We now have a beautiful zine, with contributions from many of the organisations in our network, including photographs, documents, essays, and an illustrated manual on oral history and podcasting. Check it out here!: lnkd.in/eveVPdN8 2/4
For more information about the network, including links to all our member organisations, webinars, and blog posts, please see our website here: underthebananatree.org?page_id=23 3/4
We have a zine! Over the past year, I've been working w/ Pusat Sejarah Rakyat and the International Institute of Social History to bring together organisations around Southeast Asia working on archiving and disseminating "people's histories" and the histories of social movements in the region. 1/4
Is this how we want our national parks to be treated? Used for killing wildlife which, having served their blood letting purpose, are then dumped. @cairngormsnews.bsky.social @raptorpersuk.bsky.social
Does anyone know what is going on with the Bodleian Medieval Manuscripts site (medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk)? It's been broken for a while now
It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.
It's a beautiful world, right down to small things..
I don't suppose anyone has access to Cîteaux; Commentarii Cistercienses vol. 71 by any chance?
There's an article I need to check by James Bond (yes, he's almost certainly heard all the jokes). #Skystorians #MedievalSky
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
Detail of an historiated initial 'S'(sponsus) of a man placing a ring on a woman's finger. By James le Palmer / anonymous illustrator British Library Royal MS 6 E VI, fol. 104 A historiated initial S from a medieval illuminated manuscript, painted in blue, pink, ochre, and olive green. Within the curved body of the letter, two figures face each other: on the left a young man in a blue tunic, on the right a woman in a white veil and rust-coloured garment. Between them, the man places or holds a small ring, their hands meeting at the centre. Both faces are simply rendered with calm expressions. The initial is framed by a blue and pink border with a dark speckled ground filling the background behind the figures. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Omne_Bonum_Royal6EVI104_Anulus.jpg
The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language
by Rosamund Oates
theconversation.com/the-deaf-bla...
Sign language at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#books #literature #history
🔊Meanwhile, over on our patreon feed, we've released a work in progress look at Thomas of Woodstock. Woodstock was voted for production by our patrons, and is currently being slowly recorded in studio. This is a rough working file, which will be updated each month. www.patreon.com/posts/thomas...
Women's self-employment has long been an important but often overlooked part of Britain's working history
Inspired by #IWD, we're spotlighting Dr Amy Edwards' @somsproject.bsky.social which explores the history of women’s self-employment in Britain 1970-2000
Watch the documentary 👉 brnw.ch/21x0DJY
I’ll be talking about my recent research on the trade in medieval manuscripts on 25 March @ihr.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social
Https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/market-medieval-manuscripts-age-modernism-1914-45
Signal boost for Jen.
How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?
⌛️ Last chance to read this recent History Matters for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Original title card for BBC Two's Late Night Line-Up
Good morning!
Clean water is the foundation of life in freshwater, but it has become an increasingly scarce resource. 💦 Without it, we have no hope of reversing the declines in freshwater biodiversity.
How we are putting evidence into practice to bring clean water back to landscapes ⬇️
The Fingleton review is the ultimate test for Labour on the environment. If they agree against all expert advice to weaken habitat regulations they are declaring war on nature lovers. To accept the recommendations in full is to lick the boots of the lobbyists who trample our wildlife.
Europe's Buzzards Are Losing Their Colour Diversity www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/E...
Salisbury Plain is absolutely fascinating, and I seriously suggest you have a poke around there on the Lidar, it is not just Stonehenge, there is a shitload of stuff around the area.
Have a look at your closest headland, your local area, whatever, see if there were earthworks ever put up.
I often switch back and forth between google maps and the LiDAR when I am poking around, to see if there is a modern reason for any earthworks I spot.
I actually found this watching a Time Team a while back, it was interesting to look up the LiDAR on the 20 year old shows.
See what they couldn't.
Oh... My... God... look at the mounds! 😳
Hope that helps.
I would use this a lot if I was going anywhere to look at anything ancient, look up what is hidden before you get there. 👍
Once you have selecte3d the correct Dorchester, click on it and it takes you to the next page, scroll down a bit till you find the green LiDAR link, hit that baby and you're in!
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Ok, lets look up something interesting, how does Maiden Castle sound?
Go back to google maps and search for Maiden Castle, and the closest town is Dorchester. You need to search for Dorchester in the Archi site, the green one...
Choose the correct Dorchester and this comes up
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Search Google with this.
lidar finder uk
And it will return a heap of sites, the one you want is this one
www.archiuk.com/archi/lidarf...
Open that and you get confronted with this...
More than happy to share. 👍
I'll screenshot the steps, it's pretty basic, just don't want to confuse anyone.
Ok, if there is something specific you want to look at in England, look up Google maps and find the closest town.
It just makes finding stuff so much easier.
Keep your maps page open.
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The passage of the Hereditary Peers Bill in the Lords yesterday means an end to 366 unbroken years of membership of Parliament by peers claiming their seats by hereditary right.
If one overlooks the hiatus of 1649-1660, their participation dates back to the very beginning of parliaments.
#HistParl
I suspect one reason the Labour right isn't very keen on PR is that it doesn't want to sell itself on its (scant) merits, preferring to bully the left into voting for it merely to keep out the right.
