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Weird shit in historic newspapers: A Senator’s Woes
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- Peter L Twohig
A "highly respected" Ohio state senator got married at middle age to a "young and beautiful, but very vain and extravagant woman." This once "prominent, useful and influential member of the Presbyterian Church" began to drink and "became a common drunkard." He committed a crime, was incarcerated and subsequently underwent a religious conversion. The article noted that the "woman who had been the cause of his downfall and the ruin of his reputation, deserted him …" Source: Nashville Union and… »
Molière, French Playwright | The Freelance History Writer
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- Susan Abernethy
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Moliere
In 17th and 18th Century France, there were an extraordinary number of men and women artists that emerged, making a name for themselves. They were poets, fabulists, painters, playwrights, actors, composers and writers. Some of the writers became the foundation for the L’Académie Français, which was established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. The Académie is the most distinguished learned body on matters pertai… »
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Virtual Field Trips; or Teaching the American Civil War from Across the Pond | M. H. Beals
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- M. H. Beals
This spring, American Crises, a second-year module that explored US history from 1775 to 1968, ran for the first time. Structuring the course proved extremely difficult. Although I had been warned by friends, colleagues and my own common sense that I could not possibly cover 193 years of social, political, military, economic, and cultural history in twelve lectures and twelve seminars, I darn sure tried.
My experience has led me to revise several aspects of module, but one that will remain is t… »
Angelique du Coudray’s fabric womb Retronaut | Retronaut – See the past like you wouldn’t believe.
Angelique du Coudray’s fabric womb – "Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (c. 1712–1794) was an influential, pioneering midwife. In 1759 the king commissioned her to teach midwifery to Uncategorized Angelique du Coudray, France, Medicine, Midwife, Womb 1700s
Close shaves on Everest: technology and success | Vanessa Heggie | Science | guardian.co.uk
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- Vanessa Heggie
Celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the climbing of Everest have a strong science and technology theme. It’s important not to forget the small or everyday things too, because in this environment even the simplest technology – like a razor – can be crucial
For the want of a nail the shoe was lost For the want of the shoe the horse was lost For the want of the horse the rider was lost For the want of the rider the message was lost For the want of the message the battle was lost For the want of »
Favorite Poems: Intellectual History Edition | s-usih.org
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- L.D. Burnett
In the coda to her wonderful study, Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America (Harvard, 2007) Joan Shelley Rubin considers what the responses to Robert Pinsky’s “Favorite Poem Project” suggest about how poetry is (still) useful and meaningful for [...]
West Riding Lunatic Asylum & Brain Science | Dissertation Reviews
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- Stephen T. Casper
A review of The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the Making of the Modern Brain Sciences in the Nineteenth Century, by Michael Anthony Finn.
“We are all phrenologists today,” observed James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938) in 1924 in his monograph The Story of the Brain. “We have come to accept all the cardinal principles upon which the phrenologists insisted” (p. 199). It was an extraordinary remark made by an extraordinary man – one whose long life spanned an equally extraordinary century of discove… »
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MHL Welcomes New Content Contributor | Medical Heritage Library
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- Lisa Mix
Weill Cornell Medical Center under construction. Photograph by Sigurd Fischer, c. 1932.
Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell is pleased to become a contributor to the Medical Heritage Library. A digitization micro-grant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) has funded the digitization of historical annual reports from both the New York Hospital and the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York, as well as announcements from the Weill Cornell Medical Co… »
Some thoughts on the sciences and the humanities | Imogen Clarke
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- Imogen
I’m going to a workshop next week. It’s called ‘HumSci’, and it’s about the connections between the sciences and the humanities. But we’re not going to look at how people in the humanities can study science, or how scientists can … Continue reading →
DearMYRTLE’s Genealogy Blog: Help digitize MD State Archives Wills and Archives
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- Pat Richley-Erickson
DearREADERS, Now’s your chance to pay it forward! There is a new joint venture between FamilySearch and the Maryland Archives. Beginning in June, FamilySearch will digitize the Wills and Probate Records located at the Archives building in Annapolis. Records from Caroline, Carroll and Baltimore counties will be imaged. Some of these county records span from the mid-1800′s to mid 1900′s.
