CitizenWald, Well, here's a nice one for @CoinOfNote (as well as all @histodons ):
Tom Holland: We must celebrate England’s forgotten founding mother
"If a fire broke out at Tom Holland’s house, the one item he would rush to rescue is a coin. . . . For his 50th birthday Holland tracked down and spent 'my entire family savings' on the coin that was minted in Chester during her rule, which had been found in an abandoned Roman fort before appearing at an auction in New York"
So cool.
sonjdol, Hello fellow academic researchers, I am having a discussion with a sociologist about whether and to what degree a social science degree should and can include courses on history and historical methodology. To make my case, which should be based on existing research and researchers, I am looking for sociologists and political scientists, who have either worked historically or have thought about how and why history should be part of social science thinking.
@histodons @politicalscience @sociology
davi_cath, German @sonjdol @politicalscience @sociology @histodons John Clegg‘s work on the relationship between capitalism and slavery is great. One of the most interesting and relevant contributions to the debate, imo.
scottmatter, @sonjdol @histodons @politicalscience @sociology
Would political economy and world systems theory stuff be relevant?
From anthro, thinking of people like Eric Wolfe, James Scott, etc…
Athenenoctua, French Dessin de Romanin, alias Jean Moulin, qui était aussi un dessinateur talentueux et joyeux, doublé d'un collectionneur d'art.
Vu dans l'#exposition "Jean Moulin, les voies de la liberté" du Centre d'#histoire de la #Résistance et de la #Déportation à #Lyon.
litteracarolina, Here is another lovely #Arabic #manuscript from @subugoe (8 Cod. MS pers. 14), containing the Šerḥ-i Sabḥat al-abrār, a literary text. This is from the 17th or 18th century. @historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons #palaeography
litteracarolina, @subugoe @historikerinnen @histodons @medievodons My student has just discovered what looks like 18th-century censorship in this manuscript! The miniature of Yusuf and Zuleika having sex on their wedding night has been obscured by a carefully cut, glued and decorated piece of paper.
litteracarolina, Looking at #Arabic #manuscripts with my students today. This is a stunning frontispiece from @subugoe Cod MS arab. 190, containing the Kitāb al-wāfīya fi šarḥ al-kāfīya from 1478, collated with the author’s own copy. @historikerinnen @medievodons @histodons #palaeography
spatial_history, German #Savethedate: Festkolloquium zu Ehren des Frühneuzeithistorikers Gerd Schwerhoff, der zum Sommersemester 2024 an der TU Dresden emeritiert wurde.
🔜 zum Programm: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ige/fnz/die-professur/news/festkolloquium
@tudresden @histodons @historikerinnen
spatial_history, German … und der Rückblick auf das Festkolloquium sowie auf 40 Jahre akademischer Existenz von Gerd Schwerhoff @tudresden
eivind, OTD, 7 May 1945, the Norwegian paper Aftenposten published literary Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun's Hitler obituray. @histodons
eivind, @SimonRoyHughes
Not a popular take in Norway :)
@histodons
SimonRoyHughes, @eivind @histodons But the cowards don't dare raise their voices when I start ranting.
info,
paninid, It was a nice country while we had it, y’all.
Remember the good times.
Write down your memories, thoughts, and feelings.
Future historians will use them to reconstruct what happened.
That was literally the premise of A Handmaid’s Tale.
https://fortune.com/2024/05/02/joe-biden-white-house-comments-campus-protests-gaza-israel/
claralistensprechen3rd, @paninid I haven't asked around but I strongly suspect so. Such people are described in Israeli media as "liberal Jews", which would include "non-practicing" Jews. I've had debate run-ins with (this seems to me quite the oxymoron) atheist Jews who are in fact rabidly Zionist. I heard an author being interviewed in passing, didn't catch his name but his catch phrase is quite timely: something to the effect of--in a one-eyed world, the two-eyed are the marginalized.
jakobwannsee, 81 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, we speak with Havi Dreifuss of Tel Aviv University about the Jewish perspective on the Holocaust in Poland, resistance, and her book on the end of the ghetto.
https://www.ghwk.de/en/podcast/episode/3-poland-jewish-polish-relations-and-the-warsaw-resistance
nadav, @jakobwannsee
I have an informational question: are there measures taken to prevent pro Palestine activists from interrupting this event and others? Thanks.
