discontents.com.au - tim

There seems to be a lot of topic modelling going on at the moment. Any why not? Projects like Mining the Dispatch are demonstrating the possibilities. Tools like Mallet are making it easy. And generous DHers like Ted Underwood and Scott Weingart are doing a great job explaining what it is and how it works. I’ve talked briefly about using topic modelling to explore digitised newspapers, something that the Mapping Texts project has also been investigating. But I’ve also been following with intere…  »

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@archivesnext: Long-delayed bloggage on using topic modelling to find records in National Archives relating to Invisible Australians http://t.co/3Y1iydT8

16.05.2012 21.37.20

@baibi: .@wragge on using topic modelling to find records in National Archives relating to Invisible Australians (Chinese) http://t.co/2RSQTC0X

16.05.2012 20.12.34

@wragge: Long-delayed bloggage on using topic modelling to find records in National Archives relating to Invisible Australians http://t.co/3Y1iydT8

16.05.2012 18.16.15

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airminded.org - Brett Holman

In my previous post, I threatened more statistics about Australian mystery aircraft scares of the First World War, and here they are. What I’ve been doing is collating all the sightings recorded in two NAA files, MP1049/1, 1918/066 and MP367/1, 512/3/1319. The former is the Navy Office’s file pertaining to ‘Reports of suspicious aeroplanes, lights etc’, more than a thousand pages in all, though the majority of it is composed of reports obtained by military intelligence and local police. The Navy  »

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@fleming77: RT @Airminded: At Airminded: When, what, where? http://t.co/o7ZlhXUJ – it’s all a mystery to me

16.05.2012 22.36.21

@Airminded: At Airminded: When, what, where? http://t.co/R7zWZbMt

16.05.2012 22.31.22

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blogs.otago.ac.nz

Terry Doyle writes … If Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689) were transported to a modern lecture hall to hear a chemical pathologist explaining how gout is caused by the bodies of some individuals being unable to metabolise and excrete uric acid, which is then deposited in the peripheral joints, he would probably mutter to himself, ‘that is just as I thought’. Reading his Tractacus de Podagra of 1683 in Latin is interesting on at least two counts. The first is for the excellent clinical description of…  »

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@ChirurgeonsAppr: RT @EarlyModernXPhi New post on Early Modern at Otago: Thomas Sydenham’s Tractacus de Podagra http://t.co/kjqt6yaC #histmed

16.05.2012 16.55.04

@rmathematicus: RT @EarlyModernXPhi New post on Early Modern at Otago: Thomas Sydenham’s Tractacus de Podagra http://t.co/kjqt6yaC #histmed

16.05.2012 16.39.02

@EarlyModernXPhi: New post on Early Modern at Otago: Thomas Sydenham’s Tractacus de Podagra http://t.co/2r8zhAHL #histmed

16.05.2012 16.21.13

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activehistory.ca - Contributor

This is the third in a weekly series of posts leading up to the mini-conference The War of 1812: Whose War was it Anyway? being held at the University of Waterloo on May 30th. By Ian McKay and Jamie Swift Warmonger politicians customarily indulge in high rhetoric, attempting to rally the citizenry round the flag and boost the bloodletting. Or when invoking the glories of past wars. The War of 1812 was no exception. Those who witness war’s gruesome reality often remember things differently, as do  »

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@retius: Our latest @activehist post is a provocative one about "what’s wrong with celebrating the war of 1812?" http://t.co/gsnCkrnV #CdnHistory

16.05.2012 16.48.59

@kristamccracken: RT @ActiveHist: New post: "What’s Wrong With Celebrating the War of 1812?" http://t.co/wm4IqYJ7 #history #Cdnhistory

16.05.2012 16.03.10

@ActiveHist: New post: "What’s Wrong With Celebrating the War of 1812?" http://t.co/X2k4RKxo #history #Cdnhistory

16.05.2012 15.55.10

@ianmilligan1: Our latest @activehist post is a provocative one about "what’s wrong with celebrating the war of 1812?" http://t.co/gsnCkrnV #CdnHistory

16.05.2012 16.46.53

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A vast array of documents tracing the history of genetics are being gathered together to be put online by the Wellcome Library. See some of the documents relating to Francis Crick, who discovered the structure of DNA

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@ChirurgeonsAppr: and In Pictures: DNA Letters http://t.co/qgHVJaA9

16.05.2012 16.55.10

@WellcomeLibrary: and In Pictures: DNA Letters http://t.co/qgHVJaA9

16.05.2012 16.38.03

@BBCr4today: See Francis Crick’s sketch of the DNA double helix: http://t.co/M4cH3p9v

16.05.2012 11.52.14

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thejc.com

The story of the code-breakers at Bletchley Park who secretly intercepted German military communications during World War Two has been justly celebrated in recent years. But later this year a TV company hopes to reveal details about another covert

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@HouseHistorian: Following on from last night’s War Hero in My Family, this article tells more about "listeners" like Arnost Lederer http://t.co/j8OPlapQ

16.05.2012 15.48.34

@emmajolly: Following on from last night’s War Hero in My Family, this article tells more about "listeners" like Arnost Lederer http://t.co/j8OPlapQ

16.05.2012 15.47.26

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nationalarchives.gov.uk

The National Archives holds a range of records on the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Olympiad, from 1896 to the present. We have made these available online for the first time, providing you with access to this rich resource on sporting and cultural history.

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@ihr_history: Very nice new site from @UkNatArchives on ‘The Olympic Record’ http://t.co/5VUUISPy – great timeline feature, with archival material

16.05.2012 12.23.31

@alastairdunning: MT @nbates86 UK National Archvies digitises ‘The Olympic Record’; docs from every Olympic Games http://t.co/vXJqpsZT

16.05.2012 13.30.10

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transitofvenus.nl - Steven van Roode

You’ve probably seen this picture before. It’s a photographic plate of the transit of Venus, taken by one of the eight 1882 American expeditions and it’s depicted in many books on the transit. Of the hundreds of dry collodion emulsion plates exposed by the American expeditions in 1882, only eleven survive today. And even of these eleven plates, no one can tell anymore from which station they originated. Or can they? A couple of years ago I purchased an antique book from 1883, Transito de Venus …  »

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@beckyfh: The origin of a famous picture of the 1882 transit of Venus was unknown for a long time. But no more. http://t.co/QjKNB64Z

16.05.2012 10.24.47

@jaivirdi: RT @tov2012 The origin of a famous picture of the 1882 transit of Venus was unknown for a long time. But no more. http://t.co/cKtrBeAD

16.05.2012 10.21.02

@rmathematicus: RT @tov2012 The origin of a famous picture of the 1882 transit of Venus was unknown for a long time. But no more. http://t.co/cKtrBeAD

16.05.2012 10.19.48

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turniprailswaitingroom.blogspot.com

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@TourismHistory: Turnip Rail’s Waiting Room: North British Railway Advertising – ‘Scotland’s Go… http://t.co/kGpbbEw1

16.05.2012 02.15.19

@TurnipRail: Turnip Rail’s Waiting Room: North British Railway Advertising – ‘Scotland’s Golf Course’ – http://t.co/X3p9MqPU #history

16.05.2012 00.58.02

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slate.com

This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. On May 21, Future Tense will host an event in Washington, D.C., called “How To Save America’s Knowledge Enterprise.” We’ll discuss how the United States approaches science and technology research, the role…

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@publichistorian: My latest for @Slate looks at the lies that baby boomers tell about the space age: http://t.co/6q1natyA

15.05.2012 19.39.42

@paleofuture: My latest for @Slate looks at the lies that baby boomers tell about the space age: http://t.co/6q1natyA

15.05.2012 19.38.59

@Slate: Why polls shouldn’t dictate space policy: fewer than 50% of Americans supported the Apollo program in the 60s http://t.co/7cHup7zv

16.05.2012 00.12.15

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guardian.co.uk - Ed Pilkington

Groundbreaking Columbia law school study sets out in shocking detail the flaws that led to Carlos DeLuna’s execution in 1989 A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he said, "a single case – not one – in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred … the innocent’s name would be shouted from the rooftops." Scalia may have to eat his words. It is now …  »

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@executedtoday: Media coverage of @ColumbiaLaw #DeLuna expose: from @CBSAndrew http://t.co/KNyYhFEk from @EdPilkington http://t.co/RkzK9R14 #deathpenalty

15.05.2012 18.46.39

@prof_gabriele: Texas executed another innocent man in 1989. http://t.co/JDOPTbWz

15.05.2012 18.31.50

@harrisj: Ugh, this makes me sick to my stomach: http://t.co/kSQpRLWs "Everything that could go wrong did go wrong."

15.05.2012 18.43.23

@Slate: Columbia prof and students uncover how Texas sent an innocent man to death: http://t.co/2i9GpC65 via @guardianus

15.05.2012 18.15.34

@stevesilberman: The wrong Carlos: Columbia Law investigation uncovers how TX executed an innocent man. http://t.co/jiMtXCof

15.05.2012 17.07.21

@_MattShaw: The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death | World news | http://t.co/fNrFHdAU http://t.co/vzWOLr1P (via Instapaper)

15.05.2012 13.12.55

@JackofKent: How detective work by law professor and students uncovered a seeming wrongful execution. Fascinating, by @Edpilkington: http://t.co/mO8ZUG5t

15.05.2012 10.33.52

@davewiner: The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death. http://t.co/zqWD2MVp

15.05.2012 09.15.41

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ablogabouthistory.com - Sevaan Franks

A team of historians and IT folks from Stanford University have developed an online map called ORBIS that calculates how long it took to travel between cities in Ancient Rome and how much it cost. Click here to play with it yourself! A paper map can show how far two cities are from one another, but in a world of sailing ships and donkey trains, the shortest route wasn’t necessarily the one people would use. ORBIS shows likely routes based on conditions 2,000 years ago. The ORBIS team used ancie…  »

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@HistoryToday: More map-based goodness… RT @historytweeter: Online map calculates travel times in Ancient Rome http://t.co/s6H9U8T3

15.05.2012 19.43.51

@historytweeter: #history Online map calculates travel times in Ancient Rome http://t.co/P3pgUoIN

15.05.2012 19.40.45

@archaeologynews: Online map calculates travel times in Ancient Rome: A team of historians and IT folks from Stanford University … http://t.co/1H2HBNzY

15.05.2012 19.40.39

@evanatwired: Online map calculates travel times in Ancient Rome http://t.co/58xfsa8T

15.05.2012 21.56.53

@BoraZ: Online map calculates travel times in Ancient Rome http://t.co/58xfsa8T

15.05.2012 21.53.20

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earlymodernjohn.wordpress.com - earlymodernjohn

‘The fyrst chapter treateth of the naturall disposicion of an Englyshman, and of the noble realme of England, & of the money that there is used.’ ‘His friend Andrew Boorde, the physician, is writing a book on beards; he is against them.’ – Hilary Mantel, Bring Up The Bodies My treat this weekend was getting stuck into Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel’s brand-new Tudor novel. I loved Wolf Hall and, a hundred pages into the sequel, I’m similarly captivated. She knows the period inside out and t…  »

