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Saxon coin hoard linked to time of Viking raids

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3p0153766o

#Archaeology #History #Histodons #AngloSaxon #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Coins

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In 2009, Sweden Replaced Textbooks with Laptops: 15 Years Later, It’s Spending $120M to Bring Paper Back

https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/04/sweden-textbooks-screens-120-million-reversal/

#Europe #Sweden #Education #Learning #Textbook #Laptop #Technology #Tech

A Concise History of the Netherlands

"Beginning with the first humanoid settlers, the book follows the most important contours of Dutch history, from Roman times through to the Habsburgs, the Dutch Republic and the Golden Age."

Kennedy, J.C. (2017) A Concise History of the Netherlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Concise Histories). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139025447

#History #Histodons #Netherlands #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause

"Catholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war's evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery."

https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Catholics-the-Civil-War-and-the-Problem-of-the-Lost-Cause

#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Catholic #LostCause #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

️ Offa: King of the Mercians

"Professor Rory Naismith presents an authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history."

https://newbooksnetwork.com/offa

#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Medieval #Nonfiction #Biography #Books #Bookstodon