The transition into retirement is a major life milestone that deserves a bit of wit.

I’m sharing a delightful new resource by Marshal Flam: "Funny Retirement Limericks to End Work Life with a Laugh." It is a straightforward, For those who appreciate concise storytelling and a good-natured ribbing of corporate culture.

Full article here:
🔗 https://www.wordlelimericks.com/funny-retirement-limericks/

#Retirement #Limericks #WorkCulture #CreativeWriting #SocialHistory #Author #Writer #Writing #BookS #Blog

Historians, do you have a preferred resource for digital access to historical newspapers? I have library access to a limited version of ProQuest, but it is missing a lot; other newspapers have been digitized, but access is sold by genealogy sites of varying shadiness and opaque pricing #history #econhist #economichistory #socialhistory #histodons

🆕 FCSH hosted the closing session of the #VINCULUM project, coordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rosa. The session featured presentations by Vítor Cardoso and Henrique Leitão, both beneficiaries of the European Research Council.

♾️ It was also the moment for the premiere of the documentary ‘VINCULUM: a journey of scientific research’

👉 We tell you much more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/vinculum-end-beginning/

#Histodons #ERC #EU_funded #ERCCoG #SocialHistory #ModernHistory #Entails #Heritage #Inheritance #SciComm

‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/04/camera-weapon-gordon-parks-shots-segregation-martin-luther-king #Photography #GordonParks #CivilRightsMovement #BlackUsCulture #SocialHistory #ArtAndDesign #Culture #Race #Art #Society #WorldNews

The British Home Revolution Of The 1950s
From austerity to affluence. Witness the total transformation of the British living room as vibrant plastics, the DIY movement, and the arrival of the television turned drab post-war houses into modern hubs of family life.
#1950s #BritishHistory #SocialHistory #MidCenturyModern #HistoryChannel #HomeRevolution
https://www.history-channel.org/the-british-home-revolution-of-the-1950s/

This looks great - #StirToAction's Book Festival "Connecting #SocialHistory and #PoliticalChange with the forces reshaping Britain today ... explores new approaches to #EconomicRegeneration, #GreenDemocracy, and #SocialOwnership". Excellent speakers. www.tickettailor.com/events/stirt...

🆕 Anita Buhin travelled to Rimini, where she is currently staying as a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies of Tourism (CAST) at Università di Bologna.

She is conducting archival, bibliographic and field research for her project ‘Performing Mediterranean Masculinities’.

👉 We tell you more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/anita-buhin-italy/

#Histodons #Italy #GenderStudies #Tourism #SocialHistory #Masculinities #Itália #EstudosDeGénero #Turismo #Masculinidades #HistóriaSocial

Medieval Elite Diet Did Not Align with Popular Beliefs

New research using science shows that rich and poor people in early medieval England ate more alike than we thought. Local food mattered most.

#MedievalDiet, #EnglandHistory, #FoodScience, #SocialHistory, #Archaeology

https://newsletter.tf/england-diet-rich-poor-2024/

Old stories say rich people ate lots of meat, but new science shows this might not be true for every day. Food available nearby was more important than being rich or poor for what people ate daily.

#MedievalDiet, #EnglandHistory, #FoodScience, #SocialHistory, #Archaeology

https://newsletter.tf/england-diet-rich-poor-2024/

The Dark History of Death Row | Compilation

Behind the iron gate. A comprehensive look at the evolution of capital punishment, from medieval dungeons to the modern era, exploring the haunting stories of those who spent their final days awaiting the ultimate sentence.

#History #Documentary #SocialHistory #Crime #DeathRow #Historical #DarkHistory

https://www.history-channel.org/the-dark-history-of-death-row-compilation/

✍️ Está aberta a chamada para artigos do dossier temático "Culturas do Fogo", coordenado por Frederico Ágoas e Miguel Carmo e a ser publicado na Revista de História das Ideias. O dossier pretende focar-se nos quadros culturais, epistémicos e políticos através dos quais o fogo tem sido experienciado, contestado e representado através do tempo.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/chamada-historiaideias-2026/

#Histodons #CallForPapers #EnvironmentalHistory #SocialHistory #Fire #Wildfires #CulturalHistory #Fogo #Incêndios #FogosPT

WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory

Sturdy Toilers - Gathering Hay, 1911 - Schwerdtfeger RP Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/sturdy-toilers-gathering-hay-1911-schwerdtfeger-rp-postcard-235880591.htm

#Agriculture #SocialHistory

Victorian porcelain dolls reflected more than craftsmanship. 🪆

They signaled class aspiration, industrial wealth, and domestic identity in a rapidly changing society.

Even childhood objects could function as markers of hierarchy.

#VictorianEra #MaterialCulture #SocialHistory #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/porcelain-dolls-as-the-ultimate-status-symbol-in-the-victorian-era/

Save it for the Rag-and-Bone Man: The Premodern History of Recycling, Salvage, and Reuse

https://digpodcast.org/2026/02/08/save-it-for-the-rag-and-bone-man-the-premodern-history-of-recycling-salvage-and-reuse/

#EnvironmentalHistory #18thC #18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCenturyHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #EuropeanHistory #SocialHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons

#vendredilecture

Daniel Zamora Vargas, De l'égalité à la pauvreté : Une socio-histoire de l'assistance en Belgique (1895-2015).

#books #mastolivre #histoire #histoiresociale #socialhistory #assistance #pauvreté #Bienfaisance #paupérisme #Belgique

📖 @victorpereira is the author of the chapter 'A Portuguese Pavilion at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris', included in the book 'Managing Global Student Migration in the Twentieth Century', edited by Dzovinar Kévonian and Guillaume Tronchet.

🔓 Available in #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81766-3_10

#Histodons #Migrations #PortugueseEmigrants #France #MigrationHistory #SocialHistory #EmigraçãoPortuguesa #França #HistóriaSocial #Migrantes

Yesterday I did a lecture for high school students on mis and #disinformation , focused on #SocialMedia.
Today, I moderated a panel on the #SocialHistory of forests fires in Portugal.
It's been a while since I felt I was doing proper #SciComm, although that's my day job.
Intriguing, right? 😏
Maybe I need to change some things.
#SaturdayNightThoughts

⚽️ No dia 13 de Fevereiro, vamos acolher o seminário de investigação "Futebol, Classe e Território: Perspectivas históricas e transformações sócio-espaciais", que pretende estabelecer um diálogo entre diferentes propostas temáticas e metodológicas que se ocupem do futebol de um ponto de vista sócio-histórico.

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/futebol-classe-territorio/

#Histodons #SocialHistory #Football #Futebol #HistóriaSocial #SportsHistory #HistóriaDoDesporto

⚠️ Today is the last day to submit applications for the position of Junior Researcher to join the #STEXEU project!

🇩🇪 The researcher will be responsible for the German case study, i.e., conducting historical research on #authoritarianism and the crisis of #democracy in #Germany in the years 1900–1939.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/

#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs #EUFunded