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#history #USA #unitedstates #segregation

Did you know that the 1st commercial #Christmas card was a #marketing scheme for a new #postal service?

In the #UK, prior to the 1840s, letters were paid by distance & sheets. This was expensive & poorer households rarely used it.

Some men decided to implement a general rate of 1 penny per letter.
While this doubled the letters sent in the 1st year, it was financially bad for the government.

Entrepreneur Henry Cole commissioned the first Xmas Card in 1843. It was a rousing success.

#history

This is the first commercially available Christmas Card commissioned by Henry Cole in 1843. It was sent by him to his grandmother & sold at auction in 2001 for £22,500. The card shows three generations of a family in Victorian attire. The elderly folks are on the left, a woman with a bonnet and a shawl around her shoulders, and her balding, slightly overweight husband. On the right are their children, a young blonde woman with a lace shawl, and her husband, a light blonde man somewhere in his 20s. There is a second young couple, likely their siblings. The two young couples' children are seen in the distance. All three generations drink red wine. The people are framed by branches and wine leaves, and two scenes of pencilled domesticity.
#history #uk #Marketing #christmas #postal

The entire #WhiteHouse #EastWing is demolished as #Trump moves forward with his #ballroom, AP photos show.

The East Wing, where #FirstLadies created #history, planned state dinners & promoted causes, is now history itself. The 2-story structure of drawing rooms & offices, including workspace for first ladies & their staffs, has been turned into rubble, demolished as part of Trump’s plan to build what he said is now a $300M ballroom nearly 2X the size of the White House.

apnews.com/article/trump-white…

#Trump #history #whitehouse #eastwing #ballroom #firstladies

Hi everyone, if you have ever been interested in listening to cylinder recordings from the late 1870's onward, here is a website which has preserved 10000 cylinders and digitized them so that people in the modern day can enjoy these early recordings for our listening pleasure. They have also a link to a list of just over 650 home recordings of people at the time who bought Edisons' Phonograph and used them in there houses and made recordings at the time on cylinders as well. The site describes this better than I can, but hope y'all enjoy. #History #recordings Overview | UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/ove…

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

Digital collection of 6,000 cylinder records from 1895-1920s with downloadable and streaming audio held by the Department of Special Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara.
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections.
#history #recordings

Now free for all to read... Imagine a family living in 1980s Bulgaria. They're the Petrovi family: father Plamen, mother Elena, and son Boyan. I say "imagine", for the Petrovis aren't real; they're a fictional family created to illustrate life in 1980s Sofia, the Bulgarian capital - and they live in the so-called Red Flat:

patreon.com/posts/sofia-enteri…

#Bulgaria #Sofia #museum #history

#history #museum #Bulgaria #sofia

Starvation as a tool for genocide was always part of the invaders acts to crush and exterminate resistance of the natives.

#USpol #History #Starvation #Genocide

ashok kumar - @broseph_stalin In school I was shown this image. It was the white man killing all the buffalo to starve the Native Americans and force those who survived into reservations.Such cruelty was unimaginable to me. It all makes sense now.
#history #uspol #genocide #starvation

I'm going to talk about the sahiqat (صاحقات) genre. In the pre-modern #Arab world this was the genre of sapphic or lesbian stories. It was regarded as the purest form of love because of how impossible it was.

Different than Western sapphic love stories, it re-affirmed their devotion to God. For example the most famous couple are al-Zarqa and Hind bint al-Nu'man.

@medievodons @histodons #history #medieval #medievalhistory #Arabicliterature

#history #medieval #arab #medievalhistory #ArabicLiterature @Histodons @medievodons

#history #otd #onthisday #histodons #womeninhistory #womenshistory #BritishHistory

Hi to all #history readers and lovers. I am developing a daily history puzzle with all of my heart. You have to guess a year with the help of 4 historical events. Afterwards you get interesting links to these events.

