Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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🔴 **I, Estellina: Jewish women and early printing**
_“Today’s blogpost explores the stories of three Jewish women living and working in Europe in the 15th century – Estellina Conat, Teresa de Lucena and Doña Reyna Mendes – highlighting books from the British Library’s Hebrew incunabula (15th-century printed books) and 16th-century printed collections.”_
🔗 https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2025/02/i-estellina-jewish-women-and-early-printing.html.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Printing #Hebrew #Incunabula #Books #Europe #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **The speed of adoption**
The transformation brought to European society by the printing press.
🔴 🇲🇹 📖 **‘The Great Siege of Malta’ by Marcus Bull review**
_“The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull upends the myth of the Knights of Malta and their last stand of 1565.”_
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/great-siege-malta-marcus-bull-review.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Malta #Nonfiction #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🇺🇸 **Map of President Polk’s Plans For The United States**
_"James K. Polk served from 1845 to 1849 and is known for his expansionist policies, which significantly shaped the country’s territorial boundaries."_
🔗 https://brilliantmaps.com/polk-map-usa/.
#History #Histodon #Histodon #Map #Cartography #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #ManifestDestiny #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Dorians and Xanthians: Monumentalizing claims of kinship (ca. 206/205 BCE)**
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ethinicity @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Diocletian’s Great Persecution**
_“On 23 February 303 Roman emperor Diocletian embarked on his Great Persecution of the empire’s Christians. Why?”_
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/diocletians-great-persecution.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Religion #Christianity #Roman #Empire @histodon @histodons @religion
🔴 📖 🇫🇷 🏴 **France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World**
The first in a series of books by nineteenth century American historian Francis Parkman (1823-1893) concerning the history of North America.
_“This work delves into the early attempts of French pioneers to establish their presence in North America, exploring the conflicts between colonists, indigenous peoples, and competing European powers.”_
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3721
#History #Histodon #Histodons #France #England #NorthAmerica #America #Nonfiction #Ebook #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 📖 🇫🇷 🏴 **France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World**
The first in a series of books by nineteenth century American historian Francis Parkman (1823-1893) concerning the history of North America.
_“This work delves into the early attempts of French pioneers to establish their presence in North America, exploring the conflicts between colonists, indigenous peoples, and competing European powers.”_
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3721
#History #Histodon #Histodons #France #England #NorthAmerica #America #Nonfiction #Ebook #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🇬🇧 🌍 **90% of The World’s Countries Have Been Invaded By Britain At Some Point**
_“It is based claim of historian Stuart Laycock from his book All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To”_
🔴 🇬🇧 **Archaeologists find 'significant' Viking building**
_“He explained the site appeared similar to high status Viking age farms in Denmark, because it encompassed not only the hall but also the social structure and broader agricultural activity associated with them.”_
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew597dz92lo.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #News #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Cumbria #History #Histodon #Histodons #Vikings #Europe @archaeodons @histodons
🔴 🌊 **Baltic ice and its advantages**
_“The origin of the Baltic Sea, its freezing patterns and how the winter ice affects the region's towns and people.”_
👉 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/baltic-ice-and-its-advantages.
🔴 🇺🇸 Is the American President Donald Trump analogous to any ancient historical leader?
#Poll #Polls #Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Trump #DonaldTrump
🔴 🇺🇸 **‘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
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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