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Video: The Funeral of a Suffragette | History Today
Ten days after her fateful intervention at the Epsom Derby, a funeral service was held in London for the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. The short clip above shows part of the procession, organised
BSHS seeks postgraduate ambassadors | The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)
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The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) is looking to form a team of postgraduate ambassadors.
If you want to be part of the vibrant postgraduate community at the BSHS, benefit from access to the BSHS travel fund and have an unparalleled opportunity to organise a specialist postgraduate conference in your own field within the supportive BSHS environment, then we need you! Other benefits of becoming a BSHS postgraduate ambassador include the opportunity to network with, learn from … »
Anna Whitelock explores the… – History Podcasts & Video | Facebook
Anna Whitelock explores the contradictions of the Virgin Queen’s private life in a lecture recorded at our recent Tudors Day in Bristol. To find out…
David Nutt and science’s Galileo complex | Alice Bell | Science | guardian.co.uk
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In the words of the playwright Bertolt Brecht, ‘Welcome to the gutter, brother in science’
I sympathise with David Nutt and his on-going battles for evidence-based policy on drugs. I really do. But to claim to have been privy to the "worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Copernicus and Galileo" (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, coverage in the Independent) does seem a bit overblown.
He’s not the first to draw on such a narrative. Like many slightly loose … »
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12 old words that survived by getting fossilized in idioms – The Week
"Sleight of hand" (not "slight of hand" as it’s often misspelled) helped the Middle English word "sleight" survive obsolescence
Job: Pre/Postdoctoral position for one year (with possible extension), MPIWG, Berlin | The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)
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Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, announces 1 Pre/Postdoctoral position for one year (with possible extension) Starting date: January 1, 2014 (flexible) Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply. The position is awarded in conjunction with the research project The Construction of Norms in 17th- to 19th-Century Europe and the United States. Research projects should fit with one of the project’s focal points, deafness or hysteria, or any medical category (including »
Maine GOP Leader Boasts That His ‘Man’s Brain’ Makes Him Think More Rationally About Costs | ThinkProgress
A top Maine Republican took to the House floor Wednesday to explain how his “man’s brain” can’t get behind Obamacare’s federal funding for Medicaid expansion because he is concerned about costs. House Minority Leader Ken Fredette (R-ME) invoked the classic gender-stereotyping book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus to explain how he is [...]
Historians and Digital History: Why Do Academics Shy Away from Digital History?
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By Paul W. Bennett
The Internet is finally beginning to penetrate historical practice. At the recent North American Society for Sports History (NASSH) Conference, held May 24-26, 2013 at Saint Mary’s University, Douglas Booth and Gary Osmond provided a fascinating primer on the impact digital history is starting to exert on a field like the study of international sports history. The Internet itself, Booth pointed out, is — in fact– “an infinitely expanding, partially mediated archive.” Explo… »
Storymap – Death of an elephant
The peculiar story of an elephant that died on this street in the 17th century and the chaotic dissection that followed. Told by Mary Mulvihill, who runs Ingenious Ireland (ingeniousireland.ie) which provide guided excellent audio tours around the country.
Canada: Whose history is it? | The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright | CBC Radio
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- Lindsay Michael
What Canadian historians normally worry about is the fact that the general population takes such a dim interest in our history. However, many of them are also concerned, or perhaps bemused, by the keen interest the federal government has been showing in Canadian history – particularly in Canada’s military history.
While some historians were thrilled by the Conservative government’s 28-million dollar program to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, others ridiculed it as an att… »
The history lesson kids often get on the… – History Podcasts & Video | Facebook
The history lesson kids often get on the Irish Potato Famine could be summed up as “a blight destroyed the potato crops, and a lot of people starved or…
Will David Cameron’s ‘Longitude Prize’ for innovation achieve its aim? | Rebekah Higgitt | Science | guardian.co.uk
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Today sees the announcement of a new £1m challenge prize and the formation of a new Longitude Committee chaired by Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal
Today we will hear from the prime minister, David Cameron, about the launch of a new "Longitude Prize". The £1m top prize is, he will say, intended to help the search "for the next penicillin, aeroplane or world wide web", according to the BBC report. Lord Rees, the current Astronomer Royal, will head a "Longitude Committee" to judge ideas.
