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"
@sunflowerinrain@CitizenWald@histodons Aethelflaed launched an expedition deep into Viking-held territory to rescue the bones of Saint Oswald, the warrior King of Northumbria - and he might be worth learning more about too!
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
@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.
@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.
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
@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.
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.
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I have an informational question: are there measures taken to prevent pro Palestine activists from interrupting this event and others? Thanks. @histodons@href
@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?
@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.
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.
Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies (Benjamin Schuetze | POMEPS, April 2024)
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“… 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.”