History Guild

History Guild is a group of history enthusiasts. A not for profit that improves and advocates for historical literacy.

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“Suffragette white isn’t just a fashion choice — it’s a powerful political statement rooted in over a century of feminist resistance.”

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While the legal separation from Britain took much longer to achieve – and is still a work in progress – the reaction to the knighting of Prince Philip on Australia Day, 2015, suggests this is a project nearing completion.

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Diocletian’s edict highlights the deep outrage he and and his imperial colleagues felt at the rampant inflation that had engulfed the Roman empire for much of the third century.

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A 1943 British War Office report found that most Indian Army officers had experience on the North-West Frontier but little knowledge of jungle terrain — a gap that had cost them dearly in Burma.

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Though not much can be done about it now, it looks like the world missed out on a head start to fight climate change because a few wealthy men actively hid the evidence.

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1. Which of these philosophers lived through the Black death?
History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.322
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Operation Jaywick was hailed as a tactically brilliant commando raid on Singapore — but its aftermath brought a wave of torture and reprisals against civilians that history has largely overlooked.

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"We took the flak for the convoy."
Escort ships drew enemy fire, knowing full well they were the bait — a brutal strategy that often meant dying so others might live.

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What did the beers of ancient Mesopotamia taste like?

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The agricultural revolution is a global event because it happened in parallel developments in many parts of the world, although at slightly different times.

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Now two of the world’s largest economies, in 1950 both China and India were far from being economic powerhouses, despite having the largest population's in the world at the time.

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To defeat Carthage's navy, Rome copied a captured warship design and built 150 vessels in two months. Adaptation, not tradition, was Rome's greatest strength.

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While initially used for more tame devices such as fireworks, it didn’t take long for the first gunpowder weapons to evolve in China.

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Following the defeat of Japan in 1945, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Several top officials, including Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were executed, while others received lengthy prison sentences.

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As English Common Law developed, the innkeeper became obliged by law to accept all those who apply for accommodation (within reason), with the position of innkeeper becoming a position of public duty.

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Reconstructed stone rotary olive mill (trapetum) originally from Boscoreale, now at Pompeii.

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When 700 US soldiers were surrounded in the Argonne Forest in 1918, journalists coined the term "Lost Battalion" — framing a military disaster as a story of heroism.

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Captain Cook’s 1770 chart of Botany Bay transformed a little-known coastline into a focal point of British imperial planning.

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1. What did the 1820 Missouri compromise resolve?
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In the deep human past, highly skilled seafarers made daring crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands.

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