I would be glad if you check it out. It is called #PastPuzzle - Thank you! :)

pastpuzzle.de/

past puzzle

Errate mithilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen das gesuchte Jahr. Ein von Wordle und Geschichten aus der Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.
www.pastpuzzle.de
#history #pastpuzzle

#history #archaeology

wanna give a huge shout-out to Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky for gifting us some absolutely stunning colour photographs from Russia in the 1910s.

YEAH YOU READ THAT RIGHT. he took three photographs of each subject, through coloured filters, and then projected the images again through the filters and superimposed them.

and thus, we have colour photography of early 20th century Russia. and it's beautiful.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_P…

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ser…

#History #Photography

an Armenian woman posing in a dark red skirt, a white shirt, and a blue jacket, wearing a multi-coloured hat, on a hillside against a backdrop of trees. her hands are clasped in front of her stomach.
a landscape photograph of Trinity Monastery in Tyumen from 1912. the walls are white, and the domes and spires are green, perhaps made of weathered copper?
Mr. Prokudin-Gorsky himself sat in a rail handcar with four other men on the Murmansk railroad. the other men are wearing some kind of uniform, while Mr. Prokudin-Gorsky wears a suit. the sky is blue and the weather looks fair.
an elderly, bearded man in a formal uniform standing on a raft holding a long punting pole. the raft floats on a river but its chained to the bank. the man's coat is long and grey, buttoned on the right side with a green belt. in this one you can see the effects of taking three separate photographs to composite them; while most things in frame are static and thus line up perfectly, the river is in constant movement, and so the water is separated into clouds of all three colours and looks somewhat oily.

Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#history #photography

stole your meme, yadda yadda cuz GLUE PEOPLE is who we once called ELDERS.

a hallmark of #fascism is the belief #history is a thing that lives outside of us; and that, thru violent means, only the “winners” write and impose as The Truth.

but History isn’t a thing.

history exists in being, living, doing.

books, archives, GIT repos are great, but give us a false sense of security. when “life happens”, we need Elders to wing solutions.

there is no institutional memory, only Elders.

I've spent over 30 years managing large government operations. One lesson I carry with me comes from the retirement years ago of an employee most would have considered “obscure.” He was a quiet man — arriving each morning with his sandwich, working steadily, and leaving without much fanfare. To many, he seemed part of the furniture. It was only when he left that we truly realized his value. Over the years, he had accumulated deep, almost invisible knowledge. He had taken on countless menial but essential tasks simply because he had the experience to do them well. He was, in many ways, the oil in the machine. His departure forced us to scramble. We suddenly saw how many small, critical pieces he had been holding together — pieces no job description had captured, and no system had tracked. Since then, I've often thought of him when I see organizations subjected to blind cuts. The true cost of such decisions is rarely visible on a balance sheet: it’s in the loss of quiet expertise, institutional memory, and the small acts of continuity that keep complex systems running.
#history #fascism

In 1988, IBM tried to seize the whole PC market back and make it proprietary again.

This seemed to be the end for the PC open platform. Consensus was that you couldn't win against IBM.

Luckily for history, Compaq, and founding CEO Rod Canion, decided to try.

Read my latest #history longform on the fight for the soul of the PC. And how Compaq won. #technology

every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-ma…


The Man Who Beat IBM

Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing forever
every.to
#technology #history

This is the original middle finger of the right hand of #GalileoGalilei as it can be seen in the #MuseoGalileo, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in #Florence:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%…

My personal highlight of this trip to Italy so far.

Yes, the #middlefinger gesture is old enough. Even old greeks and romans used it:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fing…

Maybe this (and the #catholicchurch forcing him to publicly revoke his findings) is why somebody decided to steal this part of his body when he was moved years after his death.

From now on, this picture will be awarded by me to anybody who is talking bullshit that was scientifically proven wrong already.

