There is a similar gaming piece in the Hessisches Landesmuseum #Kassel made of walrus tusk, labelled as 13th century #chessman. As it stems from the post-medieval treasury of the landgraves of Hesse-Kassel it is most probably not an archaeological find. The Shetland finds from Mail and Scalloway appear too early for #chess. 🏺 @archaeodons @chess #archaeology #histodons (📷 me, very bad light there). Unpublished AFAIK
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New blog post! This one describes the *my place* app which brings the place-based collections I worked on during my SLV residency together in a single interface – just try searching for an address! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/02/my-place-exploring-slv-collections.html #GLAM #digitalHumanities #histodons
New blog post! This one describes the *my place* app which brings the place-based collections I worked on during my SLV residency together in a single interface – just try searching for an address! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/02/my-place-exploring-slv-collections.html #GLAM #digitalHumanities #histodons
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#OTD (Jan. 31) in 1962: #Gallo gangsters become local heroes for a moment after rescuing children from a #Brooklyn apartment fire.
Read about it on Writers of Wrongs.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/01/55-years-ago-brooklyns-heroic-outlaws.html
#OTD (Jan. 31) in 1962: #Gallo gangsters become local heroes for a moment after rescuing children from a #Brooklyn apartment fire.
Read about it on Writers of Wrongs.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/01/55-years-ago-brooklyns-heroic-outlaws.html
I wanted a static site generator built around scrollytelling data stories for my history / digital archaeology students. Behold, Polybius: https://shawngraham.github.io/polybius/ Still fiddling with things (and yes, used claude to solve my stupid syntax issues). #dh #histodons Resulting static site is one-paged html & a json file.
#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.
In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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