Have you listened to our podcast yet? The Shropshire Witches Podcast is dedicated to sharing forgotten folklore and the history of those left out of traditional narratives. You can listen anywhere you get your podcasts, or via the link below.

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A metal detectorist spent 6 years searching the same farm and was eventually rewarded with a rare £5,000 coin from emperor Aulus Vitellius, who ruled the #Roman Empire for just 8 months in 69 AD.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a64378729/roman-coin-vitellius/

#numismatics #coins #CoinCollecting #AncientCoins #historians #histodons @numismatics @histodons

I could use a very accessible single volume history of the Interstate Highway System. Any recommendations? #transportation #transportationhistory #historians

The #WhiteHouse Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It

As the #Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of #history , #archivists and #historians said.
#takedown #Musk

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html

#UniversityOfToronto hires three prominent Yale #professors worried about Trump

#Fascism scholar #JasonStanley and #historians #TimothySnyder and #MarciShore have taken jobs at the University of Toronto amid concerns about the second #Trump administration

by Allison Smith, Mar 26, 2025

"U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection has spurred several high-profile Yale #professors to leave New Haven for jobs at the University of Toronto.

"Bestselling author Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year.

"Snyder and Shore, who are married, will begin teaching courses at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy this fall.

"Shore told TorontoToday they plan to stay at UofT 'for the long-term.'

"Snyder is the New York Times bestselling author of #OnTyranny and The Road to #Unfreedom, and an outspoken critic of the #Trump administration.

"UofT began recruiting her and Snyder two years ago, Shore said, 'and we were seriously considering the offers long before the November 2024 presidential elections.'

"'Both Toronto and the Munk School were and are very attractive places unto themselves, even bracketing the American descent into fascism,' she said in an email.

"'All that said, yes, of course our #AmericanCatastrophe played a role in our final decision.'"

Rea more:
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/education/university-toronto-hires-three-prominent-yale-professors-worried-about-trump-10433643
#UofT #Authoritarianism #BrainDrain #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol

I found an old letter from "John Kern" inside an old book and I'm trying to learn more. It's addressed to his sister (Mary?), mentions a book titled, "Ladies Museum," and requests flower seeds. I'm wondering whether it might be John Kern, III (1781-1842), of Philadelphia. Any historians on here? cc @histodons #philadelphia #pennsylvania #history #historians #antique

This week's E-Sylum has a piece on the coins of Dimitian. I like the opening: "Titus Flavius Domitianus – better known as Domitian – has gotten a raw deal from historians, thanks largely to Rome's ace gossip columnist, Suetonius (lived c. 69-122)." Read more: https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n12.html#article19

#Numismatics #CoinCollecting #AncientCoins #Historians #Histodons @numismatics @histodon

#Historians of American #agriculture, can anyone recommend a good short history on tenant farming? Thanks in advance!

In about an hour, Ill be talking about the business side of running a history website - you can join in at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crhhms-doing-public-history-and-medievalistsnet-peter-konieczny-tickets-1023979178287 #historians

Come and work with us! We have two new positions open at the IFI, both fixed-term for 36 months. These are:

A pre-doctoral position for doctoral candidates focused on 19th to early 20th century Caucasus or Central Asia topics:
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home/jobs?jh=55fo92ztvmyavog9ohpufz1qxf668nn

And a post-doctoral position focused on the history of premodern Iran (15th century or earlier):
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home/jobs?jh=0b4bl3hjsv600sfggaoxw48hyq0vyn1

Applications should be in by March 31st: please do share this post to colleagues, friends, and groups where people might be interested. We look forward to hearing from you!

So, @sevmunro, here is my list of #Historians and #Anthropologists on #Mastodon (I just added you to the list). Enjoy!

@rogueclassicist
@RadicalAnthro
@AnnaAnthro
@brian_gettler
@bibliolater
@phistorians
@kharvati
@talesfromthetwolands (Ancient Egypt)
@Xenophon
@potpie (Latin teacher)
@womenknowhistory
@dbellingradt
@KentNavalesi (Author of the forthcoming book, "The Prose Lives of Venantius Fortunatus: Hagiography and the Laity in Sixth-Century Gaul" )
@AncientEgyptianDate (Today's date in Ancient Egyptian)

"He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.": Anson Rabinbach, Leading Historian of Nazi Culture, Dies at 79 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/books/anson-rabinbach-dead.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
#Histodons #History #NS #CulturalHistory #Rabinbach #GermanHistory #Historians #NYT

I review an edited #history volume. Only two of 17 chapters are written by non-male #historians. I am so tired of this.