It seems … »
jivespin | Student self-evaluating exam performance resource
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This resource was inspired by Neil Smith’s The History Teacher’s Handbook, which is a very useful guide to key issues in teaching History. From this, I saw a resource that encouraged students to evaluate their own performance in mock examinations. In the days now when OFSTED are specifically looking at teachers creating a ‘learning dialogue’ with their students in their exercise books, this resource is another tool to create that ‘learning dialogue’ meaningfully and easily. The resource encoura… »
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Is diplomatic history dying? | OUPblog
By Timothy J. Lynch Despite lying at the intersection of both history and international relations — two of the most popular disciplines in the contemporary arts academy — diplomatic history is seen as old-fashioned. New, trendier, and leftier approaches have risen. Consider that of the 45 historians at the University of Wisconsin in 2009, 13 (or 29 per cent) specialized in gender, race, and ethnicity; only 1 (or 2 per cent) studied diplomatic history or US foreign policy.
A tooth or two or four | From the Hands of Quacks
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- Jai Virdi
A letter from W.W. Roffey to Edward Davis, the Honorary Dental Surgeon appointed to the Metropolitan Ear, Nose, & Throat Hospital: 23 Moidea Rd. Buckingham, Kent 16th March 1908 Sir, I would like to invite your remarks in regard to the following. On 25th..shortly before 2/30pm my wife attended the Ear & Throat Hospital, Grafton […]
Rowan Hofmeister – Google+ – Twenty-six years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan…
Twenty-six years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and called on the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev…
In a Rush to Modernize, MySpace Destroyed More …
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By Ian Milligan In 1963, despite community opposition, New York City’s Pennsylvania Station was torn down. It was an age of modernism, old being wiped away for new. Afterwards, some of the sails we…
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Jungle surrenders its lost city
Archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology have discovered a lost mediaeval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1200 years ago.
Nik Wallenda : Discovery News
Daredevils don’t perform stunts simply for the attention of the crowd; they do it to push the boundaries of what is possible.
In Gospel Songs of Yore, Clues to the Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.
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- By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
Jonathan Rieder of Barnard College argues that the public Dr. King cannot be understood without understanding how he preached to black congregations.
Fairytale of New Physics | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics | Science | guardian.co.uk
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There seems to be a minor rash of polemic at the moment on the theme "aren’t scientists deluded/betraying science/living in fairytale-land".
I’ve been sent a few books to read on the subject, and I started last week on BBC Radio 4′s Start the Week, discussing the topic with Jim Baggott, Stephen Minger, Hilary Rose and Alan Little.
Much of the ire is really directed at particle physics, so it seems a bit harsh to tar all science with the same brush. The fact that string theory hasn’t made any te… »
Nationwide search for your stories – About us – Science Museum
The Science Museum would like to talk to anyone who worked as a Lyons tea shop manager, operated a telephone exchange or has a telegram dating from the 1880s to 1980s.
A Gorgeous Dissection of Mermaid Anatomy
Mermaids are a miracle of nature — a chimera with human parts and fish parts, able to move between two worlds. But what are they like on the inside? A slew of artists and scientists have imagined mermaid anatomy.
Don’t Be Afraid of Going to Graduate School in the Humanities -
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- Stephen J. Mexal
For several decades now, it’s been considered good practice for professors of the humanities—English, History, Philosophy, and the like—to discourage their students from studying those subjects at the graduate level. Every year, a new cohort of smart, ambitious undergraduates go to their professors’ offices with a single burning question: “Should I go to grad school in the humanities?”
“You’re exceedingly talented, and one of the best students I’ve ever had, but—no,” their professors often resp… »
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BBC History – Emily Davison: The suffragette who died for her cause
One hundred years ago Emily Wilding Davison was trampled upon by King George V’s horse at the Derby and died from her injuries four days later. She became an international martyr, but was this her intention?
Tools for Analyzing Primary Sources and Close Reading | EDSITEment
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Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment): Professor Mark Solovey: 9780813554655: Amazon.com: Boo…
Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment) [Professor Mark Solovey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* super saver shipping on qualifying offers. <DIV><p class= MsoNormal style= margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150% >Numerous popular and scholarly accounts have exposed the deep impact of patrons on the production of scientific knowledge and its applications. Shaky Foundations</i> provides …
The Not-So-Good Old Days
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- By STEPHANIE COONTZ
The idyllic 1950s and ’60s? Wages went further, but rights and opportunities for many were severely limited.
Book review: Venus Seen on the Sun | teleskopos
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- Rebekah Higgitt
This review was first published in the British Journal for the History of Science 46 (March 2013)
Jeremiah Horrocks and Wilbur Applebaum (trans.), Venus Seen on the Sun: The First Observation of a Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxiv +82. ISBN 9789004221932. €99.00 (hardback).
Jeremiah Horrocks’ observation of the 1639 transit of Venus, from Johannes Hevelius’ version of Venus in sole visa (1662).
