Heute vor 150 Jahren verfügte ein Zirkularerlass des Auswärtigen Amts, dass ein Ersuchen eines deutschen #Diplomaten um die Erlaubnis, eine Ausländerin heiraten zu dürfen, einem Dienstentlassungsgesuch gleichkam. Die Gründe für die Ablehnung »nationaler Mischehen« & den Umgang mit diesen im AA erläutert:
Christoph Lorke, Das Dilemma des Diplomaten? »Nationale Mischehen« im Deutschen #Kaiserreich, #WerkstattGeschichte 76/2018, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-76-christoph-lorke/
Mit Heft 81 „steine“ erschien heute vor 5 Jahren die erste #WerkstattGeschichte beim neuen Verlag, schönen Dank an #transcript in Bielefeld für die Zusammenarbeit!
Der Thementeil, hg. von Susann Lewerenz & Veronika Springmann, bot Beiträge von Sebastian Felten (#Bergbau #18thCentury), Kathrin Rottmann (#Pflastersteine #1968) & Regina Sarreiter (#Steinwerkzeuge, koloniale #Ethnologie).
Dies & mehr online unter: https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/steine/
#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.
In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.
Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI
More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html
Heute vor 50 Jahren starb die #Schauspielerin #SusanHayward in #Hollywood. 1959 hatte sie den #Oscar als beste Hauptdarstellerin für ihre Rolle in »Laßt mich leben« gewonnen. Mehr zum #Film:
Ulrike Weckel, Mit Mitteln des Spielfilms gegen die #Todesstrafe. I Want to Live! (1958), #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/
Heute vor 100 Jahren begann in #Hamburg ein #Hungerstreik von 75 kommunistischen Insassen der #Haftanstalt #Fuhlsbüttel - einer der Aufhänger für den Beitrag unseres Redaktionsmitglieds zum Thementeil #PolitischeGefangene:
Max Buschmann, „Freiheit oder Hungertod“. Hungerstreiks als Protestform politischer Gefangener in der frühen #WeimarerRepublik, #WerkstattGeschichte 80/2019, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-80-maximilian-buschmann/
'Rise of the south: How Arab-led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE' by Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin & Kaixiang Peng argues that Arab & Persian Muslim traders account for an all-important southward shift in China's economy, Lead paper in v65 of the Asia-Pacific Economic Hist Review! OA
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.70000
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #China
Update: I've dug a little more. It seems the Canadian Research Knowledge Network was acting on a request from the Mississauga Public Library when it removed the newspapers. Torstar will no longer allow the Library to make the papers available to the public via a third party source. This is a drag, because, while it's far from perfect, CRKN has better infrastructure and interface than the Library's site, all, I imagine, for less money. 7/
#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
After corresponding with staff at the Mississauga Public Library, I'm hopeful they'll be able to make these newspapers available in some way, shape, or form on their website (worth checking out below for the historical images). We'll see.
Anyways, this really underlines the fragility of the subscription model for access. At least microfilm, once paid for, would remain accessible to anyone who could get in front of a reader. 6/
https://www.mississauga.ca/apps/mediagallery/#/agency/Library
My students and I will be fine. We are at a major research institution that will fork over whatever Torstar asks. And Torstar will use the additional 6 papers in its database to squeeze more from us and other universities. This rankles me. The papers were full-text searchable and available to everyone for years. The Mississauga Library and a federal grant paid for the digitization. And, seriously, virtually no one who isn't in Mississauga cares about its decades-old papers. 5/
Back issues of defunct local newspapers are a key primary source we draw on. Today I learned that Torstar - the conglomerate that now holds copyright to virtually all of the Mississauga papers that have been digitized - recently ordered the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a nonprofit dedicated to the dissemination of historical print sources, to remove the entire run of 6 papers published across most of the 20th century so that it can place them behind a paywall. 4/
While we rely on the often excellent work of local historians, the aims of the course are necessarily more academic. So we end up doing much of the research needed to understand this history ourselves, in class and in assignments. This is great, it lets us pop the hood on historical research and gives first-year students an opportunity to poke around that they wouldn't otherwise have. But, for this to work, we rely on accessible evidence, especially digitized sources. 3/
In recent years, there's been a move to digitize and making freely available online whatever people can get there hands on. Some of this is legally dubious, but most is totally legit.
For the past few years, I've taught a course on the history of #PeelRegion - #Mississauga, #Brampton & #Caledon, a mainly urban area that, if it were one city, would be the third largest in #Canada, just behind Montreal. There exists a minuscule body of academic histories of the region.
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Over the past several decades, as mainstream media has struggled to make ends meet, a small number of conglomerates have bought up many independent newspapers. Sometimes they shut them down, sometimes they continue to publish but generally with vastly reduced local coverage. Anyone who's been paying attention knows this.
What you may not know is that these conglomerates also acquire copyright to the papers they buy, even when they shut them down. 1/
Just had some fun talking to History HDRs at Latrobe Uni about using #GLAM collections. Here's the slides if you're interested: https://slides.com/wragge/latrobe-hdr-2025 #histodons
Hansard (around for centuries!) has always been a great tool - an easy entry to parliamentary debates. But it boggles my mind that in so many places, it's barely searchable (am I wrong that UK Hansard only lets one search via title keyword and date?). The Canadian version is full-text searchable below, but only from 1901 to 2019 and only in English. I know there are technical issues, but this is an obvious project that would be useful to so many.
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.
Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-built-by-women/
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions.
Today NASA is closing their Office of the Chief Scientist and Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy and also their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility branch.
It's a great time to remind your learning community of the incredible achievements of the Black women mathematicians in the 1960's space program that successfully put a man on the Moon. Yes, we're talking about Disney's Hidden Figures.
We offer a Hidden Figures discussion guide that's great for public screenings and low-key classroom use. We also offer classroom-ready lesson plans, across the curriculum, for grades 9-12.
Like all our materials, these guides are free for everyone. Get yours now.
https://journeysinfilm.org/product/hidden-figures/
#NASA #CurrentEvents #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #DEI #USPol #Education #Homeschooling #Histodons @stemed @education @edutooters @film
