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1. Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost (www.historytoday.com)
   293 points by prismatic over 3 years | 246 comments
2. What did British officers think of the American civil war as it was happening? (www.historytoday.com)
   229 points by samclemens over 4 years | 258 comments
3. What do historians lose with the decline of local news? (www.historytoday.com)
   225 points by hhs over 3 years | 162 comments
4. How French was medieval England? (www.historytoday.com)
   180 points by drdee over 2 years | 225 comments
5. The Invention of Chinese (www.historytoday.com)
   173 points by Thevet almost 5 years | 165 comments
6. What was the impact of Julius Caesar’s murder? (www.historytoday.com)
   161 points by diodorus over 3 years | 157 comments
7. Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza (www.historytoday.com)
   152 points by diodorus over 4 years | 84 comments
8. Ancient Rome's failed building projects (www.historytoday.com)
   132 points by diodorus over 2 years | 105 comments
9. Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari (www.historytoday.com)
   108 points by tintinnabula about 3 years | 86 comments
10. ‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay review (www.historytoday.com)
    106 points by prismatic about 3 years | 117 comments
11. William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun (www.historytoday.com)
    101 points by lermontov over 2 years | 58 comments
12. Jaipur’s Last Stand (www.historytoday.com)
    100 points by lermontov about 5 years | 63 comments
13. No Army? No Problem: Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece (www.historytoday.com)
    99 points by diodorus over 4 years | 131 comments
14. The mild anarchy of piles of second-hand books (www.historytoday.com)
    94 points by apollinaire about 5 years | 69 comments
15. Roman Women and the Oppian Law (www.historytoday.com)
    88 points by diodorus over 2 years | 93 comments
16. The term ‘Viking’ as it is commonly used is misleading (www.historytoday.com)
    87 points by samizdis over 4 years | 100 comments
17. How did Christianity change the Roman Empire? (www.historytoday.com)
    86 points by diodorus almost 3 years | 107 comments
18. How did the Victorians become a reference point for joyless prudery? (www.historytoday.com)
    85 points by apollinaire over 4 years | 52 comments
19. What do we get wrong about the Byzantine Empire? (www.historytoday.com)
    85 points by benbreen over 2 years | 101 comments
20. Homer and His Iliad (www.historytoday.com)
    84 points by diodorus about 3 years | 30 comments
21. Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation (www.historytoday.com)
    78 points by lermontov almost 3 years | 67 comments
22. Was German unification inevitable? (www.historytoday.com)
    73 points by samclemens over 5 years | 134 comments
23. Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England (www.historytoday.com)
    73 points by pepys over 2 years | 49 comments
24. Victorian romantic rituals and charms (www.historytoday.com)
    72 points by diodorus almost 3 years | 9 comments
25. Babylon's Mystery Goddess (www.historytoday.com)
    73 points by diodorus over 2 years | 15 comments
26. The Anglo-Saxon Classroom (www.historytoday.com)
    71 points by Thevet about 5 years | 7 comments
27. Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but not without costs (www.historytoday.com)
    71 points by Thevet about 4 years | 103 comments
28. Is history written by the winners? (www.historytoday.com)
    70 points by benbreen over 3 years | 97 comments
29. The Politics of Wine in 18th-century England (www.historytoday.com)
    69 points by pepys almost 5 years | 16 comments
30. The Elusive Byzantine Empire (2019) (www.historytoday.com)
    69 points by diodorus over 2 years | 33 comments
31. The 50 Years That Made America (www.historytoday.com)
    67 points by samclemens almost 3 years | 79 comments
32. Bismarck’s War (www.historytoday.com)
    66 points by benbreen about 3 years | 109 comments
33. The First Soviet in Ireland (www.historytoday.com)
    65 points by pepys about 5 years | 44 comments
34. The Birth and Death of the Office (www.historytoday.com)
    64 points by Caiero over 4 years | 122 comments
35. The Gunpowder Plot (www.historytoday.com)
    64 points by datelligence almost 5 years | 58 comments
36. How Important Was the Battle of Lepanto? (www.historytoday.com)
    64 points by Vigier almost 5 years | 33 comments
37. Are ‘Dark Ages’ Inevitable? (www.historytoday.com)
    62 points by diodorus almost 4 years | 85 comments
38. Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds (2020) (www.historytoday.com)
    62 points by diodorus about 4 years | 61 comments
39. When Nostalgia Was Deadly (www.historytoday.com)
    62 points by Petiver over 2 years | 34 comments
40. The Spanish Witches of Cartagena (www.historytoday.com)
    60 points by Thevet over 5 years | 7 comments
41. Caravaggio Lost at Sea (2022) (www.historytoday.com)
    60 points by prismatic over 3 years | 11 comments
42. The rise of air conditioning (2018) (www.historytoday.com)
    60 points by samizdis about 4 years | 153 comments
43. Original Pirate Material (www.historytoday.com)
    60 points by tintinnabula over 2 years | 26 comments
44. The Mighty Fallen: Argentina and the Great Depression (www.historytoday.com)
    59 points by Thevet about 5 years | 95 comments
45. Weighing Up Galileo's Evidence (www.historytoday.com)
    history of sciencegalileo's telescopescientific inquiry
    77 points by Hooke about 2 years | 40 comments
46. The Dendera Dating Controversy (www.historytoday.com)
    56 points by samizdis about 3 years | 41 comments
47. The Central Problem: the world of Late Antiquity from its Persian centre (2021) (www.historytoday.com)
    55 points by diodorus over 4 years | 31 comments
48. The Death of a Mnemonist (www.historytoday.com)
    54 points by lermontov over 2 years | 17 comments
49. The end of Britain's weeks-long general elections (www.historytoday.com)
    54 points by pepys over 2 years | 81 comments
50. The dog cull of 1760 divided London (www.historytoday.com)
    53 points by pepys over 3 years | 62 comments
51. Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death (www.historytoday.com)
    52 points by pepys almost 3 years | 85 comments
52. Four historians tell us a ghost story (www.historytoday.com)
    52 points by samclemens almost 3 years | 3 comments
53. The Lost Script of Rapa Nui (www.historytoday.com)
    52 points by drdee about 3 years | 27 comments
54. Hollywood’s Cold War Dissidents in Ireland (www.historytoday.com)
    52 points by prismatic about 3 years | 43 comments
55. The lost script of Rapa Nui (www.historytoday.com)
    52 points by pseudolus about 3 years | 2 comments
56. The Strange Afterlife of Pontius Pilate (2016) (www.historytoday.com)
    51 points by diodorus over 4 years | 74 comments
57. Violent Ends: Early modern methods of execution (www.historytoday.com)
    50 points by drdee almost 4 years | 60 comments