Marcus Falk (She/They) (@attusfalk) — Bluesky Profile

1 day ago

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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1 day ago

Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) writing of his grief after the death of his wife Venetia:

'everywhere I carry my hell with me'.

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1 day ago

Also read up a little on Denmark during ww1; did not know that the Danish Red Cross took such a big and proactive role during the war

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1 day ago

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

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1 day ago

In this particular case it feels the second of those might be more likely. There were several rows of similar graves, all for French soldiers who died in January 1919.

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2 days ago

Project Name Written Worlds funded by Leverhulme Trust at Birkbeck

cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Written Worlds 17C Non-elite Writing 2 x Postdocs 0.5. Please consider applying.

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1 day ago

Apparently Denmark, through the Danish Red Cross, took upon itself extensive responsibility gor POWs in both Russia and Germany, so probably they must have shipped some of them over to Copenhagen for medical treatment durinh the spanish flu epidemic.

www.jstor.org/stable/26088...

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3 days ago

Gravestone in Copenhagen of Dominique Lahille, soldier in the 143th infantry regiment who died on January 24 1919, next to it is a small plaque.

The plaque, with a black and white photo of a young soldier and the text "Dominique Lahille. Soldat, 143énne Régt InFie. Mort pour la France en captivité à Copemhague en 1918"

Ehm, does any WW1 historian know why French prisoners of war would be kept in Denmark?

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4 days ago

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

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3 days ago

small scale wargaming scenery showing a small city in a hilly landscape, bisected by a river and crisscrossed with roads.

small scale wargaming scenery showing a gas station in a green hilly landscape with scattered trees.

It came up somewhere else, so why not share my 6mm scenery again.

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3 days ago

It was a pretty good lunch ^.^

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3 days ago

What level of pretentiousness is it to have a cheese platter for lunch while reading research and listening to rock jazz on vinyl? Because whatever the level is I have apparently achieved it.

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7 months ago

tumblr:

thyrell: just came up with a really good 4 word cooking horror story but idk if you guys are ready for it

thyrell: 2 cups vanilla extract

mother-entropy: jesus christ.

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5 days ago

Threads thread:

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“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

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4 days ago

Casting call! Looking for a woman voice actor, 50+ who is versatile and a vocal chameleon / can play many different bit parts in an audio comedy.

We’re recording in London on 13th & 14th April. This is a paid opportunity. Actor does not need to be autistic!

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6 days ago

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

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1 week ago

S-WoPEc: Living standards in south Swedish towns, c. 1570-1865 Abstract: This paper analyses the evolution of material living standards in three Swedish, before 1658 Danish, towns (Malmö, Ystad and Falkenberg) of varying size from the late 1500s to the advent of industrialization in the 1860s. We use population registers and church books, but above all a new dataset of 1381 probate inventories for the time periods 1570–1599, 1670–1720, the 1780s, and the 1860s. Based on the probate inventories, we document the prevalence of an array of goods crucial for one’s material living standards and degree of affluence: gold and silver, porcelain and items related to tea and coffee, books, and furniture. The results give a relatively optimistic view of the material living standard in these small towns. The frequency with which households held goods such as porcelain, tea and coffee was markedly lower than the Low Countries, one of Europe’s leading economic regions, but comparable to Venice and English smaller towns. The development over time was, except for the first hundred years of Swedish rule when Malmö citizens’ wealth declined, positive. The results support a view of Swedish towns as small but well-connected to the European economy.

New working paper published on the material living standards of south Swedish towns between 1570 och 1865, co-written with @bengtssonz.bsky.social and @massius.bsky.social. Despite poor and peripheral, these towns compare pretty favourably with other parts of Europe.

swopec.hhs.se/luekhi/abs/l...

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1 week ago

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

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1 week ago

A view of King Alfred's Tower from the north side. The bricks are sooooo tiny and yesterday when I stood next to it, it boggled my mind to try to estimate how many there are. Despite my banker-mocking caption, and my near certainty that Henry Hoare was a total fuckpig, I have to confess I am massively glad it exists and do hope it's true that it really does stand on the site where King Alfred won The Battle Of Edington in 878. It was closed yesterday but I climbed to the top in autumn 2018, drunk on my adventures as a new Somerset resident, on a similarly clear day when I was researching my book Ring The Hill and the three county view was spectacular: Dorset to the south, Wiltshire to the east, and Somerset to the north and west.

Aren't rich people amazing? I can imagine one of the labourers who risked their life in the construction of the 49 metre King Alfred's Tower in the 1770s for the banker Henry Hoare asking him "But what is it for?" & Hoare answering "What is it FOR? What it's FOR, my good man, is for me to SHOW OFF."

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2 weeks ago

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

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2 weeks ago

Contact Write to us! Subscribe to our newsletter, recommend a reading, submit a review, ask us anything! caranteswg.fakestuff@superproton.me Or contact us on BlueSky

The @carantes.bsky.social online anti-fascist Celtic Studies reading group is back back back March 20th at 4-6pm Welsh time

This time we are doing a series on GENDER, starting with freely accessible work by @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com

Join us here: carantes.org/contact/

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2 weeks ago

Prometheus says “hot take” and Greek gods respond “no give that back.”

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2 weeks ago

Johannes Klenell: "Gustav Fridolin sade till mig att han kunde se flera motioner, förslag och propåer som var direkt skrivna av IES från olika borgerliga politiker. Hur visste du det?, frågade jag. Jag hade ju fått samma PM från paret Bergström, svarade han."

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2 weeks ago

Close-up of a 16th-century printed book page with dense blackletter text. A round burn hole interrupts the page near the top right, revealing a modern photo behind it of a smiling person giving two thumbs up.

Sixteenth-century book with a perfectly placed burn hole. Proof that early modern readers lived dangerously (hello, candles).

📚🔥 #RareBooks #BookHistory #MaterialCulture #LibrarianLife

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2 weeks ago

All The Things We Should've Said

You should absolutely do yourself a favour and listen to this album by The Lion & The River that was released today. Absolute banger, such a good album.

open.spotify.com/album/6up3IE...

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8 months ago

The giant king of all the east might have defeated Charlemange in battle and taken all the barons of France captured, but his pride will be his downfall because he failed to consider the plucky englishman and his magic lance that just makes you win.

- Orlando Innamorato, book I canto vii, 23-57

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2 weeks ago

Two days late in reposting this, but still ^.^

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