Use my photos under #CCbyNCSA: creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

#Homöopathie #homeopathy #Schwurbel #nonsense #science #research #galileosmiddlefinger #relic #education #religion #history #church #catholic
/cc #minkorrekt @minkorrekt

the finger relic with its vessel or whatever you call that thing
Description by the museum: Middle finger of Galileo's right hand ca. 1737 (case and inscription)
Portrait of Galileo Galilei Santi di Tito first decade 17th century
The finger in a glass egg, its top is removed, allowing a perfect look at the relic

obscene hand gesture

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#history #religion #education #science #research #catholicchurch #catholic #church #ccbyncsa #GalileoGalilei #museogalileo #florence #middlefinger #homoopathie #homeopathy #schwurbel #nonsense #galileosmiddlefinger #relic #minkorrekt @Minkorrekt!

This past week, 99 years ago, Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois.

On November 12, 1989, on 60 Minutes, Harry Reasoner asked him if Black musicians were better at jazz and blues because of slavery. The question could’ve gone sideways.

What Davis said—quietly, precisely—was about rhythm, memory, race, and the meaning of swing. #music #Jazz #Histodons #history #blackmastodon #photography #blackandwhite

1/12
Image: Miles Davis, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1954, photo by Francis Wolff.

#history #music #jazz #photography #histodons #blackmastodon #BlackAndWhite

#history #calendar

New #intro!

I’m a hyperjack musician, writer & video artist. My latest album, ‘Status’, is mainly about escaping Big Tech dystopia.

My website meljoann.com includes nerdy blog posts on Faircamp, Owncast & leaving mainstream social media.

Some stuff I love:

#musicProduction #videoProduction #books #experimentalMusic #electronicMusic #RandB #earlyMusic #improvisedMusic #science #knitting #history #scienceFiction #horror #alternativeComedy #anarchism #foss #linux #introduction


Meljoann.

Website of hyperjack music producer, writer and video artist, Meljoann.
Meljoann.
#linux #foss #books #history #introduction #science #horror #knitting #sciencefiction #intro #musicproduction #electronicmusic #earlymusic #experimentalmusic #anarchism #videoproduction #randb #improvisedmusic #alternativecomedy

#history #otd #onthisday #histodons #womeninhistory #womenshistory #votesforwomen

Released last Friday, a digital reconstruction of the Titanic chronicles a never-before-seen view of the wreck that is “accurate to the rivet,” a statement says.

thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/tit…

#titanic #history #photography #science #ocean #technology

a still from a documentary about HMS Titanic, showing a large-scale digital rendering of the shipwreck on the ocean floor

'Titanic: The Digital Resurrection' Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster — Colossal

In the summer of 2022, a team of deep-sea researchers spent six weeks in the North Atlantic Ocean, revisiting the remains of HMS Titanic.
Kate Mothes (Colossal)
#technology #history #titanic #photography #science #ocean

Very early #OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.

Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London.

Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

poor quality snapshot of Odette Wilen in her uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#history #otd #onthisday #histodons #womeninhistory #WorldWar2 #womenshistory

Another week. Another museum. This week the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. I came here largely to see this one tool chest.

It's the Mästermyr toolchest. A 1000 year old chest filled with blacksmithing and woodworking tools. It's an incredibly important find. Beautifully preserved in the bog. The tools are wonderful. I'd seen pictures and read about these tools, but to see them up close. That hack saw is exquisite.

I wonder how the chest ended up discarded.

#Making #Tools #History

A viking era tool chest in a museum display case. The chest is open revealing a selection of tools including a small hacksaw, spoon auger, saw, nail plate, etc.. around the chest are various other tools including tongs, hammers, and a chain made iron. A key is laying to the left of the chest.
#history #tools #making

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#history #otd #onthisday #histodons #womeninhistory #womenshistory

Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.

To sort of give you an idea of the weird stuff I'm into, here's a post I did about stories written in the Medieval Silk Road that feature women and are available in English:

mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.…

On this, anyone else into weird and obscure histories?

