For the first time in 20 years, the NBA began its season with no Black-owned franchises. In fact, there’s been only one Black majority-owned team in league history 🏀
A century ago, one of the top pre-NBA professional franchises began play in Harlem thanks to the efforts of a Black business owner named Bob Douglas.
Anlässlich des Internationalen Tags zur Beseitigung von Gewalt gegen Frauen (#OrangeDay) ein Hinweis auf #WerkstattGeschichte 4/1993 "Physische #Gewalt im Alltag", hg. v. Alf Lüdtke & @tlindenberger; darin u.a. Beiträge zu Gegen-Gewalt von Frauen im Schwarzwald im 18. Jh. (Michaela Hohkamp) und zu Gewalt & Sexualität in einer Berliner Arbeiternachbarschaft (Eva Brücker):
The Indigenous History Group of the Canadian Historical Association is running an online book panel event on Tuesday, November 28, 6:00-7:30pm EST. The panel, moderated by Sean Carleton, is a conversation with Lianne Leddy and Annette W. de Stecher about their recent award-winning books.
🏅 We end the week by congratulating José Miguel Ferreira, whose doctoral thesis received an Honourable Mention in the 32nd edition of the Victor Sá Prize for Contemporary History, awarded by the Cultural Council of the University of Minho. 🥳
We're the George Lansbury Memorial Trust, set up in 2012 to commemorate the life of George Lansbury; the life-long campaigner for social justice.
George started life as a radical Liberal, became a socialist in the early 1890s & joined the Social Democratic Federation, Independent Labour Party, and then finally a Labour MP in 1922, leading the Party in the early 1930s.
📘 Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto edited the book "The Value of Work since the 18th Century. Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory".
With examples ranging across several centuries and different parts of the globe, it shows how wages are influenced by the specific organization and processes of work, conflict and power, social status and hierarchies between workers, etc.
Forget #turkey and its #tryptophan naps, the personal chef to King Ferdinand I has a dish that (if prepared incorrectly) will make you lose your mind 🤪
🐱 Read more about Roasted Cat in this excerpt from The History Shapes Cookbook:
🏅 Leonor Areal‘s film-essay "Where is Pessoa?" was awarded an honourable mention in the Outros Olhares section of the 29th edition of the Caminhos do Cinema Português festival, “for transforming an over 100-year-old current affairs film into a modern crime thriller”. 👏👏👏
This is how a page from a medieval #manuscript looks when its original text had been scraped off by someone, overwritten with a new text, and then later, a 19th-century scholar discovered the #palimpsest and tried to make the undertext's ink visible again by painting the page with chemical reagents.
This is the only Black Friday deal I look forward to each year. Simply the best stay-at-home research resource. I've found many sexological gems over the years . . .
the lecture "An investigation into Mário Pinto de Andrade's archive", which Elisa Scaraggi presented in the "Africa at Noon" cycle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is now available on YouTube.
This cycle of weekly lectures has been running since 1973!
📖 In "The Interwar World", edited by Andrew Denning and Heidi J.S. Tworek, more than 50 authors discuss, analyse and interpret this crucial period in the history of the 20th century.
It includes a chapter by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez on #Communism.
Der Thementeil, hg. v. Claudia Jarzebowski, versucht, Bedingungen & Spielräume kindlicher Weltwahrnehmung & die Aneignung der Lebenswelten von Kindern in verschiedenen histor. Kontexten zu rekonstruieren
Dans un premier article, Romain Grancher explore comment, dans les négociations entre assymétrie de pouvoir et assymétrie de savoir, se met en place sous l'ancien régime un gouvernement de la pêche original et expérimental, qui se normalise progressivement au XIXe siècle.