{"id":6066,"date":"2026-08-23T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T12:12:25","slug":"new-explore-this-week-in-history-%f0%9f%93%85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/free-stuff\/new-explore-this-week-in-history-%f0%9f%93%85\/","title":{"rendered":"New: Explore This Week in History ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What happened in history on this day? And what about the rest of the week?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve just updated ActiveHistory&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/anniversaries.php\"><strong>Historical Anniversaries<\/strong> feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now switch between:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>? Today<\/strong> \u2014 see a selection of historical events, births and deaths from today&#8217;s date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>?? Whole Week<\/strong> \u2014 explore historical anniversaries for the next seven days, all on one page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple change, but it makes the feature much more useful for <strong>lesson planning, starter activities, quizzes and finding interesting historical events to discuss with students<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you want to investigate a particular date, you can still use the <strong>Birthday Timeline<\/strong> to explore the history of any day of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>? <strong>Explore This Week in History on ActiveHistory.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened in history on this day? And what about the rest of the week? I&#8217;ve just updated ActiveHistory&#8217;s Historical Anniversaries feature. You can now switch between: ? Today \u2014 see a selection of historical events, births and deaths from today&#8217;s date. ?? Whole Week \u2014 explore historical anniversaries for the next seven days, all&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/free-stuff\/new-explore-this-week-in-history-%f0%9f%93%85\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}