Meet the #Streusandbüchse (pounce pot), a plain artifact found on #earlymodern writing desks in Europe, next to the more famous ink pots and quills and papers. Filled with sand or pounce, it was mainly used to dry the ink after writing. The print featuring the item is from the 1680s.
❓ Question pour les comptes histoire qui trainent ici. J'ai jamais lu d'ouvrage d'Alain Corbin. Pour un néophyte pour conseillez quoi comme première lecture ? Merci pour les conseils à venir :) #histodons#histoire@histodons
#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1972, civil rights activist Angela Davis is acquitted in a trial over her alleged involvement in the 1970 Marin County Civic Centre attack.
Davis had been prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, after guns she owned were used in the attack. The all-white jury cleared her of all charges.
Reinhard #Heydrich, one of the architects of the #holocaust, died #OnThisDay in 1942, from wounds inflicted by Czech SOE agents during an ambush some days earlier.
The idea that seeing or talking about LGBTQ+ themes in books poses a threat to children or society goes back to medieval times.
Records of queer people and their lives from the Middle Ages are more plentiful than many people realize, but writings about the history were censored by religious leaders.
100 years ago #OnThisDay, 3 Jun 1924, Alfonsina Strada crosses the finish line of the Giro d'Italia. She remains the only woman to have officially ridden in a Grand Tour.
At one point she had been disqualified on time grounds but was allowed to continue without the option of prizes. She finished ahead of the lantern rouge (the last cyclist to finish).
That's how most of #earlymodern printed books were offered and consumed: unbound, likely not stab-stitched, usually just slightly folded.
Say hello to the world of quartos and octavos, small prints, cheap prints, #Flugpublizistik, street literature, etc. Forget about bound books and libraries - this was the most typical way of reading the printed words and images in Europe.
Today is the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history – and one that continues to haunt Americans.
One of them is Gregory Fairchild, whose grandfather was caught up in it, and whose family history personally inspires his work.