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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **‘The British are coming’ and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War**

“_During the summer of 1776, they defined their objective as total separation and declared independence. Yet declaring independence was very different to actually achieving it. King George III’s government, under Prime Minister Frederick, Lord North regarded their actions as no more than insurrection and remained determined to crush them._”

🔗 blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/t.

#History #Histodon #HIstodons #C18th #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodon @histodons

The National Archives blog · 'The British are coming' and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War - The National Archives blog250 years ago this month the American War of Independence broke out amidst the sleepy farmlands of eastern Massachusetts.

:youtube: **The Last Nazi Election - August 1945!**

Mark Felton Productions

“_Incredibly, over three months after Hitler's death, one place was still ruled by Nazis, and indeed in August 1945 an election returned the Nazi Party to power!_”

#Video length: twelve minutes and sixteen seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=spnO0olgUb

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazis #Election @histodon @histodons

📯 We are looking for four early-career researchers to join the ERC funded project #STEXEU — The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez. Each position focuses on a geographical case-study and deadlines vary:

🇫🇷🇬🇧 5 May: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-f
🇨🇿🇸🇰 5 May: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-c
🇬🇷 6 May: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-g
🇩🇪 7 May: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-d

Spread the word!

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#WerkstattGeschichte 89 jetzt komplett online!

Wie üblich waren die 11 #Rezensionen des Hefts bereits seit seinem Erscheinen online zugänglich. Das thematische Spektrum reicht von kranken Geistlichen im #Spätmittelalter und der Beziehung von Menschen zu Vögeln in der #Aufklärung über #Atomenergie in #Afrika bis zur #Prostitution in der #DDR.

▶ werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

@histodons @historikerinnen

#OnThisDay, 16 Apr 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel.

Quimby was the first American woman to receive a pilot’s licence and made her living doing exhibition flights in the US. She also made money as the advertising face of a grape juice. She died in July 1912 when her plane pitched forward at 1,000 feet and she was thrown out.

#WerkstattGeschichte 89 jetzt komplett online!

Im Mittelteil 2 Beiträge zur kolonialen #Wissensproduktion:

Mèhèza Kalibani (@histmuseenhh) zu phonographischen #Tonaufnahmen aus kolonialen Kontexten

Mathias Hack mit einer #Filmkritik zu Der vermessene Mensch (2023) von Lars Kraume.

Obendrein: Eckart Schörle zum #Telefonzellen-#Denkmal & eine #Expokritik zu den Ethnologischen #Ausstellungen im #HumboldtForum:

▶ werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

@histodons @historikerinnen

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Übrigens: Inzwischen ist die komplette #WerkstattGeschichte 89 "farbmarkierungen" online zugänglich!

Der Thementeil, hg. v. Hanno Balz, widmet sich der Macht der #Farben in rassistischen & vergeschlechtlichten Diskursen; neben den ⬆️ genannten bietet er 2 weitere Artikel:

▶ Stefanie Affeldt (@drstaff) zur Politik der #Whiteness in #Australien

▶ Dominic Janes zu Farbassoziationen unter (queeren) #Studenten in #Oxbridge um 1900

werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_au

@histodons @historikerinnen

Harvard's response to the #Trump administration: "Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration."
#Harvard #DOGE #education #academia #histodons
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