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How Cambridge bred eugenics
"The term “eugenics” (from the Greek for ‘well born’) was birthed here in Cambridge by Trinity’s own Francis Galton in 1883. Galton was inspired by his cousin Charles Darwin and adapted the idea of natural selection to presuppose that the survival of the fittest had been distorted by social welfare policies."
https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/27401
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Eugenics #Race #Racism #ScientificRacism #Cambridge #University #Academia @histodon @histodons
"In most work in the history of science, the approach is to show how a particular event or outcome was the result of various social and intellectual influences. Bayesian history of science, on the other hand, focuses on the lines of evidence relevant to the historical development to see if the direction taken by an individual or group of scientists was consistent or inconsistent with the evidence at hand."
Henry Small; Bayesian history of science: The case of Watson and Crick and the structure of DNA. Quantitative Science Studies 2023; 4 (1): 209–228. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00233
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Discovery #DNA #Academia #Academic #Academics @science
"Our purpose is to demonstrate that the tropes usually today associated with the Corn and Poor Laws – pauperism, a clash between merchant, manufacturing and landlord interests, population and impoverishment – are absent from discussion during this period."
Lanot (Umeå), G. and Tribe (Tartu), K. (2024) ‘Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–96’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2343530.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #C18th #18thCentury #Economics #Europe @econhistory @economics
"Justin’s (third or fourth century CE) summary of Trogus’ story (first century BCE) is the most extensive legendary account we have about the migration of Tyrians to northern Libya (or Africa) and the founding of Carthage."
Philip A. Harland, 'Phoenician diasporas: Timaios of Tauromenion, Trogus, and Appian on the founding of Carthage and on child sacrifice (first century BCE),' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified April 24, 2024, https://philipharland.com/Blog/?p=19907.
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Phoenicia #Carthage #Migration @histodon @histodons
"Ordnance Survey mapmakers filmed in 1965."
#Video #BritishPathe #Map #Maps #Cartography #OS #OrdnanceSurvey #History #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Vintage
"We present a set of large pedigrees, reconstructed using ancient DNA, spanning nine generations and comprising around 300 individuals. We uncover a strict patrilineal kinship system, in which patrilocality and female exogamy were the norm and multiple reproductive partnering and levirate unions were common. The absence of consanguinity indicates that this society maintained a detailed memory of ancestry over generations."
Gnecchi-Ruscone, G.A., Rácz, Z., Samu, L. et al. Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07312-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #DNA #Genetics #Science #Avars #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @histodon @histodons
The virtues of the historical mind
"Being historically minded is about having a certain orientation to history, being alive and alert to the fact that almost everything we take for granted in culture today, especially values, has its own roots and its own complex journey, a history of how it came to be."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/24/the-virtues-of-the-historical-mind/
Decoding Ulysses: How Joyce Published The Novel of the Century + How To Read It
"A brief history of the mess James Joyce had to put up with to publish Ulysses and how to read the text without losing your mind ft. Prof. Rónán McDonald, The Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies."
#Video #History #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #JamesJoyce #Novel #Fiction @bookstodon
Seeing Dante’s Commedia in Print from the Renaissance to Today
"An intensely envisioned journey through the three realms of the Christian afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise), Dante’s poem, written in the early 1300s, was the subject of vivid illustrations from its earliest circulation and, when book making transitioned into the new medium of print in the late 1400s, Dante’s poem became the source of inspiration for new visual traditions."
https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/seeing-dantes-commedia-in-print-from-the-renaissance-to-today/
#Dante #Poetry #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #BookHistory #Renaissance @bookstodon
"Despite their seemingly factual nature, Renaissance maps are considered significant art objects. How can we best read them to understand more about this period?"
Romano, Daniella. "How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/how-read-renaissance-map-tips/ (accessed April 22, 2024).
#Map #Maps #Mapstodon #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Renaissance #Tip #Tips @histodon @histodons
If #history teaches us anything, it is that things are alright until they are suddenly not and that by that time it is usually too late.
The Kaiser's Nazi Funeral
"He gave express instructions that his funeral was not to include Nazi symbolism, as he had been a vocal critic of Hitler and particularly his anti-semitic policies. But, the Nazis ignored the Kaiser's wishes and he was given a funeral containing a lot of NSDAP symbolism. It was a final insult from Hitler, who despised the Kaiser and all he stood for."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazi #Germany #Europe @histodon @histodons
🇬🇧 HENRY V - Laurence Olivier - 1944 - Remastered - 4K
"Fascinating not just for its approach to the text but also for its portrait of multiple facets of the British character, calibrated for explicitly propagandist purposes in the Second World War to be a call to arms as such formed a powerful reminder of what Britain was defending."
#Video #Film #Movie #Cinema #Remastered #Shakespeare #HenryV #LaurenceOlivier #History #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom @films
The History of Byzantium
Episode 1 - An Introduction
https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/ad172bfc-82c9-4445-bb7f-59069f1f1a2a
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Audio #Podcast @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg
When the names won’t stick: the case of Galileo’s moons
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/17/when-the-names-wont-stick-the-case-of-galileos-moons/
🇬🇧 From a different age: "Dangers of Smoking 1957".
#Video #Smoking #Cigarette #Tobacco #Health #History #Vintage #C20th #20thCentury #Television #TV #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #BritishPathe
🇺🇸 The US Foreign Assistance Map
"The Foreign Assistance Trends map provides a really interesting overview of the changing geo-political priorities of the United States over time."
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-us-foreign-assistance-map.html
#Cartography #Map #Maps #Mapstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Aid #Politics #History @politics
WW2 Japan's White Soldiers
"In World War II, the Germans used some Asian soldiers, but did the Japanese employ any Caucasians in its army? Find out the full story here."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #WW2 #WWII #Japan #White #Caucasian #Asia #War @histodon @histodons
Hitler's Asians - The Turkestan Legion
"The Germans recruited widely, but one of the most exotic units they created was the Turkestan Legion, made up Turkic-speaking men from Central Asia."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #WW2 #WWII #Germany #CentralAsia #Asia #Europe #War @histodon @histodons
Hegel and History
"The lesson here for contemporary politics is clear and significant. Rather than disavowing our circumstances and dismissing our cultural and intellectual traditions as morally compromised or tainted by history, we ought to be examining the long-term historical processes that have led us to this conjuncture and employing the existing resources at our disposal to surmount its challenges."
https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/hegel-and-history/
#Politics #History #Histodon #Histodons #Culture #Ideas #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @politicalscience
#Image attribution: Jakob Schlesinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jakob_Schlesinger_-_Hegel_1831.jpg
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