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Imaginary body parts
I’ve been thinking a lot about imaginary body parts recently. The Queen’s Gallery is opening a new exhibition of the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in May; put it on your ‘to do’ list if you are
Dr Shane Kenna Irish Historian
Shane Kenna is a Doctor of Modern Irish History. His research interests include British and Irish politics in the Nineteenth Century.
The Bottle and the Gallows
By Joel Harrington (W&M Regular Contributor) Rare is the human society, past or present, in which drinking alcohol has not served a variety of purposes. Naturally we think of relaxation and celebration, and of course the lubricating role of drink in
Curator of Artifacts | Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Chemical Heritage Foundation seeks a full-time permanent Curator of Artifacts to be an energetic and collaborative member of its museum staff.
Viewpoint – iCHSTM preview | The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)
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With 2 months to go until the start of the International Congress, Alexander Hall and James Sumner let us know what’s in store for attendees at the biggest history of science event of the year:
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Unmaking Things 2012-13 » DO I SMELL? THE POMANDER AND ITS MATERIALITY
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- rebecca.unsworth@rca.ac.uk
[by Luisa Coscarelli]
Pomander, partially gilded silver and niello, Italy, c. 1350. V&A, Museum number: M.205: 1 to 3-1925 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
When objects are analysed, they are mostly considered in terms of what they look like or how they feel. The senses of sight and touch are privileged over a sense I am particularly interested in, the sense of smell.
This sensory dimension of objects was especially important in times of the plague. Smell, or “corrupted air”, could kill. … »
Forthcoming changes to opening hours and services | Wellcome Library
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Stonework for the Wellcome Research Institute building, 1931.
Following on from our earlier announcement about the Wellcome Collection Development Project, we can now give you more details about the works which will be taking place from 20 June.
We’ll have to make some changes to our opening hours and services during the building works which will run September 2014. We’ll be doing everything we can to keep you informed of the changes and assist you in making the best use of your time on your Li… »
Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You’re Welcome! | EDSITEment
This unit on the Japanese poetic form tanka encourages students to explore the structure and content of the form and to arrive at a definition of the tanka’s structure in English.
Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy | EDSITEment
In this lesson, students explore the historical context of Walt Whitman’s concept of "democratic poetry" by reading his poetry and prose and by examining daguerreotypes taken circa 1850. Next, students will compare the poetic concepts and techniques behind Whitman’s "I Hear America Singing" and Langston Hughes’ "Let America Be America Again," and have an opportunity to apply similar concepts and techniques in creating a poem from their own experience.
Mary Anning, the carpenter’s daughter. | Letters from Gondwana.
It was the best of times. In the nineteenth century England, the Industrial Revolution started a time of important social and political change. London became the financial capital of the world. Sev…
Exploring CPP 10a214: Pages from Gerard’s Herbal | The Recipes Project
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By Rebecca Laroche, with Hillary Nunn
In recent months, as part of our continuing exploration of the unique and marvelous manuscript at the College of Physicians, Hillary Nunn and I have been examining the nature of sources as they are or are not delineated in the collection. Whether divine (12/03/2013) or noble (09/04/2013) in origin, each recipe has revealed something about the nature of the overall collection at the same time it makes connections to other manuscripts in other repositories. T… »
Mr Gove, Mr Men & the History Curriculum | Kmflett’s Blog
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This post appears on the Left Unity Blog
Gove and the History Curriculum: What kind of Island Story
Michael Gove has an upper second degree in English from Oxford, which while is certainly does not prevent him from commenting on and having an opinion about history, does not particularly make him an authority on the subject.
Yet Gove, as Education Secretary in a Coalition Government, has loomed large in discussions about school history.
