Menin road, September 1917. Getty Images/Popperfoto
The Man Who Predicted the Great War
The Hitler Myth
Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death or Danse Macabre, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.
The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever
The Holy Roman Empire