Notices tagged with history

#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons

IWW: **This is Not a Protest**

https://industrialworker.org/this-is-not-a-protest/

Minneapolis shows us why we should organize at work My first protest as an adult was part of the wave of anti-Iraq War protests across the US in 2003. I was part of a crowd of over 100,000. It felt good to know there were so many of us, that I wasn’t alone in my … Continue reading "This is Not a Protest"

#AroundtheIWW #Culture #History #Opinion #Theory #Opinions #Organizing

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.

Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language

The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.

by Rosamund Oates

https://theconversation.com/the-deaf-blacksmith-who-married-in-1576-and-the-history-of-sign-as-a-legal-language-276686?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%209%202026%20-%203699037833&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%209%202026%20-%203699037833+CID_4dad2f3a225cc1558f32f04d20318006&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=The%20deaf%20blacksmith%20who%20married%20in%201576%20%20and%20the%20history%20of%20sign%20as%20a%20legal%20language

Sign language at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=sign+language

#books #literature #history

71 years young ❤️
Happy birthday to Catharina "Nina" Hagen, German singer, songwriter, and member of the punk and new wave movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, born on this day in 1955, East-Berlin

#punk #womenofpunk #ninahagen #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Cool zine from Malaysia / Thailand / Singapore:

"Under The Banana Tree is a convergence of diverse networks of mostly Southeast Asia-based independent and community-driven archival organisations devoted to preserving and sharing along the strands of people’s histories. It is, for multiple organisations affiliated with the network, an attempt to intervene in the historical ruptures on how the people relate their pasts to the present: the archive is one way to do it."

I'm interested in this one (it's my research topic when I was in college): "Circulating Anti-Colonial Imaginaries: Selected Publications Across The Border of Malaya(sia) & Singapore"

https://underthebananatree.org/?p=1685

#Singapore #Malaysia #Thailand #Zine #TootSea #History

Bit of a call out to fellow historians!

Anyone with suitable interest/expertise available on Monday and up for recording a podcast with me on "Rat Lines" - the post-war efforts to help Nazi's escape to South America and elsewhere?

Unfortunately my planned guest had to drop out #history

RE: https://toot.community/@openculture/116200169946525810

One of the few interesting uses for AI I have seen. Pretty neat!

#archeology #archeologie #romans #boardgames #Brettspiele #history #ai #histodons

✈️ An abandoned British Airways Training Centre, England. This sprawling site is now disused, surplus to requirements, and outdated. At the heart of the complex is this Safety and Emergency Procedures (SEP) area.

For training cabin crew, these Boeing 737 and 747 cabin trainers were used to practice everything from meal service to emergency evacuations.

#Abandoned #BritishAirways #Aviation #History #Photography #Boeing #Boeing747 #Boeing737

The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)

Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.

By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces

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But it’s no wonder- despite this long and painful #history of betrayal- that YOU still don’t know who we are. We know well that the #oppressed carry the memory of every wound, but the #oppressor forgets the scars it has inflicted."

Monastère Mont G is a former Roman Catholic monastery. The impressive building was built around a century ago.

The architectural style is Neo-Gothic. The tall roof supports are decorated with Corinthian columns. The tall vaulted ceiling and supporting columns are made out of white and red sandstone. The red and white stones alternate to produce striped pattern. The pattern is oddly reminiscent, at least to me, of a candy cane 🍭

#Belgium #Abandoned #Photography #Urbex #History #AbandonedPlaces

Yes, but what if the Battle of Hastings was fought in the 100 Acre Woods?

#winniethepooh #hastings #history #humor #humour

#archaeology #history #food #science
Archaeologists try to learn about the dietary habits of the people they investigate. So scientists examined the cooking pots of early Eastern European hunter-gatherers. They chemically analysed the pots with their burnt minute remains, lipids and isotopes. They found seeds possibly those of clover, bran, barley and guelder rose berries. In addition there was freshwater fish such as carp. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/recreating-the-complex-cuisine-of-prehistoric-europeans/

I wrote about my experience as a German child in Italy, where a lack of pedagogical tools transformed a history lesson into a process of scapegoating. It’s a story about the intersection of trauma, semantic errors, and the invisible struggle of the twice-exceptional mind.
#AuDHD #Neurodivergence #2e #ActuallyAutistic #History
https://medium.com/@christian.gajewski/the-guilt-of-being-born-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-4128c9c751da?sk=5e7dcbeec4e160cfe875c2f58b9c9791

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Reading: ku₄
Meaning: to enter

#Sumerian #assyriology #history #Babylon #education

🖤 For Black History Month, join us in celebrating the first Black classical music composer in France: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Inspired by the incredible true story of Bologne in 18th century France, Disney's Chevalier takes place during the lead up to the French Revolution. The film sheds light on the realities of France at this time and can ignite student interest in learning more about the French Revolution as well as this remarkable historical figure.

Our free Chevalier Discussion Guide also explores Bologne's legacy; Beginnings, Opportunity, and Excellence; and Race and Identity. For grades 11-12, adult/higher ed.

🔔 This is also a great film for Music in Our Schools Month in March!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/chevalier/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=bhm&utm_content=link

@histodons

#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #History #Histodons #BlackVoices #Education #Movies #ClassicalMusic #Music #Homeschooling #Disney #ChevalierDeSaintGeorges #FrenchHistory #WorldHistory #FrenchRevolution

Mabel Stark was born in 1888 or 1889 and grew up in Princeton, Kentucky. She trained as a nurse, and then, she became a tiger trainer. @ConversationUS tells the story of her courage and kindness.

https://flip.it/IOddv6

#MabelStark #WomensHistoryMonth #History #Histodons

"Reducing typing" seems to be an important value for some software developers. Is there some material origin to this? I.e. was too much typing ever a problem itself?
(Triggered by an add for an LLM that announced that programmers need to type less code, but the idea is not new)

#programming #history #efficiency

Still tickled the antique garage sale saw I bought (and am using today) was originally sold at Stebbins Hardware, 15 Van Buren, Chicago a hundred years ago. Elwood of the Blues Brothers lived at the men's hotel at 17 Van Buren, and there are a lot of scenes at that location. #tools #history