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discontents – Topic modelling in the archives

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
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@baibi: .@wragge on using topic modelling to find records in National Archives relating to Invisible Australians (Chinese) http://t.co/2RSQTC0X
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@wragge: Long-delayed bloggage on using topic modelling to find records in National Archives relating to Invisible Australians http://t.co/3Y1iydT8
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Airminded · When, what, where?

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
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@Airminded: At Airminded: When, what, where? http://t.co/R7zWZbMt
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Thomas Sydenham’s Tractacus de Podagra – Early Modern at Otago, University of Otago, New Zealand

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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@EarlyModernXPhi: New post on Early Modern at Otago: Thomas Sydenham’s Tractacus de Podagra http://t.co/2r8zhAHL #histmed
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What’s Wrong With Celebrating the War of 1812?

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

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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@BBCr4today: See Francis Crick’s sketch of the DNA double helix: http://t.co/M4cH3p9v
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The Germans who bugged for Britain | The Jewish Chronicle

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
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@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
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The Olympic Record | The National Archives

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
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@alastairdunning: MT @nbates86 UK National Archvies digitises ‘The Olympic Record’; docs from every Olympic Games http://t.co/vXJqpsZT
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Origin of a famed photograph | Venustransit

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
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@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
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@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
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Turnip Rail’s Waiting Room: North British Railway Advertising – ‘Scotland’s Golf Course’

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Space program’s future and landing on the moon: How nostalgia for the Apollo program doesn’t help. – Slate Magazine

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
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@paleofuture: My latest for @Slate looks at the lies that baby boomers tell about the space age: http://t.co/6q1natyA
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@Slate: Why polls shouldn’t dictate space policy: fewer than 50% of Americans supported the Apollo program in the 60s http://t.co/7cHup7zv
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The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death | World news | guardian.co.uk

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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@harrisj: Ugh, this makes me sick to my stomach: http://t.co/kSQpRLWs "Everything that could go wrong did go wrong."
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@Slate: Columbia prof and students uncover how Texas sent an innocent man to death: http://t.co/2i9GpC65 via @guardianus
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@stevesilberman: The wrong Carlos: Columbia Law investigation uncovers how TX executed an innocent man. http://t.co/jiMtXCof
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@_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)
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@JackofKent: How detective work by law professor and students uncovered a seeming wrongful execution. Fascinating, by @Edpilkington: http://t.co/mO8ZUG5t
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@davewiner: The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death. http://t.co/zqWD2MVp
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Online map calculates travel times in Ancient Rome | A Blog About History – History News

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
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@historytweeter: #history Online map calculates travel times in Ancient Rome http://t.co/P3pgUoIN
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@BoraZ: Online map calculates travel times in Ancient Rome http://t.co/58xfsa8T
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Andrew Boorde, Tudor traveller « earlymodernjohn

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‘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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@conversiontales: A brilliant little piece on a great Tudor traveller: http://t.co/OJiExoQh
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@sixteenthCgirl: A brilliant little piece on a great Tudor traveller: http://t.co/OJiExoQh
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@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
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A book’s fingerprints | The Collation

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
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@wynkenhimself: In which I squee over a printer’s fingerprints MT @FolgerResearch: A book’s fingerprints http://t.co/vLPv7KQl
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@FolgerResearch: A book’s fingerprints, or, the answer to May’s crocodile mystery http://t.co/fZheOuhg
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18th Century Pronunciation – those difficult words where the spelling doesn’t match the spoken word. » Georgian Gentleman

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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
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@jacqui_livesey: Ever wonder what the C18th ‘Quality’ sounded like when they spoke? "@GeorgianGent: 18th Century Pronunciation http://t.co/zmRbZBoV"
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@gorshell: New post: 18th Century Pronunciation – those difficult words where the spelling doesn’t match the spoken word. http://t.co/L4cG1djp
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A Boatload of Knowledge | Wonders & Marvels

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
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@beckyfh: Post on fascinating 1820s "Boatload of Knowledge" (tho don’t agree on hottie claim!) http://t.co/gydV6vJI #histsci HT @darwinsbulldog
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@darwinsbulldog: For Wonders & Marvels, by @bethdunn: "A Boatload of Knowledge [or, Thomas Say, Noted 19th Century Hottie]" http://t.co/EoWSu2e6 #histsci
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Two Nerdy History Girls: "The Curious Maids" Play a Classic Prank, 1768