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@lucyinglis: An early modern traveller from @earlymodernjohn http://t.co/qx0wbsgt

15.05.2012 18.44.54

@conversiontales: A brilliant little piece on a great Tudor traveller: http://t.co/OJiExoQh

15.05.2012 18.44.22

@sixteenthCgirl: A brilliant little piece on a great Tudor traveller: http://t.co/OJiExoQh

15.05.2012 18.23.48

@earlymodernjohn: This is my piece about Andrew Boorde, a brilliant Tudor traveller with a cameo in Hilary Mantel’s new book. Enjoy! http://t.co/YmhsA87U

15.05.2012 18.15.07

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collation.folger.edu - Sarah Werner

Last week’s crocodile mystery may have been a bit too mysterious, but I hope that today’s post will inspire you to look for similar mysteries on your own. Here’s a close-up detail of what I was asking about: Folger STC 17436, sig. H2r As with nearly all photographs shared on this blog, if you click the image, a larger version will open in a new window. What might have looked like a smudge if you hadn’t enlarged the image, is now clearly a smudge worth paying attention to!  More specifically, …  »

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@adamghooks: so cool! RT: @wynkenhimself: In which I squee over a printer’s fingerprints MT @FolgerResearch: A book’s fingerprints http://t.co/MVS6IJ5y

15.05.2012 20.35.10

@wynkenhimself: In which I squee over a printer’s fingerprints MT @FolgerResearch: A book’s fingerprints http://t.co/vLPv7KQl

15.05.2012 20.02.58

@FolgerResearch: A book’s fingerprints, or, the answer to May’s crocodile mystery http://t.co/fZheOuhg

15.05.2012 19.58.16

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blog.mikerendell.com - GeorgianGent

I have touched on this in The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman – clearly my ancestor Richard Hall would not have wanted to be thought of as a “country bumpkin” and would have been at pains to make sure he pronounced words correctly. Where the spelling differed from the pronunciation he jotted down the reminders: so, we get “shaze” for “chaise”, “dimun” for “diamond” and even “crownor” for “coroner”   I was also intrigued to see that “gold” was pronounced “gould”, Farthing” as “fardun” and “toile…  »

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@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @GeorgianGent: 18th C Pronunciation – those difficult words where the spelling doesn’t match the spoken word. http://t.co/rZcgnnAj

15.05.2012 15.30.05

@jacqui_livesey: Ever wonder what the C18th ‘Quality’ sounded like when they spoke? "@GeorgianGent: 18th Century Pronunciation http://t.co/zmRbZBoV"

15.05.2012 13.10.25

@gorshell: New post: 18th Century Pronunciation – those difficult words where the spelling doesn’t match the spoken word. http://t.co/L4cG1djp

15.05.2012 12.31.50

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wondersandmarvels.com - BethDunn

Thomas Say, noted hottie Somewhere in the library of Drexel University in Philadelphia a portrait hangs. It depicts a reasonably young, reasonably handsome man of apparently good humor and warmth — Thomas Say, noted American entomologist and conchologist. Of course portraitists can famously commit all manner of falsehoods in the name of pleasing their clients, and it’s entirely possible that Thomas was not half as kind and warm a man as his portrait might imply. But his portrait, as well as the…  »

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@rmathematicus: RT @beckyfh Post on fascinating 1820s "Boatload of Knowledge" (tho don’t agree on hottie claim!) http://t.co/yI1Ic9d1 HT @darwinsbulldog

15.05.2012 10.17.44

@beckyfh: Post on fascinating 1820s "Boatload of Knowledge" (tho don’t agree on hottie claim!) http://t.co/gydV6vJI #histsci HT @darwinsbulldog

15.05.2012 10.14.33

@darwinsbulldog: For Wonders & Marvels, by @bethdunn: "A Boatload of Knowledge [or, Thomas Say, Noted 19th Century Hottie]" http://t.co/EoWSu2e6 #histsci

15.05.2012 06.48.53

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twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com - Isabella Bradford/Susan Holloway Scott

Isabella/Susan* reporting: When I visited Winterthur Museum last week, I not only wandered through the peony gardens, but also saw the museum’s newest special exhibition, Uncorked! Wine, Objects, & Tradition. (The exhibition runs until January 6, 2013.) There were a good many fascinating items to inspire a good many blog-posts in the weeks to come, and I’ll start with the print, left. While the three young people are all dressed in formal 18th c finery, most of us will recognize the trick the…  »

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@LadyTranbyCroft: New post: "Curious Maids" Play a Classic Prank on a Sleeping Rake, 1768: http://t.co/HMYOH7wD

15.05.2012 14.56.22

@2nerdyhistgirls: New post: "Curious Maids" Play a Classic Prank on a Sleeping Rake, 1768: http://t.co/HMYOH7wD

15.05.2012 14.54.44

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transitofvenus.nl - Randall Rosenfeld

One of the fortunate outcomes of transit research agendas was the publication of more science than just contact timings, the diameters of Venus and the Sun, and the distances between their limbs. Perhaps it is more enlightening to conceive of transit science as embracing more than the astronomy of the transit. How much more? It depended on who was observing, but the fact that many astronomers of the 18th century (such as William Wales on the shores of Hudson’s Bay, 1768-1769) had wider interests  »

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@dhayton: What role did colonialism play in the transit of Venus expeditions? Randall Rosenfeld explores. http://t.co/89d53vrm

15.05.2012 15.04.41

@sarahemilyduff: Very interesting: science, colonialism, the transit of Venus, and the production of knowledge, http://t.co/isojD3fq via @tov2012 & @beckyfh

15.05.2012 13.29.51

@rmathematicus: RT @tov2012 What role did colonialism play in the transit of Venus expeditions? Randall Rosenfeld explores. http://t.co/43b7kpQD

15.05.2012 10.25.13

@beckyfh: What role did colonialism play in the transit of Venus expeditions? Randall Rosenfeld explores. http://t.co/89d53vrm

15.05.2012 09.58.58

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bbc.co.uk - Phil Carradice

The National Library of Wales is one of the country’s great institutions. It sits high on Penglais Hill in Aberystwyth, overlooking both the town and Cardigan Bay. The library sits high on Penglais Hill (Photo: National Library of Wales) The library holds over four million printed volumes as well as paintings, magazines and newspapers but the vast majority of people who use the facility remain blithely unaware of the furore surrounding its establishment. The National Library (Llyfrgell Genedl…  »

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@sharon_howard: RT: @bbcwaleshistory: History blog: Aberystywth v Cardiff – the battle for the National Library of Wales http://t.co/GcOQEfwF

15.05.2012 12.57.59

@NLWales: History blog: Aberystywth v Cardiff – the battle for the National Library of Wales http://t.co/99ZASGAA

15.05.2012 11.37.40

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stumblingpast.wordpress.com - perkinsy

There has been much written about the lack of reviews of work by women writers in popular newspapers and magazies around the world. Do female historians face the same barriers in having their work reviewed in academic journals? I chose three Australian academic history journals and analysed their reviews over a two year period. The results surprised me. Continue reading →

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@perkinsy: How do female historians fare in the review pages of some academic history journals? http://t.co/Vvon2vHZ #twitterstorians

15.05.2012 14.07.21

@perkinsy: I very interesting endeavour! RT @perkinsy: New blog post: Female Historians and Book Reviews in Academic Journals http://t.co/1a2J9gHl

15.05.2012 12.01.53

@mhbeals: I very interesting endeavour! RT @perkinsy: New blog post: Female Historians and Book Reviews in Academic Journals http://t.co/1a2J9gHl

15.05.2012 11.48.12

@perkinsy: New blog post: Female Historians and Book Reviews in Academic Journals http://t.co/Vvon2vHZ

15.05.2012 08.38.54

@adelinekoh: MT @perkinsy: How do female historians fare in the review pages of some academic history journals? http://t.co/fOGcwtfB cc @ProfessMoravec

15.05.2012 14.41.28

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smithsonianmag.com

The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?”

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@Raherrmann: “The question was not, ‘Should you eat human flesh?’ but, ‘What sort of flesh should you eat?’” http://t.co/93nudGrN #cannibalism

15.05.2012 07.45.02

@historianess: “The question was not, ‘Should you eat human flesh?’ but, ‘What sort of flesh should you eat?’” http://t.co/93nudGrN #cannibalism

15.05.2012 05.46.03

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salon.com

From Loyalty Day to Confederate Memorial Day, a trip through our country’s more disconcerting celebrations

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@GraniteStudio: A tour of America’s more appalling holidays: Loyalty Day? Confederate Memorial Day? http://t.co/1mRWMThK http://t.co/mGrpnlT3

15.05.2012 05.36.01

@KevinLevin: America’s appalling holidays – http://t.co/afZXYqKe http://t.co/ODqA2lx9 Yep, Confederate Memorial Day made the list. #cw150

15.05.2012 00.20.09

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blogs.otago.ac.nz

Kirsten Walsh writes… In the General Scholium to Book 3 of Principia, Newton wrote: “Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.” He went on to explain that such a cause would be a [...]

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@john_s_wilkins: New blog post: Is Newton’s Explanation of Gravity a Hypothesis? http://t.co/VuNsBdfb #histsci

15.05.2012 04.09.53

@darwinsbulldog: New blog post: Is Newton’s Explanation of Gravity a Hypothesis? http://t.co/VuNsBdfb #histsci

15.05.2012 03.47.25

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edwired.org - Mills

The semester being all but over, it is time to reveal the work of my students in the course Lying About the Past that I taught this semester here at George Mason University. Because my course was larger this time around, the class split into two hoax teams, each of which perpetrated their own historical hoax. Unlike the last time around (the Last American Pirate hoax), the students did not end up hoaxing any history teachers (at least as far as we know). They did, however, manage to hoax more t…  »

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@jmcclurken: Mills Kelly finally reveals the historical hoaxes his students created this semester: an 1812 beer & a serial killer http://t.co/luLozvtI

15.05.2012 02.04.40

@shermandorn: Oh, the shame! ;-) RT @dancohen Mills Kelly’s class – 2 historical hoaxes: an 1812 beer & a serial killer http://t.co/v3dhrTkL

15.05.2012 01.28.19

@publichistorian: Mills Kelly finally reveals the historical hoaxes his students created this semester: an 1812 beer & a serial killer http://t.co/luLozvtI

15.05.2012 01.02.32

@dancohen: Mills Kelly finally reveals the historical hoaxes his students created this semester: an 1812 beer & a serial killer http://t.co/luLozvtI

15.05.2012 01.00.52

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georgiangentleman.posterous.com

Richard records in his diary “3rd October 1783 Dear Anna began to prepare for inoculation” – in other words his infant daughter was put on a special diet.   “Wednesday October 13 th – This day poor little Anna her Cousins Martha and Eliza were inoculated for the Smallpox” . Elsewhere he records that

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@jacqui_livesey: An experiment which saved MILLIONS of lives. On 14 May 1796:: Jenner’s first smallpox vaccination: http://t.co/DdEWdve1

