🗣 We’ve just open the #CFP for the online congress on the practice of #Commoning throughout history, with the primary objective to present innovative research informed by critical interculturality.
On this day in 1674, Florence Hamilton McPhilip died. She was buried at Dunluce, Co. Antrim. Find out more about this parish in the Journals: https://bit.ly/mcp1674
#OnThisDay - in Seneca Falls in 1848 a group of around 250 women gathered for 2 days to debate, orate, & create their Declaration of Sentiments which called for women's property rights and equal suffrage (men were allowed to attend, but they were not invited to speak on the first day).
The Seneca Falls Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, was the first known convention in #history to be dedicated solely to the subject of women's rights. #histodons#OTD@histodons
A portion of the Analytical Engine of the incomplete mechanical computer at time of inventor Charles Babbage's passing in October 1871.
Held at Science Museum of London (its photo--CC). Contained a store for numbers (or memory) and a mill (which corresponds to what we think of as the CPU). It was 15 ft tall & weighed what a small locomotive does.
Der Rat für #Migration kritisiert den Vorstoß, das individuelle #Asylrecht zu schwächen
"Der Vorschlag ist ein Angriff auf den nationalen und internationalen Menschenrechtsschutz und widerspricht den europäischen Werten und europäischem Recht."
On this day in 1818, Patrick Campbell of Blackwatertown died aged 37. He was buried at Clonfeacle, Co. Tyrone. Find out more about this graveyard in the Journals: https://bit.ly/camp1818
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1724, Maria Antonia Walpurgis Symphorosa was born in #Germany - fascinated and talented at #music#performance and #composition from an early age, she was made a member of Accademia dell’Arcadia of Rome in 1747. Maria published her operas anonymously under the name EPTA. Through marriage she was Electress of #Saxony and was regent for her son from 1763-1768. She died in Dresden, aged 55. #OTD#histodons@royalhistory@histodons