🎧 @victorpereira a été interviewé sur le podcast Paroles d'Histoire, consacré à l'actualité des livres, de la recherche et des débats en histoire, à propos de son dernier livre "C'est le peuple qui commande. La Révolution des Œillets : 1974-1976" (Éditions du Détour).
My friend Robin Chapman Stacey, professor emerita at the University of Washington, is giving an online lecture at 17:00 GMT (= 12 noon ET, 9 am PT), sponsored by the Welsh Department at Aberystwyth, on ‘Thinking in pairs: law and language in medieval Wales’.
Many thanks to the ARA (Archives & Records Association UK and Ireland) and @exploreyourarchive for this wonderful week !
It will be a pleasure to see you next year 😉
Servius Tullius was touched by fire in more ways than one.
First was his conception (rumour has it that his mother was impregnated by a phantom phallus that appeared in a fire). Then as a child, he was seen wreathed in flame while sleeping. This was interpreted by the queen, Tanaquil, to mean that Servius was destined for great things and must be protected at all costs.
Mary Kay Letourneau's father, John G. Schmitz, was an ultra-conservative politician who began his political career in 1964 and successfully ran as a Republican for a seat in the legislature.
He was known for his involvement in conservative political causes and was a prominent figure in American politics. In 1982, it was revealed that he had fathered two children out of wedlock with a former student, which deeply affected Mary Kay Letourneau.
"a conversation to help teachers, at the K–12 & college levels, develop strategies to teach the #Palestine – #Israel conflict & many of the attendant sensitive historical topics it entails. It might seem that this history is a minefield worth avoiding, but thoughtful & engaged teachers have been teaching such difficult topics in a civil & empathetic way for decades"