14.05.2012 20.53.38

@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @GeorgianGent: 14 May: Jenner’s first smallpox vaccination: http://t.co/ihHX5sHA

14.05.2012 18.45.00

@eleanorcastile: 14 May: Jenner’s first smallpox vaccination: http://t.co/OLzthycq

14.05.2012 16.32.07

@manx_maid: An experiment which saved MILLIONS of lives. On 14 May 1796:: Jenner’s first smallpox vaccination: http://t.co/DdEWdve1

14.05.2012 20.52.07

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melodeebeals.co.uk

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@mhbeals: I before E except after…The Perils of Transcription-Heavy Projects http://t.co/goCxRxjt #twitterstorians #history #dhist

14.05.2012 22.59.56

@Raherrmann: My issue is transcribing "creative" 18th-c. spelling MT @mhbeals: The Perils of Transcription-Heavy Projects http://t.co/zvHgIvi8

14.05.2012 21.45.53

@mhbeals: New comment on The Perils of Transcription-Heavy Projects http://t.co/goCxRxjt

14.05.2012 21.01.37

@mhbeals: The Perils of Transcription-Heavy Projects http://t.co/goCxRxjt #methodologies #newspapers

14.05.2012 20.02.13

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historyextra.com

- A new exhibition examining the historical and social development of the ancient art of sword fighting in the 16th century goes on display at The Wallace Collection, Londonthis week. We bring you a preview of some of the objects on show

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@history_geek: RT @HistoryExtra: Images from an exhibition on sword fighting http://t.co/AQQzEpXo

14.05.2012 16.22.02

@HistoryExtra: Images from an exhibition on sword fighting http://t.co/F5zije8i

14.05.2012 15.16.02

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blog.mikerendell.com - GeorgianGent

Just to stir the pot and give another view on the rivalry between the English and their cousins across the Channel, here is another fine print courtesy of the British Museum (copyright acknowledged). It shows a pair of elegantly attired French ladies dressed in white with elaborately ruched costumes, encountering three rather plain and oddly attired English ladies. The English wear long-waisted close-fitting bodices, with skirts narrowing at the bottom, giving an oddly dumpy profile (akin to a…  »

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@history_geek: RT @2nerdyhistgirls: Hahaha! RT @GeorgianGent:And how the French view the English…. (1814) http://t.co/chm4Khvg

14.05.2012 16.20.14

@2nerdyhistgirls: Hahaha! RT @GeorgianGent:And how the French view the English…. (1814) http://t.co/rgo69dr1

14.05.2012 15.41.42

@patrickbaty: New post: And how the French view the English…. (1814) http://t.co/uxPzY3bl

14.05.2012 12.25.33

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emintelligencer.org.uk - Karen

Taverns, locals and street corners Taverns, locals and street corners: Cross-chronological studies in community drinking, regulation and public space Project This AHRC Connected Communities pilot study on tavern culture (2012) ranges from early modern Europe to the present day. It investigates whether today’s real and imagined patterns of drinking – people congregating in public spaces at night, sold alcohol and revelling – are recurring practices and representations of drinking and of competing  »

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@sharon_howard: This looks cool. RT: @halbion: Birkbeck EM Blog: New AHRC Project on Tavern Culture: Taverns, locals and street corners http://t.co/BIsWgQ45

14.05.2012 13.54.06

@halbion: Birkbeck EM Blog: Taverns, locals and street corners: New AHRC Project on Tavern Culture: Taverns, locals and st… http://t.co/QV7rWjvS

14.05.2012 13.31.52

@iridium: Birkbeck EM Blog: Taverns, locals and street corners: New AHRC Project on Tavern Culture: Taverns, locals and st… http://t.co/QV7rWjvS

14.05.2012 13.37.04

@alastairdunning: Possibilities for digital mapping? MT @halbion Taverns, locals and street corners: New Project on Tavern Culture: http://t.co/uk3CAgE6

14.05.2012 13.34.29

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greatwarlondon.wordpress.com - Stuart

This weekend marks the anniversary of the largest outburst of anti-immigrant violence in modern British history in May 1915. The homes and businesses of Germans and people accused of being Germans were attacked in cities across England. London was one of the main sites of these shameful incidents. On 7 May 1915, the RMS Lusitania (a sister ship to the Titanic) was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,960 people on board, 1,192 died – and four more died soon afterwards. …  »

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@Exploring20CLdn: Blog by @greatwarlondon Riots and hooligans http://t.co/yvVKpafA

14.05.2012 01.41.22

@sommecourt: May 1915 saw the biggest anti-immigrant riots in modern British history as mobs turned on Germans in their midst: http://t.co/6SDlmQMK #ww1

14.05.2012 00.45.40

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rosaluxemburgblog.wordpress.com - rosaluxemburgblog

Rosa Luxemburg and her lover Kostya Zetkin Rosa Luxemburg wrote to her lover Kostya Zetkin from London, where she was attending the Fifth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. “Dear Kostya, I’m sitting in the middle of the famous Whitechapel district… In a foul mood I travelled through the endless stations of the Dark Underground and emerged both depressed and lost in a strange and wild part of the city. It’s dark and dirty here. A dim streetlight is flickering and is reflected  »

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@HistoryLondon: Rosa Luxemburg’s letter (1907) from #London – unflattering, but true (?) http://t.co/L4dILdnW

13.05.2012 21.53.57

@Sparrow566: Rosa Luxemburg’s letter (1907) from #London – unflattering, but true (?) http://t.co/L4dILdnW

13.05.2012 21.49.37

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retronaut.co - Chris

A hunter in vicinity of Urga A woman sentenced to starvation death Badamdorj in vicinity of the Yellow Palace, Urga Carriage of Stefan Passe between Kykhta and Urga Lama Lamas at the Yellow Palace Married woman in Urga Mongolian capital – Urga Mongolian yurtas Street in Urga Stupas in a monastic block Gandan in Urga Temple in Urga Triumphal Gates of the Yellow Palace in Urga Two Buryat riders in Troitskosavske Two Cossack soldiers in Urga Urga … Source: Albert Kahn…  »

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@Crafthole: Time Capsule: Mongolia in colour, 1913 – http://t.co/2wjeNITa

13.05.2012 13.03.28

@theretronaut: Time Capsule: Mongolia in colour, 1913 – http://t.co/2wjeNITa

13.05.2012 12.01.52

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guardian.co.uk - Robin McKie

New scientific techniques reveal how large tribal gatherings swept neolithic Britain They were the stone-age equivalent of Glastonbury festival. People gathered in their hundreds to drink, eat and party every summer at revelries lasting several days and nights. Young men met women from nearby communities and married them. Herds of cattle were slaughtered to provide food. These neolithic carousals even had special sites. They were held on causewayed enclosures, large hilltop earthworks built by …  »

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@natalieben: Fascinating exploration of the arrival of farming in Britain: http://t.co/OPuaucgi

13.05.2012 13.42.24

@moncur_d: How stone age man invented the art of raving http://t.co/tTbQZ9Jj via @guardian

13.05.2012 13.08.10

@bruces: [protected tweet]

13.05.2012 13.56.08

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inthemedievalmiddle.com - Karl Steel

by KARL STEEL For obvious reasons, Eric Berkowitz’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire has been getting a lot of attention on the Internets. For example, see, if you haven’t already, a very popular post called "When a Medieval Knight Could Marry Another Medieval Knight", which starts like this: "Eric Berkowitz’s new book Sex And Punishment, out today from Counterpoint, is a fascinating survey of how legal systems over the millenia have attempted to regulate and police s…  »

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@sirthopas: @katrinagulliver @sirthopas @tcarmody turned our conversation into a blog post: http://t.co/nkGwhCoD

13.05.2012 13.55.48

@KarlSteel: @katrinagulliver @sirthopas @tcarmody turned our conversation into a blog post: http://t.co/nkGwhCoD

13.05.2012 13.38.58

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blog.mikerendell.com - GeorgianGent

I cannot recall that it is “Be nice to the French Day” but just in case it is, I thought I would share this with you: A real turn-up for the books – an 18th Century illustration of the differences between the French and the English,  where the artist (Rowlandson) is not being nasty to our European cousins! It is entitled “Englishmen in November… and Frenchmen in November”.  The image is from the British Museum, and therefore their copyright is acknowledged. So, there we have it: as the winter …  »

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@2nerdyhistgirls: The French don’t appreciate the English sense of "style", either (1802): http://t.co/nAyID4VL @GeorgianGent: http://t.co/HC9peyrg

13.05.2012 15.50.49

@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @GeorgianGent: How the English view the French….. http://t.co/TLsWABP9

13.05.2012 15.15.20

@patrickbaty: RT @GeorgianGent: New post: How the English view the French….. http://t.co/EUTVkxqJ

13.05.2012 12.14.25

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thonyc.wordpress.com - thonyc

A standard question amongst historians of art and historians of science is Renaissance or renaissances? Was there just one large event in European history, The Renaissance, during which the whole of the lost knowledge of antiquity was recovered or were there a series of such periods throughout the Middle Ages in which this knowledge gradually trickled back into European culture bit by bit? The first version is the myth created by the scholars in the fifteenth century who first coined the terms …  »

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@john_s_wilkins: New Post: "A mathematician who became Pope." http://t.co/SMqGWp7H

13.05.2012 03.25.29

@rmathematicus: New Post: "A mathematician who became Pope." http://t.co/SMqGWp7H

13.05.2012 01.22.17

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@EJBrand: The car-wreck that was the Royal marriage: The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder by Hone & Cruickshank, 1820: http://t.co/Y1DJGJ0I

12.05.2012 22.00.01

@HistoryLondon: The car-wreck that was the Royal marriage: The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder by Hone & Cruickshank, 1820: http://t.co/Y1DJGJ0I

12.05.2012 21.53.16

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@fleming77: RT @TurnipRail: Turnip Rail: A Brief History of the Female Railway Clerk 1830-1914 – http://t.co/fQkLoCJ4 #history #wmnhist

12.05.2012 22.55.03

@TurnipRail: Turnip Rail: A Brief History of the Female Railway Clerk 1830-1914 – http://t.co/KeDdP6CO #history #wmnhist

12.05.2012 22.37.06

@TurnipRail: New Post: A Brief History of the Female Railway Clerk 1830-1914 – http://t.co/KeDdP6CO #twitterstorians #wmnhist

12.05.2012 21.14.27

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ianhopkinson.org.uk - Ian

This post is a review and summary of Larrie D. Ferreiro’s book “Measure of the Earth” which describes the French Geodesic Mission to South America to measure the length of a degree of latitude at the equator. The action takes place in the 2nd quarter of the 18th century, the Mission left France in 1735 with the first of its members returning to Europe in 1744. The book fits together with The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder, which is about the later French effort to measure a meridian through…  »

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@rmathematicus: RT @SmallCasserole Book Review Measure of the Earth by L D. Ferreiro http://t.co/olg6NRsO //measuring 1° of latitude in Ecuador early 18th c

