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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · 14d

What were bread bombs? And why did Francoist planes drop them on Madrid and other Republican cities? #🗃️ #Publichistory

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Bread bomb | Virtual Spanish Civil War

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · 16d

I am excited about speaking at this conference sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Madrid next month.

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Atado y Bien Atado EN - Google Drive

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · 17d

What can a bread bag tell us about the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent repression? Find out with this contribution to the Open Gallery. #🗃️ #Publichistory

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Luisa Martín Rojo | Virtual Spanish Civil War

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Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · 21d

Cuenca, jueves 23 de octubre: presentación de 'Breve historia de España'. Intervendrán María Ángeles Zurilla, Miguel Ángel Valero y Juan Sisinio Pérez Garzón, autor del libro. La cita es a las 19:00 h en la Biblioteca Pública de Cuenca. www.catarata.org/eve...

Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · 24d

This map shows the flow of Republican exiles to North Africa in the overall picture of post-Civil War seaborne exile. www.vscw.ca/en/node/681
#🗃️ #Publichistory

The Ships of Hope (1939-1945) | Virtual Spanish Civil War

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · 25d

Check out this new map showing the evacuation of Republicans to North Africa in the final days of the Spanish Civil War.

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#🗃️ #Publichistory

Republican evacuation to North Africa | Virtual Spanish Civil War

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Oct 9

The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War has just opened a spectacular gallery devoted to the visual arts: www.vscw.ca/en/node/821

Visual Arts | Virtual Spanish Civil War

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Aug 18

In Canadian universities, Chair refers to either the head of a department or an externally funded position (which can be at any rank).

Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 28

Has anyone else noticed a change in the posts to #Publichistory lately?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Mar 16

❤️ 🇨🇦

Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Apr 5

The Civil War in Catalonia had a number of distinctive features, inlcuding a situation of dual power between the regional government and working class organizations and an extensive collectivization of the economy. Learn about it here, with a version in Catalan.
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The Civil War in Catalonia | Virtual Spanish Civil War

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Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española @scwmuseum.bsky.social · Apr 16

My name is José Luis Viñuela Frau, I am 69 years old, and my nationality is: Spanish CHILEAN. When the war broke out, my father, Nemesio Viñuela García, he was 16 years old and had to go to the front lines without holding any political ideology. #familyhistory #publichistory #museum

Koen Stapelbroek @stplbrk.bsky.social · May 30

Our first 'Studies in North Queensland History' retrospective blog on the occasion of @austhistassoc.bsky.social #AHA2025 at @jcucase.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social is by @jonpiccini.bsky.social on Diane Menghetti's 'The Red North':
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North Queensland's Popular Front in Re(d)rospect

This year James Cook University celebrates its proud legacy in historical research, writing and publishing through the Studies in North Quee...

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Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · Jul 11

¿Sabes en qué librerías está disponible 'Historia social del toreo', de Adrian Shubert
@adrian53.bsky.social ? #ApoyaATuLibrería @todostuslibros.bsky.social te lo dice: buff.ly/astTHcX

Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 27

Survival is a pretty low bar. Enjoy yourself.

Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 27

This is fascinating, and the first article of this type I've come across: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
#AI #Univesrity

18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs

Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 27

This is hardly the level of discourse I expect here. It reminds of why I left the other place which will go unnamed.

Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · Jul 23

What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? available also in Spanish and Portuguese @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#GlobalSouth #colonialism,
#humanrights #socialjustice #PublicHistory
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Public History from the Global South: Dialogues Between Latin American and African Public Historians

Thirteen public historians from Africa and Latin America consider the question: What does the internationalization of public history mean from the perspective of the Global South? The question guided ...

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · Jul 22

Let's keep the #elbowsup 🇨🇦.

Trump thinks Canadians 'nasty' for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador buff.ly/QVI60KX

#cdnpoli #Canada

Trump thinks Canadians 'nasty' for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador

Canadians avoiding travel to the United States and banning American alcohol are among the reasons U.S. President Donald Trump thinks they are "nasty" to deal with, the U.S. ambassador to

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is a fascinating video about a Mexican artist who was world-famous during his lifetime but has been completely forgotten outside his homeland. Fifteen minutes well spent.
#Art #🗃️ #Mexico

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After independence, Mexico was in search of identity. These paintings offered a blueprint | Aeon Videos

What does it mean to be Mexican? Meet the artist who forged Mexico’s identity in the brushstrokes of his landscape paintings

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Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁 @cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social · Jul 19

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We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking

We Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What We Found Was Striking

YouTube video by CNBC

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Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · Jul 15

Delighted to see this conversation out in J18, reproducing our workshop on #joshuareynolds, #mai and #18thcenturyart www.journal18.org/nq/reflectio...

Reflections on Mai, Joshua Reynolds, and Eighteenth-Century Art — A Roundtable

Roundtable Participants: Kate Fullagar, Miriama Bono, Pauline Reynolds, Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Peter McNeil, Monica Anke Hahn, Carl Vail, Peter Brunt. In March 2023, the longstanding battle for owne...

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 11

Estoy muy contento haber publicado este libro en Los Libros de la Catarata.

Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · Jul 11

¿Sabes en qué librerías está disponible 'Historia social del toreo', de Adrian Shubert
@adrian53.bsky.social ? #ApoyaATuLibrería @todostuslibros.bsky.social te lo dice: buff.ly/astTHcX

Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 9

Obligatory reading for chocolate lovers, and highly recommended for global historians.
#chocolate #🗃️ #Spain
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How chocolate went from exotic curiosity to worldwide commodity | Aeon Essays

The humble cocoa bean’s journey from its Amerindian origins to worldwide dominance is a lesson in the power of trade

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 8

Puerto Rico has its own history with the Spanish Civil War. Learn about it here.
#Publichistory #🗃️ #scwmuseum #PuertoRico

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Puerto Rico | Virtual Spanish Civil War

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Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jul 2

What a wonderful object! Vouchers like this were part of the Republican government’s loss of the monopoly on the creation of money. Learn more about this aspect of the Spanish Civil War here: www.vscw.ca/index.php/en...
#🗃️ #Publichistory #Spain #scwmuseum

Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 30

So Surreal is available on Apple TV.

Adrian Shubert @adrian53.bsky.social · Jun 30

I knew about the importance of African art to Picasso and others, but had never heard about the connection between surrealism and Indigenous art. I watched it on CBC Gem, but it may be streaming elsewhere.
#🗃️ #surrealism #art #Indigenous

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So Surreal: Behind the Masks

<em>So Surreal: Behind the Masks</em> unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of th...

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Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española @scwmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 29

On 14 May 1939, the triumphant New State announced the establishment of a food rationing system which would last until 1952. Despite Franco’s promises corruption, inefficiency, and a sheer lack of concern for the poorest led to an unprecedented famine during the 1940s

Spanish Civil War Museum - Museo de la Guerra Civil Española @scwmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 29

En 1939 el triunfante Nuevo Estado anunciaba el establecimiento de un sistema de racionamiento de alimentos. A pesar de las promesas de Franco la realidad de corrupción ineficacia y simple ausencia de sensibilidad hacia los más pobres significó que se produjo en España en los años cuarenta

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