Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🇬🇧 📖 **Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800**
"_Acclaimed historian Edmond Smith shows how the world’s first industrial nation was founded on the ruthless exploitation of technology, people and the planet._"
**Lifting the Sky: The Cosmic Program on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet**
"_What the goblet depicts, we argue, is the creation and maintenance of cosmic order – above all the birth of the sun and its daily journey – rendered in a visual language that traveled widely across the ancient Near East._"
Zangger, E., Sarlo, D. and F. Haas Dantes. 2025. “Lifting the Sky: The Cosmic Program on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet”, The Ancient Near East Today 13.11. Accessed at: https://anetoday.org/ain-samiya-goblet/.
**Hitler had genetic sexual disorder, new DNA analysis reveals**
**Think you know what an ancient Roman gladiator looked like? The reality will make you think again**
"_Ancient Roman gladiators are often imagined as chiselled, bronzed heroes of the arena, akin to today’s top athletes. But the truth was far more complex_"
🔗 https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-roman-gladiators-what-they-looked-like/.
📖 **East of the sun and west of the moon by Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77204.
#ProjectGutenberg #History #Histodons #Biography #Travel #Books #Bookstodon
📖 **Squanto: A Native Odyssey**
"_Prize-winning historian Andrew Lipman explores the mysteries that still surround Squanto: How did he escape bondage and return home? Why did he help the English after an Englishman enslaved him? Why did he threaten Plymouth’s fragile peace with its neighbors? Was it true that he converted to Christianity on his deathbed?_"
🇺🇸 **The Immigrant Who Industrialized America**
"_Eighteenth-century cotton entrepreneur Samuel Slater reminds us that cutting-edge knowledge often resides in brains, not books._"
📌 I suspect that this article was written to show the benefits of migration for a welcoming society. For those concerned about immigration, Mr Slater's change of domicile is not of concern and cannot be used as an example of the benefits of all migrants to a society. For these folks Mr Slater possesses an attribute that many of the migrants of today do not possess namely direct descent from northern European antecedents.
🔗 https://www.city-journal.org/article/samuel-slater-water-cotton-spinning-mill-industrial-revolution.
**In their own words: medical writings in Middle English**
📚 **How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books**
"_As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-medieval-scribes-balanced-books.
🇺🇸 **Are We Living James Madison’s Worst Nightmare?**
"_America, he was determined, would have no king. What most worried Madison was the prospect of a populist demagogue._"
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/11/06/are-we-living-james-madisons-worst-nightmare/.
📚 🇳🇴 **Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book**
**How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of**
**Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia**
"_Whereas Jews endured an almost relentless series of measures intended to segregate and isolate them, Protectorate authorities initially exerted considerable efforts to forcibly integrate Roma into the majority population through restrictions on movement and mandatory schooling._"
Čapková, K. and Frommer, B. (2025) ‘Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’, Journal of Genocide Research, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2576330.
📚 **History Day 2025 reading list**
"_To celebrate History Day 2025 at London’s Senate House this week, we’ve put together a reading list of essential open access books in history._"
🔗 https://uclpress.co.uk/history-day-2025-reading-list/.
#UCL #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon
**“Ideas about Vikings today can often not be verified scientifically”**
_“They are based essentially on reports written by Christian scholars in the High Middle Ages well over a century later, since, besides brief runic inscriptions, no written texts from the original period have been preserved”_
🔗 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2025/PM_Scheel_Wikinger.shtml.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **How Britain lost America**
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/how-britain-lost-america.
**Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world**
**The cartographers who found the shape of Ireland**
"_A breakthrough came in 1792, when Daniel Beaufort, a Church of Ireland clergyman and scientist, produced the most geometrically accurate map of Ireland to date._"
🔗 https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1101/1535882-the-cartographers-who-found-the-shape-of-ireland/.
#History #Histodons #Culture #Maps #Cartography #Ireland #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🇺🇸 **The Cornerstone of Robert E. Lee’s Army: Confederate Slaves at Gettysburg**
"_Notice that Fremantle was never confused about the legal status of these men. He never classified them as soldiers nor does he ever mention anyone else in the army who did so. What he does do is capture why the Confederacy never approved the recruiting of Black men as soldiers until defeat was staring them in the face._"
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-cornerstone-of-robert-e-lees-fa3.
📖 **Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages by Jacques Sesiano**
🔗 https://www.epflpress.org/produit/1423/9782889155125/mathematical-recreations-in-the-middle-ages.
#History #Histodon #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Medieval #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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