12.05.2012 21.56.58

@beckyfh: Book Review: Measure of the Earth by Larrie D. Ferreiro http://t.co/JZg3mt0G //measuring a degree of latitude in Ecuador, early 18th c

12.05.2012 18.37.29

@SmallCasserole: Book Review: Measure of the Earth by Larrie D. Ferreiro http://t.co/JZg3mt0G //measuring a degree of latitude in Ecuador, early 18th c

12.05.2012 16.46.14

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twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com - Isabella Bradford/Susan Holloway Scott

Isabella/Susan* reports: When the Earl of Marlton, later 1st Marquess of Rockingham, expanded his country seat of Wentworth Woodhouse with an eye to entertaining on a grand scale, he invested considerably in the silver that would grace his dining table. But if he wanted to be sure the meals served were worthy of the silver, he also must have taken care to include the most up-to-date equipment in his vast kitchens. The Georgian version of a top chef was often the most irreplaceable servant in a  »

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@2nerdyhistgirls: Thanx for RT! @janeaustenworld: 1750 state of the art kitchen equipment: a cast iron roasting jack #GeorgianCooking http://t.co/31H0mDd0

12.05.2012 22.10.00

@janeaustenworld: 1750 state of the art kitchen equipment: a cast iron roasting jack #GeorgianCooking http://t.co/0lQP1ae6

12.05.2012 17.55.28

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madameguillotine.org.uk - Madame Guillotine

I’m writing about Princess Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate’s arrival in Paris today and as she really interests me, I thought I’d chat about her on here as well. Her name’s a bit of a mouthful isn’t it – the next time I get hold of some precious vegetarian marshmallows, I’ll stuff my mouth with them and give it a whirl. Elizabeth of England, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I, sister of Charles I and goddaughter of Elizabeth I. According to the despatches of the English Ambassador, Pri…  »

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@eleanorcastile: [protected tweet]

12.05.2012 23.21.50

@MmeGuillotine: Prince Rupert’s favourite sister – the artist princess, Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate…. http://t.co/pYSnxhik

12.05.2012 17.22.29

@MmeGuillotine: Princess Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate http://t.co/876IQSsL

12.05.2012 17.21.17

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hypotheses.wordpress.com - stevenhill

  There is an understandable focus on the future in science policy discussions. We are often concerned with how investment in science and other research will contribute to future economic growth, health and well-being, and sustainable development. How should we invest now to bring about the future we want to see? What types of science should we support? How should that science be conducted? But the evidence that we draw upon is often about the past. What has been the result of previous investme…  »

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@rmathematicus: +1 Great post says @beckyfh by @stevenhill on why #scipolicy needs #histsci | Lessons from History http://t.co/L5p7UpVu

12.05.2012 13.53.55

@beckyfh: Great-looking #scipolicy event with historian of science @gwilliamthomas on ‘science policy history as morality tale’ http://t.co/bBpjPRyQ

12.05.2012 13.52.20

@beckyfh: Great post by @stevenhill on why #scipolicy needs #histsci | Lessons from History: http://t.co/FJorKdhQ

12.05.2012 13.47.07

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inthemedievalmiddle.com - Karl Steel

by KARL STEEL If you, probable medievalist, are not at this very moment publishing amazing books (seriously! AVMEO!) and joining the manic symposium of Kalamazoo, and–so long as I’m multiplying conditions–you are right at this moment in Paris and love late medieval Flemish miniatures of a political cast, then drag your bones to the Bibliothèque nationale to see the Miniatures Flamandes. I did today et moi je ne regrette rien. If you can’t spare the time, then try it from home! You ought  »

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@MagBaroque: Flemish Miniatures show at the Bibliothèque nationale http://t.co/HOBjX9iW

12.05.2012 09.21.58

@guillaumeratel: Recommended: Flemish Miniatures show at the Bibliothèque nationale http://t.co/BajUsVKx

12.05.2012 06.04.11

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guardian.co.uk - Hilary Mantel

We argue over her, we admire and revile her – we constantly reinvent her. Henry VIII’s second wife is one of the most controversial women in English history As a small child I remember being told by a solemn nun that Anne Boleyn had six fingers on one hand. In the nun’s eyes, it was the kind of deformity that Protestants were prone to; it was for Anne’s sake, as everyone knew, that Henry VIII had broken away from Rome and plunged his entire nation into the darkness of apostasy. If it weren’t for  »

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@ResObscura: Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist by Hilary Mantel http://t.co/S5z8xirj #books

12.05.2012 13.17.39

@Amanda_Vickery: Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist by Hilary Mantel http://t.co/S5z8xirj #books

12.05.2012 12.49.54

@TheHistoryWoman: Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist by Hilary Mantel http://t.co/S5z8xirj #books

12.05.2012 12.46.07

@moncur_d: Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist http://t.co/tujs3S5N via @guardian

12.05.2012 12.08.13

@beckyfh: Great read RT @GuardianBooks: Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist, by Hilary Mantel http://t.co/5AGyHkA1

12.05.2012 11.55.53

@manx_maid: Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist, by Hilary Mantel http://t.co/S5z8xirj via @guardian

12.05.2012 12.00.42

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thethinkbox.ca - Curtis

Apparently excavations of the bodies have been going on for some time now, you can find out more from the Easter Island Statue Project.  It’s generally accepted that the statues were made sometime between 1000 and 1650 AD. There is controversy surrounding why the bodies are buried, the real reason [...]

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@ericmjohnson: Wow! RT @bonesholmes: Easter island heads have bodies!?? http://t.co/9bknfXtO Who’d ‘ave thunk.

12.05.2012 03.53.41

@Bonesholmes: Easter island heads have bodies!?? http://t.co/zgYMFud1 Who’d ‘ave thunk.

12.05.2012 03.40.18

@dkemper: Well, my mind is blown. Easter Island heads have bodies. http://t.co/B3IjtZ2L via @The_MarySue

12.05.2012 01.48.49

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morbidanatomy.blogspot.com - JE

I love these delectable creatures of the nautical sublime, especially their seaweed bracelets and headdresses. As described on the Beauty, Virtue and Vice online exhibit of the American Antiquarian Society website (from which the images is also sourced): Mermaid Polka. Lith. of Napoleon Sarony, 1850. [H. D. Hewitt] In the nineteenth century, informal musical entertainments were a very common American pastime, and the piano was a common presence in American parlors. The piano’s rise in popular…  »

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@history_geek: Mermaid Polka, Sheet Music,1850 http://t.co/v9QRQ8dq

12.05.2012 03.45.53

@morbidanatomy: Ladies of the 19th Century Nautical Sublime: Mermaid Polka, Sheet Music,1850 http://t.co/0HQW3SqZ

11.05.2012 23.11.35

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parliament.uk

Explore the Parliamentary collections for documents and images about the assassination of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in May 1812 which took place in the lobby of the old House of Commons.

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@openplaques: You can view here an online exhibition from @ukparlarchives about the assassination and its aftermath http://t.co/nGiqvwnh #sp200

12.05.2012 03.48.23

@dustshoveller: An exhibition on the killing is in the Royal Gallery for visitors to Parliament to 31 July. Or view online here http://t.co/FaHJPNPX #sp200

12.05.2012 00.45.22

@TimesArchive: Poor Spencer Perceval, only British PM to be assassinated #SP200 – good stuff @UKParlArchives http://t.co/TOgxb4xB http://t.co/zhGAzEGO

11.05.2012 20.27.13

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@paleofuture: Ten Notable Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn’t Happen http://t.co/1gfjsROL via @SmithsonianMag

11.05.2012 21.47.24

@retius: The Mayan calendar doesn’t end in 2012 http://t.co/Gga0AnYS. Here are 10 more notable apocalypses that didn’t happen. http://t.co/ME4TNt2J

11.05.2012 21.46.48

@mims: 2800 B.C. Leading indicator of coming apocalypse is "every man wants to write a book." http://t.co/zuQ35aPD via @paleofuture

11.05.2012 21.55.45

@SmithsonianMag: The Mayan calendar doesn’t end in 2012 http://t.co/Gga0AnYS. Here are 10 more notable apocalypses that didn’t happen. http://t.co/ME4TNt2J

11.05.2012 21.46.31

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mathewlyons.wordpress.com - Mathew Lyons

I’m outside the As You Like It café on Henley Street in Stratford, two doors up from the entrance to Shakespeare’s birthplace, sitting with a cup of hot pale tea in my hands, its steam drifting listlessly upwards, fading into nowhere. Before me, uneaten, sits a slice of white half-warm toast buttered just too late [...]

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@MathewJLyons: Landscape, history and myth: the impress of his childhood on Shakespeare’s writing. My blog http://t.co/qs3PtlIk

11.05.2012 19.38.52

@tudortutor: Travels in Shakespeare’s England: Puck’s Dyke, Banbury cheese and battles against the Danes New on my blog http://t.co/KQlyWJ5e

11.05.2012 18.15.45

@MathewJLyons: Stratford roads: history, myth and landscape and the horizons of the young Shakespeare. New on my blog http://t.co/UJYt7GpX

11.05.2012 11.52.34

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tealeafnation.com - David Wertime

This is what used to happen when you angered the British Writing on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, in response to recent discussion of the mainland’s brewing conflict with the Philippines over the Huangyan Islands, user @有子如虎 recently tweeted his summary of military history this way: “I was thinking about recent history: U.S.: We strike whoever we want! England: We strike whoever the U.S. strikes! Russia: We strike whoever insults us! France: We strike whoever strikes us! Japan: We will get the U…  »

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@jondresner: RT @GraniteStudio Tea Leaf Nation: International #MilitaryHistory, In One Paragraph http://t.co/9lVTMDwj cc @sepoy @zunguzungu

11.05.2012 18.59.08

@GraniteStudio: Tea Leaf Nation: Voices — International Military History, In One Paragraph http://t.co/MIz5rbZe

11.05.2012 18.56.52

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m.theatlantic.com

The Atlantic covers news and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international and life on the official site of The Atlantic Magazine.

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@jaheppler: For the pm crowd: perhaps you’d like to read my piece about learning to dial a rotary phone? http://t.co/9HVZxcrn

11.05.2012 08.49.08

@finnarne: For the pm crowd: perhaps you’d like to read my piece about learning to dial a rotary phone? http://t.co/9HVZxcrn

11.05.2012 08.41.54

@wynkenhimself: All technology is learned behavior: @publichistorian reminds us that we had to learn how to dial telephones http://t.co/VMolgU1f

11.05.2012 05.37.45

@publichistorian: For the pm crowd: perhaps you’d like to read my piece about learning to dial a rotary phone? http://t.co/9HVZxcrn

11.05.2012 05.32.16

@MatthewBattles: All technology is learned behavior: @publichistorian reminds us that we had to learn how to dial telephones http://t.co/VMolgU1f

11.05.2012 05.42.21

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bbc.co.uk

Archaeologists report a striking find in Guatemala of the first Mayan art on a wall, as well as the oldest known Mayan calendar.

