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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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📖 🇯🇵 🎙️ **The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan**
“_Although Japan was never conquered by the Mongol empire, the 1274 and 1281 Mongol invasions were commemorated, remembered, and imagined in Japanese historical writings. How did history books, genealogies, gazetteers, local histories, and artworks represent the Mongol invasions? What role did the idea of the invasions play in the creation of cultural identity?_”
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-historical-writing-of-the-mongol-invasions-in-japan.
#Audio #Podcast #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Japan #Asia #Culture #Identity @histodons @bookstodon
**Unheard Nazi tapes acquired by Aberdeen historian to be released ahead of WW2 80th anniversary**
🔗 https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/unheard-nazi-tapes-acquired-aberdeen-10153083.
📖 **The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World **
#Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #History #Books #Bookstodon #Library #Ancient #Mesopotamia @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **A Rare 15th-Century Black Book of Hours Is Getting a Long-Awaited Restoration**
“_The Black Book of Hours is one of only seven known surviving black vellum illuminated manuscripts made by Flemish artists between 1455 and 1480.”_
🔗 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tefaf-restores-black-book-of-hours-2638098.
📖 **Making Money in the Early Middle Ages**
“_An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe”
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177403/making-money-in-the-early-middle-ages.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Academia #Money #Medieval #Medievodons #Europe @histodons @bookstodon @medievodons
📖 **The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa**
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-laurence-rovner/the-jew-who-would-be-king/.
#BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Biography #Colonisation #Colonization #Empire #Imperialism #Africa #Slavery @bookstodon
🇺🇸 🇻🇳 📸 **Photos: A look back at the fall of Saigon and the final days of the Vietnam War**
#History #Images #Photos #Photography #Vietnam #Saigon #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
🏴 **At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland**
“_ he people who made these artefacts originated in the mainland of northwest Europe, crossed Doggerland into what is now Britain, and eventually reached the far north of the Isle of Skye. Here, they adapted to live in a fragmented, fluctuating, and volatile environment amid melting glaciers, mountains, and oceans—vastly different from the low-lying environments of their homelands on the northwestern edge of the Great European Plain._”
Hardy, K., Barlow, N.L.M., Taylor, E., Bradley, S.L., McCarthy, J. and Rush, G. (2025), At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. J. Quaternary Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3718.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Ahrensburgian #Climate #YoungerDryas #Scotland #Europe @archaeodons
**Did Vikings Really Wear Horned Helmets—or Was It All Just Opera?**
Gresham College
#Video length: one minute and one second.
**The Uncomfortable Truth: How Christianity Both Supported and Fought Against Slavery **
📖 🏴 🎙️ **Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England**
“_In his close analyses of English maps from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Asa Simon Mittman makes a valuable contribution to conversations about medieval Christian perceptions of Jews and Judaism._”
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/cartographies-of-exclusion.
#Podcast #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Judaism #Maps #England @histodon @histodons @medievodons @bookstodon
🇮🇸 **What is left of the Viking Sagas in modern Iceland?**
Survive the Jive
_'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age._
#Video length: one hour and one minute.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKjAK8d17qQ
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Iceland #Vikings #Sagas #Europe @histodon @histodons
**Arrian: The Biographer Who Preserved Alexander the Great’s Legacy**
🔗 https://greekreporter.com/2025/04/26/arrian-biographer-alexander-the-great/.
**The So-called Bust of Josephus**
🔗 https://brentnongbri.com/2025/04/25/the-so-called-bust-of-josephus/.
**Lawrence of Arabia: A View from 1939**
🔗 https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/04/24/lawrence-of-arabia-a-view-from-1939/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archives #Arabia @histodon @histodons
🧬 **Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange**
"_Individuals with North African ancestry lived next to and intermingled with a majority of people of mainly Sicilian-Aegean ancestry in all sampled Punic sites, including Carthage. Moreover, genetic networks across the Mediterranean suggest that shared demographic processes—such as trade, intermarriage, and population mixing—played a critical role in shaping these communities._"
#Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Genomics #Science #History #Phoenicia #Culture @science
📖 🖋️ **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**
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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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