Adriaen van Ostade, Father of the Family Giving Broth to his Baby (via The Met)
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Adriaen van Ostade, Father of the Family Giving Broth to his Baby (via The Met)

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Historians? Do analysis? Well. I. Never. Of course that’s precisely what we do. But it’s more than that. What we analyse is profoundly alien to the modern world, which means we are forced – effectively – to analyse in the abstract. And so, for exactly this reason, the skills of a 6th century historian are probably more useful to the 21st century than those of a modernist... The trouble is, there’s no guarantee that the skills we need today will still be relevant in 2036, or even 2026. The world is changing. Fast. If you can learn to analyse the distant past, then this explicitly makes you comfortable with the unfamiliar. And if there’s one thing we’ll need to get familiar with in the coming decades, it’s the unfamiliar.
Why Society Needs Historians – The Social Historian
“Aloha Wanderwell was the Amelia Earhart of the automobile.” (Atlas Obscura)
Wendy Margaret Hillier as Sally Hardcastle in Love on the Dole, c.1935, via Art UK
Evelyn Dunbar, Baling Hay (1940) via Art UK

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I’m not concerned about [public] recognition of the term [DH] or even a lot of reflection on our projects as DH projects. I’d rather people get excited about the humanities content itself — the historical datasets they can explore, the art that they now have direct access to, or the new discoveries and fascinating methods that they hear about in the press. We’re finding new archaeological sites, reading manuscripts that were thought to be illegible, discovering historical trends in art and literature, and just plain putting things online for straightforward reading and enjoyment or for data analysis in ways never thought possible before. I’d much rather people (and by people I mean everyone from my kids’ age to my grandparents’ age) start thinking about how to apply digital humanities methods to problems or histories that matter to them, personally. And that’s happening.
An Interview with Bethany Nowviskie, LARB, 9 May 2016
Yeah, whatever.
(via Des chats médiévaux qui se lèchent les fesses)
museum-of-artifacts:
A medieval manuscript that was peed on by a cat
Scribe was forced to leave the rest of the page empty, drew a picture of a cat and cursed the creature with the following words:
“Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.”
[Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.]
Cologne, Historisches Archiv, G.B. quarto, 249, fol. 68r
Sad Metadata Kitty is sad because the scribe no longer loves him.

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The very success of the conversion of the nineteenth-century press into searchable online surrogates has heavily weighted those calculations in favor of digital resources and against modes of research that require more time and money to accomplish and whose ultimate yield is often uncertain. Put another way, if serendipitous discovery is going to happen, it will happen faster and cheaper online than in a physical archive. The time available to write one’s thesis, article, or book is always a scarce resource, and the money required to accomplish the underlying research is even more limited. In such circumstances, it makes sense to design the research project from the beginning in the most cost-efficient way possible. This is not laziness or sloppiness but a clear-eyed recognition of the hard choices facing every researcher.
Patrick Leary, "Response: Search and Serendipity", Victorian Periodicals Review 48.2 (2015) https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_periodicals_review/v048/48.2.leary.html (subscription required)
It never helps historians to say too much about their working methods. For just as the conjuror’s magic disappears if the audience knows how the trick is done, so the credibility of scholars can be sharply diminished if readers learn everything about how exactly their books came to be written. Only too often, such revelations dispel the impression of fluent, confident omniscience; instead, they suggest that histories are concocted by error-prone human beings who patch together the results of incomplete research in order to construct an account whose rhetorical power will, they hope, compensate for gaps in the argument and deficiencies in the evidence.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n11/keith-thomas/diary
Women’s History Month 2015: Sex and Sexualities
What the poor knew about sex in sixteenth-century Paris (Herstory/Histoires plurielles)
Finding the lesbian premodern: Does it take one to know one? (Notches)
Sex tourism in 18th century London? (Wellcome Library Blog)
The Blue Books: Guides to the New Orleans Red Light District (Wonders and Marvels)
Pre-colonial Igboland: On Woman-to-Woman Marriage (the adventures of cosmic yoruba and her flying machines)
Masturbation and the Dangerous Woman (Wonders and Marvels)
Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson (Notches)
That's it for WHM 2015!
Women’s History Month 2015: Fashion and Beauty
Not just skin deep, and sometimes to die for.
Dressing the Indian woman through history (BBC News Magazine)
When Argentinian women wore hair combs four feet wide (The History Blog)
Dyeing to Impress: Hair Products and Beauty Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (The Recipes Project)
Death by Crinoline (Wonders and Marvels)
'To be tightly laced is a most superb sensation': the Corset Controversy (Untold Lives)
Should women wear trousers? (Cardiff SCOLAR)
Women’s History Month 2015: Politics and Protest
Women, politics, protests and rights movements.
"There was a great argument yesterday on female excellence": Gender and the Newest Political history (The Junto)
Force-feeding suffragettes: Violation or medical care? (History of Emotions Blog)
Asian Suffragettes - Women Who Made a Difference (FWSA Blog)
The Freedom to Travel & the Right to Vote: August 18, 1920 (Wonders and Marvels)
the digital history of the History of Woman Suffrage (History in the City)
Selma through a woman's eyes (Doing History in Public)

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Women’s History Month 2015: Love and Marriage
Changing historical experiences of courtship, romance and getting married.
'Welebelovyd Volentyne': Fifteenth-century courtship and the Pastons (Meny Snoweballes)
'she drew me for her Valentine': what was the meaning of love in 18th century England? (Joanne Bailey)
"Cupid... transfixed me with a Dart" (In the Words of Women)
Valentine's as Prostitution, Marriage as a Trade: Commerce, Sex, History (and a recipe) (Notches)
Foreign wives and second marriages: a Chinese perspective (The Tiger's Mouth)
What's Amore? Courtship and marriage in post-war Italy (Notches)
Women’s History Month 2015: Fighting For Women’s Education
Higher education and working for the education of girls.
Lucinda Foote's Entrance Examination (Boston 1775)
Mary Jane Patterson, First African American Woman to Graduate from College (Civil War Women)
"Gender and Generations": Oral Histories of Colleges and Universities at OHA 2014 (Educating Women)
Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian Princess and Philanthropist (History of American Women)
Pandita Ramabai (Women's History Network)
Eglantyne Jebb, The Woman Who Saved the Children (The History Girls)