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New Spotlight! Learn about the history of Brass Bands and the collections held at the Brass Band Archives in Huddersfield: [https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-the-brass-band-archive/](https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-the-brass-band-archive/) [\#music](https://hcommons.social/tags/music) [#brass](https://hcommons.social/tags/brass) [#BrassBand](https://hcommons.social/tags/BrassBand) [#bedford](https://hcommons.social/tags/bedford) [#uk](https://hcommons.social/tags/uk) [#archives](https://hcommons.social/tags/archives) [#libraries](https://hcommons.social/tags/libraries) [#museums](https://hcommons.social/tags/museums) [#galleries](https://hcommons.social/tags/galleries) [#GLAM](https://hcommons.social/tags/GLAM) [#heritage](https://hcommons.social/tags/heritage) [#trumpets](https://hcommons.social/tags/trumpets) [#tubas](https://hcommons.social/tags/tubas) [#trombones](https://hcommons.social/tags/trombones) [#photographs](https://hcommons.social/tags/photographs) [#history](https://hcommons.social/tags/history) [#Huddersfield](https://hcommons.social/tags/Huddersfield) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [@archivistodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/archivistodon)
Curators from the Smithsonian will be diving for balloons, scooping up signs and hoping to score some hot dish at the [#DNC](https://newsie.social/tags/DNC) this week. We talked to three of them about how they select items to be used in the future to explain what's going on now (republished on [@medium](https://me.dm/@medium)) [https://medium.com/@ConversationUS/how-smithsonian-curators-scavenge-political-conventions-to-explain-the-present-to-the-future-d90a8cb99f80](https://medium.com/@ConversationUS/how-smithsonian-curators-scavenge-political-conventions-to-explain-the-present-to-the-future-d90a8cb99f80) [#News](https://newsie.social/tags/News) [#USPolitics](https://newsie.social/tags/USPolitics) [#DNC2024](https://newsie.social/tags/DNC2024) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
CAUTIONS. The four cautions: I. Beware of a woman before.--II. Beware of a horse behind.--III. Beware of a cart side-ways.--IV. Beware of a priest every way. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) \-- [\#books](https://zirk.us/tags/books) [#literature](https://zirk.us/tags/literature) [#dictionaries](https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries) [#history](https://zirk.us/tags/history) [#society](https://zirk.us/tags/society) [#crime](https://zirk.us/tags/crime) [#language](https://zirk.us/tags/language) [#slang](https://zirk.us/tags/slang) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
Looking forward to representing the Prize Papers Project alongside Oliver Finnegan (National Archives, UK) and Gabrielle Robilliard-Witt at the 9TH IMHA INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MARITIME HISTORY at the University of Busan, August 19-24. Session 25: "Prize Papers as a New Source for Global Maritime History" [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [#imha2024](https://historians.social/tags/imha2024) [#maritimehistory](https://historians.social/tags/maritimehistory) [#history](https://historians.social/tags/history) [#globalhistory](https://historians.social/tags/globalhistory)
And a very happy Kill the [#Druids](https://toot.community/tags/Druids) Day to all who celebrate. Bastards refused to speak Latin. [@history](https://newsmast.community/@history) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [\#celtic](https://toot.community/tags/celtic) [#history](https://toot.community/tags/history) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid)
RED RAG. The tongue. Shut your potatoe trap, and give your red rag a holiday; i.e. shut your mouth, and let your tongue rest. Too much of the red rag (too much tongue). A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) \-- [\#books](https://zirk.us/tags/books) [#literature](https://zirk.us/tags/literature) [#dictionaries](https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries) [#history](https://zirk.us/tags/history) [#society](https://zirk.us/tags/society) [#crime](https://zirk.us/tags/crime) [#language](https://zirk.us/tags/language) [#slang](https://zirk.us/tags/slang) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
