BBC History Podcast:
George Goodwin describes the Anglo-Scottish battle of Flodden as the 500th anniversary approaches. Plus Gary Sheffield considers how First World War commanders coped with the peculiar challenges of that conflict.
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What is the American Historical Association reading this week?
Today’s What We’re Reading features the history of playgrounds, a roundtable on the usefulness of unpaid internships, biblioburros (?), a drunk history of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and much more!
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JACK THE RIPPER!!
Tomorrow, August 24th, tweets will begin from the perspective of characters in Whitechapel at the time of the murders, The History Press hopes to retrace events as they unfolded, and put the killings in context.
They will be tweeting from @WChapelRealTime
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How to Discuss a Book For History
A recent blog post discusses ways in which students of history can discuss books read in history class, especially if they were not interesting topics.
[How to Read for History: an earlier post]