The June 2012 transit of Venus was the occasion to turn our… »
News and the Shape of Europe, 1500-1750 | Early Modern News Networks
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Conference at Queen Mary, University of London, 26-28th July 2013
Registration open: http://newscom.english.qmul.ac.uk/events/items/83801.html
Join us this July for the final event in the News Networks calendar: a three-day symposium on ‘News and the Shape of Europe, 1500-1750’. This major news history event will feature 40 speakers from across Europe and the Americas, and will contribute to a new pan-European history of news, which has been the driving force behind and ultimate aim of the Lev… »
A Darwin photo of mine published in a journal | The Dispersal of Darwin
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How cool is this?
In the Spring 2013 issue of the medical journal The Pharos, a photograph I took in Darwin’s rooms at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in 2009 was used for the article “Diagnosing Darwin,” by Sidney Cohen, MD, and Philip A. Mackowiak, MD. Here it is, covering the title page spread of the article:
I was paid, too!
Here is a PDF of the article: Diagnosing Darwin
A History of Working-Class Marriage » Shrivelled Ovaries Cast Anew
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The subject of women and fertility is once again in the headlines thanks to a provocative advertising campaign for pregnancy test manufacturer First Response. Not content with profiting from women’s desire to know they are pregnant at an ever earlier stage, the company is now seeking to encourage the population of Britain to consider their fertility. Particularly women who, in the words of Kate Garraway, fronting the campaign, may be more concerned about ‘careers and finances’ than getting preg… »
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BBC News – Medical Research Council: A century of fighting disease
The impact of its research has been seen across the world and this year the London-based Medical Research Council (MRC) is celebrating its centenary.
Fake Artefacts – how a smelly jar and a yellow cloth made an engaging starter | The Kenradical School of History
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Year 9 are currently looking at life in East Germany. Having read a bit around the topic I became fascinated by the Stasi, especially after reading Stasiland and watching the Lives of Others and wanted to teach this to my students.
One aspect that I found particularly interesting was how the Stasi kept people’s smells. During interrogation the Stasi put a cloth on the victims’ seat. That person would obviously sweat into the cloth, which they then kept in a jar. After the wall fell in 1989 they… »
US congressman calls for prosecution of journalists over NSA leak – World Socialist Web Site
Representative Peter King of New York said late Tuesday that he supports prosecution of journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, who published material leaked last week by Edward Snowden.
Recovered Nazi diary gives rare view into Third Reich – CNN.com
It was a mystery for nearly 70 years: What happened to Nazi Party leader Alfred Rosenberg’s diary, a valuable document with insights into the Third Reich?
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The National Surveillance State, Going Strong Since 1917 – The Edge of the American West – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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(Guest post! Lon Strauss (full bio at the end) wrote his dissertation on an earlier version of the American surveillance state. He’s here to give us some historical context to the NSA revelations.)
There has been a recent uptick in the news over concern about the United States becoming a surveillance state. The Guardian and the Washington Post published articles about the National Security Agency’s practices that have sparked a renewed debate over surveillance, national security, and civil libe… »
UK-wide telegram collecting project launched by Science Museum, London | The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)
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The Science Museum in London has announced the opening of Information Age, a ground-breaking new communications gallery that will open in September 2014. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the gallery will celebrate key developments in communication technologies over the last 200 years and incorporate a diverse range of personal stories to reveal how our lives have been transformed.
As part of the gallery development, activity is currently underway to capture the personal accounts of those… »
Closer Readings: A Middle School Teacher Leads … | Thinkfinity
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L.A. 2013 – Documents – Los Angeles Times
On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine published a 25-year look ahead to 2013. This year, USC professor Jerry Lockenour is using the series of articles in a graduate engineering class he teaches.
Who’s got the last laugh now? | Voltaire Foundation
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Maupertuis by Robert Levrac-Tournières and Jean Daullé, 1741 (Paris, BnF)
One of the bitterest and most famous of the many quarrels that Voltaire was involved in during his long life was the one that pitted him against Maupertuis from 1752 onwards. The quarrel started while both men were living at Frederick the Great’s court, Maupertuis as the president of the Académie de Berlin and Voltaire as Frederick’s personal guest.
The details of the dispute itself are too intricate to be exposed here but »
National Archives Launches Founders Online Research Tool | American Historical Association
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The National Archives announced on Friday the launch of Founders Online, a free research tool that allows researchers to electronically search through the papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Founders Online was made possible through a cooperative agreement between the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the grant-making arm of the National Archives, and The University of Virginia (UVA) … »
