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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**This Month in Movietone History**
British Movietone
“_Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of April._”
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm61r4L8dZA
#Video #History #April #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Adam Smith on Slavery**
Jack Russell Weinstein
“_Smith offered an economic argument against slavery because he did not believe that monarchy (or freedom from it), wealth, or religion can be trusted to convince people to free their slaves._”
🔗 https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/adam-smith-on-slavery.
🔴 **Savage Wit Through the Ages: 20 of the Best Insults in History**
“_In this collection of 20 legendary quotes, we spotlight the zingers that went beyond humor and became unforgettable moments of public triumph._”
🔗 https://historycollection.com/savage-wit-through-the-ages-20-of-the-best-insults-in-history/.
🔴 🗺️ **Every Bridge and Meadow: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in 19th Century Maps**
“_The new digital collection comprises all editions of all sheets of the Spezialkarte der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie, a detailed topographic survey of the country at a 1:75,000 scale, held in the Geography and Map Division for a grand total of 6,346 digital images._”
#Map #Maps #Cartography #AustroHungarian #Empire #History #C19th #19thCentury
🔴 **Joint Sovereigns**
On 11th April 1689 William III and Mary II were crowned joint sovereigns over England, Scotland, and Ireland.
#History #OnThisDay #OTD #England #Scotland #Ireland
#Image attribution: R White, engraver, died 1703, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William%26MaryEngraving1703.jpg.
🔴 🇺🇸 🌎 **Chart: The Average U.S. Tariff Rate (1890-2025)**
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-average-u-s-tariff-rate-since-1890/.
#History #Tariffs #Trade #USA #US #UnitedStates #Data #DataViz
🔴 **Descartes’ Mathematics**
“_In La Géométrie, Descartes details a groundbreaking program for geometrical problem-solving—what he refers to as a “geometrical calculus” (calcul géométrique)—that rests on a distinctive approach to the relationship between algebra and geometry._”
Domski, Mary, “Descartes’ Mathematics”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2025 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), forthcoming URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2025/entries/descartes-mathematics/>.
#Descartes #History #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Algebra #Geometry
🔴 **Year of the Five Emperors**
193 AD: Septimius Severus, Pertinax, Clodius Albinus, Didius Julianus, and Pescennius Niger all claimed the title of Roman emperor.
🔴 **Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria's Path to Empire, 935-745 BC**
“_This book re-examines the historical question of Assyria’s expansion, presenting a novel reconstruction of the early Neo-Assyrian period with the latest data (including new Assyrian kings), detailed regional studies synthesising the newest historical and archaeological findings, and interpretative essays outlining new historical factors._”
Edmonds, A. 2025. Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria’s Path to Empire, 935–745 BC. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111593715.
#OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #History #NeoAssyrian #Assyria #Empire @bookstodon
🔴 🎙️ 📖 **Podcast: After 1177 B.C.**
“_...in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration._”
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-after-1177-bc.
#Audio #Podcast #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🗺️ **1,000 Years Of National Borders In Europe On One Map**
🔗 https://brilliantmaps.com/1000-years-of-national-borders-europe/.
🔴 🇬🇧 **Populism and the Social History of British Anti-Slavery**
Ryan Hanley
“_In the United Kingdom, the abolition of the slave trade and slavery holds a special place in national identity narratives, largely thanks to over a century of celebratory historiography, from the mid-nineteenth century to about the mid-twentieth. While this “Whig tradition” has long since fallen from favor among historians, it enjoys an uncanny afterlife among a certain cross section of right-wing populists._”
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/04/08/populism-and-the-social-history-of-british-anti-slavery/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Populism #RightWing @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of Rome**
“_Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire_”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Climate #IceAge #Romans #RomanEmpire @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇩🇪 🖋 **Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century**
“The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album is dedicated._”
🔗 https://flashbak.com/schonschreibmeister-a-calligraphy-masters-album-from-the-16th-century-461471/.
#History #Books #Calligraphy #Germany #Typography #Fonts #Fraktur #Handwriting #Writing
🔴 ⌨️ **The QWERTY Keyboard Will Never Die. Where Did the 150-Year-Old Design Come From?**
🔴 **Born On This Day: James Mill**
James Mill was born on this day in 1773. A Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist, his major literary achievement was authoring the first history of British India in the English language.
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Mill
#Image attribution: James Mill (1773–1836), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_of_British_India_1817_James_Mill.jpg.
🔴 🇵🇹 **Portugal is not a small country**
“_A journey through the propaganda of Portugal's Estado Novo, as well as some of the most iconic maps of its propaganda production._”
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/portugal-is-not-a-small-country.
#Maps #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Portugal #Europe #Propaganda @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The Vikings in the Eyes of a Frankish Envoy: The Testimony of Count Cobbo (845×850)**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Vikings #Franks #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire**
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.
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