Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇯🇵 🇸🇬 🎥 **Japan - Singapore - 1941. Movietone Moment**
British Movietone
_"On this day in 1941, Japan invaded Singapore. Here is a British Movietone report of the first blitz on Singapore."_
#Video length: one minute and forty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/RZgCMQVTNaw
#OnThisDay #OTD #History #Histodon #Histodons #Japan #Singapore #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #WW2 #WWII @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **Papermaking: A Rags to Riches Story**
Posted by: Patrick Hastings
_“Beginning in the 1300s, the Italians adopted and adapted techniques first developed in China and the Middle East, and their innovations spread throughout Europe, lasting for centuries as the highest standard in paper production.”_
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/12/05/papermaking-a-rags-to-riches-story/
🔴 **The Vikings lacked a long-term vision**
Dr Cristian Ispir
_"This short-term plundering mentality left the Vikings culturally impoverished, unable to build upon the ruins of what they destroyed. And ignorance added cultural insult to civilizational injury."_
🔗 https://www.biblonia.com/p/the-vikings-lacked-a-long-term-vision
🔴 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **British Identity Within the Indian Setting in Zoffany’s Portraits**
Rose Akcan
_"Palmer and Bakhsh’s relationship was not unique in the time of East India Company representatives taking over Indian provinces. The boundaries between enslaved people and servants were contested in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as masters struggled to differentiate between these roles."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EastIndiaCompany #Art #Portraits #Culture #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #India #Asia #Identity #Colonialism @histodon @histodons
🔴 **16th-century graffiti of Tower of London prisoners decoded for first time**
Dalya Alberge
_"Dr Jamie Ingram, who is heading a major project to study graffiti in the Tower of London, described the discoveries as “exciting”. He began studying the Salt Tower on the south-eastern corner – part of the curtain wall that Henry III built in the 1230s. Its prisoners included Hew Draper, a Bristol innkeeper accused of practising sorcery and imprisoned in 1561, who carved an astrological sphere with zodiacal signs into the wall, despite having claimed that he had destroyed all his magical books. No record exists of his fate."_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Culture #Britain @archaeodons
🔴 🇫🇷 **Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes**
_Combining visual and textual analysis, this article suggests that royal image makers linked Muslims and Protestants to defend the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and manifest the French king's religious zeal and imperial ambition while distracting from the ahdname (capitulations) granted by the Ottoman sultan that precluded France from joining a Catholic alliance to fight the “Turkish menace.”_
Gillian Weiss; Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. French Historical Studies 1 November 2024; 47 (4): 549–570. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-11284379.
#Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #LouisXIV #Huguenots #Protestants #Muslims #Islam #France #Europe @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea**
_“The work meticulously explores the inception, evolution, and profound impact of the Spanish Inquisition, an institution pivotal in shaping Spain's history and, by extension, influencing the broader civilized world.”_
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43296
#History #Medieval #Medievodons #Religion #Christianity #Catholicism #Church #Spain #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #ProjectGutenberg @bookstodon @medievodons
🔴 🎥 **Echoes of the Silk Road: Cities of Trade and Culture**
British Library
_“Watch this expert panel of historians and writers explore other historic cities along this legendary corridor. Join Bettany Hughes as she uncovers the ancient wonders of Istanbul, and travel with Colin Thubron through Uzbekistan to explore the legendary city of Samarkand.”_
#Video length: one and eighteen minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/wxoyhyH3AWg
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #SilkRoad #Trade #Culture @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇵🇹 🇰🇪 **Sunken ship may hold secrets of Vasco da Gama’s last voyage, archaeologists say**
Vishwam Sankaran
_"Researchers say the ship, discovered in 2013 in waters off a Kenyan coastal town, is a Portuguese vessel and may have been Da Gama’s Sao Jorge, which sank in 1524 – the year the famed explorer died in India, likely from malaria."_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/vasco-da-gama-ship-final-voyage-b2655089.html
#History #Histodon #Histodons #VascoDaGama #Kenya #Portugal #IndianOcean #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **The cradle of British Christianity BURNED by Vikings**
#Video length: two minutes and nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hgkac4abS1c
#Religion #Christianity #Vikings #Scotland #England #Britain #Europe #History #HIstodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Real History of Squanto and Mayflower-Indian Relations**
Andrew Lipman
