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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📖 **The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa**
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-laurence-rovner/the-jew-who-would-be-king/.
#BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Biography #Colonisation #Colonization #Empire #Imperialism #Africa #Slavery @bookstodon
🇺🇸 🇻🇳 📸 **Photos: A look back at the fall of Saigon and the final days of the Vietnam War**
#History #Images #Photos #Photography #Vietnam #Saigon #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
🏴 **At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland**
“_ he people who made these artefacts originated in the mainland of northwest Europe, crossed Doggerland into what is now Britain, and eventually reached the far north of the Isle of Skye. Here, they adapted to live in a fragmented, fluctuating, and volatile environment amid melting glaciers, mountains, and oceans—vastly different from the low-lying environments of their homelands on the northwestern edge of the Great European Plain._”
Hardy, K., Barlow, N.L.M., Taylor, E., Bradley, S.L., McCarthy, J. and Rush, G. (2025), At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. J. Quaternary Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3718.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Ahrensburgian #Climate #YoungerDryas #Scotland #Europe @archaeodons
**Did Vikings Really Wear Horned Helmets—or Was It All Just Opera?**
Gresham College
#Video length: one minute and one second.
**The Uncomfortable Truth: How Christianity Both Supported and Fought Against Slavery **
📖 🏴 🎙️ **Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England**
“_In his close analyses of English maps from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Asa Simon Mittman makes a valuable contribution to conversations about medieval Christian perceptions of Jews and Judaism._”
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/cartographies-of-exclusion.
#Podcast #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Judaism #Maps #England @histodon @histodons @medievodons @bookstodon
🇮🇸 **What is left of the Viking Sagas in modern Iceland?**
Survive the Jive
_'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age._
#Video length: one hour and one minute.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKjAK8d17qQ
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Iceland #Vikings #Sagas #Europe @histodon @histodons
**Arrian: The Biographer Who Preserved Alexander the Great’s Legacy**
🔗 https://greekreporter.com/2025/04/26/arrian-biographer-alexander-the-great/.
**The So-called Bust of Josephus**
🔗 https://brentnongbri.com/2025/04/25/the-so-called-bust-of-josephus/.
**Lawrence of Arabia: A View from 1939**
🔗 https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/04/24/lawrence-of-arabia-a-view-from-1939/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archives #Arabia @histodon @histodons
🧬 **Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange**
"_Individuals with North African ancestry lived next to and intermingled with a majority of people of mainly Sicilian-Aegean ancestry in all sampled Punic sites, including Carthage. Moreover, genetic networks across the Mediterranean suggest that shared demographic processes—such as trade, intermarriage, and population mixing—played a critical role in shaping these communities._"
#Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Genomics #Science #History #Phoenicia #Culture @science
📖 🖋️ **Conserving and digitising the oldest known set of lecture notes from medieval Oxford**
“_This manuscript includes lectures on the Psalms from Alexander’s teaching in the 1190s, and Treatise on the Strong Woman, an analysis of the leading roles of Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary in the medieval church_”
#Digital #Manuscipt #Study #Notes #Archive #Library #Oxford #C13th #Medieval #Medievodons #History @medievodons
📏 **150 years ago, the Metre Convention determined how we measure the world — a radical initiative for the time**
📚 **16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time**
Regina Sienra
"_Centuries ago, academics had an alternative to juggling several tomes and propping them open all over a table. They used the bookwheel, a rotating device that allowed people to browse multiple books at once, allowing them to go from one text to the next without even having to stand up._"
🔗 https://mymodernmet.com/bookwheel-history/.
#Image attribution: Gaspard Grollier de Serviere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grollier%27s_Reading_Wheel.jpg.
🌍 **The end of globalization (as we know it).... I guess.**
The Burning Archive
“_Trump blasted tariffs. The world screamed, “It is the end of globalization as we know it. I guess...? But what does history say?_”
#Video length: twenty minutes and forty-one seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMZ1X6dgT-I.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Globalization #Sociology @sociology @histodon @histodons
📜 🇰🇿 **Kazakh Manuscript on Khans’ Genealogy Added to UNESCO Memory of World Register**
_“The ‘Khandar Shezhiresi’, a scroll over three meters long, traces the genealogy of the rulers of the Kazakh steppes. It not only highlights their deep historical roots but also offers insights into their connections with other peoples and civilizations from the sixth to the 19th centuries,”_
🇵🇾 📜 **Stolen 16th-century manuscript returned to Paraguayan authorities**
"_The 13-page item detailing laws governing indigenous life under Spanish colonial rule and linked to the 1603 abolition of the encomienda system was valued at US$ 20,000. It had been stolen from Paraguay's National Archives and put up for auction in New York in 2013._"
**Nazareth, Galilee and Jerusalem: ITN Explores the Holy Land (1958)**
ITN Archive
“_On 1 May 1958, ITN’s Michael Barely took viewers on a trip around the Holy Land. He reported from several sites of Biblical significance including including Nazareth, Ashkelon and the Sea of Galilee. He ended his report in Jerusalem where he watched tourists navigate the border of the divided city (in 1958, West Jerusalem was under Israeli control while East Jerusalem was annexed by Jordan)._”
#Video length: sixteen minutes and fifty-three seconds.
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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