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

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
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@sarahemilyduff: Very interesting: science, colonialism, the transit of Venus, and the production of knowledge, http://t.co/isojD3fq via @tov2012 & @beckyfh
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@rmathematicus: RT @tov2012 What role did colonialism play in the transit of Venus expeditions? Randall Rosenfeld explores. http://t.co/43b7kpQD
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@beckyfh: What role did colonialism play in the transit of Venus expeditions? Randall Rosenfeld explores. http://t.co/89d53vrm
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BBC – Wales History: Aberystywth v Cardiff – the battle for the National Library of Wales

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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@NLWales: History blog: Aberystywth v Cardiff – the battle for the National Library of Wales http://t.co/99ZASGAA
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Female Historians and Book Reviews in Academic Journals | Stumbling Through the Past

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
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@perkinsy: I very interesting endeavour! RT @perkinsy: New blog post: Female Historians and Book Reviews in Academic Journals http://t.co/1a2J9gHl
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@mhbeals: I very interesting endeavour! RT @perkinsy: New blog post: Female Historians and Book Reviews in Academic Journals http://t.co/1a2J9gHl
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@adelinekoh: MT @perkinsy: How do female historians fare in the review pages of some academic history journals? http://t.co/fOGcwtfB cc @ProfessMoravec
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The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

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
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@historianess: “The question was not, ‘Should you eat human flesh?’ but, ‘What sort of flesh should you eat?’” http://t.co/93nudGrN #cannibalism
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America’s appalling holidays – 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
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@KevinLevin: America’s appalling holidays – http://t.co/afZXYqKe http://t.co/ODqA2lx9 Yep, Confederate Memorial Day made the list. #cw150
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Is Newton’s Explanation of Gravity a Hypothesis? – Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, University of Otago, New Zealand

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
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@darwinsbulldog: New blog post: Is Newton’s Explanation of Gravity a Hypothesis? http://t.co/VuNsBdfb #histsci
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edwired » Blog Archive » Serial Killers, Beer, and Lies About the Past

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
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@shermandorn: Oh, the shame! ;-) RT @dancohen Mills Kelly’s class – 2 historical hoaxes: an 1812 beer & a serial killer http://t.co/v3dhrTkL
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@publichistorian: Mills Kelly finally reveals the historical hoaxes his students created this semester: an 1812 beer & a serial killer http://t.co/luLozvtI
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@dancohen: Mills Kelly finally reveals the historical hoaxes his students created this semester: an 1812 beer & a serial killer http://t.co/luLozvtI
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Smallpox ( Part 2). Vaccination and Edward Jenner – The musings of Richard Hall 1729 – 1801

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
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@manx_maid: An experiment which saved MILLIONS of lives. On 14 May 1796:: Jenner’s first smallpox vaccination: http://t.co/DdEWdve1
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The Perils of Transcription-Heavy Projects « M. H. Beals

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@mhbeals: I before E except after…The Perils of Transcription-Heavy Projects http://t.co/goCxRxjt #twitterstorians #history #dhist
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@Raherrmann: My issue is transcribing "creative" 18th-c. spelling MT @mhbeals: The Perils of Transcription-Heavy Projects http://t.co/zvHgIvi8
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The Noble Art of the Sword | BBC History Magazine

- 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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And how the French view the English…. (1814) » Georgian Gentleman

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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Taverns, locals and street corners: New AHRC Project on Tavern Culture | The Early Modern Intelligencer

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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Riots and hooligans « Great War London

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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@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
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On This Day: 13 May 1907: Rosa Luxemburg in London « rosaluxemburgblog

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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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Mongolia in colour, 1913 | Retronaut

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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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How stone age man invented the art of raving | Science | The Observer

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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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In the Middle: Eric Berkowitz, Sex and Punishment

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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How the English view the French….. » Georgian Gentleman

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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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A mathematician who became Pope. | The Renaissance Mathematicus

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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The Print Shop Window: George Cruikshank & William Hone, The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder, 1820

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Turnip Rail: A Brief History of the Female Railway Clerk 1830-1914

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Book review: Measure of the Earth by Larrie D. Ferreiro – SomeBeans » SomeBeans

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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Two Nerdy History Girls: What Kept the Georgian Cook Happy, c 1750

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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
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Princess Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate « Madame Guillotine

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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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Lessons from history: why science policy needs to better understand the past « Testing hypotheses…

