Adrian Shubert

What were bread bombs? And why did Francoist planes drop them on Madrid and other Republican cities? #🗃️ #Publichistory

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I am excited about speaking at this conference sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Madrid next month.

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What can a bread bag tell us about the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent repression? Find out with this contribution to the Open Gallery. #🗃️ #Publichistory

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Cuenca, jueves 23 de octubre: presentación de 'Breve historia de España'. Intervendrán María Ángeles Zurilla, Miguel Ángel Valero y Juan Sisinio Pérez Garzón, autor del libro. La cita es a las 19:00 h en la Biblioteca Pública de Cuenca. www.catarata.org/eve...

This map shows the flow of Republican exiles to North Africa in the overall picture of post-Civil War seaborne exile. www.vscw.ca/en/node/681
#🗃️ #Publichistory

Check out this new map showing the evacuation of Republicans to North Africa in the final days of the Spanish Civil War.

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#🗃️ #Publichistory

The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just opened a spectacular gallery devoted to the visual arts: www.vscw.ca/en/node/821

The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just opened a spectacular gallery devoted to the visual arts: www.vscw.ca/en/node/821

In Canadian universities, Chair refers to either the head of a department or an externally funded position (which can be at any rank).

Has anyone else noticed a change in the posts to #Publichistory lately?

Survival is a pretty low bar. Enjoy yourself.

18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …

This is fascinating, and the first article of this type I've come across: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
#AI #Univesrity

This is hardly the level of discourse I expect here. It reminds of why I left the other place which will go unnamed.

Public History from the Global South: Dialogues Between Latin American and African Public Historians Thirteen public historians from Africa and Latin America consider the question: What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? The question guided ...

What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? available also in Spanish and Portuguese @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#GlobalSouth #colonialism,
#humanrights #socialjustice #PublicHistory
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We're "nasty" because we won't bend the knee or kiss the dictator's ring. We're "nasty" because we don't want booze from a nation that threatens our economy and our sovereignty. We're "nasty" because we won't visit a country where we may be kidnapped, locked up, and tortured. #elbowsup #cdnpoli

After independence, Mexico was in search of identity. These paintings offered a blueprint | Aeon Videos What does it mean to be Mexican? Meet the artist who forged Mexico’s identity in the brushstrokes of his landscape paintings

This is a fascinating video about a Mexican artist who was world-famous during his lifetime but has been completely forgotten outside his homeland. Fifteen minutes well spent.
#Art #🗃️ #Mexico

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YouTube video by CNBC We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking

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We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking

Reflections on Mai, Joshua Reynolds, and Eighteenth-Century Art — A Roundtable Roundtable Participants: Kate Fullagar, Miriama Bono, Pauline Reynolds, Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Peter McNeil, Monica Anke Hahn, Carl Vail, Peter Brunt. In March 2023, the longstanding battle for owne...

Delighted to see this conversation out in J18, reproducing our workshop on #joshuareynolds, #mai and #18thcenturyart www.journal18.org/nq/reflectio...

Estoy muy contento haber publicado este libro en Los Libros de la Catarata.

How chocolate went from exotic curiosity to worldwide commodity | Aeon Essays The humble cocoa bean’s journey from its Amerindian origins to worldwide dominance is a lesson in the power of trade

Obligatory reading for chocolate lovers, and highly recommended for global historians.
#chocolate #🗃️ #Spain
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Puerto Rico has its own history with the Spanish Civil War. Learn about it here.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #PuertoRico

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What a wonderful object! Vouchers like this were part of the Republican government’s loss of the monopoly on the creation of money. Learn more about this aspect of the Spanish Civil War here: www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
#🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #scwmuseum

So Surreal is available on Apple TV.

So Surreal: Behind the Masks <em>So Surreal: Behind the Masks</em> unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of th...

I knew about the importance of African art to Picasso and others, but had never heard about the connection between surrealism and Indigenous art. I watched it on CBC Gem, but it may be streaming elsewhere.
#🗃️ #surrealism #art #Indigenous

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En 1939 el triunfante Nuevo Estado anunciaba el establecimiento de un sistema de racionamiento de alimentos. A pesar de las promesas de Franco la realidad de corrupción ineficacia y simple ausencia de sensibilidad hacia los más pobres significó que se produjo en España en los años cuarenta

On 14 May 1939, the triumphant New State announced the establishment of a food rationing system which would last until 1952. Despite Franco’s promises corruption, inefficiency, and a sheer lack of concern for the poorest led to an unprecedented famine during the 1940s

Toronto is eating its hotdog vendors - Spacing Toronto Toronto is internationally known for having a diverse palate, with culinary offerings ranging from the rigorously traditional to the cross-culturally experimental. Food remains Toronto’s most visible ...

Why are Toronto's hot dog carts disappearing? And why don't they sell more than just sausages? Craig Meerkamper digs into Toronto's street food restrictions and how they might just be opening up. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

How European sailors learned celestial navigation | Aeon Essays How did the sailors of early modern Europe learn to traverse the world’s seas? By going to school and doing maths problems

My colleague Margaret Schotte has just published this fascinating article in Aeon.
#🗃️ #Pirates #sailors
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Aerial bombing by Italian planes led Barcelona to become a “city of air raid shelters”. More than 1300 appear on the interactive map described here.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #Spain

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