History Today Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe HallHistory TodayThe publishers of Radclyffe Hall’s ‘The Well of Loneliness’ were prosecuted for obscenity #OnThisDay in 1928. Published in July, the book had been well reviewed, with little, if any, shock expressed. https://t.co/vmp7msMd1q
Paperback, 2014
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Dracula: 1897
Bram StokerHistory TodayIn Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), locus classicus of the modern vampire, vampires and bats were inextricably linked. But where did this come from? How did the vampire get his (or her) bat? https://t.co/QmR65zsSwD
Hardcover, 2020
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The Rite of Spring
Igor StravinskyHistory TodayThe orchestra – the largest Stravinsky would ever write for – couldn’t be heard over the uproar. It should have been a triumph. The premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring took place #OnThisDay in 1913. https://t.co/b0eH96sNK4
Paperback, 2000
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: (illustrated edition)
Harriet Beecher StoweHistory TodayHarriet Beecher Stowe was born #OnThisDay in 1811. Her novel ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly’ became a sensation, selling 300,000 copies in 1852 alone. It reinforced abolitionist feeling in the North in the years leading up to the Civil War. https://t.co/rwB7d5xQgO
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
Harriet StoweHistory TodayHarriet Beecher Stowe was born #OnThisDay in 1811. Her novel ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly’ became a sensation, selling 300,000 copies in 1852 alone. It reinforced abolitionist feeling in the North in the years leading up to the Civil War. https://t.co/rwB7d5xQgO
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Christ: The Way, The Truth, and The Life
John BrownHistory TodayThe abolitionist John Brown was born #OnThisDay in 1800. His deeply religious parents believed the US was God's vehicle for the return of Christ to the earth, but that the Second Coming was being prevented by the abominable evil of slavery. https://t.co/Rxnuiy5FMv
Hardcover, 2007
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Life After Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career
Patricia FaraHistory TodayDon’t miss our regular columnist Patricia Fara speaking @cvhistoryfest on 20 June. ‘Life after Gravity’: How Isaac Newton swapped the quiet cloisters of Cambridge’s all-male world for fashionable London society. Book tickets online: https://t.co/pAzO1OdPiY
Hardcover, 2021
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The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
Christopher GoschaHistory TodayChristopher Goscha’s ‘The Road to Dien Bien Phu’ explores the means, tactics and strategies employed by Vietnamese communist authorities under Ho Chi Minh during the First Indochina War. Review from the September issue: https://t.co/lL9bwEbAMZ
Hardcover, 2022
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Photographs and the Practice of History: A Short Primer
Elizabeth EdwardsHistory Today‘Elizabeth Edwards’ ‘Photographs and the Practice of History’ asks a crucial question: what is it to practise history in a photographic age?’ @photograph_tut chooses her books of the year: https://t.co/eTk7YIwwmG
Hardcover, 2022
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Poetics
AristotleHistory TodayBy the early 14th century there were plenty of treatises that touched on the question of laughter. But none was more tantalising, or elusive, than Aristotle’s lost ‘Poetics’: https://t.co/f8d6FTjtIR
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