  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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@beckyfh: Great-looking #scipolicy event with historian of science @gwilliamthomas on ‘science policy history as morality tale’ http://t.co/bBpjPRyQ
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@beckyfh: Great post by @stevenhill on why #scipolicy needs #histsci | Lessons from History: http://t.co/FJorKdhQ
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In the Middle: Recommended: Flemish Miniatures show at the Bibliothèque nationale

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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Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist | Books | The Guardian

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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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@manx_maid: Anne Boleyn: witch, bitch, temptress, feminist, by Hilary Mantel http://t.co/S5z8xirj via @guardian
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Easter island heads have bodies!?? | Thinkbox

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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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Morbid Anatomy: Mermaid Polka, Sheet Music,1850

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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The Assassination of Spencer Perceval – UK Parliament

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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@TimesArchive: Poor Spencer Perceval, only British PM to be assassinated #SP200 – good stuff @UKParlArchives http://t.co/TOgxb4xB http://t.co/zhGAzEGO
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Ten Notable Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn’t Happen | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

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@mims: 2800 B.C. Leading indicator of coming apocalypse is "every man wants to write a book." http://t.co/zuQ35aPD via @paleofuture
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Shakespeare’s England: Stratford journeys #1 « Mathew Lyons

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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
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@tudortutor: Travels in Shakespeare’s England: Puck’s Dyke, Banbury cheese and battles against the Danes New on my blog http://t.co/KQlyWJ5e
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@MathewJLyons: Stratford roads: history, myth and landscape and the horizons of the young Shakespeare. New on my blog http://t.co/UJYt7GpX
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Voices — International Military History, In One Paragraph | Tea Leaf Nation

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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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Lessons for 20th-Century Living: You Need to Know How to Place a Phone Call – Atlantic Mobile

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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BBC News – Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists

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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World sensational discovery of Caravaggio painting | D A Z K O

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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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@alastairdunning: Discovery of ‘new’ Caravaggio painting ruined by fact it does not really look like a Caravaggio http://t.co/YbUReFGg via @Obridge @3pipenet
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The Chosen Royals – Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts

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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How to Make History of Science Interesting: Part II | Chemical Heritage Foundation

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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@clerestories: Larry Principe’s decoding of alchemical emblem as chemical equation is pretty nifty http://t.co/qgyeq1DV via @ChemHeritage
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Futuro – the ideal home that wasn’t | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

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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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1812now: May 10 1812: Byron Gossip

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@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
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@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
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Walk like a Roman | TLS

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Food History Jottings: Jubilee Cakes and Ale

 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
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@2nerdyhistgirls: From celebrations for Queen Victoria: Jubilee Cakes & Ale: http://t.co/ItyrgoC6
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@edwardian_era: Food historian Ivan Day takes a look at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee cakes http://t.co/T0zqlIcg
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Why telly-dons like David Starkey, Lucy Worsley and Bettany Hughes get top marks – Telegraph

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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
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@ihr_history: And the other side of the debate about historians aiming for TV stardom http://t.co/ZotQ1chw (via @OldHouseHistory)
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@OldHouseHistory: A nice defence of historians on the telly http://t.co/5gxyryQo
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@Airminded: Apparently the answer to the q. ‘What job will a #History degree get you?’ is ‘TV presenter’ http://t.co/dfBtbASp Definitely @usesofhistory
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@sixteenthCgirl: The Telegraph hits back at The Independent’s Keith Thomas article about historians on TV: http://t.co/GQDtLH0r
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@carolinepennock: Apparently the answer to the q. ‘What job will a #History degree get you?’ is ‘TV presenter’ http://t.co/dfBtbASp Definitely @usesofhistory
@adrianmurdoch on Twitter
@adrianmurdoch: In the Telegraph. Historians who accuse TV-presenting colleagues of dumbing down the subject are stuck in the past. http://t.co/pgCjYiPa
@mia_out on Twitter
@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)
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@_hannahwill: RT @greg_jenner: A nice defence of historians on the telly http://t.co/lBemXYh2 #twitterstorians
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@nickblackbourn: In the Telegraph. Historians who accuse TV-presenting colleagues of dumbing down the subject are stuck in the past. http://t.co/pgCjYiPa
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10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics – Do Your Job Better – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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@nickblackbourn: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians
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Outrage Upon The Prince Regent | Criminal London

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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@CriminalLondon: New on Criminal London: Outrage Upon The Prince Regent http://t.co/aVWb5nf7
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The Story Of Menstruation: Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946 | Open Culture

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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)
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@cathfeely: Um, the Disney film you weren’t expecting… The Story Of Menstruation from 1946 http://t.co/Mn1H0EbE (via @brainpicker)
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Richard Horwood, an extraordinary map-maker. » Georgian Gentleman

