#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.
Previously with the British SOE, Hall returned with the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and trained 3 battalions of resistance fighters.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #histodons #bookhistory #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #digitization
Am Internationalen Tag gegen #Rassismus erinnern wir heute an #WerkstattGeschichte 59/2012 »sichtbar/verborgen«. Im Thementeil, hg. u.a. v. Alexandra Przyrembel, geht es um Diskurse über »Rasse« in der Moderne, mit Beiträgen von Richard Hölzl (@rhoelzl), Hubertus Büschel & Silvan Niedermeier:
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/sichtbarverborgen
Trump's critics have compared him to King George III, but is it accurate? A scholar of early America says the 18th-century British monarchy’s power was far more limited than many realize: https://theconversation.com/tyrannical-leader-why-comparisons-between-trump-and-king-george-iii-miss-the-mark-on-18th-century-british-monarchy-251869
@histodons #Histodons
Today was the best kind of research day. It had it all. The morning was a wash. After lunch, I dug up promising leads but was crushed when I failed to find them where I expected. And then, in the final box I'd ordered, I hit pay dirt - not only did I find the documents I'd thought were elsewhere, they were way more detailed than I could've imagined. What a way to end a trip to the (very distant) archives!
OnThisDay, March 20, in 1937, Amelia Earhart’s plane crashed on Ford Island due to a landing gear collapse, ending her first attempt to fly around the world (depicted in Amelia, 2009)
TFW you get your document order in 1 minute before the deadline.
There's a children's play area at the UK National Archives!
Pasquarella Mussone Spinelli, owner of an #EastHarlem horse stable, was murdered in her business #OTD in 1912. Additional killings occurred at the site over the years, giving the business the nickname #MurderStable.
Read about it:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/03/owners-killing-is-start-of-murder.html
Another major thread I've come across in Treasury correspondence is Britain's financial interest in Ceylon cinnamon. There are years in the first half of the 19th century where it feels like 10% of all letters written by the Treasury to the Colonial Office are about this one commodity (and the two departments correspond constantly). A project that's just sitting there in the archives waiting to be written.
On this day, March 19, in 1972, a team from the small Philadelphia Catholic women’s school Immaculata College won the first-ever women’s national college basketball championship, coached by Cathy Rush (depicted in The Mighty Macs, 2009)
I keep coming across references to diplomatic gift-giving in the British Treasury papers. Today I've found correspondence on presents for chiefs in Gambia and Sierra Leone in the 1820s and 1830s. On the off chance anyone's looking for a project on the history of the British Empire.
Snippets of overheard conversations between historians:
Haha, no, I'm a medievalist.
Oh... [Upbeat despite the sad truth] You've gotta get early modern!
#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.
Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.
She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
Tervetuloa Mastodoniin Miti von Weissenberg @maweisse ja Henna Karppinen-Kummunmäki @hkarppkumm !
Historians have written a fair bit on presents given by Britain, France, and the US to Indigenous peoples in North America. As I peruse the early 19th-century correspondence of the British Treasury, I keep coming across references to similar practice elsewhere - Surinam, Nicaragua, Honduras... Has anyone written on diplomatic gifts in these places? A comparative history might be interesting.
Let me recommend spending time in an archive that has a wholly respectable cafeteria. Not having to figure out what to eat in the middle of a food desert is making this research trip feel more like vacation than usual.
How did #UnivofStAndrews benefit from, participate in, or support, British colonialism? Our report 'The University of St Andrews and the legacies of empire, 1700-1900' is now available https://legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
The detail of our findings may be of most interest to those closely associated with #standrews #Fife and #Tayside, or #Scotland; but I hope that our approach will be of interest to a wider audience. #history #histodons
ASTROLOGVS HIC SIT CAVTVS - literally: the astronomer should be careful here.
This is a detail from the so-called star mantle of Heinrich II., made around 1000 AD. The meaning of the gold woven comment:
Do not expect facts. This image is not accurate.
