#BritHist

Ben Franklin's World

@bfworld.bsky.social

4 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

Coffeehouses, courtship, and anonymous questions. ☕️💍

Explore how Londoners sought advice on love & life in the 1690s with @lizcovart.bsky.social and Mary Beth Norton.

🎙 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#BFWorld #History #BritHist #Skystorians

Ben Franklin's World

@bfworld.bsky.social

6 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

Coffeehouses, courtship, and anonymous questions. ☕️💍

Explore how Londoners sought advice on love & life in the 1690s with @lizcovart.bsky.social and Mary Beth Norton.

🎙 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#BFWorld #History #BritHist #Skystorians

Ben Franklin's World

@bfworld.bsky.social

8 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

Coffeehouses, courtship, and anonymous questions. ☕️💍

Explore how Londoners sought advice on love & life in the 1690s with @lizcovart.bsky.social and Mary Beth Norton.

🎙 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#BFWorld #History #BritHist #Skystorians

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

9 months ago

Sliding down the Timber Chute: The 1901 Royal Tour of Canada The photograph is as revealing as the written word.

Seems like a good time to return to this piece by Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere

"Sliding down the Timber Chute: The 1901 Royal Tour of Canada"

niche-canada.org/2016/08/15/s...

#envhist #cdnhist #brithist #royaltour

Ben Franklin's World

@bfworld.bsky.social

9 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

Coffeehouses, courtship, and anonymous questions. ☕️💍

Explore how Londoners sought advice on love & life in the 1690s with @lizcovart.bsky.social and Mary Beth Norton.

🎙 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#BFWorld #History #BritHist #Skystorians

Ben Franklin's World

@bfworld.bsky.social

10 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

Coffeehouses, courtship, and anonymous questions. ☕️💍

Explore how Londoners sought advice on love & life in the 1690s with @lizcovart.bsky.social and Mary Beth Norton.

🎙 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#BFWorld #History #BritHist #Skystorians

Ben Franklin's World

@bfworld.bsky.social

10 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

Coffeehouses, courtship, and anonymous questions. ☕️💍

Explore how Londoners sought advice on love & life in the 1690s with @lizcovart.bsky.social and Mary Beth Norton.

🎙 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#BFWorld #History #BritHist #Skystorians

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

10 months ago

New Book - Red Coats and Wild Birds Editor’s Note: In light of recent book launch cancellations, we are happy to offer a space for authors to highlight their new books in environmental history, humanities, historical geography, and rela...

#WorldMigratoryBirdDay

"Collecting specimens and tracking migratory bird patterns enabled these men to map the British Empire and the world and therefore to exert imagined control over it." - @kgreer18.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2020/03/27/n...

#histgeog #brithist #envhist #animalhistory

Ben Franklin's World

@bfworld.bsky.social

10 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

Coffeehouses, courtship, and anonymous questions. ☕️💍

Explore how Londoners sought advice on love & life in the 1690s with @lizcovart.bsky.social and Mary Beth Norton.

🎙 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#BFWorld #History #BritHist #Skystorians

Ben Franklin's World

@bfworld.bsky.social

10 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

Coffeehouses, courtship, and anonymous questions. ☕️💍

Explore how Londoners sought advice on love & life in the 1690s with @lizcovart.bsky.social and Mary Beth Norton.

🎙 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#BFWorld #History #BritHist #Skystorians

Liz Covart

@lizcovart.bsky.social

10 months ago

Episode 410: Mary Beth Norton, The World's First Personal Advice Column Travel back to 1690s England with historian Mary Beth Norton as we explore the Athenian Mercury, the world's first personal advice column.

What do the 1690s and modern dating advice have in common? A lot more than you’d expect.

🎧 Dive into the Athenian Mercury, the OG advice column, with Mary Beth Norton on @bfworld.bsky.social.