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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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AHA Today: Historians vs. Evolution: New Book Explains Why Historians Might Have a Hard Time Reaching Wide Audiences, Getting a Date

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
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@KevinLevin: Historians vs. Evolution: New Book Explains Why Historians Might Have Hard Time Reaching Wide Audiences, Getting a Date http://t.co/SiCht7XS
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@archivesnext: Read & learn, archivists RT @AHAhistorians New book explainss why historians have hard time reaching wide audiences http://t.co/GE0hERMV
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@dighist: New book explains why historians might have a hard time reaching wide audiences (and getting a date): http://t.co/BIscZL98
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@AHAhistorians: New book explains why historians might have a hard time reaching wide audiences (and getting a date): http://t.co/BIscZL98
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Abraham Lincoln Did Not Invent Facebook: How a Guy and His Blog Fooled the Whole Wide Internet – Megan Garber – Technology – The Atlantic

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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
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@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
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@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
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@harrisj: "I just think this is fun": my talk with the "Abraham Lincoln invented Facebook" hoaxer http://t.co/Q57IXOoT
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@beccarosen: Love this. @megangarber factchecks the ridiculous Lincoln/Facebook story and talks to the guy who started it all: http://t.co/YUqyrBZC
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Long-distance longitude | teleskopos

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
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@darwinsbulldog: New post on longitude, Arctic exploration and clairvoyance: Long-distance longitude http://t.co/Ze5Eb7st #histsci #longitudeblog
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@rmathematicus: New post on longitude, Arctic exploration and clairvoyance Long-distance longitude http://t.co/oxhD5utG #histsci #longitudeblog via @beckyfh
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@beckyfh: New post on longitude, Arctic exploration and clairvoyance: Long-distance longitude http://t.co/Ze5Eb7st #histsci #longitudeblog
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Two Nerdy History Girls: Why Ox-Skulls on an 18th c Doorway?

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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.
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@Boston1775: From @2nerdyhistgirls, Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/L3czMIMP // Doorway is Holden Chapel, Harvard, built 1745.
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@2nerdyhistgirls: Thanks for RT! @unified84: most curious! New post: Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/4FxrD2CW
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@2nerdyhistgirls: Thanks for RT! @bibliotraveler: New post: Bucrania alert! Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/4FxrD2CW
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@2nerdyhistgirls: Thanks for the RT @taylormpolites: New post: Why ox-skulls on this 18th c doorway? http://t.co/4FxrD2CW
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Thomas Henry Huxley « wellcomehistory

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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
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@rmathematicus: Spin-doctor or self-publicist? RT @darwinsbulldog: From the Wellcome History blog: Thomas Henry Huxley http://t.co/vJFH5cWt via @beckyfh
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@beckyfh: Spin-doctor or self-publicist? RT @darwinsbulldog: From the Wellcome History blog: Thomas Henry Huxley http://t.co/Mb60dbTh #histsci
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@darwinsbulldog: From the Wellcome History blog: Thomas Henry Huxley http://t.co/rRKknaIZ #histsci
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Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers | National Endowment for the Humanities

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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
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@NEHgov: New blog post on Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers, from UNT & Stanford. http://t.co/bVuhkoGC
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@the_wrangler: RT @andrewtorget: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers featured on @NEH_ODH: http://t.co/5MqlDPwY Huzzah!
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@the_wrangler: Great to see @andrewtorget jumping into Twitter while launching our Mapping Texts visualizations: http://t.co/U3eVh9Bc
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@the_wrangler: Great working with @andrewtorget @mcgeoff @wi_d3sign @NEH_ODH @librarycongress Chronicling America on Mapping Texts: http://t.co/5MqlDPwY
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@the_wrangler: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers, @Stanford – University of North Texas collaboration: http://t.co/pddf0l8z @NEHgov
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@the_archive: Very cool indeed RT @history_geek: Cool RT @neh_odh: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers http://t.co/1MMoBoaF
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@iridium: Great project. RT @the_wrangler: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers: http://t.co/7UuDKPUu @brettbobley @NEH_ODH
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@brettbobley: Thanks to @andrewtorget & @the_wrangler for sending me great images and text for their Mapping Texts piece. http://t.co/o2Y2lMiZ
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@the_wrangler: Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers: http://t.co/pddf0l8z @brettbobley @NEH_ODH
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@NEH_ODH: New blog post on Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers, from UNT & Stanford. http://t.co/bVuhkoGC
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Howard Carter: "Miraculous," Misunderstood Man Behind Google’s Gilded Doodle