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@historyfaculty: Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists http://t.co/FRjmzqx3

11.05.2012 03.24.08

@historianess: RT @cpyala: Oldest Mayan calendar found. World to continue for another 6000 years at least. #2012NotTheEnd http://t.co/0296LWmH

11.05.2012 01.48.16

@parezcoydigo: Oldest Mayan calendar unearthed http://t.co/0CvnWYRp

11.05.2012 01.36.45

@ontoligent: Oldest Mayan calendar unearthed http://t.co/0CvnWYRp

11.05.2012 01.25.53

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dazko.com - admin

Art experts in Rome are analysing what they believe is a previously unknown painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. As his homeland marked the 400th anniversary of his death this weekend, the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano published the newly discovered work on its front page. Depicting the martyrdom of St Lawrence, it was found recently among the possessions of the Society of Jesuits in Rome. It shows a semi-naked young man, his mouth open in desperation with one …  »

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@Obridge: Q. Has a new Caravaggio been discovered? A. Best not jump to conclusions pending further research http://t.co/rp7CxKRc

11.05.2012 06.35.24

@3pipenet: Q. Has a new Caravaggio been discovered? A. Best not jump to conclusions pending further research http://t.co/rp7CxKRc

11.05.2012 06.31.51

@alastairdunning: Discovery of ‘new’ Caravaggio painting ruined by fact it does not really look like a Caravaggio http://t.co/YbUReFGg via @Obridge @3pipenet

11.05.2012 10.23.46

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britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk - Sarah J Biggs

Detail of miniatures from the prefatory cycle of the Nativity: in the upper register,  the Virgin suckling the Christ Child and Joseph adjusting her pillow, and in the lower register, the Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Psalter, England (Oxford), 1st quarter of the 13th century, before 1220, Royal 1 D. x, f. 1v We would like to thank everyone who answered our call for ideas about which Royal manuscripts should be included in our upcoming digitisation programme, sponsored by the Arts and H…  »

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@medievalpecia: The Chosen Royals – Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts http://t.co/vbLCZ0tG

11.05.2012 12.01.15

@medievalqub: The Chosen Royals http://t.co/VkhdfUlF

11.05.2012 11.34.33

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chemheritage.org

It’s an old case, but not a cold case. Isaac Newton left clues in his own hand. “Two women clothed riding on two lyons each with a heart in her hand….The right hand lyon farts on a company of young lions behind it….” Rather than an example of bad taste, Newton’s farting lion is part of a sophisticated chemical process. Unfortunately, no one has yet unlocked its meaning.

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@beckyfh: Another nice piece from @ChemHeritage on alchemy & decoding of emblems http://t.co/G1YrQ3eV via @ChemHeritage and @violetbluebird #histsci

11.05.2012 11.07.44

@clerestories: Larry Principe’s decoding of alchemical emblem as chemical equation is pretty nifty http://t.co/qgyeq1DV via @ChemHeritage

11.05.2012 10.53.31

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guardian.co.uk - Justin McGuirk

As the newly restored first edition goes on show, Justin McGuirk explores an emblem of 1960s architectural utopianism. Just don’t call it a spaceship Before the recession and the return of architectural probity, the phrase "like an alien spaceship" was all over architecture journalism like a cheap suit. Faced with anything that didn’t look like a brick box, critics and headline writers would ransack their imaginations before inevitably reaching for the extra-terrestrial. Frank Gehry? Future Sys…  »

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@askpang: So true: "if it calls itself the future, it’s probably not." http://t.co/odS95x5w via @guardian

11.05.2012 10.35.28

@justinpickard: Good lord, yes. RT @justinmcguirk Futuro – the ideal home that wasn’t: http://t.co/iVnCSYDU

11.05.2012 04.31.43

@PD_Smith: "The Futuro remains an emblematic image of the 1960s": @justinmcguirk http://t.co/nyepCTLj "a kitschy one-hit wonder"

10.05.2012 22.40.06

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1812now.blogspot.ca

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@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @1812now: "Lord Byron is still upon a pedestal, and Caroline William doing homage." —May 10 1812. http://t.co/1QJ3fdAF

11.05.2012 00.10.00

@LadyTranbyCroft: Lord Byron is still upon a pedestal, and Caroline William doing homage. —Lady Harriet Leveson Gower writes May 10 1812. http://t.co/eHajNhCa

10.05.2012 20.45.40

@1812now: Lord Byron is still upon a pedestal, and Caroline William doing homage. —Lady Harriet Leveson Gower writes May 10 1812. http://t.co/eHajNhCa

10.05.2012 20.45.00

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the-tls.co.uk

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@wmarybeard: I had fun thinking about how the Romans walked — in the TLS: http://t.co/nhZtCu9r

10.05.2012 13.33.46

@moncur_d: Walk like a Roman | TLS http://t.co/MJJAQFij

10.05.2012 02.45.36

@nicoleebeale: Why I love the Humanities… @wmarybeard on walking in the past: MT: I had fun thinking about how the Romans walked: http://t.co/FKDusmPV

10.05.2012 13.36.12

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foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com - Ivan Day

 From Jubilee Cake by Alice Wellington Rollins in St Nicholas, Vol. 14, Part II, Scribner and Company, 1887. Food History Jottings’ research assistant Plumcake has been investigating the evolution of the wedding cake in Victorian England. She has discovered a rich horde of new material which could well be the subject of a future posting (or two) on this blog. She has also unearthed some fascinating references to a number of cakes made for Queen Victoria’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees. The most i…  »

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@austenonly: From celebrations for Queen Victoria: Jubilee Cakes & Ale: http://t.co/ItyrgoC6

10.05.2012 12.53.23

@2nerdyhistgirls: From celebrations for Queen Victoria: Jubilee Cakes & Ale: http://t.co/ItyrgoC6

10.05.2012 04.07.54

@edwardian_era: Food historian Ivan Day takes a look at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee cakes http://t.co/T0zqlIcg

10.05.2012 03.59.27

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telegraph.co.uk - Peter Stanford

TV historians do not dumb down their subject, says Peter Stanford.

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@rogueclassicist: In the Telegraph. Historians who accuse TV-presenting colleagues of dumbing down the subject are stuck in the past. http://t.co/pgCjYiPa

10.05.2012 13.17.33

@ihr_history: And the other side of the debate about historians aiming for TV stardom http://t.co/ZotQ1chw (via @OldHouseHistory)

10.05.2012 12.36.07

@OldHouseHistory: A nice defence of historians on the telly http://t.co/5gxyryQo

10.05.2012 12.14.10

@Airminded: Apparently the answer to the q. ‘What job will a #History degree get you?’ is ‘TV presenter’ http://t.co/dfBtbASp Definitely @usesofhistory

10.05.2012 12.05.54

@sixteenthCgirl: The Telegraph hits back at The Independent’s Keith Thomas article about historians on TV: http://t.co/GQDtLH0r

10.05.2012 12.00.31

@carolinepennock: Apparently the answer to the q. ‘What job will a #History degree get you?’ is ‘TV presenter’ http://t.co/dfBtbASp Definitely @usesofhistory

10.05.2012 11.41.03

@adrianmurdoch: In the Telegraph. Historians who accuse TV-presenting colleagues of dumbing down the subject are stuck in the past. http://t.co/pgCjYiPa

10.05.2012 10.56.06

@mia_out: I read RT @ihr_history: And the other side of the debate about historians aiming for TV stardom http://t.co/rTCfgkiV (via @OldHouseHistory)

10.05.2012 13.42.57

@_hannahwill: RT @greg_jenner: A nice defence of historians on the telly http://t.co/lBemXYh2 #twitterstorians

10.05.2012 12.20.04

@nickblackbourn: In the Telegraph. Historians who accuse TV-presenting colleagues of dumbing down the subject are stuck in the past. http://t.co/pgCjYiPa

10.05.2012 11.00.00

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chronicle.com

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@Raherrmann: Good advice if I can follow it: "10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics" from @katrinagulliver http://t.co/ng4oz7yl

10.05.2012 13.34.31

@sharon_howard: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians

10.05.2012 10.40.38

@jlpasley: Good advice if I can follow it: "10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics" from @katrinagulliver http://t.co/ng4oz7yl

10.05.2012 10.00.29

@Airminded: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians

10.05.2012 09.50.59

@sirthopas: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians

10.05.2012 09.44.42

@adevenney: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians

10.05.2012 09.24.51

@katrinagulliver: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians

10.05.2012 09.20.35

@nickblackbourn: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians

10.05.2012 10.27.31

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criminallondon.com - admin

Tweet The Prince Regent, later George IV, was not a popular man within his own lifetime. Known for his expensive tastes, his physical corpulence, and liking for the female sex, his subjects sometimes found it hard to treat him with the courtesy due to a future sovereign and member of the Royal family. One on occasion, in 1817, he was attacked in St James’s Park, as the press later breathlessly reported: “the following are the particulars of this distressing occurrence as they have bee n commun…  »

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@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @CriminalLondon: Outrage Upon The Prince Regent, 1817: http://t.co/vAsM1TDm

10.05.2012 15.15.01

@CriminalLondon: New on Criminal London: Outrage Upon The Prince Regent http://t.co/aVWb5nf7

10.05.2012 14.22.43

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openculture.com - Dan Colman

Throughout the past two years, we’ve shown you various Walt Disney propaganda films from World War II. Now it’s time to visit a very different mid-1940s Disney production – The Story of Menstruation. From 1945 to 1951, Disney produced a series of educational films to be shown in American schools. How to bathe an infant. How not to catch a cold. Why you shouldn’t drive fast. Disney covered these subjects in its educational shorts, and then eventually got to the touchy subject of biology and sexu…  »

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@tournevis: Um, the Disney film you weren’t expecting… The Story Of Menstruation from 1946 http://t.co/Mn1H0EbE (via @brainpicker)

10.05.2012 14.51.32

@cathfeely: Um, the Disney film you weren’t expecting… The Story Of Menstruation from 1946 http://t.co/Mn1H0EbE (via @brainpicker)

10.05.2012 13.51.41

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blog.mikerendell.com - GeorgianGent

One of the great pleasures in researching for my book The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman was coming across the maps of Richard Horwood.They really are exquisitely drawn, and as the cartouche says, they show London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and parts adjoining, ‘shewing every house’. The maps were published between 1792 and 1799 but Richard Horwood is believed to have started working on the maps at least a decade previously. It really was a huge undertaking: he and his team of …  »

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@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @GeorgianGent: Richard Horwood, an extraordinary map-maker. http://t.co/0k0ZVPdp

10.05.2012 15.00.08

@rmathematicus: RT @GeorgianGent New post: Richard Horwood, an extraordinary map-maker. http://t.co/2AFgYExi

10.05.2012 13.42.32

@fleming77: RT @GeorgianGent: New post: Richard Horwood, an extraordinary map-maker. http://t.co/96pkGPc6

10.05.2012 12.19.22

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blog.historians.org

Welcome to AHA Today, a blog focused on the latest happenings in the broad discipline of history and the professional practice of the craft that draws on the staff, research, and activities of the American Historical Association.