#intro #history #historicalFiction #silkroad #womenshistory #books


Stories About Women from the Medieval Silk Road and Available in English

The Silk Road had men and women of all walks of life. It also was one of history’s most literate eras and places, prior to the modern age. One of the reasons that we know that is from the sto…
Women Along the Silk Road
#books #history #intro #HistoricalFiction #womenshistory #silkroad

If you too love daydreaming about socialism, you'll probably love this book as much as I did! It's informative and well-researched, and also colorful and fun to read, and it made me nostalgic for public housing and a comprehensive welfare state. Some quick highlights (1/) #socialism #Germany #history
The book cover of "Beyond the Wall: A history of East Germany" by Katja Hoyer.
#history #Germany #socialism

I’m researching the life of my 5 x great grandfather Samuel Cottrell. This will be an interesting challenge because Samuel, a non-conformist, managed to avoid all the censuses taken in the 1800s

Samuel was born on 11 July 1796 to John Cottrell and Mary Teek. He was baptised on 2 October 1796 at Saint Luke’s Old Street, Finsbury, London.

During this research, I hope to learn more about London as well.

#FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #History #Genealogy #London #1700s

Baptism record
#history #london #genealogy #familyhistory #familytree #1700s

Many of the locations of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' can still be seen today. Scrooge's counting house is thought to be in Newman's Court, in the City of London. "The ancient tower of a church" is described, whose "gruff old bell was always slyly peeping down at Scrooge out of a #gothic window." That church has been identified as St Michael's Cornhill, which looms over Newman's Court. In addition, Bob Cratchit heads home via nearby Cornhill, where he "went down a slide" on the ice "at the end of a line of boys, twenty times, in honour of it being Christmas Eve." Scrooge's "usual melancholy tavern" where he takes his "melancholy dinner" is thought to be Simpson's Tavern in nearby Ball Court, which has been trading since 1757. The door knocker which turns into the ghostly head of Jacob Marley was apparently inspired by one in Craven Street, near Charing Cross, where Dickens worked as a boy in a shoe-blacking factory. #Christmas #literature #history #folklore #Yule #books #London
The ornate tower of St Michael's Cornhill, in white stone, with gothic windows. The tower looms over later redbrick buildings, while a glass-fronted office block can be seen behind.
#books #history #Gothic #christmas #literature #folklore #london #yule

Jan Palach se upálil na protest proti sovětské okupaci a následné apatii, která zavládla ve společnosti. Po jeho smrti složil Bohdan Mikolášek protestsong Ticho youtube.com/watch?v=JI80WlxnKE… #music #history
„Oheň, světlo, dým
a krátký život s ním
hořely dlouho a hořet budou dál.
Plamen cizích vin
a já dobře vím - jako vy tu zprávu:
zemřel živý člověk
aby mrtví zůstali žít.“

Bohdan Mikolášek - Ticho (1969)

Z krátkometrážního filmu (1969, režie Milan Peer)Hudba + text: Bohdan MikolášekZpěv + akustická kytara: Bohdan Mikolášek
YouTube
#history #music

#technology #history #otd #onthisday #Internet

Journalist Carl von Ossietzky was a constant voice against Nazism and rising militarism in 1920s and 1930s Germany. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for it — and he died for it. In this long read for Atavist, Kate McQueen tells his story. "They may condemn us, today, tomorrow, the day after, [and] we will accept it,” he once wrote. “But our pride will be in … becoming more energetic, sharper, denser and tougher. That’s why we are journalists.”

flip.it/K8jWji

#History @histodons #Journalism #Nazism #Germany


The Good Traitor

The Third Reich feared Carl von Ossietzky so much they sent him to a concentration camp. Could winning the Nobel Peace Prize save his life?
Kate McQueen (The Atavist Magazine)
#history #Germany #journalism #nazism @histodons group

The first text message was sent on this day in 1992 by then a 22-year-old engineer Neil Papworth to wish "Merry Christmas" to his colleague.

