#18thc

Okay guys, buckle up for a speculative history on Freud + ferns. (The ferns stuff isn't speculative, it's historical, but Freud's fear of ferns--pteridophobia--seems to be urban legend at best.)

Dr. Sophie Coulombeau

So I’m late to this, but I’m just catching up on the #ReclaimHerName kerfuffle. And, given that Naming And Literature (with a side of gender) is kinda my thing, I

Fantastic blogpost by @jasoncrawford on why the bicycle wasn’t invented earlier. We can ask similar questions of many other technologies. My favourite is the flying shuttle on looms. Another is

In the mid-18thC, one of the major worrying diseases was typhus. Nowadays, we know it's spread by lice or fleas. But at the time, like so many other diseases, it

Prof Catherine Clarke

I love this elegant 1815 #map of #Wimborne Minster, #Dorset. But it represents something of a classicising, idealising fiction - the town neatened into orderly streets and parkland. Look what

DisabilityHistory

DisabilityHistr

Thread:1/nToday is #NationalDogDay!Time to re-examine the roles dogs have played in #DisHist!For centuries, artists have shown dogs accompanying blind subjects, performers & beggars across the world, suggesting that dogs lived/worked

Dr Coralie Mills

Dendrochronicle

#museumsunlocked Some #Castles' fab old woods in #Scotland. First Caerlaverock Castle Wood studied for @HistEnvScot-complex medieval enclosures round both castles engulfed by trees now but mosaic of woodbanks & fields

William Dalrymple

The Diwani- the document that handed over the three richest provinces in India to the East India Company, 1765. Later, the British dignified the document by calling it the Treaty

Today I've fallen down the Venetian 15thC patents rabbit hole. One of my hunches proving correct: that what we would now call copyright was indistinguishable at the time from a

Lindsey Fitzharris

(1/11) SAVE @drjennershouse, which is under threat due to the #COVID19 pandemic! Edward Jenner was an 18thC pioneer of vaccination. Let me tell you about his importance in medical history[Photo

When it comes to attracting the top scientists, engineers and inventors, the UK takes the approach of build-it-and-they-will-come. It lowers barriers to entry or makes the country more attractive to

Tathagata Neogi, PhD

#Threads (1/15)The other day I tweeted about the role of the mangrove forests in #Sunderbans as our first, natural line of defence in sapping the strength of #cyclones and #tsunamis.

Prof Susan Oosthuizen

DrSueOosthuizen

#FunWithLandscape THREAD. #Greens are found in settlements all over the British Isles. Some like this small triangular area at Haslingfield are clues to once-larger, less well-groomed areas. Here’s a way

Purgatory Archaeological Survey

PurgatoryArcheo

While PAS has had many-a-run-in with Mr. Del Rey & do not condone his illicit business practices with Del Rey Digging, he has brought up an important point: Much of

MonkeyOnTheMountainⓋ

Good to see #LiDAR getting more use / coverage ... "Lost Bronze Age hill forts discovered in Devon" https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/lost-bronze-age-hill-forts-4091969. That's Windmill Clump https://www.heritagegatewa

Celtic Medusa Rose-FromTheGrave-ns

Just started a free Gothic Fiction class with @RomGothSam - looking today at types of demons in Gothic texts. Starting with interacting with the paradigms and understandings of the devil/demonic