🔴 A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America
“The letters of Charles Liernur, a Dutch-born Confederate, provide a unique insight into the mind of an explicit supporter of slavery in an American context. How and why a Dutchman could defend slavery is the primary question this article addresses.”
Douma, M.J. (2017) “A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America”, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 132(2), pp. 27–50. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10339
#Image attribution: De Ingenieur, 8 1893, nr. 13 (via Delpher.nl), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_T._Liernur.jpg
🔴 🎥 Rethinking the Gauls, the Forgotten Civilization
“The idea of the primitive Gauls, living in the forest until they were civilized and assimilated into the Roman Empire, is now regarded as totally obsolete. In this film, archaeologists and historians uncover Gaulish settlements to reveal the true face of the Gauls.”
#Video length: fifty two minutes and four seconds.
“Large parts of Austrian society still felt strong ties to national socialism, an aggressive Greater German ideology that rejected the notion of Austria as a separate country with its own history and mentality, and cultivated a deeply rooted antisemitism and anti-Slavic sentiment. My family, like many others, held on to their belief in Hitler and the Third Reich until they died.”
🔴 Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths
“One example of an inaccuracy that has simply become established “history” is the very word Colosseum. In ancient Rome, it referred not to the stadium but to the enormous statue of Nero next to it. The Romans called the statue the Colossus and the stadium the Amphitheatrum Flavium. When the statue was destroyed, explains Mariotti, the nickname for the statue moved to the amphitheatre. This has now become a cultural norm, he adds, and going with it simply saves time.”
🔴 The Earliest Photo of the Man Who Discovered the First Dead Sea Scrolls?
“This 1953 photo shoot covers both the excavations at Qumran and the early work of sorting the fragments. I was surprised to see a photo of the “two shepherds” who are said to have been the first to find scrolls standing outside the entrance to Cave 1Q.”
“The only medieval source to claim that Vikings had tattoos comes from the furthest edge of their culture’s world, and the lack of any Old Norse word or description of tattoos makes it unlikely they were a common decoration.”
#Video length: eleven minutes and thirty eight seconds.
A few verses from an anonymous 17th Century ballad about the fate of Lady Jane Grey.
From the Golden Garland of Princely Pleasures, 1620
Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Richard De Winter: tenor
Tamsin Lewis: alto
A lamentable Ditty on the death of the Lord Guilford Dudley, and the Lady Iane Gray, that for their parents ambition, in seeking to make these two yong Princes King and Queene of England, were both beheaded in the Tower of London.
To the tune of, Peter and Parnell.
🔴 🇺🇸 Musket balls from first major battle of revolutionary war found near Boston
“The latest evidence of that firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man national historical park in Concord. Early analysis of the balls – gray with sizes ranging from a pea to a marble – indicates colonial militia members fired them at British forces on 19 April 1775.”
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire
“Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. “Australia in Colour” is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color.”
#Video length: forty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 Australia In Colour Episode 2: Shifting Allegiances
“Sport and comedy offer some relief from the hunger and hopelessness of the Great Depression - at least until the war breaks out. Australia sends troops to Europe to fight beside Britain but when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the nation turns to America for protection and pulls troops out of the Middle East.”
#Video length: forty seven minutes and forty five seconds.
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 Australia In Colour Episode 3: Populate or Perish
“The government adopts the slogan “populate or perish” after World War II and immigration changes the face of Australia. This influx of labor and the diversification of the economy delivers increasing prosperity.”
#Video length: forty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds.
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire
“Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. “Australia in Colour” is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color.”
#Video length: fourty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 Australia in Colour. Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire
“Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. “Australia in Colour” is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color.”
#Video length: fourty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.
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🔴 Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace
“Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce.”
🔴 Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace
“Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called
them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce.”
“Drawing on recent research that stresses the heterogeneity of Viking war-bands—and their early involvement in Francia and England—it proposes a ‘southern route’ through which Viking influence flowed towards the North Atlantic.”
“This essay describes the efforts of the Confederate States of America to convince Great Britain to support its secession from the United States. Although the South’s leaders were confident that Britain’s need for cotton would lead it to become an ally, numerous factors—including the British public’s aversion to slavery—contributed to the country remaining neutral.”
Slinger M. (2023) Great Britain and the Confederacy. British Journal of American Legal Studies, Vol.12 (Issue 2), pp. 357-376. https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2023-0028
“This essay describes the efforts of the Confederate States of America to convince Great Britain to support its secession from the United States. Although the South’s leaders were confident that Britain’s need for cotton would lead it to become an ally, numerous factors—including the British public’s aversion to slavery—contributed to the country remaining neutral.”
Slinger M. (2023) Great Britain and the Confederacy. British Journal of American Legal Studies, Vol.12 (Issue 2), pp. 357-376. https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2023-0028
Why Alexander the Great really was better than the average imperialist conqueror
“Kousser brings us into the story in time for the infamous burning of Persepolis, jewel of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Alexander’s consolidation of power, conquest of Asia Minor and founding of Alexandria were all behind him at this point. When he burned Persepolis, he had just returned from Egypt, where he had proclaimed himself the son of a god.”
🏴 📚 Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698
“Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England’s emerging colonial empire.”
“This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine.”