I'm deligted to finally share with you this #CfP on treaties as instruments of international relations from #antiquity to the present!
Whether you're working on #peace, marriage, alliance or
international law treaties, international trade or climate agreements, we are looking forward to your abstracts in English or German (Deadline 15. January 2024).
The workshop will be held in November 2024 as a hybrid event in Munich.
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).
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 Using paper as a culture included storing. The neatly stored bound books are relatively easy to store, as #bookhistory knows. But the used paper sheets caused problems and messy storing decisions as highlighted in detail no. 2. Used paper was waiting to be used again (as reading matter). Too often newly written communication flows inspired new papers of the future. And in between: the sheets were waiting somewhere. Stored to rot a bit, bored as artifact can be, dear #histodons .
@histodons Using papers led to storing and ordering needs. So, where to put all the used and waiting paper? This notary office, decided, like many secretaries at the time, to use document bags - literally filled with paper, written pages. These bags could be seen hanging in Dutch administration buildings. Watch out Eric Ketelaar's "Archiving people" on these bags. The opening and closing of the bags was at court a formal procedure; however, it was a paper exchanging business.
Die neue Folge des MWS-Podcasts „Wissen entgrenzen“ ist da!
@janinefunke spricht mit Andreas Greiner und Mario Peters (German Historical Institute Washington) über Mobilitätsentwicklungen ab dem späten 19. Jahrhundert in den Amerikas.
Today is my Mastodon anniversary! Happy 1 year in the Fediverse to me! 🥳
I'm glad to be here. Glad to be among so many birdwatchers, chattering academics, medievodons, histodons, and other awesome people doing awesome stuff.
Thank you to the creators and moderators of historians.social for creating this space.
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
This is 🍌🍌🍌🍌. A grave field from the Viking Age has been discovered in the middle of the city of Gothenburg. Right in between Sweden's largest outdoor stadium and the public bath with the Olympic pool. There is so much city activity at this location that it's hard to comprehend that these graves were somehow overlooked...? (Article in Swedish)
Last week we have launched our first batch of Spanish Prize Papers online. Materials from and relating to 130 Spanish ships taken by the British in the 1740s are now in our Prize Papers Portal.
We had the honour of welcoming the Spanish Ambassador and a Spanish delegation at The National Archives to our launch event.
Happy Monday! We'll be sharing a weekly photograph of George Lansbury from the archives.
Here is George with his daughter Daisy Postage. As well as working as her father's secretary, Daisy was an activist and was involved in the suffragette movement. She famously dressed up as Sylvia Pankhurst to help the real Sylvia Pankhurst evade capture from the police.
"The early alphabet developed in association with Western Asiatic (Canaanite) miners in Sinai (or, at least, was taken up by them) during the Middle Kingdom in the eighteenth century BC. We suggest that early alphabetic writing spread to the Southern Levant during the late Middle Bronze Age (with the Lachish Dagger probably being the earliest attested example), and was in use by at least the mid fifteenth century BC at Tel Lachish."
Comment a-t-on territorialisé les océans du monde? Nadin Heé examine l'industrie thonière japonaise, et montre comment les héritages impériaux et les politiques de #décolonisation ont lourdement pesé sur l’établissement d’un nouvel ordre mondial de #souveraineté océanique.
➡️ Régimes de pêche et nouvel ordre mondial dans le bassin Indo-Pacifique au XXe siècle
Comment penser historiquement l'#Atlantique du Nord-Ouest, et la conception qu'en avaient les marins (surtout des pêcheurs) qui, au XVIe siècle, le fréquentaient? Jack BOUCHARD propose d'en explorer les #cartes mentales dans ce très bel article:
➡️ Terra Nova. Cartes mentales de l’Atlantique du Nord-Ouest au XVIe siècle