#historical memories

[empirearchives]

[MANUSCRIPT.— JUNOT (Jean Andoche)] Set of handwritten poems and pieces, presented to General Junot.

[July 1800-March 1802]

In-8 (20.4 x 15.2 cm), red long-grained morocco leather, gilded Greek frieze framing the covers, super ex-libris on the front cover, smooth spine decorated with gilded motifs (period binding).

[31] pages, first blank

Collection of 21 pieces calligraphed in small, legible handwriting by the same hand, except for the last one by another hand.

There are verses entitled “Bardin, aide de camp, à son général”, “Couplets chantés à l'inauguration de la maison du Génal Junot”, “À l'occasion du mariage du Général Junot”...

Top cover gilt-lettered “le général de division Junot”.

Black ink stain on lower cover, rare marks, last page a little creased.

Source: Artcurial — Historical Memories - 24 january 2024

#Artcurial #auction #junot #jean andoche junot #napoleonic era #napoleonic #historical memories #historical memories auction #napoleon bonaparte #first french empire #napoleon #19th century #french empire #history #france #1800s #french history #poems #poetry #vintage book #Morocco leather #vintage

[catilinas]

The wind blows their ghosts to the ground

line (loosely a translation of iliad 6.146-9) from memorial by alice oswald, embroidered onto a ginkgo leaf i found on the ground

#desk lamp lighting because it is dark and i Would take a photo tomorrow but i am Sure it will shrivel overnight #and it's in red for iliad book 3 reasons :-) #oh embroidery as somewhere in between the ideas of historical memory as presence and historical memory as a series of puncture wounds #we're really in it now!!!!!! #like leaves who could write a history of leaves #trees instead of gravestones #embroidery #alice oswald #iliad #beeps

[alwaysbewoke]

On March 5th, 1959, 69 African American boys, ages 13 to 17, were padlocked in their dormitory for the night at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Around 4 a.m., a fire mysteriously ignited, forcing the boys to fight and claw their way out of the burning building. The old, run-down, & low-funded facility, just 15 minutes south of Little Rock, housed 69 teens from ages 13-17. Most were either homeless or incarcerated for petty crimes such as doing pranks. 48 boys managed to escape the fire. The doors were locked from the outside and fire mysteriously ignited on a cold, wet morning, following earlier thunderstorms in the same area of rural Pulaski County. The horrific event brought attention to the deplorable conditions in which the boys lived. The boys all slept in a space barely big enough for them to move around & theyre one foot apart from one another & their bathroom was a bucket at the corner where they had to defecate in. In an ironic twist, the land in which the school stood is now the Arkansas Department of Correction Facility Wrightsville Unit. In 2019 a plaque was finally placed after 60 years.

PURE EVIL!!! MY GOD!!

#white racial hatred #white people are evil #racism #civil rights #history #black history #historical injustice #institutional neglect #fire tragedy #juvenile justice #systemic racism #correctional facilities #commemoration #memorialization #social reform

[oldshrewsburyian]

You can write on England, but what was written before keeps showing through, inscribed on the rocks and carried on floodwater, surfacing from deep cold wells. It's not just the saints and martyrs who claim the country, it's those who came before them: the dwarves dug into ditches, the sprites who sing in the breeze, the demons bricked into culverts and buried under bridges; the bones under your floor.

The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel

#the mirror and the light #hilary mantel #wolf hall trilogy #imagine deciding to write a trilogy about henrician england that is also about the present that is also about historical memory #and mythmaking and monarchy... AND PULLING IT OFF #book quotes

[awkward-sultana]

"She will be named Mihrimah. Like her name, may the sun and moon light her future."

#Muhteşem Yüzyıl #Magnificent Century #mcedit #Muhtesem Yuzyil #Mihrimah Sultan #weloveperioddrama #perioddramaedit #period drama #historical drama #Huge Disappointment #Make Way We Are Waiting for a Holy War #The Three Hour Battle #A Mess #The Forced Exile #Help Arrived #Attempt on the Favorite of the Sultan #Death in the Hammam #New Shocks #Old Love Never Dies #Game of Memory #Illness and Death Roam to the Capital #The Frustration #Getting a Divorce #Wedding of Mihrimah Sultan #The Decision of the Sultan #All the Secrets Become Clear #The Last Days of the Great Sultana #The End of the Great Era #Awkward-Sultana

[notbecauseofvictories]

I realize this is a weird question for a Sunday morning, but does anybody have particularly incisive articles about the tension between architectural preservation and the need (because I do think it's a need!) for new buildings, new spaces, and revising the landscape of a city?

