historian
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A productive historian and polemical journalist, Hobsbawm rarely used archival research, but he knew European history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The findings are published today by Yale University Press in a new book titled 'Harold: Warrior King', written by UEA historian Prof Tom Licence.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Hassan Perez, a historian, former student leader and close collaborator of Castro, acknowledged that the centenary was arriving under "the most complex conditions that could have been imagined."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The red and white Victorian farmhouse had belonged to their friend, the late Steve Baker, who served as the city’s longtime historian and had packed the property with thousands of antique relics over his lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It seems likely,” decided Calloway, the Dartmouth historian.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Researchers believe historic parchment represents a largely unexplored source of information that could connect genetics with questions traditionally studied by historians, archaeologists, and other scholars.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In fact, historians do not really know how it was pronounced, he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The striking features of Sanxingdui’s humanoid figures—so “un-Chinese” in their appearance—have prompted a wholesale rethinking of what historians thought they knew about the origins of Chinese civilization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Even here, though, historians have noted that the Soviet Union’s near-simultaneous invasion of Manchuria—which dispelled Japan’s illusion that Moscow might stay neutral in the war—also had an impact on the emperor’s calculations.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Here, the historians were acknowledging, they were under a particular obligation to study the history of science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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