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@RBTatAHA: Fun piece: Evolution as the enemy of history (or at least history narrative): http://t.co/kiBVKA4E

09.05.2012 20.55.55

@KevinLevin: Historians vs. Evolution: New Book Explains Why Historians Might Have Hard Time Reaching Wide Audiences, Getting a Date http://t.co/SiCht7XS

09.05.2012 20.13.31

@archivesnext: Read & learn, archivists RT @AHAhistorians New book explainss why historians have hard time reaching wide audiences http://t.co/GE0hERMV

09.05.2012 20.03.34

@dighist: New book explains why historians might have a hard time reaching wide audiences (and getting a date): http://t.co/BIscZL98

09.05.2012 19.48.56

@AHAhistorians: New book explains why historians might have a hard time reaching wide audiences (and getting a date): http://t.co/BIscZL98

09.05.2012 19.31.37

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theatlantic.com - Megan Garber

Nate St. Pierre’s web-friendly adventures with Honest Abe were literally too good to be true. Brian Fung It started with a headline I saw pinging around Twitter yesterday afternoon. Abraham Lincoln, my friends’ tweets informed me, had invented a 19th-century version of Facebook. Yes! This previously unknown tidbit, it turns out, was the discovery of a guy in Milwaukee who had happened to take a day off work — and then happened (serendipity!) to visit a circus graveyard in Delavan, Wisconsin …  »

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@larrycebula: Though he hunted vampires for reals, Abraham Lincoln did not actually invent Facebook – http://t.co/tHOJON5n #digitalstorytelling

10.05.2012 00.27.54

@KevinLevin: From black Confederates to Lincoln inventing Facebook-why we need to teach kids h/t search for and assess online info http://t.co/ZQFkQgFw

09.05.2012 22.51.50

@gordonbelt: Abraham Lincoln never invented Facebook. You can’t make it true no matter how much you "Like" it: http://t.co/8Dq2S1DG RT @megangarber

10.05.2012 01.00.11

@harrisj: "I just think this is fun": my talk with the "Abraham Lincoln invented Facebook" hoaxer http://t.co/Q57IXOoT

10.05.2012 00.10.18

@beccarosen: Love this. @megangarber factchecks the ridiculous Lincoln/Facebook story and talks to the guy who started it all: http://t.co/YUqyrBZC

09.05.2012 22.34.51

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teleskopos.wordpress.com - Rebekah Higgitt

Over a year ago I wrote a post ‘Sympathetic vibrations‘ that mentioned a 1688 pamphlet that included (as satire) a means of finding longitude by using a ‘Powder of Sympathy’. The idea was that this could be used to enduce an on-board dog to yelp at a pre-determined time at a known reference point, thus allowing a comparison with local time and, hence, a calculation of longitude. I noted there the fact that this story has often been presented as a genuine longitude scheme, probably because it is…  »

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@beckyfh: Today’s post, on time, longitude, Arctic exploration and ‘The Bolton Clairvoyante’ | Long-distance longitude http://t.co/Ze5Eb7st

10.05.2012 00.03.37

@darwinsbulldog: New post on longitude, Arctic exploration and clairvoyance: Long-distance longitude http://t.co/Ze5Eb7st #histsci #longitudeblog

09.05.2012 19.13.54

@rmathematicus: New post on longitude, Arctic exploration and clairvoyance Long-distance longitude http://t.co/oxhD5utG #histsci #longitudeblog via @beckyfh

09.05.2012 18.57.14

@beckyfh: New post on longitude, Arctic exploration and clairvoyance: Long-distance longitude http://t.co/Ze5Eb7st #histsci #longitudeblog

09.05.2012 18.52.29

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twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com - Isabella Bradford/Susan Holloway Scott

Isabella/Susan* reporting: When I see an 18th c doorway in Massachusetts, I expect to see a simple pediment or porch. What I don’t expect are the skulls of oxen. Bovine skulls are found in paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, and that old educational video game, Oregon Trail. They do not belong on colonial buildings. But that’s exactly what I discovered over the doors of Holden Chapel, a small brick building at Harvard University in Cambridge. Called bucrania (the Latin word for skulls of oxen), th…  »

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@HistorianHope: @Boston1775 From @2nerdyhistgirls, Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/gMTpASsv // Doorway is HoldenChapel, Harvard, blt 1745.

10.05.2012 01.53.35

@Boston1775: From @2nerdyhistgirls, Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/L3czMIMP // Doorway is Holden Chapel, Harvard, built 1745.

10.05.2012 01.40.57

@2nerdyhistgirls: Thanks for RT! @unified84: most curious! New post: Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/4FxrD2CW

10.05.2012 01.25.01

@2nerdyhistgirls: Thanks for RT! @bibliotraveler: New post: Bucrania alert! Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/4FxrD2CW

09.05.2012 23.00.10

@2nerdyhistgirls: Thanks for the RT @taylormpolites: New post: Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/4FxrD2CW

09.05.2012 19.29.00

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wellcomehistory.wordpress.com - wellcomehistory

Feature: Darwin’s spin-doctor, or opportunistic and ruthless self-publicist? – by Keith Williams Cartoon engraving of Huxley, 1870. Wellcome Library The acceptance of evolution and the development of Darwinism during the 19th century have been attributed largely to the activities and influence of Thomas Henry Huxley. This view holds that without Huxley’s pugnacious defence and vociferous promotion of Darwin and his view of evolution, On the Origin of Species might well have had no greater an …  »

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@David_Bressan: Alone his beard would get him a honour badge as geologist h.c.: Thomas Henry Huxley http://t.co/NoqAybXJ

09.05.2012 21.46.31

@rmathematicus: Spin-doctor or self-publicist? RT @darwinsbulldog: From the Wellcome History blog: Thomas Henry Huxley http://t.co/vJFH5cWt via @beckyfh

09.05.2012 21.39.21

@beckyfh: Spin-doctor or self-publicist? RT @darwinsbulldog: From the Wellcome History blog: Thomas Henry Huxley http://t.co/Mb60dbTh #histsci

09.05.2012 20.16.22

@darwinsbulldog: From the Wellcome History blog: Thomas Henry Huxley http://t.co/rRKknaIZ #histsci

09.05.2012 19.16.29

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@history_geek: Cool RT @neh_odh: New blog post on Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers, from UNT & Stanford. http://t.co/i7bT1GK5

09.05.2012 18.47.27

@NEHgov: New blog post on Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers, from UNT & Stanford. http://t.co/bVuhkoGC

09.05.2012 23.13.36

@the_wrangler: RT @andrewtorget: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers featured on @NEH_ODH: http://t.co/5MqlDPwY Huzzah!

09.05.2012 22.01.41

@the_wrangler: Great to see @andrewtorget jumping into Twitter while launching our Mapping Texts visualizations: http://t.co/U3eVh9Bc

09.05.2012 20.42.52

@the_wrangler: Great working with @andrewtorget @mcgeoff @wi_d3sign @NEH_ODH @librarycongress Chronicling America on Mapping Texts: http://t.co/5MqlDPwY

09.05.2012 19.49.07

@the_wrangler: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers, @Stanford – University of North Texas collaboration: http://t.co/pddf0l8z @NEHgov

09.05.2012 19.28.17

@the_archive: Very cool indeed RT @history_geek: Cool RT @neh_odh: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers http://t.co/1MMoBoaF

09.05.2012 18.59.52

@iridium: Great project. RT @the_wrangler: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers: http://t.co/7UuDKPUu @brettbobley @NEH_ODH

09.05.2012 18.54.16

@brettbobley: Thanks to @andrewtorget & @the_wrangler for sending me great images and text for their Mapping Texts piece. http://t.co/o2Y2lMiZ

09.05.2012 18.45.10

@the_wrangler: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers: http://t.co/pddf0l8z @brettbobley @NEH_ODH

09.05.2012 18.44.04

@NEH_ODH: New blog post on Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers, from UNT & Stanford. http://t.co/bVuhkoGC

09.05.2012 18.43.10

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news.nationalgeographic.com - Ker Than

Find out why the "miraculous," misunderstood archaeologist who found King Tut’s ancient tomb is being honored today in a modern way.

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@drskyskull: Howard Carter: "Miraculous," misunderstood man behind google’s doodle http://t.co/fJoHOLbM via @NatGeo

10.05.2012 03.05.37

@CloudHopper9: Howard Carter : "Miraculous," Misunderstood Man Behind Google’s Gilded Doodle http://t.co/y54RjKjo #history #archaeology

10.05.2012 02.01.56

@BoneGirlPhD: Howard Carter: "Miraculous," misunderstood man behind google’s doodle http://t.co/fJoHOLbM via @NatGeo

10.05.2012 03.03.27

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independent.co.uk

Sir Keith Thomas is right. But the problem goes further and wider than just a dash for fame among freshly-hatched PhDs. The problem comes with all the different pressures which have evolved since Sir Keith began his distinguished career.

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@earlymodernjohn: Antony Beevor responds to Keith Thomas. He’s right about teaching, but otherwise this is narrow and misses the point. http://t.co/bo7cvE2W

09.05.2012 13.26.52

@HistoryToday: "A limited idea of academic success is the problem": Anthony Beevor’s response to Sir Keith Thomas http://t.co/AZa6JXwu

09.05.2012 13.23.40

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@adrianmurdoch: Bit sad to see no mention of widespread public rejoicing at assassination of S Perceval. Turbulent times #Luddites http://t.co/wYtItMxb

09.05.2012 11.52.15

@ihr_history: The assassination of Spencer Perceval and the ever-present ‘spectre of the lone gunman’ http://t.co/HpTkC5uo

09.05.2012 11.49.28

@dustshoveller: The assassination of Spencer Perceval and the ever-present ‘spectre of the lone gunman’ http://t.co/HpTkC5uo

09.05.2012 12.02.03

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independent.co.uk

Young history academics are too eager to convert their research into books that have only a slim chance of success in an increasingly crowded market, according to the chief judge of a leading history writing prize.

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@earlymodernjohn: I’m a big fan of Keith Thomas but I think his argument that young historians are ‘damaging academia’ is, frankly, bunk. http://t.co/nZvFF0qG

09.05.2012 13.14.28

@perkinsy: Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/W6aUhogX via @zite Or so says Keith Thomas-not sure I agree

09.05.2012 12.44.48

@JonathanFoyle: Young historians ‘damaging academia’, RT @ihr_history @adrianmurdoch http://t.co/pe9ovChx < Not temp., underpaid ‘impact-assessed’ Uni jobs?