Why can't #editors, #advisoryBoards and publishing houses do their homework?! #Research is not a men's club only, or white or Global North. It won't become better by excluding other voices and perspectives.

#histodons #academicChatter

@academicchatter @histodons @womenknowhistory @historikerinnen

Premodernist makes in-depth history videos, covering many historical periods and geographical regions. You can follow at:

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There are already over 20 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://tube.kockatoo.org/a/premodernist/videos

Would especially recommend the videos on time travel!

You can also follow Premodernist's general social media account at @premodernist@historians.social

cc @histodons

hat’s new in medieval studies? Here are ten open-access articles published in January, which range from the population of Iceland to dual use furniture in a Czech church. https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/medieval-studies-articles-january-2025/ #medievalstudies #openaccess #historians

"Chen Yaozuo was a #Teochew prime minister & grand tutor of the crown prince of the #SongDynasty (960–1279) in the 11th century. Coming from a family of officials, he was a rising star at the start of his career, until he bravely, or some might say foolishly, answered a call of Emperor Zhenzong for open criticisms by submitting a memorial that spelt out the ills of the times, including matters that no one else dared to speak about. As a result, Chen Yaozuo was banished & demoted to become an assistant prefect in the Teochew prefecture. This happened in 998, almost 180 years after Han Yu of the Tang dynasty suffered a similar fate."

"....Chen Yaozuo was more of a problem-solver than Han Yu, and he knew this. At the same time, he sensed the Teochew people’s deep admiration for his fellow Confucian. Cleverly capitalising on this, Chen Yaozuo erected a shrine in honour of Han Yu and he used it to commence his own programme to promote education among what was still a backward population. In pursuit of this goal, the Sichuan native also set up a Confucian temple and places of learning, while identifying and encouraging able families to send their children to schools.

Chen Yaozuo left Teochew after three years of devoted service to its people. He subsequently revealed in an inscription presented to a study room in Zhangpu (a county in Fujian adjacent to Teochew prefecture) that his time in Teo-yor was passed without major worries, despite it being enveloped in miasma."

"Chen Yaozuo’s heart remained with the place even many years after his departure. His poem below, “A note to Registrar Li Zi in Chaoyang” (送潮陽李孜主簿), illustrates this:

潮陽山水東南奇
The mountains and waters of Chaoyang are a wonder of the Southeast
魚鹽城郭民熙熙
Fishing boats, salt beds, and people going in and out of the city form a merry sight
當時為撰玄聖碑
Back then I had to write inscriptions for the sages
而今風俗鄒魯為。
Today its customs are like Zou and Lu [i.e. the home countries of Mencius and Confucius]

#Chinese #historians credit Han Yu for starting what we may call a #revolution through #literacy in Teochew. Yet the extent of Chen Yaozuo’s tireless contributions towards this cause can be seen by its fruits. Before his arrival, the Teochew prefecture produced only three men who attained the status of jinshi, the highest scholarly title awarded by the Chinese imperial court since the late 6th century. By the end of Song, the records show more than 170 jinshi from Teochew, of whom about a third came from Teo-yor.

Beyond scholarly titles, the creation of an educated class sparked a golden age in Teochew with accelerated advancements in agriculture and industry that ended its days as a backwater."

Ref: https://inf.news/en/history/08fbe530527e724eeeee5320bff4f3b9.html

Ref: https://www.theteochewstore.org/blogs/latest/teochew-through-the-eyes-of-its-visitors-chen-yaozou-an-unsung-hero

Good article by Charlotte E. Rosen on #historians

https://proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/the-end-of-resistance-history/

Indo-European Phylogenetic And Linguistic Trees Concur
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https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #language #IndoEuropean #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #linguists #historians #archaeologists #phylogenetic #tree #HumanGenomeProject #genetics #cultures #migration #paleogenomics #genotypes #prehistory #ancient #ancienthumans #DNA #prehistoric #populations #genetictree