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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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On this day 1974, in response to the government 3-day week and other assorted problems, including a ban on floodlighting, #BHAFC tried Sunday football for the first time. #rochdalefc. The biggest crowd of the season, 18,885 saw Albion win 2-1. seagullsprogrammes.co.uk/197374
January 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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In 1895 at age 60, “Stagecoach Mary” Fields became the first African-American woman mail carrier in the U.S. Armed with a rifle and revolver, she braved Montana’s harsh terrain. Admired by her community for her grit, courage, and kindness, she left a lasting legacy as a trailblazer of the Wild West.
December 20, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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'The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England' by @rach-anderson.bsky.social in the AHR.

Finding 'resilience' in local petitions, with photos & transcriptions. The latest addition to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography 🗃️: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...
Screenshot of Rachel Anderson, The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England, The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 1640–1667, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae465. Abstract: Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper explores the process of recovering from outbreaks of plague in smaller communities, households, and even by individuals. In doing so, it examines resilience on a micro-level in terms of the economic, emotional, and practical concerns of individuals following a period of crisis. This paper showcases six early modern petitions, each transcribed here in full, providing insight into the responses of communities to severe outbreaks of epidemic disease. These sources reveal the practical measures required to foster resilience: each petition demonstrates a series of unique needs and essential interventions. The usual systems of relief proved inadequate when faced with the unprecedented demands of plague. This made the bonds between friends and neighbors crucial to the survival of their communities. Only when these bonds were pushed to their breaking point did early modern people turn to authorities. These petitions show us when and why those points were reached.
January 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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432: Game of the Year 2024

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December 20, 2024 at 9:59 AM