As November highlights to us the importance of inclusion, we delve into the records of Fulbourn Hospital (formally Fulbourn Asylum), held by Cambridgeshire Archives. Bringing light to mental health histories is instrumental in helping us learn today. We can understand better the lives that were lived, and the practices faced by the patients who were in this type of care.
🔔 We are welcoming contributions for our project “Connecting Portuguese History. Digital Dictionary of the Modern World”, which will bring together articles from historians and social scientists from different national and foreign universities.
On this day in 1690, Maximilian O'Dempsy died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Killeigh, Co. Offaly (King's), in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/odem1690
Here's one Cambodian's verdict
"I’m a scholar of the political economy of Cambodia who, as a child, escaped the brutal Khmer Rouge regime with four siblings...
In both a professional and personal sense, I am aware of the near 50-year impact Kissinger’s policies during the Vietnam War have had on the country of my birth."
THEY KNOCK THIS GUY AS A MONSTER AND IGNORE THE PRESIDENTS AND ELECTED CONGRESS WHO FOLLOWED HIS ADVICE?. LMAO! AMERICA LOVES TO POINT OUT THE MONSTER AND NEVER HIS COHORTS AND APPROVERS?
Protestant justifications for establishing parks, and the ideology of “manifest destiny” contributed to the persecution of #Indigenous tribes, a reality that the National Park Service has begun to redress in recent decades.
There's a new edition of the NOVA Science booklet, published by NOVA University Lisbon.
In the picture, we share our statement of impact, as published in the booklet, that highlights our contribution to the history and memory of Portuguese authoritarianism and colonialism, the forthcoming inauguration of the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom, and the online dictionary Connecting Portuguese History (soon).
“It is a strange fact that the population of dogs and dog breeds that we enjoy today largely emerged as a hobby for bored aristocrats in a tiny sliver of English history—during a period in which classification, measurement, and standardization became a national obsession.”
On this day in 1746, Anna Gleyre died aged 45. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Durrow, Co. Laois (Queen's), in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/gleyre1746
There is a paper story to this painting from 1672 waiting to be told. Meet Jan Berckheyde's "A Notary in His Office" highlighted in 5 steps - a thread for friends of #paperhistory and #mediahistory of #EarlyModernEurope, and for #histodons in general. Expect a view into the inky paper states of Europe, a paper age dealing also with waste papers, fresh paper sheets waiting to be used, a high paper demand, and some document bags literally full of used papers. Let's roll @histodons
@histodons Wherever paper was used, waste paper could also be found. Here, in detail no. 5 paper leftovers, waste papers, are lying on the floor next to a used quill. The presence of fresh unused papers, written upon "used" papers, and waste papers, in one scene remind #histodons of the material life of hand-made paper in early modern Europe: it was produced, it was used, and it was recycled - often to fresh 'new' paper. #EarlyModernEurope was a paper age with #recycling rhythms.