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The Friday Digest 17/07/15

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THP Friday digest

 

This week's update features scandalous Wimbledon moments, Mennonites in Boliva and history told through emojis. 



* Ten scandalous moments in Wimbledon’s history

 Jordi Ruiz Cirera from the book Los Menenos.

 

* A photographic look into the world of Mennonites in Bolivia

 

 An image of the wooden model - on the left the bellows is expanded, and on the left it is compressed

 

* Leonardo da Vinci 'fridge' prototype on show in Italy

 

Burning building in Manchester after a German air raid, December 1940

 

* When the UK was bombed nightly for eight months in a row

 

Malala Yousafzai opened a school in Lebanon for Syrian refugee girls

 

* Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has opened a school for Syrian refugee girls

 

* Was the tunnellers’ secret war the most barbaric of the First World War?

 

A print shows African captives being taken on board a slave ship.

 

* The buried history of British slave ownership is revealed

 

Dr Jim Leary beside the building remains at Marden Henge

 

* Wiltshire house rivalled Stonehenge as a hub for ancient Britons

 

Blombos Cave

 

* Early modern human cultural interactions investigated through Middle Stone Age tool technologies

 

A photograph of a captured soldier

 

* War photojournalist Phillip Jones Griffiths is celebrated at the National Library of Wales

 

Arundel Castle. (Credit: © Derek Croucher / Alamy)

 

* England's eight most amazing castles

 

Can You Guess The Historical Event By The Emojis?

 

* Can you guess which historical event these emojis depict

 

Hark a Vagrant Nelson

 

* Interview with Kate Beaton, creator of historical web comic Hark! A Vagrant.  

 

Person holding Go Set a Watchman

 

The reviews for Go Set a Watchman are in.  

 

* Illustrator Quentin Blake criticises colouring books

 

* Girl on the Train film adaptation set to transfer location to New York.

 

There's an app that will buzz when you're near a spot where a woman made history

 

* Joanne Harris highlights sexism in the publishing industry.

 

* Amazon accused of 'Big Brother' tactics over customer reviews

 

* Top writing tips for new children's authors from top editors



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