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During & After the Christianisation of Iceland, How did the perceptions of the Norse Gods change? & Why was Norse paganism revived in 1970's America?	24
Does writing about a monumental event in History soon (e.g. 10-15 years) after it's happened have any lasting historiographical effects on how we view that event later on? Even if the general consensus has shifted?	21
Krautrock was a German music genre from the '60s that spawned many genres we would could collectively call Electronic (Dance) Music today. What effect did it have on wider German national identity? How did it come about? How did spawn so many intricate wide ranging genres?	21
How reliable is Channel 4's "Indian Summers" in helping newcomers understand the relationship between the British Empire, the Indians & the situation that led to the country's partition in 1947?	18
What did the German Communists think about the destruction of Germany, Once Nazism fell in 1945?And I read that during Stalin's "great purge" he targeted German communists (as well as his own people),Why would Stalin purge people who supported his ideology & then sign pacts with the Nazis?	15
"Hitler was a gibbering super junkie, whose veins collapsed after thousands of injections..." These are historian, Norman Ohler's words. I doubt they're at all true but humour me. How prevalent was recreational drug use amongst the German people and the Nazi elite?	14
In Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" one of the central premises is that gods only exist because people believe in them. Did any of the ancient civilizations e.g. Roman, Greek, Norse, use this as a justification for why some people believed in other gods (or forms of gods)?	12
How prominent were drugs during the Viking age?	12
What's the history of paedophilia, sexuality, sexual abuse & how do historians link them together? NSFW	12
With the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination on the horizon today how has the historiography of King and his role in the civil rights movement changed over the last 50 years?	12

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