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The lack of history education shows when you hear people about current times, ofcourse history never repeats itself exactly, but many of the same patterns and mechanisms we have seen in fascism and autocracy are visible. Read some history be less amazed and better prepared.
#history #fascism

Good Morning #Canada
Another day in history... another invading force from the USA. Those pesky Fenians were back on this day in 1866, and this time, the 1,800 Irish-Americans riders were repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. Although the Fenian raids were unsuccessful, they did encourage the Canadian provinces to band together for defense, leading to our Confederation as a country.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History

Anglesey’s secret aircraft factory, Beaumaris
#WelshPhotography #Drone #NorthWales #History

Thank you! Great history! Great Prmary sources. Great interpretations that modern minds can see and believe. It's a bunch of posts, AND they're all worth it.
#History #USHistory #Independence

Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco (@Deglassco@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image It was known, then, that the British would leave. The war was all but lost. The colonies would no longer be colonies. For white Loyalists, exile was bitter. For Black Loyalists, it was not exile. It was escape—or re-enslavement. 4/20 Image. Boston King, “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher. Written by Himself, during his Residence at Kingswood-School,” Methodist Magazine, March-June 1798.

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1866, the Fenian Brotherhood crossed the Niagara River to invade Canada. This group was an Irish American organization that was dedicated to freeing Ireland from British rule, and they believed that if they captured Canada, they could use it as a bargaining tool. We could have become a nation of red-headed brawlers who were terrible hockey players.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://qormuseum.org/history/timeline-1856-1899/the-fenian-raid-1866/

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

"And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze."
This is one Heather Cox Richardson's better than the normally great essays.
#History
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2025

I love stories like this. If I could live life over again, I'd be a research historian to work on projects like this. The mural and the car fascinate me, and I wish there were a way to recover the mural. #WW2 #history

"Yes, the Soviet losses were real. And yet it is truly tragic that these losses helped to subjugate nations longing for freedom, replacing one dictatorship with another. "
#history

The New World Order - #Hitler's Plans For After #WW2 | #HISTORY | #MilitaryTub |

I love this map, seen at the American Museum in Bath. The creatures are closer to reality than many such maps, but still very much mythical.
Map of the Polar Regions
Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) Copperplate engraving, Frankfurt, 1601
#Art #maps

I've been reading Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici. An interesting read! Here is what I thought: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/decfe5e5-3c5a-495c-a420-00decab466f2.

Good Morning #Canada
Former privateer, a polite name for a pirate, Martin Frobisher left England on May 31st, 1578, for his 3rd voyage seeking gold and the elusive Northwest Passage. On this voyage, he also held the 1st Thanksgiving in North America when he and his crew landed safely in Nunavut on the shore of Hudson Bay. Ultimately, the ore he mined was not gold, and the Northwest Passage remained elusive, but he had a bay named after him.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/frobisher_martin_1E.html

Wikipedia article states
> was born [...] in what was then West Germany.
I am happy that this user decided to add a topic to the talk page rather than edit the main article:
> It's still West Germany, so the addition of "what was then" is misleading. Well, it's factually wrong.
#Wikipedia

Good Morning #Canada
As part of my research into yesterday's post, about another Fenian invasion of Canada, this story about the murder of D'Arcy McGee was suggested by that Google thingy. How did I not know that a Father of Confederation was assassinated by Irish terrorists? Or that McGee himself formerly fought for Irish independence before coming to Canada where he fought on the political front for an independent Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Assassination
https://youtu.be/ueTqBHfngPY?si=nlfQDL6eRbdsiX4l

Today is the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire that killed 146 garment workers.
This led me to look at ReadThePlaque. I found three plaques which give three very different perspectives of the events around it
#TriangleShirtwaist #ILGWU #History
Notable in these times when history is contested. As far as I know, all 3 of them are factually accurate, but they present and emphasize different facts.

"In Boston, between 1709 and 1713, townspeople protested vigorously and then took extralegal action when Andrew Belcher, a wealthy merchant, refused to stop exporting grain during a bread shortage in the city...he chose to export grain to the Caribbean, at a handsome profit, rather than sell it for a smaller profit to hungry townspeople, his ships were attacked and his warehouses emptied by an angry crowd...Bostonians of meagre means learned that through concerted action, the powerless could become powerful, if only for the moment. Wealthy merchants who would not listen to pleas from the community could be forced through collective action to subordinate profits to the public need."
- Gary B. Nash, "Social Change and the Growth of Prerevolutionary Urban Radicalism" in The American Revolution (ed. Alfred F. Young, Northern Illinois University Press, 1976), pg. 11
#history #politics #america #quote

Good Morning #Canada
In June of 1759, new settlers began arriving in Nova Scotia, not from Europe but from the American colonies. French Canadians, known as Acadians, were removed from the Atlantic colony in 1755, and the British governor of Nova Scotia was anxious to repopulate his territory with loyal subjects. Many farmers in New England were struggling, and over the next decade, some 8,000 Americans were lured to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Colonialism
https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/journey-of-new-england-planters-to-nova-scotia

#CNN: German tourist carrying ancient Roman artifact on e-scooter chased by Italian police
A case of a young British person deprived of practice to become museum curators and such? 🤔
#news #sarcasm #joke #Rome #Italy #museum #history

Prof Anthony Costello on the UK's flawed covid policies
"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice"
"Early in the covid pandemic, evidence emerged from several East Asian countries that suppression could lead to successful control. Yet the UK did not adopt the approach. ... Why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future?"
Currently looks like it'd go the same way in the next pandemic too:
"Five years on, many of the people who developed the UK’s flawed response are still in post; they have not changed their views on suppression, and little has been done to improve government pandemic advice committees or to introduce detailed governance rules for the UK’s future pandemic response and resilience."
#covid #history #UKPol #pandemics

Good Morning #Canada
In May of 1733, the government of Quebec City upheld the right of Canadians to hold Indigenous slaves. This decision, though controversial, reflects the broader practice of #Slavery in New France and later Canada, particularly the enslavement of Indigenous people, alongside enslaved Africans. This serves as a reminder that Canada was complicit in the practice of slavery until abolished in 1834.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-of-indigenous-people-in-canada