_“Those colonists are best known today as “Pilgrims,” a name they did not call themselves. Squanto, who was also known as Tisquantum, had been their translator for twenty months when he fell ill in November 1622. It had been two years since the Mayflower arrived on American shores and one year after the so-called First Thanksgiving, a diplomatic visit that was not actually a feast of thanksgiving.”_
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/11/27/the-real-history-of-squanto-and-mayflower-indian-relations/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Funny Churchill Bloopers**
_“Behind-the-scenes of Churchill filming a 1950 election appeal.”_
#Video length: one minute and twenty-one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/4oqVvVFUGNE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #Bloopers #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **Eisenhower in 5 Minutes**
#Video length: four minutes and thirty-six seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/mXi5qUUwzOk
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #C20th #20thCentury #Eisenhower @histodon @histodons
🔴 **“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain**
_“Chronic coin shortages plagued Ireland and Britain's American colonies throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite complaints, every proposal to mint money in early modern Britain's overseas Atlantic empire failed, whether in Ireland, the Caribbean, or North America. This article explains why.”_
Caden, M. (2024) ‘“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain’, Journal of British Studies, pp. 1–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.119.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Britain #Empire #Imperialism #Colonialism #Currency #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
🔴 **Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses**
_“This is in agreement with experimental data, which indicate that placing a HT in a domed oven, preheated with glowing embers to an initial temperature of 420ºC for two hours, can yield a uniformly baked bread loaf or ‘focaccia’ weighing about 3.5 kg.”_
Taranto, S., Barcons, A.B., Portillo, M. et al. Unveiling the culinary tradition of ‘focaccia’ in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith & organic-residue analyses. Sci Rep 14, 26805 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78019-9
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Food #Neolithic #Mesopotamia #Academia #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population**
_“We also investigated the debated question on the genetic origin of Armenians and failed to find any significant support for historical suggestions by Herodotus of their Balkan-related ancestry. We checked the degree of continuity of modern Armenians with ancient inhabitants of the eastern Armenian highlands and detected a genetic input into the region from a source linked to Neolithic Levantine Farmers at some point after the Early Bronze Age.”_
Hovhannisyan et al., Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population, The American Journal of Human Genetics (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.10.022
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Demography #Genetics #Genome #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology #History #BronzeAge #Armenia #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology
🔴 **Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture**
_"In this comparative study, I argue that Egyptian and Judean Hebrew/Aramaic scripts from 400 BCE–400 CE were heavily influenced by Greek and later Latin writing cultures, which explains many previously inexplicable phenomena. Jewish writers in the third century BCE adopted the Greek split-nibbed reed pen, which dramatically changed the appearance of Hebrew/Aramaic scripts. At the same time, the normal size for Hebrew/ Aramaic scripts shrank considerably, the pen strokes became mostly monotone and unshaded, and the scripts became more rectilinear, angular, bilinear, and square."_
Longacre, Drew. (2021). Comparative Hellenistic and Roman Manuscript Studies (CHRoMS): Script Interactions and Hebrew/Aramaic Writing Culture (Version Online First). Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 7(1), 7–50. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.8897.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Manuscripts #Palaeography #Hebrew #Writing #Academia #Academics
🔴 **Isaac Newton’s wealth ‘intimately connected’ with slavery, author says**
Hannah Devlin
_"During the scientist’s 30-year tenure at the mint, the book outlines, Newton oversaw an influx of gold mined primarily by enslaved Africans in Brazil. And as master of the mint, he took a small fee for every coin that was minted."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #HistSci #IsaacNewton #Slavery #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon
#Image attribute: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Portret_van_Isaac_Newton%2C_RP-P-OB-32.808.jpg.
🔴 🇹🇷 **Ancient Kestros Fountain in Türkiye flows again after 1,800 years**
Fatih Hepokur
_"The fountain, adorned with a reclining figure representing the ancient river god, Kestros, is expected to draw increased tourism, further enhancing the region’s cultural significance."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Türkiye #Turkey #Romans @histodon @histodons
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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