Happy Casimir Pulaski Day! Fun Fact: Pulaski was the father of the American Cavalry and was almost definitely intersex. Researching Pulaski was a fun part of writing [#NamingGotham](https://mastodon.social/tags/NamingGotham) [#history](https://mastodon.social/tags/history) [#histodon](https://mastodon.social/tags/histodon) [#NYC](https://mastodon.social/tags/NYC) [#NewYork](https://mastodon.social/tags/NewYork) [#historymatters](https://mastodon.social/tags/historymatters) [#awardwinning](https://mastodon.social/tags/awardwinning) [#book](https://mastodon.social/tags/book) [@history](https://newsmast.community/@history) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
FUDGE. Nonsense. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) \-- [\#books](https://zirk.us/tags/books) [#literature](https://zirk.us/tags/literature) [#dictionaries](https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries) [#history](https://zirk.us/tags/history) [#society](https://zirk.us/tags/society) [#crime](https://zirk.us/tags/crime) [#language](https://zirk.us/tags/language) [#slang](https://zirk.us/tags/slang) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
Here's a podcast on New Books Network where I talk about (surprise surprise) my new book, 'Visions of a Digital Nation', and why Margaret Thatcher's 1984 [#privatisation](https://hcommons.social/tags/privatisation) of British Telecom was a pivotal moment for both [#neoliberalism](https://hcommons.social/tags/neoliberalism) and [#digitalisation](https://hcommons.social/tags/digitalisation). Podcast: [https://newbooksnetwork.com/visions-of-a-digital-nation](https://newbooksnetwork.com/visions-of-a-digital-nation) Book download: [https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14210.001.0001](https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14210.001.0001) [\#histsci](https://hcommons.social/tags/histsci) [#histodons](https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons) [#history](https://hcommons.social/tags/history) [#sts](https://hcommons.social/tags/sts) [#telecom](https://hcommons.social/tags/telecom) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [@sts](https://a.gup.pe/u/sts) [#tech](https://hcommons.social/tags/tech) [#technology](https://hcommons.social/tags/technology) [#historyoftechnology](https://hcommons.social/tags/historyoftechnology)
The colony of South Carolina was the most radical one south of Virginia. They’ve always been radical. Nothing much has changed. Yesterday’s [#radical](https://mastodon.world/tags/radical) is the [#reactionary](https://mastodon.world/tags/reactionary) of today. [\#BirthOfTheUnitedStates](https://mastodon.world/tags/BirthOfTheUnitedStates) [#IsaacAsimov](https://mastodon.world/tags/IsaacAsimov) [#history](https://mastodon.world/tags/history) [#AmericanRevolution](https://mastodon.world/tags/AmericanRevolution) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
CLOD PATE. A dull, heavy booby. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) \-- [\#books](https://zirk.us/tags/books) [#literature](https://zirk.us/tags/literature) [#dictionaries](https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries) [#history](https://zirk.us/tags/history) [#society](https://zirk.us/tags/society) [#crime](https://zirk.us/tags/crime) [#language](https://zirk.us/tags/language) [#slang](https://zirk.us/tags/slang) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
I’m reading The [#DarkAges](https://mastodon.world/tags/DarkAges) by [#IsaacAsimov](https://mastodon.world/tags/IsaacAsimov), and it turns out that it’s the text that is the original source material for a bunch of Wikipedia articles which I’ve perused over the course of spelunking down digital rabbit-holes for two decades. [\#history](https://mastodon.world/tags/history) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
If history had taken another path, bar codes would look dramatically different today. Pictured: Here’s some of the options that were being considered, and the bull’s-eye was a favorite ⬇️ “Even in their wildest dreams, [the committee members] could not have imagined how consequential their decision ended up being,” writes Jordan Frith of Clemson University. [https://theconversation.com/how-we-almost-ended-up-with-a-bulls-eye-bar-code-219194](https://theconversation.com/how-we-almost-ended-up-with-a-bulls-eye-bar-code-219194) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [#histodons](https://newsie.social/tags/histodons) [#history](https://newsie.social/tags/history) [#technology](https://newsie.social/tags/technology)
