Introduction update. I’m interested in social history, including the history of popular music and movies. I post a lot of polls. If you don’t like music, movies or polls, you won’t like my posts. However, if these subjects interest you, please feel free to connect.
In 1919, my 2 x great grandfather William Howe was unwell, so the villagers railed round and arranged a prize draw for his benefit, raising the equivalent of £2,500. The success of the draw illustrated the high esteem in which William was held within the community.
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir
Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts as well as novels of the period.
The programme for the international congress "Commoning: Common Resources, Associationism and Networks of Reciprocity throughout History" is now available on our website.
🎙 Anita Buhin was invited by the Transformative Podcast (RECET) to talk about so-called #galebovi ('seagulls') in socialist #Yugoslavia and various economic, cultural and social aspects of this phenomenon, typical for the broader #Mediterranean region and the development of mass #tourism.
The galebovi were local young men who engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with foreign tourists.
📖 As a result of his doctoral research at the IHC, Diogo Duarte has published an article on #Anarchism, #PublicOrder and #SocialHousing in Portugal in the first half of the 20th century.
"Peasants have an instinctive recognition that things are finite, that we cannot drive forever towards unlimited increase. They are outside the capitalist world in that way. They live within a horizon of necessity that we no longer inhabit, although the environmental crisis tells us we may have to inhabit it again. They’re survivors, as we may have to learn to be"
Good interview with Prof Patrick Joyce on his new book on peasant history. #Peasants#SocialHistory#History
🆕 Congratulations to Joana Dias Pereira and Rui Henriques, who were awarded the 2023 António Sérgio Cooperation and Solidarity Prize, in the Lusophone Studies and Research Category, for their book on the history of mutualism in former Portuguese colonies. 🎊
Shout out to all Thatcher-haters - this might interest you. Due to be published on 25th January.
John Berger is a genius. Read everything he's written too, while you're at it. 😁 📚 #ShesStillDead#Bookstodon#Cymru#SocialHistory
Day 21 of #ArtAdventCalendar
The Christmas notebook kept by my mother from the 1950s to 1980’s.
On Christmas Eve the table in our living room was filled with goodies, and they stayed there – outside of meals - for the whole of Christmas. How we ate it all I never know, and my mother saved up for months to put this spread on just for Christmas. Plus her work schedule in the build up. (Notebooks now at Gwent Archives)
📖 2023's second issue of #HoST — Journal of History of Science is now online. The theme is "Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?".
⏳ The call for papers for the international congress "Commoning: Common Resources, Associationism and Networks of Reciprocity throughout History" ends tomorrow, 15 December!
📅 The meeting will take place via Zoom on 14-15 March 2024.
I went on a Melbourne City Council Art and Heritage tour today - lots of artifacts in the top floor of the town hall and fascinating stories of Melbourne. It's free but you need to book.
You can browse 5000 collection items online
🆕 Eight new research contracts were awarded to the IHC under by the FCT: six in the Junior Researcher category and two in the Assistant Researcher category, which will result in five new members joining the Institute. 🥳
🧵 In a recent pineapple pizza thread, Brian Gettler mentioned that many traditional recipes handed down to us were actually corporate recipes.
One of my favourite memories from the ‘50s is of walking home from school for lunch for a hot, steaming plate of Campbell’s soup surrounded by a fan of Premium crackers smeared with Cheez Whiz.
This inspired me to share a few family favourites from my mother’s “Cheez Whiz Idea Book”.
The occupation of day labourer is out of date. Yet, it was one of the most common occupations until before the First World War. Consequently, many of my ancestors worked as day labourers. Now what is a day labourer?
📘 Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto edited the book "The Value of Work since the 18th Century. Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory".
With examples ranging across several centuries and different parts of the globe, it shows how wages are influenced by the specific organization and processes of work, conflict and power, social status and hierarchies between workers, etc.