From LSE Library: "Some hobbies and pastimes including "Hot Cockles", "Hoodman blind" and "Animals imitated", from 1801 rare book "Glig-Gamena Angel-Deod, or the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England’"
Die Kompetenzwerkstatt #DigitalHumanities der HU Berlin lädt im Rahmen ihrer Vortragsreihe "Werkzeug" am 06.12.2023, 2-4pm, ein zum Vortrag:
"Einheit in der Vielheit: Edition, Forschungsdaten und computergestützte Analysen zu Alexander von Humboldts Kosmos-Vorträgen" @dta_cthomas (BBAW Berlin)
Ort: Auditorium des Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrums der UB; eine Online-Teilnahme ist ebenfalls möglich!
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?
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.
"John Stuart Mill, author of “On Liberty”, was a philosopher, economist, member of the Liberal Party, and the first MP to call for women’s suffrage. Here's his passport from our archives for #EYAUnique"
Extrait du plan scénographique de #Lyon, réalisé aux environs de 1548-1553 : ce plan, gravé et rehaussé à la gouache, est composé de 25 planches qui, une fois assemblées, mesurent 220 x 170 cm.
Conservé aux #ArchivesDeLyon (cote 2SAT 3), il est unique par bien des aspects : un seul exemplaire, commanditaire et destinataire inconnus, 4050 immeubles, 440 personnnages, tout un bestiaire...
A bit ironic given this is disseminated over the Internet...
The Internet would be far better if giant corporations didn't control platforms & endlessly surveille & profile & do so very unequally--to me that largely is a capitalism, governance & regulatory failure--power & control of infrastructure.
I want to learn more about modern Africa to combat any biases I may have picked up from public schooling in the US -- and just because I realized I don't know much about African countries and people. Does anyone have favorites as far as historical events, culture, religion/spirituality, etc.? #history#Africa@histodons
Dieser Sammelband war schon sehr lange in Arbeit, aber zwischen prekären Arbeitsbedingungen ( eigentlich hab ich alles in meiner Freizeit gemacht) und Covid etc hat es jetzt lange gedauert. Der erste Workshop fand schon 2017! statt. Nun denn. Hier ist er, nicht billig, aber man kann die eine oder oder Uni- und Staats- bzw. Landesbibliothek bitten, das Ding zu kaufen.
"Histories of Prostitution in Central, East Central and South Eastern Europe" @histodons@genderhistory https://brill.com/display/title/64157
Check out the DH project on the economic, social and political history of the banana industry in Latin America from my colleague Kevin Coleman. @histodons
“Some scholars have suggested that the Shakyas, the clan of the historical Gautama Buddha, were originally Scythians from Central Asia, and that the Indian ethnonym Śākya has the same origin as “Scythian,” called Sakas in India.”
@paninid@histodons Herodotus seemed to believe they might be tangentially related. Multiple separate groups or tribes across Asia, that shared some sort of umbrella culture.
Noch immer eine meiner Lieblingsanekdoten über Engels:
"An einem wunderbaren Tage am Menaikanal in Bangor wurde [Friedrich Engels] sentimental und stimmte plötzlich mit seiner scharfen Diskantstimme in den falschesten Tönen "Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten" an. Wir stürzten entsetzt mit dem Ruf meines Freundes "Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch," auf ihn zu und brachten ihn mit einer über seinen dicken Schnauzbart von hinten geworfenen Serviette zum Schweigen."
I'm teaching Gothic cursive to a class of Germanists tomorrow. In the manuscript they're studying the letter h (see red boxes) looks like a curl at the top, followed by two straight strokes at the bottom. How does one get to the point where "h" is written like this??
(The answer is that there's a process of development, but this playing fast and loose with shape is why cursive scripts are hard to read).
@litteracarolina@histodons@medievodons Yup, that's the reason why I can't read those "modern" manuscripts, well. I prefer uncial or carolingian miniscule. But right now, I read some 15th century manuscripts with my students, and sometimes even I can't decipher the words...
Neue Biografie von Daniel #Meishttps://www.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/team/Meis/ über Hamburgs „Führer“, NS-Gauleiter und „Reichsstatthalter“ Karl #Kaufmann, fällt zurück auf den Stand der Historiographie in den 1950er-Jahren: Der Obernazi als „Idealist und Ehrenmann“.
Ein Buch, „das so besser nie geschrieben worden wäre“, meint Olaf Wunder.
„Karl Kaufmann war die entscheidende Person im nationalsozialistischen Hamburg: Seine Herrschaft war einzigartig und bildete mit Vorläufern aus dem Saarland die Grundlage für die ab 1938 annektierten Gebiete. Durch seine Herrschaft lässt sich ein Blick auf die Planungen für das Reich werfen, die sich kriegsbedingt immer wieder verschoben. […]“
We tend to think of the Acropolis as an unchanged relic of classical Athens, but it turns out that a lot of stuff has happened there since the time of Pericles:
One of the things that Insular scribes do brilliantly is to use the shapes of letters to create elegant combinations that look completely natural. In this half-uncial script, the ligatured "gn" in "cognoscerus" makes a new graphic shape - which looks beautiful because it seems to flow from the pen.