Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇺🇸 **‘To my old master’ – a freed slave answers the request to return to his old plantation**
_“Delivering a withering and ultimately widely reprinted response, Anderson notes that he’s quite happy in Ohio, but may just consider if he’s given backpay for his 32 years of unpaid labour – with interest – both as fair compensation and as a sign of goodwill.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Slavery @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ **Spain’s Bonkers Plan To Conquer China In 1588 (Empresa de China)**
_"The idea—floated by certain Spanish officials in Manila—was that a combined Iberian (Spanish + Portuguese) force might overrun southern China and then move north to capture the Ming emperor, effectively bringing China under Spanish Habsburg sway."_
🔴 ⚗ **S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history**
_“Introduced as a convenient symbol for ‘hydrogen ion exponent’ by the Danish biochemist S.P.L. Sørensen in 1909, after a decade or two pH won broad acceptance in the fields of physiology, biochemistry, medical research, and industrial chemistry in particular. Apart from detailing how pH and related concepts were initially received, this paper examines the language and nomenclature associated with the pH scale until about 1930.”_
Kragh, H. S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history. Found Chem (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-025-09532-6
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Science #HistSci #Chemistry #Biochemistry #Academia #Academic @science @chemistry @biochemistry
🔴 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 
**The Tiny Spice Island that the British Swapped For New York**
The History Chap
_“Would you swap a tiny island just 1 mile (or 3 kilometres) square for New York City? Crazy though that sounds, that is exactly what the British and the Dutch did in 1667.”_
#Video length: fourteen minutes and thirty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfRhicrGco
#America #NewYork #NewAmsterdam #Netherlands #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🏴 **Mystery behind Viking-age treasure find in Scotland may finally have been solved**
_“A runic inscription on one of the Galloway hoard’s elaborately decorated arm rings has been deciphered”_
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Scotland #Europe @archaeodons
🔴 📖 🇺🇸 **Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict War as an Apocalyptic Conflict**
_“Specifically, Matsui argues that Americans looked to dueling Protestant theologies of the eschatological millennium—the circumstances surrounding Christ’s second coming—to deepen their views about politics, race, and slavery.”_
Krejčí, Adam J. (2025) “Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic Conflict,” Civil War Book Review: Vol. 26 : Iss. 4 . Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol26/iss4/6.
#BookReview #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #CivilWar #Religion #Politics #Slavery @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🖋 **Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.**
_“While many of her students today learned cursive in school, they never use it and seldom read it, she said. She can tell because she writes feedback on their papers in cursive.”_
_Some of her students aren’t even typing anymore. Instead, they’re just using talk-to-text technology or even artificial intelligence.”_
#Reading #Writing #Cursive #Handwriting #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archives #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology**
_“This article introduces the underlying reasons for the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire, challenging entrenched assumptions through the lens of climate. It reviews scholarly discourse, focusing in particular on a theory linking Mongol expansion to a global dry period, while juxtaposing this with recent research spearheaded by climatologists. Their findings reveal that Mongol expansion coincided with favorable climatic conditions, casting doubt on the traditional narrative.”_
Fan, K.w. The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 135 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04344-z.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #MongolEmpire #Climate #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇬🇱 🇬🇧 Are the points in this video pertinent?
🔗 https://qoto.org/@bibliolater/113926452587727949
#Question #History #Greenland #Denmark #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Europe #EU #Video
UK and Denmark will work together on Greenland security – Danish PM https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-mette-frederiksen-greenla...
🔴 🇺🇸 **Why Trump’s Tariff Idol, McKinley, Abandoned His Own Tariff Policy**
#Video length: eight minutes and forty five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svktRVVNJO8
#WSJ #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Trump #Tariffs #History #Economics #Politics #USPol @economics
🔴 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 **The Disappearance of Self-Determination from the League of Nations Covenant, January–February 1919**
_“This article argues that Wilson fought for inclusion of both the phrase ‘self-determination’ and the substance of it but was convinced to remove both by his own advisers and members of the British delegation. These men had an agenda at variance with Wilson’s, one focused on solidifying wartime transatlantic co-operation into a post-war governance model that would strengthen the British imperial position and bring the US into support of it.”_
Malcomson, S.L. (2025) ‘The Disappearance of Self-Determination from the League of Nations Covenant, January–February 1919’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000682.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Imperialism #Empire #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The paradox of punctuation**
Dr Cristian Ispir presents a brief history of punctuation.
🔴 🗺️ **A Brilliantly Detailed Map Of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks**
_“...an incredibly detailed map of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks in Eurasia an Africa during the 11th-12th century.”_
🔗 https://brilliantmaps.com/medieval-trade-routes/
#Map #Maps #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Trade @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🎙️ **Episode 345: The History of Greenland**
"In this week’s episode, become familiar with 4,500 years of Greenlandic history, from the settlement of pre-Inuit, Norse, and Inuit peoples, through to the current importance it has in global affairs."
🔗 https://halfarsedhistory.net/2025/02/02/episode-345-the-history-of-greenland/.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #Denmark #Geenland @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest**
Daniel Boffey
_“The wide chronological range of the coins suggests they were not selected based on quality, gold content or weight but removed from circulation in a single event, consistent with being spoils from the early Roman conquest of Britain under the general Aulus Plautius (AD43-47).”_
#Ancient #History #Romans #Empire #Britain #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Netherlands #Europe @archaeodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🇬🇱 🇬🇧 Trump's Greenland 'Grab' - A British Problem
Mark Felton Productions
_“President Trump's announcement that Denmark must transfer sovereignty over Greenland to the US has caused a transatlantic diplomat spat which has just become more complicated when Denmark revealed a 1917 agreement made with Britain concerning Greenland's future.”_
#Video length: eight minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDDLGkP1I0
#Trump #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Greenland #Denmark #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Europe #EU #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **The first robber baron and the emergence of the corporation**
🔗 https://malwarwickonbooks.com/first-robber-baron/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Vanderbilt #Biography #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🗺️ **The first regional maps and the first world map**
Miguel García Álvarez
_“It was created in Babylon around 500 BC as a copy of an original 200 years older, which has not survived to the present day. It is a clay tablet with drawings and inscriptions showing the Babylonian view of the world.”_
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/first-regional-maps-and-the-first-world-map
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Coin or Not to Coin: Why did the Greeks bother to create coinage? - Gilles Bransbourg**
#Video length: one hour and four minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IClozYcZP7o
#Lecture #History #Histodon #Histodons #Coins #Numismatics @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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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