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my home town has several hundred tenement houses built for a local brewery in the 1880s & 1890s. at the start of the 20th century, when the temperance movement was going on both sides of the Atlantic, would it have been at all shameful to work in a brewery (or be married to someone who does)?

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Should history be classed as a humanities subject or as a science?

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Allied has a plot point in it about Hitler having an agent assassinate a German diplomat who has displeased him. by 1942 if Hitler wanted someone in the German army or Government dead, could he not just have head them arrested and executed?

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What determined who did and who did not get to become an officer in England at the start of world war 1?

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were there more surfs in 1057 England (before the norman conquest) or 1117 England (after the norman conquest)? which ruling class treated smallholders better?

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how did different pagan tribes react to christian missionaries in the early dark ages?

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Towards end of Boardwalk Empire there's a scene where a woman, in a FlashGordon-esque costume, offers to take Nucky into a tent where he can "see the future". When he gets inside there's a primitive TV showing images. Is it plausible that you'd find televisions as sideshow attractions in 1931?

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how come, in parts of Europe, some farmers continued using sickles and/or scythe decades after reaping machines were invented?

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were the world war 1 era Germans into censorship with a severity comparable to the later Nazis or Soviets?

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how did you get to compete in the ancient Olympics (circa mid third century BCE if it maters)?

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my home town has several hundred tenement houses built for a local brewery in the 1880s & 1890s. at the start of the 20th century, when the temperance movement was going on both sides of the Atlantic, would it have been at all shameful to work in a brewery (or be married to someone who does)?	2	AskHistorians
Should history be classed as a humanities subject or as a science?	2	AskHistorians
Allied has a plot point in it about Hitler having an agent assassinate a German diplomat who has displeased him. by 1942 if Hitler wanted someone in the German army or Government dead, could he not just have head them arrested and executed?	2	AskHistorians
What determined who did and who did not get to become an officer in England at the start of world war 1?	2	AskHistorians
were there more surfs in 1057 England (before the norman conquest) or 1117 England (after the norman conquest)? which ruling class treated smallholders better?	2	AskHistorians
how did different pagan tribes react to christian missionaries in the early dark ages?	2	AskHistorians
Towards end of Boardwalk Empire there's a scene where a woman, in a FlashGordon-esque costume, offers to take Nucky into a tent where he can "see the future". When he gets inside there's a primitive TV showing images. Is it plausible that you'd find televisions as sideshow attractions in 1931?	2	AskHistorians
how come, in parts of Europe, some farmers continued using sickles and/or scythe decades after reaping machines were invented?	2	AskHistorians
were the world war 1 era Germans into censorship with a severity comparable to the later Nazis or Soviets?	2	AskHistorians
how did you get to compete in the ancient Olympics (circa mid third century BCE if it maters)?	2	AskHistorians