09.05.2012 12.42.12

@dalyhistory: RT @_paullay RT @adrianmurdoch Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/LLwI5yk6

09.05.2012 11.53.55

@ihr_history: RT @_paullay RT @adrianmurdoch Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/LLwI5yk6

09.05.2012 11.53.02

@sirthopas: Young historians are damaging academia in bid for stardom! But 2 of the listed ‘tele-dons’ aren’t dons… http://t.co/EVd1KteS via…

09.05.2012 11.37.06

@carolinepennock: Young historians are damaging academia in bid for stardom! But 2 of the listed ‘tele-dons’ aren’t dons… http://t.co/EVd1KteS via…

09.05.2012 11.31.03

@sallyosborn: http://t.co/jTYkOlg1 Keith Thomas attacks young historians for making ‘popular book deals’ over real academia #howdowemakealivingthenKeith

09.05.2012 11.30.48

@HPS_Vanessa: Young historians ‘damaging academia’ in bid 4 stardom http://t.co/1PJEd9ix (suspect odds better to win Wolfson than get lectureship, so…)

09.05.2012 11.20.42

@historynews: [History: General]: Young historians and #39;are damaging academia and #39; in their bid for stardom http://t.co/H8OHQmd2 #historyteacher

09.05.2012 09.15.55

@Airminded: Interesting. RT @adrianmurdoch Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/6AgauxFq

09.05.2012 08.17.01

@IdleHistorian: Interesting. RT @adrianmurdoch Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/6AgauxFq

09.05.2012 08.08.25

@adrianmurdoch: Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/TcWbXVSy

09.05.2012 08.04.43

@_hannahwill: Are young historians damaging academia in a bid for stardom? http://t.co/MBo38zAH #twitterstorians

09.05.2012 13.08.55

@the_archive: Young historians can’t be blamed for publishing books when their careers depend on it – shocking http://t.co/FHtWrOl4 #twitterstorians

09.05.2012 12.26.47

@the_archive: RT @ihr_history Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/gYHesBzC

09.05.2012 12.17.58

@the_archive: In the last decade, sales of history books have increased by over 45% – young academics are chasing fame http://t.co/FHtWrOl4

09.05.2012 12.16.38

@miaridge: [protected tweet]

09.05.2012 11.46.14

@portableant: Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/TcWbXVSy

09.05.2012 10.11.40

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historytoday.com

Dozens of films from the archives of the British Council have been released for free online.Dating from the 1940s, the 120 films were made by British Council staff and are mostly bits of low-grade pro

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@Airminded: Over one hundred films from the 1940s released online by the @BritishCouncil: http://t.co/5rFDupsF

09.05.2012 13.38.15

@HistoryToday: Over one hundred films from the 1940s released online by the @BritishCouncil: http://t.co/5rFDupsF

09.05.2012 13.33.56

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thonyc.wordpress.com - thonyc

This is a book review. It is a review of Mark A. Peterson’s Galileo’s Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts (Harvard University Press, 2011) that I have to admit I’m writing with some reluctance. Why? I’m writing this review with some reluctance because it is going to be an extremely negative review. Now regular readers of this blog are probably asking themselves, “is he ill?” “There’s nothing the Renaissance Mathematicus likes more than putting the boot in, so why not now?” These would of…  »

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@3pipenet: Kudos @rmathematicus for providing an openly accessible outline of errors made in a history of science publication http://t.co/kqNgFYP3

09.05.2012 00.42.16

@rmathematicus: Thanks to the incomparable @beckyfh and the irascible @grumpyhistorian for RTs of my "Galileo’s Muse review http://t.co/N8DUZeB9

08.05.2012 23.47.47

@rmathematicus: RT @grumpyhistorian "Historical Rubbish" &amp; "campaign of misinformation" @rmathematicus eviscerates "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/N8DUZeB9

08.05.2012 23.37.25

@rmathematicus: Post "How not to write about Renaissance mathematics" A review of Mark A Peterson’s "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/N8DUZeB9 @Harvard_Press

08.05.2012 23.28.26

@Airminded: "Historical Rubbish" and "campaign of misinformation" via @beckyfh: @rmathematicus eviscerates "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/yazjQ63Z #ouch

08.05.2012 22.24.02

@grumpyhistorian: "Historical Rubbish" and "campaign of misinformation" via @beckyfh: @rmathematicus eviscerates "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/yazjQ63Z #ouch

08.05.2012 22.17.18

@beckyfh: How not to write about Renaissance mathematics: @rmathematicus lays into Mark A Peterson’s "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/PeKEkA9q #ouch

08.05.2012 22.01.27

@rmathematicus: New Post "How not to write about Renaissance mathematics" A review of Mark A Peterson’s "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/N8DUZeB9 @Harvard_Press

08.05.2012 19.48.46

@ncecire: How not to write about Renaissance mathematics: @rmathematicus lays into Mark A Peterson’s "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/PeKEkA9q #ouch

08.05.2012 22.16.08

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medievalists.net - Medievalists.net

Glass furnaces recorded in 1955-7 were previously thought to date from before the Norman Conquest. However, radiocarbon dating has now revealed that they date approximately to the 680s, and are likely to be associated with a major rebuilding of the abbey undertaken by King Ine of Wessex.

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@EHChalus: Glass discovered at Glastonbury Abbey dates back to 7th century, researchers find http://t.co/aD49CHQ2 (via @bobbyatbath)

08.05.2012 22.29.36

@medievalbook: Glass discovered at Glastonbury Abbey dates back to 7th century, researchers find: Glass furn… http://t.co/cA3FciSN #history #medieval

08.05.2012 21.32.28

@MZiegler3: Glass discovered at Glastonbury Abbey dates back to 7th century, researchers find http://t.co/KB00zIQ1

08.05.2012 21.12.06

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executedtoday.com - Headsman

On this date in 1788, two highwaymen were hanged at Boston Neck: Archibald Taylor, and Joseph Taylor.* According to a letter later published purporting to be from that Joseph Taylor, however, he and a sympathetic doctor actually engineered one of the most amazing scaffold escapes on record. It all got started when Joseph Taylor found his fellow-condemned Archibald in high spirits one day on death row. I never, even after my condemnation, realized that I was suddenly to die in so awful a manner,…  »

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@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @executedtoday: Great gallows-escape story from early America http://t.co/2OIGqY6R … can it possibly be true? #Massachusetts

09.05.2012 00.55.01

@executedtoday: Great gallows-escape story from early America http://t.co/y6dVHNES … can it possibly be true? #Massachusetts

08.05.2012 23.50.03

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activehistory.ca - Jay Young

Promotional image for Season Five of Mad Men By Jay Young Like many people, I anticipated the return of Mad Men (AMC, Sundays, 10 pm EST), one of television’s most acclaimed series of the past decade.  Now in its fifth season, the show looks at the life of Don Draper and other workers in the New York advertising industry during the 1960s. At the same time that I became reunited with Don and his gang at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, I also began to re-watch The Wonder Years.  Running from 1988 to  »

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@kristamccracken: RT @ActiveHist: New post "Mad Men and Wonder Years: history, nostalgia, and life in The Sixties" http://t.co/c3HxfVaD #history

08.05.2012 19.13.31

@ActiveHist: new post "Mad Men and Wonder Years: history, nostalgia, and life in The Sixties" http://t.co/5KEM81DV #history

08.05.2012 18.54.28

@seankheraj: new post "Mad Men and Wonder Years: history, nostalgia, and life in The Sixties" http://t.co/5KEM81DV #history

08.05.2012 19.18.03

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sappingattention.blogspot.com - Ben Schmidt

It’s pretty obvious that one of the many problems in studying history by relying on the print record is that writers of books are disproportionately male. Data can give some structure to this view. Not in the complicated, archival-silences filling way–that’s important, but hard–but just in the most basic sense. How many women were writing books? Do projects on big digital archives only answer, as Katherine Harris asks, "how do men write?" Where were gender barriers strongest, and where weak…  »

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@Sparrow566: A lot of very, very interesting facts about the gendering of authorship in the 19c: http://t.co/oSg2WnSJ

09.05.2012 00.08.05

@jgreen31: RT @miriamkp: RT @benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/rgBtYXkq

08.05.2012 23.57.25

@briancroxall: RT @benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/2plMzNcq

08.05.2012 23.48.50

@miriamkp: RT @benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/7zDbbl0C

08.05.2012 23.42.32

@Ted_Underwood: A lot of very, very interesting facts about the gendering of authorship in the 19c: http://t.co/oSg2WnSJ

08.05.2012 23.41.27

@ncecire: RT @benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/rD9XzlBN

08.05.2012 23.38.47

@benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/09YkBLIh

08.05.2012 23.35.41

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twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com - LorettaChase

Loretta reports: Didst ever see a Gondola?  For fear     You should not, I’ll describe it to you exactly: ‘Tis a long cover’d boat that’s common here,     Carved at the prow, built lightly, but compactly; Row’d by two rowers, each call’d ‘Gondolier,’     It glides along the water looking blackly, Just like a coffin clapt in a canoe, Where none can make out what you say or do.   (Lord Byron, Beppo) Byron’s description of a gondola opens the first chapter of my “Venice book,” Your Scandalous Wa…  »

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@2nerdyhistgirls: New post: Gondolas in Venice, then and now: http://t.co/wVL3ytGB

08.05.2012 15.50.01

@MagBaroque: Gondolas then &amp; now http://t.co/dwt7z6rX

08.05.2012 13.34.10

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The Royal Flying Corps came into being 100 years ago and played a key role in World War I. But who were its heroic pilots, and why was the corps so special?

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@TurnipRail: Amazing history! #heroes BBC News – The original air aces http://t.co/reh05U5y

08.05.2012 15.33.57

@HouseHistorian: Amazing history! #heroes BBC News – The original air aces http://t.co/reh05U5y

08.05.2012 15.31.05

@Airminded: 100 Years of the Royal Flying Corps http://t.co/ZUFmYmQb

08.05.2012 02.15.56

@eleanorcastile: [protected tweet]

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Meet the Romans presenter Mary Beard muses on the "extraordinary" similarities between modern London and ancient Rome

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@fleming77: RT @HistoryToday: Mary Beard on the similarities between ancient Rome and London: http://t.co/S2HJ0f4Z

08.05.2012 14.41.02

@HistoryToday: Mary Beard on the similarities between ancient Rome and London: http://t.co/ox77dGuJ

08.05.2012 14.35.54

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Plenty of obscure books were published in the early modern period and for anyone who is prepared to spend a few hours scouring a database as powerful as Eighteenth Century Collections Online (or its 17th-century equivalent EEBO) it is not uncommon to turn up a work about which little is known. Now, as a student of the philosophy of John Locke (1632–1704), I am interested in the impact of Locke’s thought on subsequent generations. One of Locke’s most notorious and widely discussed remarks in the…  »

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@FrueheNeuzeit: RT @rmathematicus @EarlyModernXPhi at Otago: the case of Thomas Emes http://t.co/I8JAqhth on reception of Locke’s thought #earlymodern

08.05.2012 04.22.40

@rmathematicus: RT New blog post @EarlyModernXPhi at Otago: the case of Thomas Emes http://t.co/Frxv3CUY on reception of Locke’s thought #earlymodern

08.05.2012 01.48.00

@EarlyModernXPhi: New blog post on Early Modern at Otago: the case of Thomas Emes http://t.co/Kl4oO4Ts on reception of Locke’s thought #earlymodern

08.05.2012 01.00.58

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A Conversation with Digital Historians | Southern Spaces

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@ProfessMoravec: #digitalhistory –> RT @dighist A Conversation with Digital Historians | Southern Spaces http://t.co/jiu26eJz via @wcaleb

