Volunteer Louise Pengelley shows a page from the 1638 Mercator Atlas to delegates of the Societies of Antiquaries of Ireland and Scotland today at the delightful Library of Innerpeffray, Scotland’s oldest free lending library - established 1680! https://innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk
That's helped me find it with a double T: “The vulgar word for a skeleton.” and also a verb:
“ To be ottomised; to be dissected. You'll be scragged, ottomised, and grin in a glass case: you'll be hanged, anatomised, and your skeleton kept in a glass case at Surgeons' Hall.’
Goetze then turns her attention to #emdiplomacy by individual Imperial estates. Exemplary she focusses on Brandenburg, Saxony and Hesse-Kassel. In general, she again regrets a lack of research. Although there are some studies focusing for example on the relations between Hesse-Kassel and Sweden, such studies are always limited on a particular period and case.
There’s a definite lack on studies who try to give a more concise overview and put the diplomatic activities of the different Imperial estates into context. (6/7)
Summing up, Goetze concludes that the complexity of #emdiplomacy is reflected in the complexity of the #HRE and calls for more a more inclusive approach meaning more exchange between different research tradition, combining constitutional history, court studies and dynastic history and #NewDiplomaticHistory. (7/7)
Last year on Mastodon we featured this story from the BBC about Gladstone's Library, the U.K.'s only residential library. Fediverse folk were so enthusiastic that when we discovered the library is offering scholarships to be taken in 2024, we had to share the information (see the second link in this post for all the details).
@CultureDesk@bookstodon It is worth warning folks who are thinking of visiting that it is full of the raceism (both casual and overt) of the time. Think carefully who you take there and go with that in mind.
#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)
Juneteenth has #Indigenous history. When Black people who escaped slavery in Florida joined the Seminole Tribe, they became Black Seminoles. They're also called Mascogos b/c they migrated to Mexico, where slavery was already abolished. The Mascogos built the town El Nacimiento in 1852, but still interacted with Seminoles in Texas who brought them Juneteenth in the 1870s. Black Seminoles in Mexico had to survive slavery, the Trail of Tears, & the US-Mexico Border to celebrate #juneteenth#history
In a long, convincing, must-read article, Professor Julia Steinberger (@jks) explains "What we are up against."
She argues that climate breakdown is NOT something we can fix using better science and technology, because the climate crisis was created by and results from "highly unequal and undemocratic economic systems" — and unless we overturn those, the situation will only continue to get worse.
Each of the 10 points below is expanded upon in her full essay. I hope you'll read the whole thing!
Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it.
The cause. We know the climate crisis is brought to us by highly unequal and undemocratic economic systems.
The rise. The recent history of these economic systems, in the Americas and Eurasia, is dominated by the ascendance of neoliberal ideology.
The threat. Neoliberal ideology is antidemocratic at its very core. Its aim is to give free reign over our societies to corporations, not citizens.
The promoters. The fossil fuel industry is a long-time promoter, as well as beneficiary, of the neoliberal takeover of our societies.
The coordination. The organisation of this takeover is not haphazard: it is coordinated through think tanks, lobby groups, public relations and legal firms. These in turn are coordinated internationally, for instance via the Atlas Network, which is involved in more than 500 think tanks worldwide.
The buildup. These think tanks train their cadres internally, and promote them to places of influence in policy and communication.
The influence. One core goal of these organisations is to replace university research expertise by their own materials, influencing the influencers, with journalists and teachers identified as prize targets.
The message. These think tanks replicate their materials and strategies worldwide. Their poisoning of our public sphere runs the gamut from advocating brutally unequal neoliberal economic policies to promoting climate science denial. They also dabble in divisive culture war topics, on gender (against equal rights for women, queer and trans people), race or migration, for instance.
The implication. To counter such centralised and coordinated actors, the climate movement (and indeed all movements attacked by neoliberalism) should change radically, both in orientation and strategy.
The direction. Democracy, the fearsome foe of neoliberalism, should be at the heart of our new direction.
###. You were supposed to learn about the filtered version of the history, not the real one, not about the real bad guys not that Soviet army sacrificed 27 millions to defeat the Nazis for the US and UK to take credit for it.
When you prevent the children to learn the real history, when you prevent them from critical thinking, when you teach them that 6 million Jews were much much much more important than 27 million Soviets.
When you don't let them know that NATO was built by the former Nazis and so did the CIA and MIT not to forget almost all the financial institutions that built the western capitalism.
They have been supporting fascists and monsters all throughout history, the only different is that it's no longer just a few of us who are pointing it out but millions seeing it uncensored and live.
Suharto, Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos, Ziaolhaqh, Somoza and sooo many other monsters with backing and support of the western leaders were all we saw, we fought and exposed. But the kids today starting to see the real news. From alternative media, from social networks. From eyewitness reports to understand the lies and propaganda of the west, the main stream media and sold out politicians.
I sure hope that this is the wake up call the world needs to end the 80 years of lies we have been fed to.
But I'm not that optimistic. And hope so badly that I'm wrong.
@faab64 civilians who hold hostages like little children and Immigrant workers in thier homes?
And what would happed If Israel wouldn't stand between the West Bank and Gaza? You Had a full scale civil war between Hamas and Fatah. Why you think isn't a war at the West Bank? Because the Fatah like that the IDF tried to destroy the Hamas. But of course they can say that out loud.
William Lassell, born OTD in 1799, made his fortune as a brewer. Then he started building his own telescopes, discovering Neptune's moon Triton, Saturn's moon Hyperion, and Uranus' moons Ariel and Umbriel. https://toilet-guru.com/blog/36.html?s=mb#astronomy#history
#OnThisDay, June 17, in 1972, five burglars connected to senior figures in the Nixon administration were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. (depicted in All the President’s Men, 1976)