I'm watching a piece on Richard Nickel, who is almost single-handedly responsible for photographing the work of Louis Sullivan and other architects of the Chicago Prairie School, prior to their demolition in the 60s. It's a great piece, and I love Nickel's photographs, but as someone who knows only the Chicago that sprang up in the wake of Nickel's, I can't help but wonder if there's more than simple aesthetics at play here.

#like...I love the driehaus museum! house museums are very cool. #if they manage to rehab the lu palmer mansion and muddy waters' house on the south side I will be ecstatic #but also people need places to live and work. these places need indoor plumbing and laundry rooms and kitchens. #architecture is great but so are grocery stores. #I love fancy buildings and history but you can't trap a city under glass like that. that's not how it works. #..............anyway hope everybody else is having a normal one and not grappling with existential questions of historical memory at 9am

[nocternalrandomness]

Wright Brothers National Memorial

#Wright Brothers National Memorial #Wright Brothers #Wilbur Wright #Orville Wright #Historic places #Monument #Wright Brothers Monument #Kitty Hawk #North Carolina #Kill Devil Hill #aviation history

[non-un-topo]

#tog #the old guard #andromaquynh #kaysanova #siggy draws #two of them!! do not separate!! #posting art i hate today lol. because i miss these four so bad and i missed my doodly style #grain of salt historically accurate costumes dfghjgfd #don't try to recreate period costumes from memory ;;; #also #are andy and quynh on a rice cake? ....no but also maybe. looks like it huh #maybe they're all like little thumbellinas... hold them in your palm they're just little guys... #eventually i'm going to learn how to recreate that terrible medieval manuscript style !! #the old gays

[fjordfolk]

people really be out there like “I wonder what this breed called a Shetland sheepdog was used for historically? alas it’s impossible to tell, we may never know” 🤦‍♀️

There is, believe it or not, some actual controversy regarding the breed origins and most of it (imo) stems from many people's mental image of a working sheepdog is a border collie, and not quite grasping that border collies are freaks and the way that we now work border collies didn't exist prior to the development of the border collie, and in some parts the way we keep SHEEP didn't exist prior to the border collie. There's also been some debate around old letters written by non-shetlanders after visiting the isles or talking to locals and having mmm interesting ideas of how people handled sheep over there. This leads to statements like:

Sheltie legs are too short to outrun sheep

They're also too small to grab the sheep and hold it (don't get me started)

A sheltie could never take sheep through a- (name specific type of herding trial)

Maybe they were actually placed with flocks on peripheral islands to keep watch for birds??

Shelties never existed and were made up in the late 1800s just for shetlanders to make money off of selling cute puppies to gullible tourists

There was an original sheepdog on Shetland but it was a much bigger dog (see reasons above) and the current sheltie was made up in the late 1800s, by breeding cavaliers to pomeranians and maybe a collie, just for shetlanders to sell puppies to tourists

...and so, clearly, they can't have been sheepdogs and we have No Clue what they were actually for (except scamming foreigners)

Meanwhile we know that traditional shepherding on Shetland relied on roaming sheep, keeping them off the property rather than on it (because that's where your crops are) and you'd only be rounding up your sheep a couple of times a year, and that island-bred shelties were smaller and spitzier type than even the current UK type.

#life is full of mysteries #and like. i know i have a particular interest in this because I'm interested in the historical development of Norwegian agriculture #and how that has been shaped by industry and politics because that is very much an ongoing issue #and that we have a similar climate and heritage breeds with similar traits and origins #and i grew up in this. and how we live and how we have lived and the animals involved in that is yknow. part of our cultural identity #and it MATTERS. #and so i have pegs to hang it on #and it baffles me #how short our memory is and how little imagination we have for how things have been done in the past

[notsooldmadcatlady]

Maiden, Mother, Crone

#ts4 #the sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 historical #ts4 my sims #I'm cleaning my folders so these videos should go into a trash bin #but I like the vibe of them so I'll keep some GIFs for memory

[torchstelechos]

You know those "do not separate"/"often bought together" memes that people did for the Submas plushies? I like to think Immortal Volo found out that Ingo had a twin fully because he saw one of these memes and went, Ah fuck I separated them :(

#PLA #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon volo #pla volo #Submas #ingo pokemon #pokemon emmet #immortal Volo #Look me in the eyes and tell me immortal volo wouldnt be chill as hell and have a social media account #this good bitch runs a historical fact check twitter/tumblr and got recommended Submas things when Emmet/Ingo liked his train history post #and he just has to live with the knowledge he didnt buy them together and separated them #Hes like ah shit I guess to make it up to them Ill post a lot about trains :/ #and when Ingo comes back and gets most of his memories back hes like VOLO WAS MY FAVOURITE TRAIN MUTUAL???? THIS BITCH???? #The biggest betrayal was not that he was separated from his twin via time distortion rift #but that his mutual online didnt even fucking like trains :///////

[empirearchives]

From Napoleon to Junot

[MANUSCRIPT.— ABRANTÈS (duc d')] Partial endowments of the Duke of Abrantés in Westphalia and Hanover.