BELLY TIMBER. Food of all sorts. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) \-- [\#books](https://zirk.us/tags/books) [#literature](https://zirk.us/tags/literature) [#dictionaries](https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries) [#history](https://zirk.us/tags/history) [#society](https://zirk.us/tags/society) [#crime](https://zirk.us/tags/crime) [#language](https://zirk.us/tags/language) [#slang](https://zirk.us/tags/slang) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
📖 The book "Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence", edited by Zélia Pereira and Rui Graça Feijó, includes a chapter authored by Pedro Aires Oliveira where the historian discusses the reasons that allowed for the retention of Portuguese sovereignty in Timor until 1974. 🇹🇱 👉 [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726375/timor-lestes-long-road-to-independence](https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726375/timor-lestes-long-road-to-independence) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [\#Histodons](https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons) [#Colonialism](https://masto.pt/tags/Colonialism) [#EastTimor](https://masto.pt/tags/EastTimor) [#Indonesia](https://masto.pt/tags/Indonesia) [#Portugal](https://masto.pt/tags/Portugal) [#Bandung](https://masto.pt/tags/Bandung) [#Colonialismo](https://masto.pt/tags/Colonialismo) [#TimorLeste](https://masto.pt/tags/TimorLeste)
A new book on the history of [#prostitution](https://ohai.social/tags/prostitution) in France is out. Elisa Camiscioli's "Selling French Sex. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations". Really looking forward to this. [#sexwork](https://ohai.social/tags/sexwork) [#history](https://ohai.social/tags/history) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [@genderhistory](https://a.gup.pe/u/genderhistory) [@migrationresearch](https://a.gup.pe/u/migrationresearch) [@criticalmodernslaverystudies](https://a.gup.pe/u/criticalmodernslaverystudies) [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/selling-french-sex/CCB6437A68A88F33F84B19ADBCCCDF49#fndtn-information](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/selling-french-sex/CCB6437A68A88F33F84B19ADBCCCDF49#fndtn-information)
📖 The book "Une histoire globale des révolutions", directed by Ludivine Bantigny, Quentin Deluermoz, Boris Gobille, Laurent Jeanpierre, and Eugénia Palieraki, includes a chapter by [@victorpereira](https://social.sciences.re/@victorpereira) dedicated to the Portuguese Carnation Revolution. 👉 [https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/une\_histoire\_globale\_des\_revolutions-9782348059346](https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/une_histoire_globale_des_revolutions-9782348059346) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [\#Histodons](https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons) [#50Anos25Abril](https://masto.pt/tags/50Anos25Abril) [#25A50](https://masto.pt/tags/25A50) [#PoliticalHistory](https://masto.pt/tags/PoliticalHistory) [#PortugueseRevolution](https://masto.pt/tags/PortugueseRevolution) [#Revolutions](https://masto.pt/tags/Revolutions) [#ContemporaryHistory](https://masto.pt/tags/ContemporaryHistory) [#25deAbril](https://masto.pt/tags/25deAbril) [#CarnationRevolution](https://masto.pt/tags/CarnationRevolution)
“The idea of distributing risk has been around since the 14th century when insurers of trading ships wanted someone to share the uncertainties of long sea voyages. “Modern reinsurance was established in 19th-century Europe, which some historians credit to large fires in Hamburg, Germany, and Glarus, Switzerland, where significant losses led to the founding of many of today’s leading reinsurance companies.” [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [#history](https://mastodon.world/tags/history) [#insurance](https://mastodon.world/tags/insurance) [#reinsurance](https://mastodon.world/tags/reinsurance) [#RiskManagement](https://mastodon.world/tags/RiskManagement) [https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-the-face-of-mounting-climate-risks-the-insurance-safety-net-is-falling-apart/](https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-the-face-of-mounting-climate-risks-the-insurance-safety-net-is-falling-apart/)