This is what he wrote in October 2010:
One of the under-app… »
An Early Modern Medicine for a Re-emerging Disease | The Recipes Project
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By Glennda Bayron
A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length (1749). Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
In Mrs. Jane Baber’s cookbook (Wellcome MS 108), there is a medicinal recipe “For the Ricketts” tucked between a recipe to treat rheumy eyes and another for preserving raspberries. For many of the medicinal recipes in early modern receipt books, there is often no clear modern disease correlation, but rickets has again recently started to become more common in the western wo… »
EDSITEment – " ….And so the seasons went rolling on into… | Facebook
" ….And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass. " Henry David ThoreauStep back in time into Walden…
EDSITEment – The first Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening… | Facebook
The first Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover was published May 20, 1916 entitled Boy with Baby Carriage. One of Norman Rockwell’s favorite…
jivespin | Was Chamberlain brave or a coward? A lesson in cartoon interpretations
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- jivespin
In preparation for the next Year 9 assessment which is on the causes of the Second World War in cartoons, I have created these resources based on appeasement and the Munich Agreement. The aim of the lesson is for students to know the arguments for and against appeasement and explore the different arguments through cartoons which offer alternative interpretations.
The PowerPoint goes through the key points of appeasement and the arguments for and against. Then three cartoon sources are examined…. »
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Are mental illnesses such as PMS and depression culturally determined? | Corrinne Burns | Science | guardian.co.uk
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- Corrinne Burns
A growing number of psychiatrists suspect mental conditions are ‘culture-bound syndromes’ rather than exclusively biological
The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – DSM 5 – was published over the weekend. Produced by the American Psychiatric Association, it describes the symptoms of a vast range of mental illnesses and is intended as a guide to diagnosis.
Why should we in the UK care? Simple: the political dominance of the US means that as soon as a men… »
Mercury: back to the source | The Medicine Chest
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- mariekehendriksen
Over the past few months, as I learned more and more about the use of quicksilver in eighteenth-century chemistry and medicine, I became increasingly curious about the origins of all this mercury. The chemistry of the eighteenth century was a science of materials, materials that allowed various ways of inquiry: descriptions were made, technological possibilities explored and philosophical reasoning applied. However, we should not forget that in early classical chemistry, all chemical substances… »
Rowan Hofmeister – Google+ – I really hope they find something! The potential for…
I really hope they find something! The potential for another fascinating find from Ancient Egypt. #historyteacher
Ok, today we’re going to talk about… – History Podcasts & Video | Facebook
Ok, today we’re going to talk about defensive equipment. What is the point of all that training if you’re going to die right away in battle. So we’ll…
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The RTÉ Radio Player lets you listen live and catch up on all of the broadcasts and podcasts from the RTÉ family of radio services. Programmes and podcasts are listed on the RTÉ Radio Player for 28 days after broadcast
Thomas Browne – religion as passion and pastime, part 1: reason within limits | Roz Kaveney | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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- Roz Kaveney
Browne sought to partner empirical observation with his Anglican faith, yet we can also learn from the one time he failed to do so
One of the major weaknesses of the "new atheism" is that it sometimes fails to understand the lived experience of quiet, happy faith. It is also baffled by the fact that intelligent people, with scientific and scholarly interests, have lived their life without religious doubts, content with what they were taught. The 17th-century writer and mystic Thomas Browne is f… »
Science without borders? The IPCC and the geographies of credibility | iCHSTM 2013 blog
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By Martin Mahony, University of East Anglia
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 with the aim of delivering top-quality scientific assessments of climate change, its impacts on human societies, and potential political responses. So far, four assessment reports have been produced which have arguably been central to driving climate change up the political agenda. With steadily increasing levels of surety, the physical reality of the greenhouse effect and of… »
Colonial Tofu | Lord Whimsy
The journal of Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy: artist, author, failed dandy, gentleman naturalist, mammal of paradise, and affected provincial.
Driving the Dissertation « The Junto
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- Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt
Alyssa Reichardt explores the importance of understanding the landscape of the dissertation.
Welcome to Century Ireland
The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago
Internal Assessment
Internal Assessment – History games, revision quizzes and worksheets for KS3, GCSE and A-Level school children!
Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize shortlist announced | @GrrlScientist | Science | guardian.co.uk
GrrlScientist: The six shortlisted young people’s science books have been selected and are now in the mail to hundreds of children across the UK
Thai massage in the early 19th century – Asian and African studies blog
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- Ursula Sims-Williams
Traditional Thai medicine is a holistic discipline involving extensive use of indigenous herbal and massage/pressure treatment combined with aspects of spirituality and mental wellbeing. Having been influenced by Indian and Chinese concepts of healing, traditional Thai medicine understands disease not as a physical matter alone, but also as an imbalance…
Ptak Science Books: The Only Photograph of Einstein’s Derivation of the Mass-Energy Equivalence?
JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post [The equation in question is at bottom-left; full explanation here.] I came across an article while researching a work by H.P. Robertson–Lectures on Relativity (Princeton 1935)–and it is much more interesting than what I…
Casual snaps show Charles de Gaulle’s Irish holiday after resignation
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- Sinead O’Carroll
Following his resignation in 1969, the French President sought solace in a “quiet holiday” touring Ireland.
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‘Experimental Psychosis’ and LSD Research in Communist Czechoslovakia | uchpd
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- UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines
By Sarah Marks
These images were produced by experimental subjects taking part in the ‘Experimental Psychosis’ project at the Prague Psychiatric Research Institute in the late 1950s and 1960s. The research programme, headed by psychiatrist Miloš Vojtěchovský, involved EEG monitoring and the analysis of creative graphic output (paintings, charcoal and ink drawings, among others) of healthy individuals under the influence of a variety of psychotropic drugs (including psilocybin, mescaline, adre… »
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A blog about history, history of science, astronomy, museums, student life, Cambridge and its university.
Mrs Despard, the suffragette – National Media Museum – Daily Herald Archive – National Photography Collection – Collection – National Media Museum
Home to over 3.5 million items of historical significance, the National Media Museum has 8 floors of FREE galleries and 3 cinemas including the UK’s first IMAX.
Terminology: The History of Ideas | Ether Wave Propaganda
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- Will Thomas
Arthur Lovejoy (1873-1962), proponent of one version of the history of ideas
One of the drums I like to beat is that historians’ methodological toolkit is well developed, but that we do not use this toolkit as cooperatively and as productively as we might. Part of making good use of tools is having good terminology, which helps us to understand and talk about what tools we have and what they’re good for, and how they can be used selectively and in chorus with each other. It also helps avoid n… »
Reading recommendations for the indigenous history newbie | An Indigenous History of North America
There’s an unfortunate lack of books that a) comprehensively cover Native American history, b) do so in a way that is respectful of Native people, c) illustrate why Native American history is important, and d) are actually readable and accessible by the general public. But I’ve attempted to cobble together some kind of list of recommendation, aimed at people who are interested in learning more about Native history but don’t really know where to start, with a heavy emphasis on why and how Native… »
Eric Hobsbawm reviews ‘The Morbid Age’ by Richard Overy · LRB 6 August 2009
There is a major difference between the traditional scholar’s questions about the past – ‘What happened in history, when and why?’ – and the question that has, in the last 40 years or so, come to inspire a growing body of historical research: namely, ‘How do or did people feel . . .
Lesson 1: An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis | EDSITEment
“To form a more perfect union” in 1787, certain compromises were made in the Constitution regarding slavery. This settled the slavery controversy for the first few decades of the American republic, but this situation changed with the application of Missouri for statehood in 1819.
The Black Death drama documentary… – History Podcasts & Video | Facebook
The Black Death drama documentaryWarning – contains graphic scenes. Please watch in full before showing to KS3 students!From: mrallsopViews: 51…
Rowan Hofmeister – Google+ – The origins of 1000-year-old coins and a map with an "X"…
The origins of 1000-year-old coins and a map with an "X" found on an island off the Northern Territory coast could rewrite Australian history.…
BBC News – The Dambusters raid: How effective was it?
Seventy years ago an RAF bomber raid destroyed German dams. It was more than a propaganda victory, argues Dan Snow.