🔗 benfranklinsworld.com/410

#History #Podcasts #Advice #Love #Marriage #BritHist

Showing Up for Racial Justice Saskatoon - Treaty Six

@surjyxe.bsky.social

10 months ago

His parents didn't want him to grow up with black kids and this is in London, England YouTube video by Strong Inspirations

Conversation with @alanlester.bsky.social, author of The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHP...

#colonialism #history #brithist

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

11 months ago

Thinking with Mud in the British Library To embrace the Sundarbans, in all its grey-green flatness, is to admit a love of mud.

#NationalLibraryWeek

"The reference numbers (IOR-V-27-310-19), cotton ties, acid-free boxes, and requisition slips of the British Library aspire to maintain a stable system of preservation in perpetuity." - Erica Mukherjee

niche-canada.org/2024/05/08/t...

#brithist #archives #envhist #libraries

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

11 months ago

Visualising Data: Taxonomy, Gender and Botanic Connections in the Long Eighteenth Century I demonstrate how women were constrained in their scientific endeavours and pushed to the margins of botanical networks.

#TaxonomistAppreciationDay

"Visualising Data: Taxonomy, Gender and Botanic Connections in the Long Eighteenth Century" by Anne Griffiths

niche-canada.org/2023/05/01/v...

#nathist #wmnshist #genderhistory #brithist #histsci

Dr. Erin Spinney

@erinspinney.bsky.social

1 year ago

#brithist #milhist #histmed #ww2 @milwelfhist.bsky.social

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

“The Hardships he labours under... in that severe Climate:” Environment, Seasonality, and British Military Operations in Northern Temperate North America 1756–1814 Classifying the hardships of the eighteenth-century Canadian climate as logistical hurdles for the army and navy to overcome simplifies how medical officers conceived of the dangers of both hot and co...

"The temperature spreads in temperate North America were extreme even for the temperately acclimatized British, Irish, and Hessian troops who fought for the British Crown." - @erinspinney.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2024/04/12/t...

#envhist #histmed #climhist #brithist

AskHistorians

@askhistorians.bsky.social

1 year ago

A battleship unleashes a devastating barrage of cod, the fish fired from its main guns with enough kinetic force to cause craters in the water nearby. The caption reads "The difference in strategic priorities created a situation where Iceland was willing to escalate more to protect its fishing rights than the UK was. The UK didn't understand this and miscalculated its position. In all three wars it sent Royal Navy ships into the Icelandic fisheries zone, a huge provocation. Considering the importance of the fish to Iceland, and now being threatened by foreign warships in their own coast, this essentially gave Icelandic politicians no room to maneuver."

War. War never changes #Twitterstorians. Get down to the dirty business with /u/Revak158 and find out how did Iceland win all three "cod wars" against the UK? Perfect for #ThrowbackThursday! #NavalHist #BritHist
https://buff.ly/40AGvT8

Matthew Long

@dr-robonator.bsky.social

1 year ago

Thomas Cromwell’s favorite milk based meal replacement. #earlymodernhist #brithist

AskHistorians

@askhistorians.bsky.social

1 year ago

The image shows a painting of the puritans gathered to discuss the matters of state. The caption reads "While nobody really risked arrest or a fine as long as the celebrations stayed inside the house, and few received more then a reprimand if drunken frivolity spilled out into the street or a firework were set off, the local parish minister certainly did risk a fine or even arrest if he held a service."

When the Puritans banned celebrating Christmas in England and Scotland, how well enforced was this?
(/u/lord_mayor_of_reddit explains how this historical attempt to cancel #Christmas was less then successful.) #BritHist
https://buff.ly/3PbM7Oe

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

Virtual Event – Horses and Place-Making: A More-Than-Human Geography of Equine Britain - with Neil Ward - Animal History Group

11 December 2024 – 7pm GMT

niche-canada.org/2024/12/05/v...

#envhist #animalhistory #equinestudies #brithist

Liz Covart

@lizcovart.bsky.social

1 year ago

#Skystorians #BritHist #VastEarlyAmerica #History

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

Birdwatching in the Archives The final page of the Deception’s 1966 ornithology report was not a bird at all, unless you count the British colloquial.