17th-century New England farmers moved a mind-staggering amount of stone to build walls – an estimated 240,000 miles of barricades, most stacked thigh-high and similarly wide. That’s long enough to wrap Earth 10x at the equator – and is larger in volume than the Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and the Egyptian pyramids at Giza COMBINED. [https://theconversation.com/new-england-stone-walls-lie-at-the-intersection-of-history-archaeology-ecology-and-geoscience-and-deserve-a-science-of-their-own-216701](https://theconversation.com/new-england-stone-walls-lie-at-the-intersection-of-history-archaeology-ecology-and-geoscience-and-deserve-a-science-of-their-own-216701) [\#agriculture](https://newsie.social/tags/agriculture) [#history](https://newsie.social/tags/history) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [#Histodons](https://newsie.social/tags/Histodons)
📖 2023's second issue of [#HoST](https://masto.pt/tags/HoST) — Journal of History of Science is now online. The theme is "Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?". 🔓 Available in [#OpenAccess](https://masto.pt/tags/OpenAccess): [https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/17/2](https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/17/2) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [\#Histodons](https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons) [#SciHist](https://masto.pt/tags/SciHist) [#HistoryOfScience](https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryOfScience) [#SocialHistory](https://masto.pt/tags/SocialHistory) [#Historiography](https://masto.pt/tags/Historiography) [#Brazil](https://masto.pt/tags/Brazil) [#NewPublication](https://masto.pt/tags/NewPublication)
Thinking aloud is a powerful pedagogical tool. In [#AHAPerspectives](https://historians.social/tags/AHAPerspectives), read how Richard Bond employs this method to teach students to use primary sources. [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [#histodons](https://historians.social/tags/histodons) [https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/december-2023/a-classroom-tune-up-using-think-alouds-in-an-introductory-history-course](https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/december-2023/a-classroom-tune-up-using-think-alouds-in-an-introductory-history-course)
The UN’s Genocide Convention, in its 75 years, has not stopped genocide. Far from it. But there is some value to the international treaty. [https://theconversation.com/the-landmark-genocide-convention-has-had-mixed-results-since-the-un-approved-it-75-years-ago-219296](https://theconversation.com/the-landmark-genocide-convention-has-had-mixed-results-since-the-un-approved-it-75-years-ago-219296) [\#history](https://newsie.social/tags/history) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [#Histodons](https://newsie.social/tags/Histodons) [#humanrights](https://newsie.social/tags/humanrights) [#genocide](https://newsie.social/tags/genocide)
On January 15th, I will be taking part alongside several other scholars in a symposium organized by Wilfrid Laurier University on legacies of racism and colonialism in Canadian universities. My talk will focus on the use in 1860 of funds held in trust for First Nations to bail out McGill College. Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past - Reimagining the Future (9am-2:30pm, EST, online) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) Registration: [https://wilfrid-laurier.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_x4KTA2a4R7G10z9N1zxUWA#/registration](https://wilfrid-laurier.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x4KTA2a4R7G10z9N1zxUWA#/registration) [\#histodons](https://mas.to/tags/histodons) [#CdnPSE](https://mas.to/tags/CdnPSE) [#academia](https://mas.to/tags/academia) [#McGill](https://mas.to/tags/McGill)
Henry [#Kissinger](https://newsie.social/tags/Kissinger) is dead at the age of 100. Here's one Cambodian's verdict "I’m a scholar of the political economy of Cambodia who, as a child, escaped the brutal Khmer Rouge regime with four siblings... In both a professional and personal sense, I am aware of the near 50-year impact Kissinger’s policies during the Vietnam War have had on the country of my birth." That impact was destruction, death and trauma. [https://theconversation.com/henry-kissingers-bombing-campaign-likely-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cambodians-and-set-path-for-the-ravages-of-the-khmer-rouge-209353](https://theconversation.com/henry-kissingers-bombing-campaign-likely-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cambodians-and-set-path-for-the-ravages-of-the-khmer-rouge-209353) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [#News](https://newsie.social/tags/News)
