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"This ‘Northwest Passage’, the fabled northern route linking East with West, was not successfully navigated until 1906 by Roald Amundsen. Today we talk about the four centuries of exploration before then..." https://snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirror-podcast/the-search-for-the-northwest-pasage/ #Maritime #History #Podcast #Europe #Arctic #Canada #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/NauticalHistory/status/1659423640620875777

"It is frightening to think where all this might lead. If English is in such a bad state now, what will things be like in a generation’s time? We must surely act before it is too late." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/15/why-its-time-to-stop-worrying-about-the-decline-of-the-english-language #English #Language #History #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/lingdiscovery/status/1659659943866146855

"Prior to the period of the much-lauded modern “discovery” of 1 Enoch/Ethiopic Enoch, what was known of these and other Enochic writings?" https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37375274 #OpenAccess #OA #Medieval #MiddleAges #Religion #History #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/AnnetteYReed/status/1659661054232674305

The Mexican-American War ended 175 years ago: How did Mexico lose half its territory? https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-05-19/the-mexican-american-war-ended-175-years-ago-how-did-mexico-lose-half-its-territory.html #History #Mexico #USA #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/elpaisinenglish/status/1659760852994596864

"This tablet is particularly notable as it is one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman." https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/vindolanda-tablets/ #Ancient #History #Roman #Britain #Latin #Classics #Writing #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1659555954889830402

"Boscovich did important work in geometry, optics, astronomy, geodesy, and even engineering..." https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/roger-joseph-boscovich #History #Science #Maths #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1659548442694234112

Short #history #video: the death of Chinggis Khan https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A1llQj-hM2A #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/the_jackmeister/status/1659139574436708352

May 1664: Hooke vs. Cassini: Who Discovered Jupiter’s Red Spot? https://aps.org/publications/apsnews/202005/history.cfm #History #Science #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1659182115232022528

Scientist of the day: Barthélemy Faujas-de-Saint-Fond. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/barthelemy-faujas-de-saint-fond-4 #History #Science #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1658877535906562054

"The camps suggest the Roman takeover of the Nabataean kingdom may not have been as peaceful as previously thought". https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-roman-army-camps-in-jordan-that-may-indicate-a-secret-military-mission-180982165/ #History #Archaeology #Roman #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/AntiquityJ/status/1658825952317538307

"Dr Patricia Fara tells the story of Caroline Herschel, concert soprano turned astronomer, unkindly caricatured in Georgian times as ‘The Female Philosopher, smelling out the Comet’. " https://royalsociety.org/blog/2023/05/first-ladys-comet/ #History #Science #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/RSocPublishing/status/1658382180043702274

Cunningham, M. (2022). The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400–1000: Hymns, Homilies and Hagiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009327244 #History #Europe #OpenAccess #OA #Books #histodons @histodons

Working, L. (2020). The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108625227 #History #OpenAccess #OA #Books #Britain #America #histodons @histodons

Naef, A. (2022). An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom: 1945–1992 (Studies in Macroeconomic History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878333 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Economics #UK #histodons @histodons

"Piltdown Man placed Britain’s name on the map of human evolution. There was only one problem—there’s no such thing as a missing link."https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-problem-of-piltdown-man #History #Science #Evolution #Britain #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/columbiacss/status/1656722141293731844

"Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries". https://newbooksnetwork.com/spoils-of-knowledge #Podcast #Books #Sweden #Library #Archives #History #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/Brill_History/status/1658503386357022728

Lucas, P. (2022). A CONSPECTUS OF LETTERS TO AND FROM SIR HENRY SPELMAN (1563/4–1641). The Antiquaries Journal, 102, 370-388. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000026 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Anglo_Saxon #Manuscripts #England #Research #histodons @histodons

"This article explores the impact of Enlightenment ideas in late eighteenth-century Sweden through the case study of Rosenstein and his remarkable text." https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2187879 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Sweden #Scotland #Enlightenment #C18th #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/MaxSkjonsberg/status/1658470581384380421

Dow, S. (2023). SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON RHETORIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000530 #History #Philosophy #Science #OpenAccess #OA #histodons @histodons

"They pulled off one of the most astonishing campaigns of conquest in history, forging the largest contiguous empire the world has ever seen. But how did they treat their subject populations once the dust had settled?" https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/what-life-like-mongol-empire/ #History #Mongol #Medieval #histodons @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/NicholasMorto11/status/1658126237603094531