We are "Explore Your Archive"; an Archives and Records Association (ARA) platform to encourage everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives in the UK & Ireland.
We run monthly hashtags to share archives on particular themes, with a focus week coming up in November. See our website for further details and lots of other great content celebrating archives: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/create/social-media/
Share your archives with us for October with the hashtag #EYASpooky !
@exploreyourarchive@histodons is there any point in me keeping generations of photos - the printed kind? There is no one famous in our family. Would they be of any use to any archiver? To me they are just junk that my mum asked me to look after. I have no idea who they depict, most have no information. Should I 'lose' them? I have tried to pass them on but no-one seems interested. Or would there be an archive that I can pass them to?
• U.S. President James Monroe first introduces the Monroe Doctrine in the State of the Union address on Dec. 2, declaring that any European attempts to recolonize the Americas would be considered a hostile act towards the United States.
"New Evidence That Ancient Footprints Push Back Human Arrival in North America
Following up a on study in 2021 of tracks found in New Mexico, researchers used more methods to bolster the claim that the tracks are up to 23,000 years old."
Anne Carol, Jérémie Foa, Régis Bertrand , Stéphane Mourlane, Margot Garcin, Tristan Portier, ... Retrouvez-les jusqu'à dimanche en différents lieux de la ville :
@histodons à cette occasion, Anne Carol intervient dans plusieurs médias :
Le Monde des livres : « La puissance et le mystère des corps morts ».
« Un corps disputé : le démembrement de Gambetta », Le Monde, Hors série La mort en face
texte d’introduction aux RDV de l’Histoire : « Cette mort qui nous oblige »,
grand entretien « La mort est aujourd’hui plus que jamais une affaire solitaire », L’1 hebdo
« La question du jour » de la matinale de France Culture, par G. Erner le 6 oct. 📆
Spot the difference: on the left, the copperplate print is hand-coloured after the print run, and on the right no extra work is done. Colouring prints was a thing in #earlymodern Europe. Guess which version was more expensive - and sold better?
@dbellingradt@histodons Als "Malen nach Zahlen" verpackt, wären die Drucke sicher zum Verkaufsschlager geworden. Es ist alles nur eine Frage der richtigen Werbekampagne.
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Even some early movie films were hand coloured. All those tiny frames!
Though there was RGB colour film at the end of the Victorian age an exposure was 20 minutes. It wasn't till there was CYM layered film that colour movies were possible.
I think before 1742 China was doing coloured prints using multiple wood blocks.
Nitric acid was 14th C, or maybe 10th C. But using it for silver nitrate photos was 19th C.
"In our view as cultural anthropologists, the disputed sentence is true as #historians define facts – tiny nuggets of truth one can find in archives, artifacts & diaries"
This caricature is so hard to eradicate. Luckily I am teaching new students otherwise from Day 1
@CitizenWald@histodons Interesting that the authors focus (barely) on the reception of the teaching techniques applied at Williamsburg. They understate the unmitigated disaster of the enterprise at Williamsburg proper and the (now closed) woke annex at Carter's Grove.
I used to discuss Williamsburg /Carter's Grove as an example of the history of (Art) History-making. To a class about 80% Black. Went over well.
@CitizenWald@histodons
Basically I recycled Eric Gable, Richard Handler and Anna Lawson, On the Uses of Relativism: Fact, Conjecture, and Black and White Histories at Colonial Williamsburg, American Ethnologist Vol. 19, No. 4 (November 1992), , pp. 791-805, which has some devastating anecdotes. The bit about whether or not to reference watermelons (because after all that's historically accurate) is worth the price.
also dealing with heavy anniversary over here, on our island #Hailuoto
'The Russians repeated the massacre in early January 1715 and once more afterwards. As a result of these events, Hailuoto became an uninhabited wilderness.' https://yle.fi/a/3-12072751
▶️ Für die #Filmkritik wirft Maxi Braun einen neuen Blick auf die tabubrechende filmische Inszenierung homosexueller Subkultur in "The Boys in the Band" (1970)
▶️ Für die #Expokritik haben Christian Curtil & Ulrike Blumenthal getrennt voneinander das wiedereröffnete Pariser Stadtmuseum Carnavalet besucht
@aufsmaulsuppe@historikertag@histodons no, unfortunately. There will be a report on the panel on Hsozkult later this year and we are trying to get our papers published in a historical journal (but that won't happen until late next year).
I like big books and I cannot lie. Fellow #histodons, this is me in 2013 and 2023 doing my work.
My main field is called #bookhistory. It is an umbrella term, an overextension of many fields and approaches dealing with past communication flows and artifacts:
Our latest published issue is a special issue on social histories of #religion across the world. Although it is in French, two articles are already available in English:
Penitential #truth or judicial truth? Examining through manuals the sentencing practices of the #SpanishInquisition, Jean-Pierre Dedieu and Gunnar W. Knutsen explore the inner workings of the institution, and uncover the tension between repression and salvation at its heart, opening new questions about the history of #justice in early-modern Europe.