On this day in 1738, Mathew Campbell died aged 76. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Derrykeighan, Co. Antrim, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/camp1738
#otd died 1295 Margaret of Provence, Queen of France and wife of Louis IX. Her tomb in Saint Denis Basilica was destroyed in 1793, but this drawing was made a few years earlier. #MedievalDeath#medieval@medievodons Ms: Bodleian Library, MS. Gough drawings-Gaignières 2, f. 24r
#otd 1370 Pope Urban V died in Avignon. His last resting place was in Marseille, but his tomb was destroyed in the Revolution. There is still a marble figure of his first tomb in Avignon. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
On this day in 1717, Alice Finglas Slingsby died aged 70. The Journals show her gravestone inscription from Clonsilla, Co. Dublin: https://tinyurl.com/slingsby1717
“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them.”
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – was born #OTD, 18 Dec, in Akyab (now Sittwe), in Myanmar. Although born in the Raj & raised in England, his parents were Scots & he considered himself to be Scottish, too. Fatema Ahmed looks at his fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
On this day in 1787, Michael Brown died aged 27. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from the old graveyards in Glenarm, Co. Antrim, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/brown1787
On this day in 1783, Mary Kelly Maher died aged 55. The Journals show her gravestone inscription from Killeshin, Co. Laois (Queen's): https://tinyurl.com/maher1783
On this day in 1623, Henry Pierce of Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath, died. His funeral entry details his wife, father-in-law, children and sons-in-law. See more 17th-century funeral entries in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/pierce1623
#otd 999 died Adelaide of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empress. On Magdeburg Cathedral Square, this plate commemorates her. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
#OTD in 1896 , Italian doctor Scipione Riva Rocci, who studied medicine in Turin, published a paper describing his new invention, the sphygmomanometer. Since then his invention has been measuring the blood pressure of humans and animals all over the world. @histodons
Netta Syrett novelist & playwright died #OTD 1943, her prizewinning play was said to be too realistic about women’s lives & received only one performance. Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives now available in US at pre-publication price @UChicagoPress tinyurl.com/mr7m2t2c promo code UCPNEW for 30% off. #DecadentWomen#Decadence#womenswriting#1890s#Victorian@genderhistory@histodons
#otd (?) 1317 (?) died Mary of Bytom, Queen of Hungary, Croatia and Dalmatia. Besides the time of death, the burial place is also disputed. However, there is this depiction of the burial from the Chronicon Pictum, unfortunately without references. #medieval#medievaldeath@medievodons
On this day in 1784, Hugh Kerr died aged 84. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Drumlumman, Co. Cavan, in the Journals: http://tinyurl.com/kerr1784
#otd 1311 died Margaret of Brabant, wife of Henry VII and Queen of the Romans. Unfortunately, only fragments of her tomb in Genoa remain. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic: Wikipedia Commons
On this day in 1833, Eliza Baldwin died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Templemartin, Co. Cork, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/baldwin1833
44 years ago today
London Calling is the third studio album by English punk rock band The Clash, originally released as a double album in UK on this day in 1979 by CBS Records, and in the US on January 1980 by Epic Records
"About this time died Frederick, the greatest of the princes of the earth, the wonder and the marvellous transformer of the world [...]". #otd 1250 died Frederick II #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Quote: Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora Pic.: Ub Heidelberg, cpg 149, f. 213r.
On this day in 1801, Mary Ledwith Higgins died aged 72. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Ballymore, Co. Westmeath, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/higgins1801
#otd 1154 Vicelinus, Bishop of Oldenburg, died. He is venerated as a saint. His bones were transferred to the church of Bordesholm Monastery, where this plate commemorates him today. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons
On this day in 1772, Mary Mickanany McDermott died aged 52. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Dunmanoge, Co. Kildare, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/mcder1772
Annie Jump Cannon American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification was born #OTD in 1863.
In 1896 she became a member of ‘Pickering’s Women’, a group of women hired by Harvard Observatory to process astronomical data &, in particular, to complete the Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra. Published in 1890, the catalogue contained spectroscopic classifications for over 10,000 stars. @Soc.Hist.Astron.