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Public Domain." typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-teaser-list" /> </a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-8"> <h4> <a href="/archive/months-past/indias-kuka-revolt-ends-death" rel="bookmark"><span property="schema:name" class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">India’s Kuka Revolt Ends in Death</span> </a> </h4> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>On 17 January 1872, 49 Namdhari Sikhs – dubbed ‘Kukas’ by the British – were executed by cannon, supposedly for spreading insurrection.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article about="/archive/great-debates/maria-graham-and-valparaiso-earthquake" typeof="schema:Article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-teaser-list-no-section"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-4"> <a href="/archive/great-debates/maria-graham-and-valparaiso-earthquake" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list/public/2024-03/mariacallcott_earthquake_history_today_0.jpg?itok=tvVHS2cd" width="440" height="340" alt="Lady Maria Callcott, author and traveller, painted by her second husband Augustus Wall Callcott, c.1830. 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Public Domain." typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-teaser-list" /> </a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-8"> <h4> <a href="/archive/great-debates/maria-graham-and-valparaiso-earthquake" rel="bookmark"><span property="schema:name" class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Maria Graham and the Valparaíso Earthquake</span> </a> </h4> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>An earthquake in Chile and the observations of eye-witness Maria Graham caused open hostility among 19th-century geologists.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article about="/archive/history-matters/queen-victorias-stalker" typeof="schema:Article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-teaser-list-no-section"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-4"> <a href="/archive/history-matters/queen-victorias-stalker" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list/public/2024-03/queen_victoria_stalker_jonathan_childe_history_today_0_0.jpg?itok=SS-oZ3rh" width="440" height="340" alt="Young Queen Victoria, 1838 by Thomas Sully. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public Domain." typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-teaser-list" /> </a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-8"> <h4> <a href="/archive/history-matters/queen-victorias-stalker" rel="bookmark"><span property="schema:name" class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Queen Victoria’s Stalker</span> </a> </h4> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div style="text-align:left;"> <p>Was the army captain in love with Queen Victoria a dangerous obsessive or an innocent man? His NSFW letters shocked but so did his treatment.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article about="/archive/history-matters/true-knights-templar" typeof="schema:Article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-teaser-list-no-section"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-4"> <a href="/archive/history-matters/true-knights-templar" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list/public/2024-03/knights_templar_truth_history_today_0_0.jpg?itok=k5Gj44GW" width="440" height="340" alt="Two Templar Knights on one horse, symbol of the Knights Templar, illustration from Matthew Paris' 'Historia Anglorum', 1250-54. © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images." typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-teaser-list" /> </a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-8"> <h4> <a href="/archive/history-matters/true-knights-templar" rel="bookmark"><span property="schema:name" class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The True Knights Templar</span> </a> </h4> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Knights Templar’s modern reputation is a myth that disguises their role as state-builders and diplomats.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article about="/archive/review/daughter-dragon-yunte-huang-review" typeof="schema:Article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-teaser-list-no-section"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-4"> <a href="/archive/review/daughter-dragon-yunte-huang-review" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list/public/2024-03/anne_may_wong_daughter_of_the_dragon_history_today_0.jpg?itok=gpOiLwVa" width="440" height="340" alt="Anna May Wong, 1932. 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Wellcome Collection." typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-teaser-list" /> </a> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-8"> <h4> <a href="/archive/history-matters/londons-pig-faced-urban-legend" rel="bookmark"><span property="schema:name" class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">London’s Pig-Faced Urban Legend</span> </a> </h4> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Early modern fairy tale or urban legend? Who was London’s pig-faced lady and where did she come from?</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article about="/archive/review/bystander-society-mary-fulbrook-review" typeof="schema:Article" class="node node--type-article node--view-mode-teaser-list-no-section"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-m-4"> <a href="/archive/review/bystander-society-mary-fulbrook-review" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_list/public/2024-03/nazi_germany_bystandards_holocaust_history_today_0.jpg?itok=EJxcBZBG" width="440" height="340" alt="A crowd of Germans outside of a Jewish-owned department store in Berlin on the first day of the Nazi boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, 1 April 1933. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives. 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