Paris, 26 December 1808-2 May 1809.

In-4 (29 x 21.5 cm), red long-grain Morocco leather, wide frame of golden motifs on the covers, golden coat of arms in the center and title in large golden letters, smooth spine decorated with gold patterns and coat of arms, blue silk linings and endpapers with frame of golden motifs (period binding).

[30] ff.

Precious handwritten document on parchment in the name of Napoleon conferring on General Jean Andoche Junot the title of Duke of Abrantès “The signal services rendered to the state and to us by our dear and beloved Sieur Junot, having fixed on him our esteem and our particular benevolence, we have resolved to reward the zeal & fidelity of which he has given us constant proof. With this in mind, we have [...] appointed our dear and beloved S. Junot, one of the dukes of our empire, under the title of Duke of Abrantès.” This promotion is followed by details of the endowments granted to the Duke of Abrantès in the provinces of Westphalia and Hanover.

Seals under paper.

Bound with the arms and coat of arms of Jean Andoche Junot (1771-1813), Duke of Abrantès.

Traces of moisture, having warped the binding and soiled some pages.

Source: Artcurial — Historical Memories - 24 january 2024

#Artcurial #auction #junot #jean andoche junot #historical memories auction #historical memories #Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #Westphalia #Hanover #napoleonic era #first french empire #19th century #french empire #france #history #french history #vintage book #book #1800s #morocco leather #Abrantès #duc d’Abrantès #Duke of Abrantès

[visenyaism]

okay consider. two parallel books of insanely bias with lots of foot notes and personal “fuck that guy in particular” bracken vs blackwood history

YES. YOU GET IT. LATERAL READING

#i love latéral reading i love historical memory #in the one thing i ever wrote for asoiaf there’s a reason i spend half of it comparing like 5 different versions of the harrenhal curse myth #asoiaf

[uncanny-tranny]

Something kind of funny I never anticipated about crocheting with longer hair was pulling out a piece of my own hair out of my project that I somehow crocheted into it

#art #fiber art #crochet #most likely that strand fell out mid-stitch and i just... crocheted it in #love in every stitch? no. HAIR in every stitch #also i'm watching a video about knitting (war-time knitting specifically) and it's sparking memories #i forgot the sheer effort that was getting women to knit for soldiers (understandably because i wasn't alive during those wars but still) #molly was my favourite american girl book and i think that's where i first learned about that as a kid???? #but those books weren't mine they were just family books and i LOVED reading fiction back then #and i really liked the historical aspect to those books in the sense that they were about girls in specific historical periods #and they incorporated actual history in it - to the full extent i'm not sure because i haven't read them in close to ten years (idk) #and it's interesting to see just how many people - not even just women! - knit for soldiers #i'm learning now from this video the sheer number of other people who started in knitting #anyway this is why i'm begging men to also do fiber arts (watching a reel of a guy crochet a blanket and HELL YEAH BROTHER)

[theworldofwars]

Never before had the country experienced losses on such a scale. In the immediate post-war years more than 74,000 local war memorials of various types were created. At a national level, the Cenotaph and Tomb of the Unknown Warrior were designed to honour all the dead, including the tens of thousands whose bodies were never found. 

These memorials and the vast cemeteries in France and Flanders are a permanent reminder of the First World War and its legacy.

#war memorial #war #memorial #the great war #historical photos #the first world war #world war one #world war 1 #wwi #history #1917 #canadian history #ww1 #world war 1 stories

[awkward-sultana]

"Could she be changing loyalties?"

#Muhteşem Yüzyıl #Magnificent Century #mcedit #Muhtesem Yuzyil #weloveperioddrama #perioddramaedit #period drama #historical drama #Hurrem Sultan #Fahriye Kalfa #Death in the Hammam #New Shocks #Old Love Never Dies #Game of Memory #Blood and Tears #Miraculous Healing #Awkward-Sultana