Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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📖 🖋️ **Conserving and digitising the oldest known set of lecture notes from medieval Oxford**
“_This manuscript includes lectures on the Psalms from Alexander’s teaching in the 1190s, and Treatise on the Strong Woman, an analysis of the leading roles of Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary in the medieval church_”
#Digital #Manuscipt #Study #Notes #Archive #Library #Oxford #C13th #Medieval #Medievodons #History @medievodons
📏 **150 years ago, the Metre Convention determined how we measure the world — a radical initiative for the time**
📚 **16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time**
Regina Sienra
"_Centuries ago, academics had an alternative to juggling several tomes and propping them open all over a table. They used the bookwheel, a rotating device that allowed people to browse multiple books at once, allowing them to go from one text to the next without even having to stand up._"
🔗 https://mymodernmet.com/bookwheel-history/.
#Image attribution: Gaspard Grollier de Serviere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grollier%27s_Reading_Wheel.jpg.
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**The end of globalization (as we know it).... I guess.**
The Burning Archive
“_Trump blasted tariffs. The world screamed, “It is the end of globalization as we know it. I guess...? But what does history say?_”
#Video length: twenty minutes and forty-one seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMZ1X6dgT-I.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Globalization #Sociology @sociology @histodon @histodons
📜 🇰🇿 **Kazakh Manuscript on Khans’ Genealogy Added to UNESCO Memory of World Register**
_“The ‘Khandar Shezhiresi’, a scroll over three meters long, traces the genealogy of the rulers of the Kazakh steppes. It not only highlights their deep historical roots but also offers insights into their connections with other peoples and civilizations from the sixth to the 19th centuries,”_
🇵🇾 📜 **Stolen 16th-century manuscript returned to Paraguayan authorities**
"_The 13-page item detailing laws governing indigenous life under Spanish colonial rule and linked to the 1603 abolition of the encomienda system was valued at US$ 20,000. It had been stolen from Paraguay's National Archives and put up for auction in New York in 2013._"
**Nazareth, Galilee and Jerusalem: ITN Explores the Holy Land (1958)**
ITN Archive
“_On 1 May 1958, ITN’s Michael Barely took viewers on a trip around the Holy Land. He reported from several sites of Biblical significance including including Nazareth, Ashkelon and the Sea of Galilee. He ended his report in Jerusalem where he watched tourists navigate the border of the divided city (in 1958, West Jerusalem was under Israeli control while East Jerusalem was annexed by Jordan)._”
#Video length: sixteen minutes and fifty-three seconds.
🇩🇪 **Thirty Years’ War camp unearthed in Germany reveals daily life and mysteries**
🔗 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/thirty-years-war-camp-unearthed-in-germany/
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Bravaria #Germany #Europe @archaeodons
**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**
“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”
#Image attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @science
🇺🇸 💵 📖 **Forsyth on Bridges, 'Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower'**
“_The author writes that by focusing on finance she is analyzing the infrastructure of America’s global expansion. Territorial expansion, beginning with the Spanish-American War, meant that the American state required an infrastructure of payments and finance, and so did American business as it internationalized. The decisive events in this narrative include the Spanish-American War, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, World War I, the recession of 1920-21, and the Great Depression._”
Douglas J. Forsyth. Review of Bridges, Mary. Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. March, 2025. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61536 .
#History #UnitedStates #USA #US #C20th #Finance #Banking #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstoson @bookstodon
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain**
“_This article shows that fiscal capacity was not created only by government bureaucracies: the ‘company-state at home’ model presented here complements the narrative of the ‘fiscal-military state’ by showing that much fiscal revenue from trade was realized through the action of the English East India Company (EIC). Lacking the capacity to enact exhaustive laws, carry out complex calculations, or effectively manage a large bureaucracy, the English state relied on the administrative capacity of the EIC to collect customs on the East Indies trade._”
Karolina Hutková, Ernesto Dal Bó, Lukas Leucht, Noam Yuchtman, Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf009.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #India #EastIndiaCompany #C18th #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
**Publicly accessible digital tool for data on trans-Atlantic slave trade will be supported by Hutchins Center, Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative**
Christy DeSmith
_“Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels that traversed the Atlantic between the 16th and 19th centuries. Also documented are details on nearly 221,000 individuals involved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, including ship captains and the humans they trafficked.”_
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/slavevoyages-finds-new-home-at-harvard/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #Digital #Data #Harvard @histodon @histodons
🗞️ 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodon @histodons
🇬🇧 **Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals**
“_Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of famine and societal breakdown caused by an extreme period of drought to inflict crushing blows on weakened Roman defences in 367 CE. While Rome eventually restored order, some historians argue that the province never fully recovered._”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Romans #RomanEmpire #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Drought @histodon @histodons
**Austrian Graffiti Discovered in a Holy Site: Researchers Decipher Medieval Inscriptions in the Room of the Last Supper in Jerusalem**
#History #Medieval #Medievodons #Graffiti #Jerusalem @medievodons
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 **Bismarck’s Britain**
“_The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw himself as a puppet-master, engineering British politics from afar in his feud with Gladstone._”
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/bismarcks-britain.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #Bismarck #Gladstone #Politics @histodon @histodons
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **‘The British are coming’ and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War**
“_During the summer of 1776, they defined their objective as total separation and declared independence. Yet declaring independence was very different to actually achieving it. King George III’s government, under Prime Minister Frederick, Lord North regarded their actions as no more than insurrection and remained determined to crush them._”
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #C18th #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodon @histodons
**The Last Nazi Election - August 1945!**
Mark Felton Productions
“_Incredibly, over three months after Hitler's death, one place was still ruled by Nazis, and indeed in August 1945 an election returned the Nazi Party to power!_”
#Video length: twelve minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spnO0olgUbE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazis #Election @histodon @histodons
🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**
“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”
Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406020.
#OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Image #History #Fiction #Book #Bookstodon #Literature #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #HesterPrynne @literature @bookstodon
🇺🇸 📖 **The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850**
“_Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the architects of American expansion faced significant challenges from the diverse groups of people inhabiting each region._”
🔗 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685052/the-age-of-the-borderlands/.
#Nonfiction #History #ManifestDestiny #USA #UnitedStates #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
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