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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@CloudHopper9: Howard Carter : "Miraculous," Misunderstood Man Behind Google’s Gilded Doodle http://t.co/y54RjKjo #history #archaeology
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@BoneGirlPhD: Howard Carter: "Miraculous," misunderstood man behind google’s doodle http://t.co/fJoHOLbM via @NatGeo
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Antony Beevor: A limited idea of academic success is the problem – Commentators – Opinion – The Independent

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

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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
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@ihr_history: The assassination of Spencer Perceval and the ever-present ‘spectre of the lone gunman’ http://t.co/HpTkC5uo
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@dustshoveller: The assassination of Spencer Perceval and the ever-present ‘spectre of the lone gunman’ http://t.co/HpTkC5uo
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Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom – History – Life & Style – The Independent

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
@perkinsy on Twitter
@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
@JonathanFoyle on Twitter
@JonathanFoyle: Young historians ‘damaging academia’, RT @ihr_history @adrianmurdoch http://t.co/pe9ovChx < Not temp., underpaid ‘impact-assessed’ Uni jobs?
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@dalyhistory: RT @_paullay RT @adrianmurdoch Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/LLwI5yk6
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@ihr_history: RT @_paullay RT @adrianmurdoch Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/LLwI5yk6
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@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…
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@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…
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@sallyosborn: http://t.co/jTYkOlg1 Keith Thomas attacks young historians for making ‘popular book deals’ over real academia #howdowemakealivingthenKeith
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@HPS_Vanessa: Young historians ‘damaging academia’ in bid 4 stardom http://t.co/1PJEd9ix (suspect odds better to win Wolfson than get lectureship, so…)
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@historynews: [History: General]: Young historians and #39;are damaging academia and #39; in their bid for stardom http://t.co/H8OHQmd2 #historyteacher
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@Airminded: Interesting. RT @adrianmurdoch Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/6AgauxFq
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@IdleHistorian: Interesting. RT @adrianmurdoch Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/6AgauxFq
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@adrianmurdoch: Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/TcWbXVSy
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@_hannahwill: Are young historians damaging academia in a bid for stardom? http://t.co/MBo38zAH #twitterstorians
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@the_archive: Young historians can’t be blamed for publishing books when their careers depend on it – shocking http://t.co/FHtWrOl4 #twitterstorians
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@the_archive: RT @ihr_history Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/gYHesBzC
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@the_archive: In the last decade, sales of history books have increased by over 45% – young academics are chasing fame http://t.co/FHtWrOl4
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@portableant: Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom http://t.co/TcWbXVSy
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British Council Film Collection Goes Online | History Today

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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@HistoryToday: Over one hundred films from the 1940s released online by the @BritishCouncil: http://t.co/5rFDupsF
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How not to write about Renaissance mathematics | The Renaissance Mathematicus

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
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@rmathematicus: Thanks to the incomparable @beckyfh and the irascible @grumpyhistorian for RTs of my "Galileo’s Muse review http://t.co/N8DUZeB9
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@rmathematicus: RT @grumpyhistorian "Historical Rubbish" &amp; "campaign of misinformation" @rmathematicus eviscerates "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/N8DUZeB9
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@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
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@Airminded: "Historical Rubbish" and "campaign of misinformation" via @beckyfh: @rmathematicus eviscerates "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/yazjQ63Z #ouch
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@grumpyhistorian: "Historical Rubbish" and "campaign of misinformation" via @beckyfh: @rmathematicus eviscerates "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/yazjQ63Z #ouch
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@beckyfh: How not to write about Renaissance mathematics: @rmathematicus lays into Mark A Peterson’s "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/PeKEkA9q #ouch
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@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
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@ncecire: How not to write about Renaissance mathematics: @rmathematicus lays into Mark A Peterson’s "Galileo’s Muse" http://t.co/PeKEkA9q #ouch
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Glass discovered at Glastonbury Abbey dates back to 7th century, researchers find

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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)
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@medievalbook: Glass discovered at Glastonbury Abbey dates back to 7th century, researchers find: Glass furn… http://t.co/cA3FciSN #history #medieval
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@MZiegler3: Glass discovered at Glastonbury Abbey dates back to 7th century, researchers find http://t.co/KB00zIQ1
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ExecutedToday.com » 1788: Archibald Taylor, but not Joseph Taylor

