Kristan Tetens

A glowing review of Miranda Kaufmann’s ‘Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery,’ a study that, among other things, considers “Britons’ (continuing) failure to appreciate how much of their affluence was (and still is) based on the suffering of distant others.”

”Mennesker flygtede ikke kun ud af Caribien for at opnå frihed, men også til andre caribiske øer, hvor forholdene måske blev anset for mere tålelige.”
🎙️Hør podcasten 'Caribiens skjulte forbindelser' med #MånedensForsker Gunvor Simonsen 👉 bit.ly/podcast_gunvor #dkforsk

They’re all on Substack.

‘My paintings don’t fit the narrative’: Kerry James Marshall on why he’s depicting black enslavers He is arguably America’s greatest living painter, elevating everyday black life to the level of epic, jaw-dropping masterpieces. Now, for his biggest European show, the artist talks us through his dis...

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

LONDON PUBS NAMED AFTER DIFFERENT NUMBERS OF BELLS. an investigation

Great reporting.

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder.

Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.

Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.

A pink rose in full-blown perfection sits in a tea-cup.

Rose in a teacup.

Rose, nature’s handiwork from my garden; teacup, Simon Pettet’s "Storm in a Tea-Cup" mug from Dennis Severs’ House, shop.dennissevershouse.co.uk/products/sim...

This would have been the perfect cover art for Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital.

The good news is that they’re about to acquire 1.5 million more customers in the UK.

Thread. 🧵

Let’s stop focusing on her and pay more attention to the phrase “improper ideology.”

Who was the real Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s mixed-race heroine? Austen scholar Paula Byrne makes the case that the intriguing character from Sanditon, her unfinished novel, was likely based on a real woman

Who was the real Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s mixed-race heroine?

www.thetimes.com/article/1d1a...

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

Nancy Drew: The Case of the American Icon Full-length documentary exploring the history and cultural impact of literature’s OG girl sleuth - Nancy Drew

I’m part of a project near and dear to my heart, a documentary about Nancy Drew: her stories, games, & place in girls’ imaginations

Funding was cut by the fed, so it’s up to Kickstarter. Please, if you can - this is a special project that deserves to come out

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cod...

Newtimber Church and the British Empire St John the Evangelist Church at Newtimber, West Sussex, is a lovely little building nestled in the South Downs. You couldn’t really imagine a more idyllic spot, or such incongruity with the subjec…

Blog on the story of the British Empire embodied in the fabric of one picturesque rural church. Its construction & memorials reflect slavery & antislavery; the East India Company; racial discrimination & liberal imperialism in South Africa, & drowned African troops.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/newtimb...

Japanese prints from 1873 depicting famous Western inventors and scholars in times of trouble. Pictured: Audubon (work eaten by mice), Carlyle (papers burnt), and Arkwright (spinning machine smashed by wife). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

Home - Repatriating a Lost Library of the Spanish Pacific Reclaiming the Lost Archive of the Convento de San Agustin Skip Go 761 Manuscripts Collected from The Lilly Library The Lopez Library San Agustin Museum King’s College SOAS British Library The 1762 Ar...

Fascinating: `Reclaiming the Lost Archive of the Convento de San Agustin' a project led by Christina Lee and Maria Cristina Martinez-Juan has launched the digital reconstruction of the dispersed 18th-century Library of the Convent of San Agustin in Manila

1762archive.org

OMG WHERE IS IT ALREADY

A page from "Der Nöthige Gefehrte" (VD17 39:156118Z) showing an illustration on how to calculate correctly in an astronomical way. Access a digital copy from the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha (Theol 8° 00686a (04)) here: https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/ufb_cbu_00040114

The Necessary Companion (in German "Der Nöthige Gefehrte") was a perpetual calendar published in 1675 Leipzig, Germany. The pamphlet provided detailed information on how to use this #almanac: including 3 #volvelles to calculate correctly. This was an #earlymodern learning tool to teach #astronomy.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

242. The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner — Backlisted Sylvia Townsend Warner's  The Corner That Held Them  (1948) is the subject of this episode, almost ten years since Backlisted covered the same author's classic debut  Lolly Willowes ...

Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of June's episode of the literary podcast Backlisted. The hosts speak with Tanya Kirk, author, editor and the Librarian of St John’s College, Cambridge.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/242...

Lots of foreign nationals DO pay in. Visas include an NHS immigration surcharge of between £776 and £1035 per year depending on the visa, per person included in the visa.

me cherishing a weird skeet

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

❤️ Lolly Willowes

I frequently take comfort in the fact that the Universe is vast and beautiful and entirely unaffected by petty human foolishness

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream