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The Friday Digest 22/08/14

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This week's update features conscientious objectors, deserted cities and 'bicycle face'.


Mons - Nimy (Deeds that thrill the Empire)


* Nimy, Mons and the first Victoria Crosses of the First World War.


L: The last photo. Maurice Dease ready for action.  M: Maurice Dease's Victoria Cross.  R: Private Godley VC, in captivity but comfortable for the moment


The First VCs: The Moving True Story of First World War Heroes Maurice Dease and Sidney Godley.


Thos W. Ward Ltd, Frog Island, Rainham Marshes. EPW006567   © English Heritage


* Nine remarkable images that reveal the impact of the First World War. 


A cutting from the Sunday Herald on 25th June 1916, reporting on a death sentence against conscientious objectors


* Britain's political prisoners: conscientious objectors during the First World War.

 

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* Two millennia have passed since the death of Emperor Augustus but debate rages as to whether we should remember him as a hero or a scoundrel. What do you think? 


Cover of Colonnade, staff magazine of the British Museum, Spring 1969 edition.

 

* In 1969 a British Museum curator wrote an article in Colonnade, the staff magazine, about what he thought the British Museum would be like in 2069 and the result is fantastic. 


The ghost town of Craco, Italy is situated in the south of the country and has been left completely uninhabited


* From a medieval village in Italy to an ancient underwater city in China: beautiful places that have been deserted and forgotten ...


Dutchman returns Holocaust medal to Israeli embassy over Gaza deaths


A Dutchman honoured by Israel for hiding a Jewish child during the Second World War has handed back his medal after six of his relatives were killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza.


Capsized Herald of Free Enterprise


A woman who lost her mother, sister and uncle in the Zeebrugge ferry disaster of 1987 has spoken publicly about her grief for the first time.


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* How well would modern troops fare against medieval knights?


License to Kill (1989) ShareGrid View Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum; Key West, Florida


* The ten greatest James Bond locations you can visit today


Hospitalfield House in Arbroath (c) Donald Macleod


More than £1.5 million in grants has been awarded to repair historic buildings across Scotland.


Police and striking miners at the Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham in 1984. Photograph: PA


* The BBC’s long struggle to present the facts without fear or favour.  


Showing geo-tagged photos around St. Paul's Cathedral and surroundings


Can social media help us better understand our relationship with historic buildings?  


This 1895 cyclist managed to avoid bicycle face. Hulton Archive/Getty Images


* The nineteenth-century health scare that told women to worry about 'bicycle face'.


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* Murder by numbers: a Poirot infographic.

 

Florence Nightingale 2

 

* The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project has made almost 1,900 letters handwritten or narrated by Florence Nightingale available to researchers through a single source.


Sticking out like a sore thumb? For more than 150 years, British soldiers marched into battle wearing their best parade square finery -- red coats adorned with bright coloured facings, white cross belts and rows of gleaming buttons. In those days, there was little need for camouflage -- muskets were notoriously inaccurate so infantry fought in the open, packed in tight formation, sometimes only a few yards apart. On a smokey battlefield colourful and conspicuous attire actually helped troops tell friend from foe. With the advent of long range rifles, rapid fire weapons and modern artillery in the late 19th century, keeping out of sight became the order of the day. Accordingly, the British army traded in its iconic crimson tunics for khaki battledress. Image from http://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/11/22/from-red-coats-to-disruptive-patterns-250-years-of-british-army-uniforms/


* From red coats to disruptive camo – 250 years of British Army uniforms.


Margaret Thatcher working as a chemist


* Thatcher and Hodgkin: How chemistry overcame politics.

 

Illustration by Tim O'Brien


* The strange tale of the North Pond Hermit.

 

Natasha Sheldon said: 'Leicester has a history full of executions, floods and strikes'  Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/100-days-remember-city-s-fascinating-history/story-22786344-detail/story.html#ixzz3B6hyI62j Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/100-days-remember-city-s-fascinating-history/story-22786344-detail/story.html#rwSr1t2tH6izZY8L.99 

 100 days to remember in Leicester's fascinating history


Cueva Morin, Spain Mousterian and Modern Human levels


* Modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed in Europe ten times longer than previously thought, a study suggests


The velociraptors featured in the Jurassic Park film are thought to be much larger than the real-life predators (Universal Pictures)


*  Why movie dinosaurs are nothing like the real thing

 


The Timeline WW1 app blends text, photos, videos and maps.


* Do you agree with Dan Snow that 'clearly an app is better than a book for history'?

 

Libraries are still a valuable resource for their patrons.

 

* What the 'death of the library' means for the future of books.

 

* Why we need independent bookstores more than ever.


Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook


* Samsung-made Nook tablet has just been announced by Barnes & Noble.



Digital publishing and children: have we reached a 'tipping point'? 


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* Fourteen books that change when you reread them later in life.


What is your book community?


Tanja Tuma


Why it's imperative that Amazon v. Hachette ends soon 

   

  Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?


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