Rhys Kaminski-Jones

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Essentially right yeah, we know it happened at least once, it's a widespread idea (everyone thinks everyone is doing it to everyone, but only Indigenous people have no immunity), could have happened more but who knows

I've researched the thing and I had to remind myself ("had to" doing some procrastination rationalizing for me here...)

And also this on mythic elements: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/5...

I've written about one nasty later US incident of "trading boat apparently knows its has smallpox and goes right ahead, causes mass death", though, so there's also a mid-point between "biological warfare" and "accidental"

The well-documented deliberate smallpox-infection-by-blanket-attempt is actually Brits in America in 1763, but it then gets troped as an explanatory myth without specific evidence.

Cf. www.jstor.org/stable/25675...

Would be great to see you! Any or no input welcome, send an email to the working group via the website and say you want to sign up for this session

Plenty of other people who do what they can re: reading/session participation because of illness etc. too, come to that!

You'd be totally welcome! The core group who formed the network is people studying/doing Celtic Studies, but it's very much intended to be open to all

This is next Friday and they're nice short reads this time - join us!

If they are hoping for a "safe choice" for animal banknotes they are not going to go with badgers, I've met farmers who hate badgers with a white hot rage that woke anti-Churchillians can only dream of

Dwedwch hynny wrth y ffermwyr

It pained me to write this, I love pigs, but alas the shoe fit

Sounds a bit Animal Farm

I hate having to hear what Joe Rogan has opinions about, it's like having to consult the learned pig at the fair about everything

Important message on the Clan MacNeill of Gigha & Colonsay homepage

"Look at the flustered academics!"

"I got mine into an ODNB entry" (*sniggers*)

I hope 18th century publishers who falsely attributed novels to famous authors for sales reasons are having a good laugh at our expense in the afterlife

P.S. If there isn't a Mitski cover of "I Don't Want to Get Over You" there should be

"Ohhhh, this is The Magnetic Fields with the sincerity turned up via PJ Harvey", an idiot suddenly realised

The good thing about clicking with something unconscionably late is that you have a lot of the good thing to catch up with

(Mitski)

I'll get back to you if my thirst for knowledge remains unsated!

thankyou! Tbh I was suspicious of the Wood given that he's an Early English specialist, but I suppose synthesising is its own skill that specialists don't always have!

Thanks!

General-reader ish ideal (I'm listening to lots of audiobooks while XML tagging, but read-only also appreciated!)

Can anyone recommend any good but readable for non-specialists histories of China that are about periods pre-1800ish? The big-publisher books in English seem to skew quite modern.

Well I suppose I had better get off the "screaming into the void" app

I know it's not a new point, but the US committing overseas war crimes using a missile name stolen from people they warcrimed internally is too much

I'm so glad I don't have to teach the bits of late C20th radical theory where you have to explain why there's positive stuff in it about the peadophile information exchange to zoomers

Impressive that US democracy has managed to replicate the "king so bad in a medieval chronicle you wonder if they're real or a symbolic trope for misrule" effect

Rwy'n ddefnyddio Eryri! Wn i ddim os wedi cael siawns efo'r Bannau eto

I can technically follow each step that got us here but how on earth did we get here?