1) "Birdwatching in the Archives" by @farsouthhistory.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2024/08/02/b...

#histsci #animalhistory #brithist #genderhistory

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

Canadian Timber Exports to the UK Were More Than "An Episode" Explore a visualization of British fir timber imports from 1861-1906.

Check out this visualization of "British Fir Timber Imports 1861-1906" compiled by @jimclifford.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2018/10/01/b...

#envhist #brithist #dhist

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

Dammed Colonial Legacy: Comparing Flood Cause and Responses Between 2010 and 2022, Pakistan Persistent path-dependent policies from the colonial era, which are meant to exert authority rather than serve a constituency, remain in place, and limit flood response and preparedness.

ICYMI:

"Persistent path-dependent policies from the colonial era, which are meant to exert authority rather than serve a constituency, remain in place, and limit flood response and preparedness." - Mahnoor Zaman

niche-canada.org/2024/07/30/p...

#envhist #brithist #pakistan #flooding

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

Picturesque India: Revisiting Colonial Landscape Art Students like myself are encouraged to take note of absences and recognize the conscious decision made by the artist to include or exclude elements in their work.

ICYMI:

"It would be irresponsible to suggest that British art of India is of no value to the art historical canon, nor should it be understood as truth." - Lily Kumar

niche-canada.org/2024/07/23/p...

#envhist #arthistory #envhum #brithist

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

“The Hardships he labours under... in that severe Climate:” Environment, Seasonality, and British Military Operations in Northern Temperate North America 1756–1814 Classifying the hardships of the eighteenth-century Canadian climate as logistical hurdles for the army and navy to overcome simplifies how medical officers conceived of the dangers of both hot and co...

1) "'The Hardships he labours under… in that severe Climate:' Environment, Seasonality, and British Military Operations in Northern Temperate North America 1756–1814" by @erinspinney.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2024/04/12/t...

#envhist #histmed #brithist #climhist #militaryhistory

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

Healing and Ruling in Medieval England's Wetlands Medieval scholars interpreted wetlands as potentially dangerous sites, inhabited by evil forces and deviant humans.

"Healing and Ruling in Medieval England’s Wetlands" by Claudia Moreira Calzadilla and Nina Witteman is the eighth post in our Wetland Wednesday series, edited by @gabtm.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2024/05/22/h...

#envhist #medieval #brithist #wetlands

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

“The Hardships he labours under... in that severe Climate:” Environment, Seasonality, and British Military Operations in Northern Temperate North America 1756–1814 Classifying the hardships of the eighteenth-century Canadian climate as logistical hurdles for the army and navy to overcome simplifies how medical officers conceived of the dangers of both hot and co...

ICYMI:

"I ... examine material, structural, and logistical responses to cold, as well as medical responses to frostbite and other diseases attributed to cold climates." - @erinspinney.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2024/04/12/t...

#envhist #histmed #brithist #militaryhistory

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

“The Hardships he labours under... in that severe Climate:” Environment, Seasonality, and British Military Operations in Northern Temperate North America 1756–1814 Classifying the hardships of the eighteenth-century Canadian climate as logistical hurdles for the army and navy to overcome simplifies how medical officers conceived of the dangers of both hot and co...

Today on our site we have "“The Hardships he labours under… in that severe Climate:” Environment, Seasonality, and British Military Operations in Northern Temperate North America 1756–1814" by @erinspinney.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2024/04/12/t...

#envhist #histmed #brithist #climhist

NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

1 year ago

“A Disposition to Carry on a Winter’s Campaign”: British Winter Military Operations during the War of 1812 The success of this march must be attributed to the environmental knowledge of its participants.

2. "'A Disposition to Carry on a Winter’s Campaign': British Winter Military Operations during the War of 1812" by @jakebreadman.bsky.social: niche-canada.org/2024/02/28/a...

#envhist #cdnhist #warof1812 #warhistory #winter #brithist