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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**How medieval monks tried to stay warm in the winter**
🔗 https://theconversation.com/how-medieval-monks-tried-to-stay-warm-in-the-winter-270829.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Winter
#Image attribution: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodcutters_Working_at_a_Deer_Park_(from_the_Hunting_Parks_Tapestries)_MET_DP358126.jpg.
**El Niño was linked to famines in Europe in the early modern period**
"_A study of 160 European famines between 1500 and 1800 shows that El Niño weather events led to the onset of some famines and extended the duration of others_"
#ElNiño #EarlyModern #History #Histodons #Climate #Environment #Famine #Europe
📚 **What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome?**
🔗 https://theconversation.com/what-were-books-like-in-ancient-greece-and-rome-267872.
#Books #Bookstodon #Classics #Writing #Ancient #Greece #Rome #History #Histodons
📚 🇺🇸 📻 **10 books to help you understand America as its 250th birthday approaches**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5646641/best-books-us-history-america.
#NPR #Reading #List #Nonfiction #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #USA #UnitedStates
#Image attribution: Foto por formulario PxHere, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libros_de_papel.jpg.
🇮🇪 🇬🇧 **How Celtic languages spread across Britain and Ireland: why we need to reconsider the early story**
🔗 https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.ves9k7erh.
#History #Histodons #Ireland #Éire #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Romans #Celtic #Languages #Linguistics
**‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals**
🇨🇳 🎥 **How the Han dynasty changed Chinese pronunciation**
**The Death of Charles the Bad**
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/death-charles-bad.
🇧🇬 **Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear?**
"_Treasure found in prehistoric graves in Bulgaria is the first evidence of social hierarchy, but no one knows what caused the civilization’s decline_"
#History #Histodons #Chalcolithic #Gold #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bulgaria #Europe
🇸🇪 **Charles XII's unknown field book found at Gothenburg University Library**
"_Several chapters in the 268-page field book were written prior to the Battle of Poltava in the spring of 1709. The book also contains detailed illustrations in the form of drawings, figures and troop formations._"
#History #Histodons #Book #Sweden #Scandinavia
#Image attribution: Gardelle, Robert (Swiss painter and engraver, 1682-1766) (artist) (designer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_XII,_PA01337.jpg.
🇺🇸 📖 **Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870**
"_Associating American citizenship with liberty and equality, Scandinavian immigrants openly opposed slavery and were among the most enthusiastic foreign-born supporters of the early Republican Party. However, the malleable concept of citizenship was used by immigrants to resist draft service, and support a white man's republic through territorial expansion on American Indian land and into the Caribbean. Consequently, Scandinavian immigrants after emancipation proved to be reactionary Republicans, not abolitionists._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/civil-war-settlers/FA57A6A7FAFBB55A40482369AEA61330.
#OpenAccess #OA #Academia #Nonfiction #Books #History #USA #UnitedStates #Scandinavia #Immigration #Migration
🇺🇸 📖 **The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America**
"_Proving once again what a miracle it is we’ve made it this far._"
🗺️ 🎥 **SECRET MAPS – Exhibition Private View**
"_Curators Tom Harper, Nick Dykes and Magdalena Peszko lead us into the hidden landscapes of history, where maps don’t just show the world — they shape it, conceal it and reveal its silent truths._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfrsaX7lABk.
#Video #History #Maps #Cartography #Library #UK #UnitedKingdom
🇺🇸 📖 ** The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth Century Immigration Debate**
"_Kim’s analysis shows that throughout US history, the opportunity for belonging for some immigrants was predicated on the exclusion of others._"
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo257660942.html.
#USA #UnitedStates #History #Sociology #Race #Ethnicity #Immigration #Migration #Nonfiction #Books #Academia
**The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking**
"_The depictions of flower petals in the geometric sequence of the numbers 4, 8, 16 and 32, as well as 64 flowers in another type of arrangement, point to arithmetical knowledge._"
Garfinkel, Y., Krulwich, S. The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking. J World Prehist 38, 14 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #History #Maths #Mathematics #Mesopotamia #Pottery #Art #Culture #Academia #Research
🇨🇭 **Volunteers find two of the oldest gold coins in Switzerland**
#Gold #Coins #Numismatics #History #Switzerland #Archaeology
🇨🇿 **Hittite-Style Carvings and Cuneiform Found in a Czech Cave: An Archaeological Puzzle from Kateřinská Cave**
**Practicalities of Letter Delivery in Antiquity**
🔗 https://brentnongbri.com/2025/12/20/practicalities-of-letter-delivery-in-antiquity/.
**Roman soldiers defending Hadrian’s Wall infected by parasites, study finds**
💧 **The vilest of all beverages**
"_Historian Katherine Harvey explores the sometimes strange beliefs medieval people had about water, and how they informed their methods for staying healthy._"
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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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