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(2/2) Lo and behold, we checked the family tree and Maud and Jennie were my great-grandfather’s first cousins! 🧡
Well, we had to visit their grave in Bridgwater and were able to go the other day. There we were, me, Mum and the kids, three generations paying our respects to these hard-working, independent women.
To read their story, check out On This Day in Somerset!
You can now preorder the paperback of On This Day in Somerset ahead of the official publication day tomorrow! 🎊
Head to books2read.com/somerset
#newbook #newrelease #bookstodon #paperback #almanac #historybook #Somerset #histodon #
📖 **Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages by Jacques Sesiano**
🔗 https://www.epflpress.org/produit/1423/9782889155125/mathematical-recreations-in-the-middle-ages.
#History #Histodon #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Medieval #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
📖 **Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages by Jacques Sesiano**
🔗 https://www.epflpress.org/produit/1423/9782889155125/mathematical-recreations-in-the-middle-ages.
#History #Histodon #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Medieval #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
Libé parle d'Alexandrine Flottes, une femme du XIXe entre Marseille, Alger et Buenos Aires... Et de la collection que nous avons entamée avec des collègues sur les "passantes", ces inconnu.e.s de l'histoire que l'on croise au détour des sources.
Libé parle d'Alexandrine Flottes, une femme du XIXe entre Marseille, Alger et Buenos Aires... Et de la collection que nous avons entamée avec des collègues sur les "passantes", ces inconnu.e.s de l'histoire que l'on croise au détour des sources.
We went to The Museum of Somerset for the first time in years. So wonderful to see so many of the women and goddesses from my books there, e.g. Sarah Biffin, Ada Lovelace, Minerva, Mary Bridge and Louie Hooper!
The staff were friendly and knowledgeable as always.
See On This Day in Somerset or Unsung Women in Somerset for more.
#womeninsomerset #museumofsomerset #Somerset #bookstodon #histodon
A question: What nonfiction books about #WWII can you recommend which are sold as non-DRM epub files?
📻 I was on BBC Somerset again today talking about On This Day in Somerset.
We chatted about a witch, a pilot and all sorts!
If you want to give it a listen, I come on around the 2:16 mark.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002kfz5
#bbcsomerset #Somerset #history #womeninsomerset #histodon #bookstodon
Cultural leaders of an indigenous Ecuadorian group, the Shuar, have called for the repatriation of a museum's collection of shrunken heads. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77d7g7jk12o.amp
Cultural leaders of an indigenous Ecuadorian group, the Shuar, have called for the repatriation of a museum's collection of shrunken heads. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77d7g7jk12o.amp
Neuer Blogbeitrag in #Paysages: „Lesenotizen zum #Buch „Vom #Bosporus zum #Nesenbach – und zurück?“ von Ergun Can“ #ErgunCan #Schramberg #Schwarzwald #RaumschaftSchramberg #Stuttgart #SPD #histodon #mastolivre #bookstodon
📢#AAC: »Le défi des Lumières. Enjeux intellectuels et politiques«, Société internationale d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (SIEDS)
Ce colloque interdisciplinaire, qui se tiendra à Paris du 10 au 12 juin 2026, sera consacré au débat actuel autour des Lumières. Les chercheurs en début de carrière sont particulièrement invités à soumettre leurs propositions de communication.
📅Date limite de candidature: 26 octobre 2025
➡️https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/aktuelles/detailseite/call-for-papers-reframing-the-enlightenment.html
La saison des conférences
reprend à la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal avec deux interventions de ses chercheurs associés.
Gabriel Dariulat présentera le fonds Abbé Grégoire, lundi 13 novembre à 18 h 30 :
https://www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/le-fonds-gregoire-la-bibliotheque-dun-homme-des-lumieres
Et le 3 novembre, Marie-Elisabeth Jacquet parlera de la police d'Ancien régime à partir des Archives de la Bastille :
Sur inscription.
#BnFArsenal #Agenda #histodon @histodon
La saison des conférences
reprend à la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal avec deux interventions de ses chercheurs associés.
Gabriel Dariulat présentera le fonds Abbé Grégoire, lundi 13 novembre à 18 h 30 :
https://www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/le-fonds-gregoire-la-bibliotheque-dun-homme-des-lumieres
Et le 3 novembre, Marie-Elisabeth Jacquet parlera de la police d'Ancien régime à partir des Archives de la Bastille :
Sur inscription.
#BnFArsenal #Agenda #histodon @histodon
Happy St Keyne’s Day!
There are various legends associated with dragons and serpents in Somerset. The legendary St Keyne is said to have turned snakes to stone in Keynsham. This was a way of explaining the ammonites found in the area and Keyne may have lent her name to the town.
For more, check out Unsung Women in Somerset.
#Keynsham #somerset #snakes #ammonites #history #bookstodon #histodon
Si vous êtes du côté de la Sorbonne, n'hésitez pas à passer faire un tour à la deuxième journée des débats organisés par le Comité de Vigilance face aux Usages Publics de l'Histoire (CVUH) :
Faire face aux instrumentalisations de l’histoire. Le CVUH, 20 ans d’engagement
https://cvuh.hypotheses.org/2045
J'y échangerai notamment avec @NaudinChristophe et @actuelmoyenage sur le roman national dans les médias...
Si vous êtes du côté de la Sorbonne, n'hésitez pas à passer faire un tour à la deuxième journée des débats organisés par le Comité de Vigilance face aux Usages Publics de l'Histoire (CVUH) :
Faire face aux instrumentalisations de l’histoire. Le CVUH, 20 ans d’engagement
https://cvuh.hypotheses.org/2045
J'y échangerai notamment avec @NaudinChristophe et @actuelmoyenage sur le roman national dans les médias...
Really enjoyed this Parkrose Permaculture video pushing back at Hank Green's piece on knitting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsjCOu--3g
She mentions how knitting was used to send coded messages during WW1. This article has a neat summary on knitting and espionage.
"Phyllis Latour Doyle, a secret agent for Britain during World War II—and now, at 100, the last surviving woman who spied for the Special Operations Executive—spent the war years sneaking information to the British using knitting as a cover. She parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 and rode stashed bicycles to troops, chatting with German soldiers under the pretense of being helpful—then, she would return to her knitting kit, in which she hid a silk yarn ready to be filled with secret knotted messages, which she would translate using Morse Code equipment."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii
Really enjoyed this Parkrose Permaculture video pushing back at Hank Green's piece on knitting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsjCOu--3g
She mentions how knitting was used to send coded messages during WW1. This article has a neat summary on knitting and espionage.
"Phyllis Latour Doyle, a secret agent for Britain during World War II—and now, at 100, the last surviving woman who spied for the Special Operations Executive—spent the war years sneaking information to the British using knitting as a cover. She parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 and rode stashed bicycles to troops, chatting with German soldiers under the pretense of being helpful—then, she would return to her knitting kit, in which she hid a silk yarn ready to be filled with secret knotted messages, which she would translate using Morse Code equipment."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii
#Knitting #Espionage #HankGreen #ParkrosePermaculture #textiles #FibreArts #Histodon
