Aethelflaed, Queen of the Mercians: Brutal Leader or Peace-Seeker?
Lady Aethelflaed is an anomaly in the annals of Anglo-Saxon history, a woman whose power and political influence were officially and widely documented.
By Imogen Davis
https://www.thecollector.com/aethelflaed-queen-mercians-leader-peace-seaker/
#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE
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#art #history:
question: what's better than juliette greco?
answer: three juliette grecos.
the smoky-toned chanteuse & actor (interpreter of jacques brel & prevert, boris vian, charles aznavour...) was born #otd in 1927.
the OG boho certainly made a mark with her life. how could she not? jean-paul sartre declared her to have 'a million poems in her voice'.
#illustration #julietteGreco #music #cinema #france
The first #concentrationcamp. Decades from now this #photo will (hopefully) be in the #history #books
What Is the Story of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
by Alexander Roberts
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a history of the Anglo-Saxon kings, and it has an interesting history of its own.
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-story-anglo-saxon-chronicle/
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/657
and
Anubis: The Secrets of the Egyptian God of the Underworld
by Heather Reilly
https://www.thecollector.com/anubis-egyptian-god-underworld/
#OnThisDay, 15 Feb 1776, Hannah Cowley’s first play, The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane.
Cowley had written her play and sent it to David Garrick, Drury Lane’s manager, after sitting through a particularly rubbish play. Garrick cast a young Sarah Siddons in the lead.
Siddon’s character rails against the marriage vows: 'I won't hear of it, “love” one might manage that perhaps, but “honour, obey”!’
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory
Not Gormenghast
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/not-gormenghast-justin-farrimond.html
This is no flight of fancy in stone, no Gormenghast or literary folly, this chapel of ease exists because of single minded determination.
A kirk by a loch, but do you know where?
#PhotoOfTheDay #Church #Photography #Art #InteriorDesign #History #Heritage #Gormenghast #Stonemasonry #Arcane #Esoteric #ArtPrint
#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.
Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.
She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons
How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza
by Edna Bonhomme
Books about influenza at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=influenza&submit_search=Search
The first napkins were made of soft dough.
It was dough then bread for the Greeks. Romans introduced cloth.
https://historyfacts.com/science-industry/fact/the-first-napkins-were-made-of-soft-dough/
If you haven´t read the book #OnTyranny by (ex-) Yale #History professor #TimothySnyder yet, now is certainly a good time.
"...when political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become even more important..."
Here is a new presentation of the 20 lessons, read by actor #JohnLithgow.
1968. Charleston, South Carolina.
Fannie Lou Hamer, who Lyndon Baines Johnson allegedly called “that ignorant woman,” speaks:
“People is not just walking out like they used to do in the past—walking up and shooting a man down and getting maybe two or three hundred people carryin’ out and lynching you…”
“But it’s in a more settled way now.
They let you starve to death. Not give you jobs.”
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In 1775, hundreds of enslaved men in Virginia fled their plantations and joined the British in exchange for a single promise: freedom. They formed the Ethiopian Regiment—the first Black fighting force of the American Revolution. This is the story of how they marched under a banner that read Liberty to Slaves, and what became of them in a single, searing year.
Caption: Troiani, Don. Brave Men as Ever Fought. Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia.
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#histodons #history #education
"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad
Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow
#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m
I send thanks to the buyer from Washington who purchased a canvas print of
This Was Our Shangri-La -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/this-was-our-shangri-la-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
May the artwork take you to a place of deep thought and contemplation.
#art #artwork #history #mountains #nature #oregon #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #decor #women #sale #artist #spring #humanity #freedom
#art #history: imagine being such a gifted author that one of your most radical & inventive novels was mainly a product of automatic writing? best known, perhaps, for providing the screenplay that would become alain resnais' 'hiroshima mon amour' - which is not a bad place to start if you've not yet become acquainted with marguerite duras (born #otd in 1914) - she largely escaped acclaim outside of france. this is regrettable. (threadish)
#margueriteDuras #literature #illustration #france
Emily Carr and Canadian Identity
At times at odds with her self and her role in society, Carr sought an identity in the landscapes and Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest.
By: Emily Zarevich
Meet the Prime Ministers: 10 Men Who Served Queen Victoria
https://www.thecollector.com/prime-ministers-served-queen-victoria/
Books about Queen Victoria at PG
📜 The Wild Man of the Revolution, Samuel Adams.
I wrote an essay about Samuel Adams and why I think he was punk rock. I'm convinced he'd love the band Fugazi and that he'd sing their lyrics while tossing tea in Boston harbor.
In late 1800s, a quiet man with a camera wandered the windswept plains of southwestern #France. His name was Félix Arnaudin, and what he captured was a way of life already fading into memory.
Among his most haunting images were the #shepherds of the Landes, perched on towering wooden stilts known as échasses. Dressed in thick wool cloaks and wide-brimmed hats, these men weren’t performers or curiosities—they were survivors of the bog. #History
France and Mexico fought a war over pastries.
https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/pastry-war-france-and-mexico/
"19th-century Dutch letterpress print of various treats. The text at the top entices a peckish viewer: “Of many pastries and delicacies / This print is provided, whatever your choice. / So dear youth consider it always for your amusement, / And choose from it everything that is to your taste”." - from the Public Domain Image Archive
