New episode of #AskAMedievalist up this morning: http://askamedievalist.com/2025/04/19/episode-91-the-field-where-i-grow-my-ducks/
Part two of our look at #medieval memes. Get it wherever fine #podcasts are downloaded.
Abandoned 400 years ago.
Ruinas da Gonda, #Graubünden #Svizra
#LostPlace #medieval #ruins #histodon
Milosz writes about Poland during and after WW2.
Going from sovereign country to Nazi invasion to Russian Communism takeover, and the mindf**k it had on citizens.
Every American should read it. All sounds familiar.
Using my highlighter a lot.
**Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals**
“_Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of famine and societal breakdown caused by an extreme period of drought to inflict crushing blows on weakened Roman defences in 367 CE. While Rome eventually restored order, some historians argue that the province never fully recovered._”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Romans #RomanEmpire #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Drought @histodon @histodons
I am excited the the Tomb of the Eagles will (hopefully) reopen on Lammas, August 1st. This place is central to the story of Orkney as I know it.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-5000-old-monument-bought-165757056.html #Orkney #archaeology #Histodon #Histodons #Scotland
Read the alt texts of the photos above about the #yarn's history. Here you can learn more about the history of this "more glossy than silk" patent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon
This #emboidery #floss was a hype since 1905/1910 ... and we can imagine that some of the governesses who had the misfortune to be on board, used it for #embroideries in the luxury rooms of the #Titanic.
#OTD the #Titanic sank in 1912. When I was a very small child, I knew an old woman who narrowly escaped this disaster. As the governess of a US millionaire's children, she was supposed to be travelling on the Titanic. They arrived too late in England and couldn't get tickets.
Shortly before her death, she gave me some old #yarn. I haven't dared to use it to this day because it's like travelling back in #deepTime. 113 years can feel so near.
#DOGE terminates grant for #Maine #FilmArchive in #Bucksport
April 14, 2025
BUCKSPORT, Maine (WABI) - "A Hancock County non-profit says the Trump Administration abruptly terminated a six-figure federal grant this month.
"Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport has been dedicated to preserving Maine history for four decades.
"Executive Director David Weiss says he received a letter from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, around 1:00 a.m. on April 2nd. That’s how they learned a $341,000 grant from the National Endowment for the #Humanities was canceled.
"The money was funding a project to catalog, digitize, and publish material NHF has collected from Maine television stations over the last 35 years. Weiss says they’re now looking at a $104,000 budget deficit and the paychecks of all seven archives staff members are taking a hit.
" 'The only good thing about it is that I don’t feel singled out, you know? I feel like this is just a broad thing that happened, and we got caught up in it. It’s not like they said, ‘You are bad.’ It’s just like, ‘Well, you’re all bad.’ So, safety in numbers, maybe that’s the best I can say,' Weiss said.
"While Weiss says an appeal wouldn’t do any good, there is the potential for them to be involved in a lawsuit to hopefully get some of the funding back.
"In the meantime, they’ve launched a #fundraising push to try to cover some of the losses. It’s raised $15,000 in just two days.
"If you’d like to contribute, visit oldfilm.org and click on 'GIVE.' "
Today is St Elfleda's Day, a saint connected to Glastonbury. (It's sometimes given as 23rd Oct instead.)
She features in Unsung Women in Somerset as well as my upcoming book, On This Day in Somerset.
Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).
Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.
Read it here: https://t1p.de/conf-rep-24
@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory
Program histoCON 2025
https://www.bpb.de/veranstaltungen/reihen/histocon/560143/program-histocon-2025/
=> Programm sieht ganz spannend aus, finde ich.
#histodon
Praktikumsbericht, DHI Washington 2023 von Simon Krahé
https://dhbuw.hypotheses.org/1951
#histodon #DHIWashington #DHBUW #deHypo
Hubby, who used to teach American history, reminded me of the #HartfordConvention from 1814-15. #Maine, #Massachusetts, #Vermont, #Connecticut, #NewHampshire and #RhodeIsland had considered leaving the union and forming their own "independent republic" in opposition to "political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. "
Excerpt:
"Some delegates may have been in favor of New England's #secession from the United States and forming an #independent republic, though no solution was adopted at the convention. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison rejected the notion that the Hartford convention was an attempt to take New England out of the Union and give treasonous aid and comfort to Britain. Morison wrote: 'Democratic politicians, seeking a foil to their own mismanagement of the war and to discredit the still formidable Federalist party, caressed and fed this infant myth until it became so tough and lusty as to defy both solemn denials and documentary proof.' "
We recently went on a trip to Charleston to see museum ships and Fort Sumter. Of course, I hit a quilt shop. While there I had an idea for a quilt project. this is the result. I combined the streams.
Really enjoyed the exhibition on women in Somerset in WWII at the Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury. Useful for my research for On This Day in Somerset!
#qotd What was the last interesting place you visited?
Fundstücke
aus #ANNO der #OeNB :
"Warum nicht der Storch, sondern der #Osterhase die Kinder bringt, und andere Märchen"
#histodon #histodons #histodonsDE
#history #Geschichte
#Habsburgermonarchie #Ministerrat
#DH #digitalEdition #digitalHumanities
#Kulturgeschichte
#politischeGeschichte
#Mediengeschichte #Ostern
Hey fellow researchers & experts — have you ever had frustrating experiences with media coverage or interviews you gave about your field? Misquotes, oversimplifications, odd angles? Curious how others navigate this. Happy to hear your thoughts.
#AcademicLife #PhDLife #SciComm #Wisskomm #histodon
So the archivist at the SFMTA Photo Archive was able to help me dig this up! I absolutely love this photo. However, the archive doesn't have much detail on it. The description for the photo says "Copy Photograph of Bicycle Riders on a Tandem Bicycle with a Baby Seat Likely in Golden Gate Park | Date Unknown" (though, not sure how unknown that date is given the "Date Taken" metadata for the photo says "31 December 1899" 
).
I would love to get a better idea of the location where this photo was taken. I also assumed it was Golden Gate Park even before reading the description, but am not sure where in the park a path like this would have been located (if it's even actually in Golden Gate Park!).
edit: oh I should add tags lol (I have no idea what tags to use)
#CurrentlyReading "#Communist Women Writers: The Emergence of Memory Culture" in #Detroit-based #Socialist journal #AgainstTheCurrent. #Marxism #Socialism #Journalism #Politics #USPol #Histodon #CPUSA https://againstthecurrent.org/atc235/the-emergence-of-memory-culture/