@histodons @href
neveralways, @nadav @jakobwannsee @histodons @href I also have an informational question: are there measures being taken to prevent any of our contemporaries from getting the idea that when an ethnically defined other has been pushed from their homes into a densely populated area surrounded by soldiers, prevented from leaving, and periodically killed en masse, then this justifies resistance?
litteracarolina, Just got my new DinoLite digital #microscope! All ready for some ink and pigment analysis with my students on Thursday. #palaeography @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen
litteracarolina, @medievodons @histodons @historikerinnen Some images I took just now of ordinary ballpoint on paper, the first with UV and the second with normal light. Great definition on the ink edges and paper fibres.
litteracarolina, Please spread the word about this! We need more applicants. Deadline is tomorrow but late applications can be accepted. #palaeography @medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons
From: @litteracarolina
https://mastodon.online/@litteracarolina/111935843148645383
bojacobs, Chernobyl, 38 years ago today.
Human "bio-robots" had to make homemade lead lined suits to then spend 40 seconds to 2 minutes on the roof of reactor #3 shoveling bits of the reactor core into the hole where reactor #4 used to be. 3,500 people did this task.
timrichards, @bojacobs @histodons @sts I visited Chernobyl after the 30th anniversary in 2016. Strange, eerie place.
Susan60, How many of those people have died of radiation related causes?
adachika192, Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies (Benjamin Schuetze | POMEPS, April 2024)
———“… if an ICJ decision about the plausibility of Israel committing genocide does not make a scholar publicly speak out against unconditional German support for Israel, what will? What purpose does a state-funded expert in Arabic language have, who remains stuck in the ivory tower when politicians representing that state contemplate the generic prohibition of Arabic slogans at public protests? What purpose has a renowned scholar of Ottoman and/or Arab history who fails to publicly speak out against the open distortion and/or negation of simple historical facts in state-funded exhibitions? … There is no lack of expertise, there is a lack of courage to take a principled stance against the large-scale dehumanisation of Arabs and Muslims, and the ongoing mass murder of Palestinians.”
litteracarolina, I got to see the Fulda Sacramentary today: a stunning example of Ottonian (tenth-century) art and one of the major treasures of the @subugoe.
@medievodons @historikerinnen @histodons #medieval #manuscript #palaeography
An illustrated medieval manuscript page with a central figure surrounded by a circular zodiac calendar, with human figures representing the months and symbols for the astrological signs.
Illuminated manuscript page with a large ornate initial "P," featuring gold leaf, blue and red pigments, and decorative flourishes extending into the margins.
An illuminated manuscript page with Latin text and decorative borders.
xankarn, Cultural history class this week includes the bicycle boom of the 1890s.
Newspapers from this period are filled with the complaints of men who say bicycles ruined their marriages, since wives only care to ride and no longer tend to their "duties."
The Rev. Thomas Gregory saw the bike as a threat to his parishioners' intellect and health.
"It annihilates the reading habit. The libraries are deserted. It is a menace to domestic virtues. It breaks up and destroys the home."
🚲
xankarn, "The Awful Effects of Velocipeding" (1885)
xankarn, But don't forget onanism!
American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1895):
"A very grave objection has been made to the use of the bicycle among women, which, if true, would induce us to be exceedingly cautious in ever suggesting this exercise. It has been said to beget or foster the habit of masturbation."
info, The Venetian constitution
The constitution of the Republic of Venice never really existed. The Venetian nobility just made it up as they went.
#LaSerenissima #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
https://historywalksvenice.com/venetian-story/the-venetian-constitution/
economics, @info @seindal @venice @histodons thanks for sharing
ClaireFromClare, A shift from agricultural employment to manufacturing accelerated a century before the steam engine & the boom in coal usage: intriguing findings from 20 years of archival research in England & Wales.
New technologies? (eg in printing?) The ideas thus spreading? Hard-working immigrants? Any ideas here for an energy-efficient but prosperous future?
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/nation-of-makers-industrial-britain
https://www.economiespast.org/#EconomiesPast #OccupationalData #CambridgeUniversity @histodons
18+ Dev, Berg and Hudson, Slavery, capitalism and the Industrial revolution (2023) are very persuasive on the regional dimensions.
failedLyndonLaRouchite, I used to get a lot of this on twitter, and have really missed it here, so thanks !!
href, German @histodons #OTD 7.4.1933
Der sog. "Arierparagraph" erlaubt die
"Reinigung des gesamten Beamtentums von all den unliebsamen Erscheinungen, die in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik den deutschen Beamtenkörper zu durchsetzen begonnen hatten."
