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"Efforts to conserve the ship and recover its precious cargo have been caught up in a complicated string of international legal disputes, with Colombia, Spain, Bolivian Indigenous groups and a US salvage company laying claim to the wreck, and the gold, silver and emeralds onboard thought to be worth as much as $17bn." theguardian.com/environment/20

If you are not too busy this weekend I would advise taking time out to this about Sir and the crew of the .

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"Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to deliver Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. When the expedition ship i...

"Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to deliver Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. When the expedition ship is crushed, Worsley’s seamanship and navigational skills saves them all." youtu.be/qvrEMhm3Z-g

"Alan Whicker reports from Dublin, about Dubliners' ambivalent feelings towards one of the city's most famous - and incongruous - landmarks, Nelson's Pillar. What do people think should be done about this monument to a British hero, towering over the main thoroughfare of the capital of the Republic of Ireland?" @histodon @histodons

"The aim is to treat history as a “natural” science, using statistical methods, computational simulations and other tools adapted from evolutionary theory, physics and complexity science to understand why things happened the way that they did." theconversation.com/historys-c @histodon @histodons @science

"The author argues that a cadre of Southern theologians rejected the liberal heritage of the United States and redefined the relationship between the individual and state. Southern clerical fascists reconceived of an alternative modernity that reflected God’s precepts. Slaves, laborers, and slave masters all had a mandate to guide secular and spiritual progress."

Roel Reyes, S. (2021). ‘Christian Patriots’: The Intersection Between Proto-fascism and Clerical Fascism in the Antebellum South. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 9, 1-4, 82-110, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/22130624-00219 [Accessed 10 March 2024] @histodon @histodons

🇯🇵 "Finally, I will attempt to shed light on the historical forces and scenarios that might return Japanese ultranationalists to the center of political influence and power in the Japanese state and overturn Japan’s postwar pacifist constitution and noninterventionist military foreign policy."

Skya, W. A. (2023). The Other Japan: Back to Japan’s Religious Roots for a New Japanese Nationalism? Journal of Right-Wing Studies, 1(1). dx.doi.org/10.5070/RW3.1500 Retrieved from escholarship.org/uc/item/53w44 @histodon @histodons

"Taken together, the essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an "imperial commons," a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize the other."

Hofmeyr, Isabel, and Antoinette Burton. Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons. 1 ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2015., doi.org/10.1353/book.70934. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (77)

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"Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists."

Hornkohl, A.D. and Khan, G. (2021) 'New perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew,' in Semitic languages and cultures. doi.org/10.11647/obp.0250. @linguistics @bookstodon (76)

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"Finally, the article shows that Ford’s central purpose was to foster a visceral hatred of the British empire among his Irish-American readership, to maintain a commitment to their ethnic heritage as proud Irish people, and to encourage his readers that a better future would soon arrive, when the British empire was finally a relic of the past."

O’Sullivan, R. (2024) ‘Irish-American Anti-Imperialism in Patrick Ford’s The Criminal History of the British Empire’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–20. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000 @histodon @histodons

"With its added translations from Arabic into Hebrew, the astrolabe closely recalls the recommendations prescribed by the Spanish Jewish polymath Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089–1167) in the earliest surviving treatise on the astrolabe in the Hebrew language written in 1146 precisely in Verona."

Gigante, F. (2024). A Medieval Islamic Astrolabe with Hebrew Inscriptions in Verona: The Seventeenth-Century Collection of Ludovico Moscardo. Nuncius 39, 1, 163-192, Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/18253911-bja10 [Accessed 04 March 2024] @science @medievodons

"Admiral Medina Sidonia's flagship 'San Martin' is attacked off the coast of Dover from port by the English 'Rainbow' and from starboard by the Dutch 'Golden Lion', Dover, August 8, 1588. Admiral Medina Sidonia aka Cadiz." @earlymodern

attribution: Aert Anthoniszoon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 "Yet the French East India Companies were major imperial and capitalist actors in their time. It was, after all, direct rivalry and competition between the British and French East India Companies that drove the establishment of British dominion in India in the decades after the global Seven Years’ War (1754–1763)." blog.oup.com/2023/09/a-free-ma @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

A new map of ye north parts of America, claimed by France under ye names of Louisiana, Mississipi, Canada & New France, with the adjoyning territories of England & Spain. By H. Moll Geographer. archive.org/details/dr_a-new-m ~via @internetarchive @histodon @histodons

credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

"Put simply, these tools are not trustworthy for reporting facts. They may be the right tool for particular jobs, for example text-processing and organizing information. A person might use a generative AI tool to summarize some information or express some idea in history of mathematics."

Peter Rowlett (2024) Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.

"This essay is a historical and epistemological exploration of a traditionally crazy economic event: the financial bubble. Venturing into two different moments in the history of economic thinking, it investigates financial bubbles as epistemic frontiers, where rationality has reached its limits."

Deringer, W. (2015) 'For what it’s worth: historical financial bubbles and the boundaries of economic rationality,' Isis, 106(3), pp. 646–656. doi.org/10.1086/683529. @histodon @histodons

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