08.05.2012 01.46.36

@dighist: A Conversation with Digital Historians | Southern Spaces http://t.co/hGBZ7FTk

08.05.2012 01.42.42

@wcaleb: A Conversation with Digital Historians | Southern Spaces http://t.co/hGBZ7FTk

08.05.2012 01.05.41

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scottbot.net - Scott Weingart

Just realized Klout is the perfect metaphor for media in the modern era. It assumes you’re an expert in anything you talk a lot about. — Dan Munz (@dan_munz) May 5, 2012 Text analytics are often used in the social sciences as a way of unobtrusively observing people and their interactions. Humanists tend to approach the supporting algorithms with skepticism, and with good reason. This post is about the difficulties of using words or counts as a proxy for some secondary or deeper meaning. Although  »

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@parezcoydigo: RT @scott_bot: The problem of text analysis as a proxy for meaning. http://t.co/HASC1HlN

07.05.2012 20.36.41

@ProfessMoravec: confusion of vocabulary&amp;syntax for semantics&amp;pragmatics -> http://t.co/nTp6rucr by @scott_bot via @miriamkp #twitterstorians #digitalhistory

07.05.2012 20.26.39

@miriamkp: RT @scott_bot: The problem of text analysis as a proxy for meaning. http://t.co/HASC1HlN

07.05.2012 20.20.33

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Adrian Murdoch continues the series with a guy I know absolutely zero about: Libius Severus: Emperors of Rome

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@adrianmurdoch: Emperors of Rome: Libius Severus http://t.co/rPjjbeBB

07.05.2012 17.07.52

@rogueclassicist: Emperors of Rome: Libius Severus http://t.co/rPjjbeBB

07.05.2012 13.27.59

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@sirthopas: Fascinating hand-drawn map of Anglo-Saxon London ca. 500-1050CE: http://t.co/VvJbqSwq via @katemond &amp; @clerestories

07.05.2012 14.05.02

@rmathematicus: Fascinating hand-drawn map of Anglo-Saxon London ca. 500-1050CE: http://t.co/VvJbqSwq via @katemond &amp; @clerestories

07.05.2012 14.00.12

@clerestories: Fascinating hand-drawn map of Anglo-Saxon London ca. 500-1050CE: http://t.co/NlUnxpJa (via @katemond)

07.05.2012 12.52.27

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@tudortutor: Superb piece on torture in Tudor England from @tudorscribe http://t.co/tAl3JtMD

07.05.2012 17.04.56

@MathewJLyons: Superb piece on torture in Tudor England from @tudorscribe http://t.co/tAl3JtMD

07.05.2012 15.14.21

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blog.mikerendell.com - GeorgianGent

Visiting Tasmania makes you appreciate how hard it must have been for the early settlers towards the end of the Georgian era. Hobart was founded in 1804 under the control of Governor David Collins. At that stage it was still regarded as being ‘Van Diemen’s Land’ and the fact that the island was separate from the Australian mainland had only been discovered  five years before by Captain Bass (after whom the straits are named). Getting there from Britain involved a journey of at least two months,…  »

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@fleming77: RT @GeorgianGent: New post: Colonial settlement in the Georgian Era: Tasmania http://t.co/KBErmxOZ

07.05.2012 12.19.00

@beckyfh: New post: Colonial settlement in the Georgian Era: Tasmania http://t.co/XV5t1611

07.05.2012 12.09.25

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cotswoldhistory.com - cotswoldhistory

Tweet Charles Paget Wade – photo from Wikimedia Commons, via Andrew Eason Charles Paget Wade was a somewhat eccentric man – one who bought a manor house, then chose to live in a small house in its garden; a trained architect who was, by modern standards, a hoarder of artefacts; the owner of a sugar plantation in the West Indies who is buried in a quiet Cotswolds churchyard. Charles was born in 1883, and started collecting things at the age of seven. He trained as an architect, but when his fa…  »

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@AdeTinniswood: RT @nelldarby: Cotswold History: Charles Paget Wade, The Cotswold Collector http://t.co/fpn6eii6

07.05.2012 13.22.06

@nelldarby: Cotswold History: Charles Paget Wade, The Cotswold Collector http://t.co/EyFmC6Rc

07.05.2012 13.19.20

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rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.com - Dave Walker

The Time Machine seems to be a bit sluggish after its month long stay in the 19th century. So it’s hardly surprising that its first jump has only got us as far as 1897. It’s landed us outside the borders of Kensington and Chelsea as well but as this is a Diamond Jubilee year for the Queen we shouldn’t miss this opportunity to hang around at one of the main events of the last Diamond Jubilee. We’re in a tent in the grounds of Devonshire House on July 2nd 1897. The photographer James Lauder of the  »

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@edwardian_era: Fancy Edwardian folk in fancy dress: Duchess of Devonshire’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee Ball: http://t.co/q2OMPm29

07.05.2012 08.33.55

@2nerdyhistgirls: Fancy Edwardian folk in fancy dress: Duchess of Devonshire’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee Ball: http://t.co/q2OMPm29

07.05.2012 05.30.25

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transitofvenus.nl - Andrea Wulf

On 6 May 1761, Charles Mason finally sat down and wrote a letter to the Royal Society – we can only imagine how worried he and his partner Jeremiah Dixon must have been because they had ignored their orders and decided to observe the transit from the Cape of Good Hope instead of in Sumatra. There were several reasons: they were much delayed – first by contrary winds that had left them stranded in Portsmouth for several weeks, and then by the disastrous battle with the French frigate only four d…  »

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@rmathematicus: RT @tov2012 In 1761, Mason &amp; Dixon ended up in Cape Town instead of Bencoolen. The Royal Society had to be notified. http://t.co/4rqRp1j6

06.05.2012 12.58.02

@beckyfh: In 1761, Mason &amp; Dixon ended up in Cape Town instead of Bencoolen. The Royal Society had to be notified. http://t.co/winpOP48

06.05.2012 11.47.47

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blog.oup.com - Alice

This Day in World History May 6, 1527 The Sack of Rome On May 6, 1527, a mass of German Lutheran and Spanish Catholic troops — unlikely allies — reached Rome. They had been kept unpaid for months and were resentful of the riches of the papacy. As the soldiers — by now a rampaging mob — entered the Vatican, Pope Clement VII was saying a mass in the Sistine Chapel. With Swiss Guards being slaughtered in St. Peter’s Square, the pope was hustled away to safety in the stout Castel Sant’Angelo. And …  »

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@rogueclassicist: The Sack of Rome | This Day in History http://t.co/68Ef8jNz

06.05.2012 13.56.18

@manx_maid: The Sack of Rome | This Day in History http://t.co/68Ef8jNz

06.05.2012 13.54.17

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froginawell.net - Jonathan Dresner

Via Aaron Bady, I saw a wonderful article by Imke Sturm-Martin about the challenges of integrating migration history into the mainstream of European historical consciousness.1 Europe is not the only place where migration history has complicated traditional narratives, and where migration history has contemporary political implications, but it is a bit ahead of the curve, thanks to the usual patterns of economic and social change, compounded regional integration. I don’t have time to give this t…  »

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@jondresner: Moving Migration Into History by @jondresner http://t.co/qtz9BxxV #IndirectlyAboutJapan

06.05.2012 06.45.08

@froginawellnet: Moving Migration Into History by @jondresner http://t.co/qtz9BxxV #IndirectlyAboutJapan

06.05.2012 06.44.37

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britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk - Julian Harrison

The St Cuthbert Gospel has featured much in the news recently, following its acquisition by the British Library. This pocket gospel-book, still in its original red leather binding, is a miraculous survival from 7th-century England. and has an extraordinary history, having been found in St Cuthbert’s coffin when it was opened in 1104. You are warmly invited to join Simon Keynes (Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge) and Michael Sadgrove (Dean of Durham), when …  »

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@medievalfox: The St Cuthbert Gospel: The Story of a Book http://t.co/W5aLVGtp

06.05.2012 07.49.57

@MagBaroque: The St Cuthbert Gospel: The Story of a Book http://t.co/lmDI8Tfh

05.05.2012 18.50.16

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boston1775.blogspot.com - J. L. Bell

This spring the University of Massachusetts Press is publishing Meetinghouses of Early New England, by Peter Benes, a comprehensive study of early American vernacular architecture. The publisher’s copy says: Built primarily for public religious exercises, New England’s wood-frame meetinghouses nevertheless were closely wedded to the social and cultural fabric of the neighborhood and fulfilled multiple secular purposes for much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As the only municipal…  »

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@CitizenWald: RT @Boston1775: New book on New England’s early meetinghouses … http://t.co/AdDkCIUJ by @UMassAmherst #preservation #architecture

06.05.2012 00.28.19

@HistorianHope: From @boston1775 blog: New Book on New England Meetinghouses http://t.co/zSc5ghhX

05.05.2012 18.04.58

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medievalnews.blogspot.com - Medievalists.net

The normally tranquil city of Orleans is buzzing with festivities over the next two weeks to mark the 600th birthday of one of France’s best cultural exports: Joan of Arc. Looking appropriately cinematic, the Loire River swarmed with wooden boats carrying locals in medieval garb last week, re-enacting Joan of Arc’s famous entry into the city in 1429. The day that saw Orleans liberated from English invaders has been dramatized in film the world over, most famously in 1948′s Oscar-winning epic …  »

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@MZiegler3: France celebrates Joan of Arc’s 600th birthday http://t.co/TCSIbag1

06.05.2012 01.50.21

@MagBaroque: France celebrates Joan of Arc’s 600th http://t.co/FQzoL5Uz

05.05.2012 20.19.20

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thonyc.wordpress.com - thonyc

I dashed off a brief post yesterday on what I thought was a fairly trivial subject, that is the category error that I still think that Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones made in posing the question, “Leonardo great artist or great scientist. I was totally surprised at the resonance that my comments, basically made in passing, provoked. No post of mine has ever been so often re-tweeted on twitter and the post itself provoked some very strange mostly negative reactions both on twitter and here in…  »

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@beckyfh: New Post "Leonardo artist-engineer redux" an answer to my critics http://t.co/G0pCj1Un

06.05.2012 02.20.25

@rmathematicus: New Post "Leonardo artist-engineer redux" an answer to my critics http://t.co/G0pCj1Un

06.05.2012 01.43.57

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Click here to read June Thomas on the charms of Steven Moffat’s Sherlock. With the second season of Sherlock debuting this Sunday on PBS, here’s an old-fashioned Edwardian mystery to warm up with: You are a police detective sent to the lair of "Kemmy" Grizzard, a notorious London jewel fence….

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@wcaleb: What was crime-fighting actually like in Sherlock Holmes-era London? http://t.co/38R9mxL1

05.05.2012 19.42.45

@Tetens: Ruffians, pickpockets, and jewel fences: what was crime-fighting actually like in Sherlock Holmes’s London? http://t.co/ck3vWQGr

05.05.2012 07.07.21

@tedgioia: What was crime-fighting actually like in Sherlock Holmes-era London? http://t.co/38R9mxL1

05.05.2012 18.26.17

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