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
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@executedtoday: Great gallows-escape story from early America http://t.co/y6dVHNES … can it possibly be true? #Massachusetts
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Mad Men and Wonder Years: history, nostalgia, and life in the Sixties

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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
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Sapping Attention: Women in the libraries

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
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@jgreen31: RT @miriamkp: RT @benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/rgBtYXkq
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@briancroxall: RT @benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/2plMzNcq
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@Ted_Underwood: A lot of very, very interesting facts about the gendering of authorship in the 19c: http://t.co/oSg2WnSJ
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@ncecire: RT @benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/rD9XzlBN
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@benmschmidt: New post: Data about where women authors are in digital libraries. http://t.co/09YkBLIh
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Two Nerdy History Girls: Gondolas then & now

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
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BBC News – The original air aces

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
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@HouseHistorian: Amazing history! #heroes BBC News – The original air aces http://t.co/reh05U5y
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@Airminded: 100 Years of the Royal Flying Corps http://t.co/ZUFmYmQb
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BBC News – How similar are London and ancient Rome?

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
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@HistoryToday: Mary Beard on the similarities between ancient Rome and London: http://t.co/ox77dGuJ
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The Case of Thomas Emes – Early Modern at Otago, University of Otago, New Zealand

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
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@rmathematicus: RT New blog post @EarlyModernXPhi at Otago: the case of Thomas Emes http://t.co/Frxv3CUY on reception of Locke’s thought #earlymodern
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@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
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Clippings – A Conversation with Digital Historians | Southern Spaces

A Conversation with Digital Historians | Southern Spaces
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@wcaleb: A Conversation with Digital Historians | Southern Spaces http://t.co/hGBZ7FTk
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The Myth of Text Analytics and Unobtrusive Measurement » the scottbot irregular

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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
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@ProfessMoravec: confusion of vocabulary&amp;syntax for semantics&amp;pragmatics -> http://t.co/nTp6rucr by @scott_bot via @miriamkp #twitterstorians #digitalhistory
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@miriamkp: RT @scott_bot: The problem of text analysis as a proxy for meaning. http://t.co/HASC1HlN
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Emperors of Rome: Libius Severus « rogueclassicism

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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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Hand-Drawn Maps: Anglo-Saxon London | Londonist

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@sirthopas: Fascinating hand-drawn map of Anglo-Saxon London ca. 500-1050CE: http://t.co/VvJbqSwq via @katemond &amp; @clerestories
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@rmathematicus: Fascinating hand-drawn map of Anglo-Saxon London ca. 500-1050CE: http://t.co/VvJbqSwq via @katemond &amp; @clerestories
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@clerestories: Fascinating hand-drawn map of Anglo-Saxon London ca. 500-1050CE: http://t.co/NlUnxpJa (via @katemond)
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Colonial settlement in the Georgian Era: Tasmania » Georgian Gentleman

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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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@beckyfh: New post: Colonial settlement in the Georgian Era: Tasmania http://t.co/XV5t1611
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Charles Paget Wade, The Cotswold Collector | The Cotswold History Blog

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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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Fancy Dress 1897: the Duchess of Devonshire’s Diamond Jubilee Ball « The Library Time Machine

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
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@2nerdyhistgirls: Fancy Edwardian folk in fancy dress: Duchess of Devonshire’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee Ball: http://t.co/q2OMPm29
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Out of Diaries: 6 May 1761 | Venustransit

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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
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@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
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OUPblog » Blog Archive » The Sack of Rome

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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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Moving Migration Into History – Frog in a Well Japan

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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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The St Cuthbert Gospel: The Story of a Book – Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts

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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Boston 1775: New Book on New England Meetinghouses

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
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@HistorianHope: From @boston1775 blog: New Book on New England Meetinghouses http://t.co/zSc5ghhX
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Medieval News: France celebrates Joan of Arc’s 600th birthday

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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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Leonardo artist-engineer redux. | The Renaissance Mathematicus

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
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@rmathematicus: New Post "Leonardo artist-engineer redux" an answer to my critics http://t.co/G0pCj1Un
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Sherlock Holmes: What was crime-fighting actually like in the London of his day? – Slate Magazine

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
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@Tetens: Ruffians, pickpockets, and jewel fences: what was crime-fighting actually like in Sherlock Holmes’s London? http://t.co/ck3vWQGr
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@tedgioia: What was crime-fighting actually like in Sherlock Holmes-era London? http://t.co/38R9mxL1
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