William Kentridge in Brussels, on his puppet play 'Faustus in Africa':
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Digital History, Radical History, Social History.
Dadaists, Coin clippers, Escaping Debtors, Londoners.
Critics and Critiques of Political Economy.
Open Access, Public Domain, Hacking Around.
Editor of British History Online at the IHR.
Also Cats & Spain.
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New to me, another fine collection of historical slavery legislation:
US Anti-Slavery Laws Archive
Includes maps!
Requested from, and released by, Google Books, as it is #PublicDomain, this very useful volume:
A Bibliography of Parliamentary Debates of Great Britain
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nywNAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Just managed to get ChatGPT to hallucinate a historic statute. Fed it the first five clauses, and even though it idenitifed the act, it just made up another five. sections.
All sounded plausible, but just wasn't the act itself.
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Died #OTD 3 May 1955, Rudolf Schlichter, co-creator (with John Heartfield) of the notorious 'Prussian Archangel', a stuffed army uniform with a pig's head.
Displayed at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920, the organizers were charged with "insulting the Reichswehr" because of it.
I've signed this petition against current state-supported trans hatred, and the gender policing it inevitably entails.
Cops out of beds and lavatories alike.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QgMDhoprQlbNDhU9UETU4NVk8bNTv95m5cH0b5J27Ps/edit?tab=t.0
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#OnThisDay in London literary history, 1962: Joe Orton & Ken Halliwell nicked for defacing library books, Islington.
https://wp.me/p74yfw-u4
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The Atlas Press website has been restored:
(following an unfortunate deletion).
Publishers of many fine translations of #dada works, and other enthused literatures.
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#OTD in 1916: Arthur Cravan boxes (and is roundly beaten by) Jack Johnson in Barcelona.
Cravan's own - implausible - account:
https://archive.org/details/jstor-20542322/page/n1/mode/2up
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I've written a new blog post on the #Trove API keys debacle that answers some questions raised by my first two posts, and provides some updates on recent actions by the National Library of Australia. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/11/update-on-trove-data-access.html Please share!
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#OnThisDay in London riotous history, 1990: anti-poll tax riot rocks the West End.
https://wp.me/p74yfw-tB
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"Quest to restore sound that called child workers to Flaxmill Maltings building, which paved way for modern high-rises"
which is a strange framing for a site of child labour:
"A third of the 800 workers at the flax mill were under 16 and some as young as nine. .... children were brought in from as far afield as London and Hull, mostly from the workhouses. Often orphans, the children were given housing, food and clothes but not paid wages."
Enough of these quislings. Abolish the #RoyalSociety
Are Labour revving up for Culture War nonsense with most of these appointments?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-prime-minister-has-appointed-5-trustees-to-the-british-museum
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Mass repeal of obsolete legislation coming up in #Ireland:
Geology and Racism: good survey, without the sinister culture worriers.
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This is a great resource: 355 historic statutes on slavery from the Atlantic World, 1661 - 1838.
Laws of Enslavement and Freedom in the Anglo-Atlantic World
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Just found that the full text of Michel Sanouillet's #Dada à Paris is freely available via OpenEdition:
@woe2you You certainly do fail to see.
Once again, the UK border police assault the university:
Oxford historian faces deportation from UK after doing research on India … in India
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