"It didn't feel momentous at all. For me it was just getting my job done on the day and ensuring that our software that we'd been developing for a good year was working OK."

history.com/this-day-in-histor…

#OTD #OnThisDay #technology #history #phone #TextMessage #MerryChristmas

First SMS text message is sent

On December 3, 1992, the first SMS text message in history is sent: Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old engineer, uses a personal computer to send the text message “Merry Christmas” via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
Missy Sullivan (HISTORY)
#technology #history #otd #phone #onthisday #textmessage #merrychristmas

#history #otd #WomenInSTEM #onthisday #histodons #womeninhistory #womenshistory

Matching dinosaur footprints in Cameroon and Brazil record a time when Africa and South America were still connected & herds could wander between them.

I'm not saying the very same dinosaur was stomping around in both Cameroon and Brazil...but it's possible.

nytimes.com/2024/08/28/science…

#science #history #nature #dinosaurs

Researchers discovered theropod footprints in the Sousa Basin of northeastern Brazil.
Theropod track from the Koum Basin in Cameroon.

Scientists Discover Similar Dinosaur Footprints on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic

More than 260 similar footprints found in Brazil and Cameroon help us understand a region that broke apart millions of years ago.
Alexandra E. Petri (The New York Times)
#history #science #nature #dinosaurs

I remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:

"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .

"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy

- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology theanarchistlibrary.org/librar…


Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

David Graeber Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology 2004
The Anarchist Library
#politics #history #voting #democracy

I've been checking out a fair bunch of videos by the YT channel "#Revolution and #Ideology”. They succinctly put what they do in their About as: "Jared (#History) and Nick (#Sociology) discuss history and theories related to revolution and #SocialChange." What I appreciate is that they have conversations about source texts through quotation, not simplified summaries. #Philosophy #Anthropology
youtube.com/channel/UCB9N6fHt-…

Revolution and Ideology

Jared (History) and Nick (Sociology) discuss history and theories related to revolution and social change.
YouTube
#history #révolution #philosophy #sociology #socialchange #ideology #anthropology

George Lucas got the idea for Princess Leia's iconic "space buns" from Mexican revolutionary women. Specifically Clara de la Rocha, a total badass.

Clara's descendant recounted:

"She crossed a river on horseback…and was able to take out a power station in order to allow the rebel forces to attack during night without being seen."

Just like Leia, eh?

On Clara:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_de…

Lucas interview:
time.com/archive/6911956/so-wh…

#HispanicHeritageMonth #Mexico #History #StarWars #PrincessLeia

Photos of Clara and Leia side by side, each with their side buns. Clara is standing outside in front of an ornate building with a stoic expression. She is wearing a bandolier, a bullet belt with a gun in a holster, and is holding a sword in one hand and a rifle in the other. Leia is in a photography studio looking straight at the camera with a stoic expression with her hands behind her neck and her elbows pointed downward.
#history #starwars #méxico #princessleia #hispanicheritagemonth

#history #onthisday #lawnchairlarry #larrywalters #amancantjustsitaround

#czech #history #WW2

#TIL that in 1929, JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, gifted his work's copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

"Through this gift, Peter Pan’s magic made an unprecedented leap from the realm of fiction into reality and the hospital began to receive royalties every time a production of the play was on, as well as from the sale of Peter Pan books and other products."

gosh.org/about-us/peter-pan/hi…

#history #literature #books #bookstodon #PeterPan #philanthropy


The history of Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street

Great Ormond Street Charity
#books #til #history #bookstodon #literature #peterpan #philanthropy

The famous #graduation song is a send-off fit for a king! It was originally written for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1901, but evolved to be used during ceremonies for accomplished graduates.

The interesting #history:
theconversation.com/how-a-brit…

#Music #Histodons @histodons


How a British military march became the distinctive sound of American graduations

For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
The Conversation
#history #music #histodons #graduation @histodons group

#history #otd #onthisday #histodons #womeninhistory #womenshistory #aviationhistory

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