THE PRIZE PAPERS "Thousands of records documenting daily lives around the globe in the time of the European Expansion, Colonialism, and Resistance." "The aim of the German-British Prize Papers Project is the complete digitization and sorting of the Prize Papers including the preservation of the collection’s material, the initial and in-depth cataloguing, the creation of research-oriented metadata and finally the presentation of the digital copies and the metadata in an open access research database. The portal development reflects our continuous engagement with developments in the field of Digital Humanities. We also pursue various research projects, and we cooperate with numerous international researchers and research institutions working on the Prize Papers and in project-related areas." [\#ThePrizePapers](https://hcommons.social/tags/ThePrizePapers) [#Europe](https://hcommons.social/tags/Europe) [#History](https://hcommons.social/tags/History) [#OpenAccess](https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess) [#Archives](https://hcommons.social/tags/Archives) [#Digitization](https://hcommons.social/tags/Digitization) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [@digitalhumanities](https://a.gup.pe/u/digitalhumanities) [@sociology](https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology) [@academicchatter](https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter) [@anthropology](https://a.gup.pe/u/anthropology) [https://www.prizepapers.de/](https://www.prizepapers.de/) [https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/23/your-wife-wants-to-see-you-letters-seized-by-18th-century-privateers-opened-for-first-time](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/23/your-wife-wants-to-see-you-letters-seized-by-18th-century-privateers-opened-for-first-time)
Same-sex relationships and gender beyond a strict cisgender binary was more common in ancient Greece and Rome than many people today assume, if we look at the surviving writings 🏳️🌈 [https://theconversation.com/ancient-texts-depict-all-kinds-of-people-not-just-straight-and-cis-ones-this-college-course-looks-at-lgbtq-sexuality-and-gender-in-egypt-greece-and-rome-210182](https://theconversation.com/ancient-texts-depict-all-kinds-of-people-not-just-straight-and-cis-ones-this-college-course-looks-at-lgbtq-sexuality-and-gender-in-egypt-greece-and-rome-210182) [\#LGBTQ](https://newsie.social/tags/LGBTQ) [#History](https://newsie.social/tags/History) [#Histodons](https://newsie.social/tags/Histodons) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons)
The [#Oppenheimer](https://hcommons.social/tags/Oppenheimer) movie is a triumph of the American narrative of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A story entirely told from the perpetrator's perspective. No voice of the victim. An obsession with the brilliance of manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. [\#Hiroshima](https://hcommons.social/tags/Hiroshima) [#Nagasaki](https://hcommons.social/tags/Nagasaki) [#nuclear](https://hcommons.social/tags/nuclear) [#ManhattanProject](https://hcommons.social/tags/ManhattanProject) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [#histodons](https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons) [https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american-narrative-of-hiroshima-is-a-statue-that-must-be-toppled/](https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american-narrative-of-hiroshima-is-a-statue-that-must-be-toppled/)
Detail from the one of my favourite ancient Roman mosaics. There’s tentacles galore to enjoy here as well as many different examples of marine life 🐟🐙🦑🦐 🏛 MAN Napoli, inv. 120177 [\#MosaicMonday](https://kolektiva.social/tags/MosaicMonday) [#AncientRome](https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientRome) [#History](https://kolektiva.social/tags/History) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [@antiquidons](https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons) [@archaeodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/archaeodons)
I caught this beauty while at the Baths of Diocletian. It’s been placed on display on an exterior wall and is genuinely huge. The different bird life featured is spectacular! [\#MosaicMonday](https://kolektiva.social/tags/MosaicMonday) [#History](https://kolektiva.social/tags/History) [#AncientRome](https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientRome) [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons) [@antiquidons](https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons) [@archaeodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/archaeodons)