Flussmusik, German @href @histodons Ein Wahn, aber mit unmenschlichen Auswirkungen.
nfg, German Der Kurarzt Carl Fressel aus Bad Ems veröffentlichte 1897 "Das Radfahren der Damen vom technisch-praktischen und ärztlich-gesundheitlichen Standpunkte".
Darin bejaht er ausdrücklich das Radfahren von Frauen und Mädchen und gibt medizinische Einschätzungen ebenso wie praktische Tipps. Die wichtige fahrradhistorische Quelle ist von der @stabi_berlin digitalisiert worden und online zugänglich unter:
http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0002688F00000000
#Fahrradgeschichte #Frauengeschichte @historikerinnen @histodons
Zugfreundin, German @nfg @stabi_berlin @historikerinnen @histodons dass die,Herren sich den Pimmel einklemmen und verletzen könnten, dazu hatte kein Arzt Bedenken? 😆
nfg, German @Zugfreundin @stabi_berlin @historikerinnen @histodons Nee, diesbezüglich hat Herr Fressel keinerlei Bedenken. Aber ansonsten spricht er sich ja ausdrücklich dafür aus, das Frauen Radfahren sollten. Nur den Frauen-Radrennen und -Radrennsport lehnt er kategorisch ab.
eivind, OTD, 1 April, 1950, Aftenposten, the largest daily newspaper in Norway, announced on its front page that the government wine outlet had bought a large quantity of good, French wine, but had unfortunately run out of bottles so they were forced to sell it off at giveaway prices to whoever showed up with their own containers. #NorwayFacts @histodons
dohanian, Can anyone recommend some things to read about how people (in any culture) used to find information among manuscript miscellanies when those miscellanies didn’t have tables of contents? Anything in English, French, #Armenian, or Turkish would work. @histodons @medievodons @librarians #manuscripts
AmazingMeagen, @dohanian @histodons @medievodons @librarians
The introduction...
Index
Dennis Duncan
AmazingMeagen, @histodons @medievodons @librarians
One of the amazing things about working with collections at #LambethPalaceLibrary is that you can take yourself up to the stores to see a figure featured in a volume.
In this case it is the decoration featuring Grosseteste in our MS522 described in Dennis Duncan's Ind x, A History of the.
A person leaning over a bound manuscript on a desk in a reading room.
eivind, OTD, 25 March, 1998, Mike Cameron served his one day suspension for having worn a Pepsi shirt to Coke Education Day the previous Friday at Greenbrier High School in Evans, Georgia.
The principal, Gloria Hamilton, spent the day explaining to the local, national and international media that he wasn't suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt to Coke day, but for trying to ruin the school picture, in which the entire student body were lined up to spell out the word "COKE". @histodons
eivind, @amici An early example of brands throwing money around to get into schools and start their indoctrination early. (Coke HQ is not far away from Evans, in Atlanta, so was probably a local thing.) @histodons
figstick, It's how the South funds its schools without taxes.
BHO, NEWS:
Due to problems with our site upgrade, we are dropping the paywall, allowing full access to all our material.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Additionally, due to problems with search, we are temporarily making available the old version of our site.
https://archive.british-history.ac.uk
cc @histodons
info, Venetian Patent law — 1474
The first patent law ever was Venetian, issued by the Pregadi (Senate) on March 19th, 1474.
#LaSerenissima #Sources #Laws #Sources #Translations #VenetianState #Venezia #Venice
https://historywalksvenice.com/2024/03/venetian-patent-law-1474/
seindal, @peterbrown @info @venice @histodons Sounds like St Colomba should be the patron saint of Open Source software.
https://opensource.com/law/11/6/story-st-columba-modern-copyright-battle-sixth-century-ireland
peterbrown, @seindal @info @venice @histodons very good piece!
Saint Columba’s biographer Adamnan is credited with the law of the innocents; mandating that innocent parties should be protected in times of war. It is reckoned to be the predecessor of the Geneva convention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A1in_Adomn%C3%A1inIn his will Adamnan mandated the founding of a centre of learning, which was set up at Dull in Perthshire. It was the predecessor to St Andrews University. https://www.robertson.org/OOTC_Saint_Adamnan_of_Dull.html