Bogdan Mateescu

I delved into military history by placing units on a map.
I'm now continuing into the private day-to-day lives of ordinary individuals.
What a ride so far.
Wallachia under Russian occupation (1828-1836). A story still to be told.

Madame Filipescu, portrait 1842

1842 Bucharest - Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, Portrait of Madame Filipescu
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Couverture du livre Guerre et Paix en Vendée (1794-1796) par Anne Rolland-Boulestreau. En couverture le tableau « La guerre et la paix » par Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1776.

Il faut près de deux ans, entre mai 1794 et mars 1796, pour que la France tourne la page de l’insurrection vendéenne. Alors que se poursuit la « guerre sans miséricorde », les premiers pourparlers de paix sont initiés dès le printemps 1794. Cette pacification militaire et politique est un processus complexe qui conduit Républicains et Vendéens à mettre fin à un conflit particulièrement violent et meurtrier. Un tel acte de concorde, qui suppose la réintégration de la Vendée dans le cadre national, ne peut se concevoir sans compromis. Combattants et civils doivent accepter les conditions d’une paix singulière, afin de permettre la reconstruction économique, sociale et morale d’un territoire ravagé. L’histoire de France offre peu d’exemples de pacification d’une guerre civile. À partir de sources souvent inédites, Anne Rolland-Boulestreau explore l’aventure de la jeune République française en quête d’une paix nécessaire en Vendée.

Nouvelle lecture : Anne Rolland-Boulestreau, "Guerre et Paix en Vendée (1794-1796)". #lecture #Vendee #Revolution #CivilWar #GuerreCivile 📚📖

Primer boceto para la siguiente serie que quiero hacer este año.

Volver a la libreta con un apunte turquesa :)

#illustration #bicillustration #drawing #doodling #sketchbook

Bucharest.
Old and new.

A colorized photograph of a column of Romanian mountain troops advancing down a valley in Crimea during WW2.

Truck of a fallen down pine tree, parts with and without bark

Look at this tree we found in the forest, it has all the colours of the rainbow 🌲

[Wallachia, Russian occupation]
After so many reports of violence, shortages and army misconduct, finally something positive to read.
A Don Cossacks squadron commander saving a pregnant woman and 2 children from drowning.
Ialomița district, 1832.

Da 😭

Romanian painter Alexandru Phoebus (1899-1954).
I generally dislike this style (too modernist for me), but this might be one of the best styles to capture Bucharest's eclectic spirit.
From Romania's National Museum of Art Collections.

No. All are archaic/-regional.

Bourgeois Bucharest cat.

I love the colour palette.

👍
+ I missed you so much, bro.

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Innovateur passionné, le photographe Léonard Misonne (1870-1943) a créé le mediobrome, un procédé mêlant bromure d'argent et retouches à base de charbon et d'huile.

« Le sujet n'est rien, la lumière est tout », disait-il. 🔽

Screenshot of Rachel Anderson, The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England, The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 1640–1667, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae465. Abstract: Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper explores the process of recovering from outbreaks of plague in smaller communities, households, and even by individuals. In doing so, it examines resilience on a micro-level in terms of the economic, emotional, and practical concerns of individuals following a period of crisis. This paper showcases six early modern petitions, each transcribed here in full, providing insight into the responses of communities to severe outbreaks of epidemic disease. These sources reveal the practical measures required to foster resilience: each petition demonstrates a series of unique needs and essential interventions. The usual systems of relief proved inadequate when faced with the unprecedented demands of plague. This made the bonds between friends and neighbors crucial to the survival of their communities. Only when these bonds were pushed to their breaking point did early modern people turn to authorities. These petitions show us when and why those points were reached.

'The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England' by @rach-anderson.bsky.social in the AHR.

Finding 'resilience' in local petitions, with photos & transcriptions. The latest addition to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography 🗃️: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

Hello, everyone!
Sorry for my long silence!
X is sill my main SM account, since I find it hard to migrate or manage accounts on two platforms. I simply lack the time.
However, since it's becoming unbearable, I will be gradually moving here, or at least be more active here.
Cheers to all!

In dialogue with Dr. Alex Drace-Francis Join us online for an engaging conversation with the brilliant Dr. Alex Drace-Francis, where we'll dive deep into thought-provoking dialogue

Details of an online talk I'm giving on #mămăligă to DOR, a Romanian diaspora group in UK (Nov 24): www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-dialogu...

don't miss the chance to come and join us at our new department! info on application procedure, deadlines, and everything else available at the link below.

Romania, "The Peak of Nostalgia":
1. The painting
2. The street
3. The actual peak
4. The peak viewed from the 👆street

I finished it without immediate plans to publish it. To avoid the embargo issue, I simply published the core findings in journal articles.

Looking for people to follow who research: victimhood/victimisation (all disciplines), nationalism (same), identity/memory (same).
Feel free to let me know if you’re one of these people! ✨

Also interested in anyone in: social psychology, IR/diplomacy, Jewish studies, (e)migration, Queer studies.

Inside cover of a manuscript with writing in Latin.

Scouring through probate records from Bistrita, Transylvania, and came across this well-fitting quote: should you lose everything, preserve your good name.