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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🇮🇸 :youtube: **What is left of the Viking Sagas in modern Iceland?**

Survive the Jive

_'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age._

#Video length: one hour and one minute.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=GKjAK8d17q

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Iceland #Vikings #Sagas #Europe @histodon @histodons

YouTubeWhat is left of the Viking Sagas in modern Iceland? 🇮🇸By Survive the Jive
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🇬🇧 **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._”

🔗 cam.ac.uk/research/news/extrem.

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Romans #RomanEmpire #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Drought @histodon @histodons

University of CambridgeExtreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study revealsThree consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study
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Petra van Cronenburg

🧵 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: 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.

en.wikipedia.orgRayon - Wikipedia
#history#textileHistory#histodon
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Petra van Cronenburg

🧵 #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.

A collection of old, very glossy embroidery yarn with some paper envelopes "Royal Society".
Another perspective of the same glossy yarn.
A historic ad for Royal Society Sweater Twist with a photo of the yarn and a women, typically dressed like in the late 1910s. Royal Society was famous for the first "artificial silk" threads, made from Viscose/Rayon. In 1894, viscose was patented in the UK, produced since 1905, the USA followed in 1910. The "more glossy than silk" yarn was the biggest trend at the time of the Titanic.
#histodon#museum#embroidery
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DoomsdaysCW

#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.' "

Source:
msn.com/en-us/money/markets/do

www.msn.comMSN
#PreservingOldFilms#PreservingHistory#FilmArchives
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GRK 2571 - Empires

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: 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

H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften"The Empire and I"As renewed imperial ambitions endanger our modern democratic systems, imperial research takes stronger interest in individuals and their actions inside imperial structures. While history has traditionally focused on the actions of “Great Men”, imperial studies now also focus on the entirety of imperial agents and subjects.
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