Histories Beyond Histories

Fortnightly series | Investigates lost tales of the past | 2 sections: Hidden histories (Narrative) & stories (Historia)| Celebrates time and its multitudes.

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

This June, @BeyondHistories will tackle the strange pre-assumption of land proposed for #settlement or other #colonial purposes is devoid of human inhabitants. This phenomenon has been observed many times in #history, and it is time to discuss it.

#SettlerColonialism

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Post to be repeated every year!
75 year old Oinam Rashi Devi from Manipur in action during the 35th National Masters Athletics Championship 2014 in Coimbatore.
Photo source PTI

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

#DontMissOut: If you're in #Amsterdam, here's an #exhibition on #slavery in Dutch #colonialism and it's not a "view from the ship".
Long way to go, but a big step forward!
It opens @rijksmuseum on June 5.
https://t.co/2i3BWeHOhs
@bbc @catherine_pound

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Seems like we are coming close to finding #answers to questions of a past that happened "looong ago".

Plain of Jar - Phonsavan in Xieng Khouang, #Laos
@TheEconomist

#megalithic #Archaeology

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

A team of scientists has used a technique called optically stimulated luminescence to measure when the earth beneath the jars was last exposed to light https://t.co/mC0Nyoe2KJ

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

#Maralinga: "They thought they'd pick a supposedly #uninhabited spot out in the #Australian desert. Only they got it wrong. There were people here."
Here's some lesser taught #history
🖊️: @jondonnisonbbc
📰: @BBCWorld
https://t.co/A51x22ybOl
#nuclear #colonialism #emptyland

[Open Culture @openculture]

The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Podcast, Now at 370 Episodes, Expands into Eastern Philosophy

https://t.co/EvT8Ikorep

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

Our job as the keepers of the past isn't to keep it frozen in time. It's to look at it from our place in the present & right what was wrong.
Check out this brilliant piece by @profdanhicks in @guardian about how #decolonising #museums makes them relevant.
https://t.co/dOUvZ24caf

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Somehow a 20k crore project that thrives on the demolition of several #historical buildings is more important during the destructive #SecondWaveofCovid19
https://t.co/RBTqbtbWEZ
#India #historyerased #archives #CentralVistaProject

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“No amount of diversity and inclusion initiatives will suffice in lieu of the removal of the physical images which glorify white supremacy.”
#RhodesMustFall
https://t.co/HHbwtElyaK

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

Important book. Important Book Launch!

@IHEID @iheid_history Prof. Carolyn Biltoft's: 'A Violent Peace: Media, Truth and the Power at the League of Nations'

🗓: Thurs 20 May
⏰: 16h15-18h CET

https://t.co/uw2SvVSc7T

#history #power #LeagueofNations #information #truth

[Global Governance Centre @GVAGrad_GGC]

How have conflicts over #truth and #power played out at the #LeagueOfNations? What do they say about #totalitarian regimes and the #information age?

Looking forward to co-hosting Carolyn Biltoft's book launch with @iheid_history

📅20 May 16.15 CET

🔗https://t.co/HSSlei87jf

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

#KembalikanTanahAdat
Also, give this podcast🎙️ a listen: https://t.co/RcfUc8KWIR
@OrangAsal @BFMradio @sharmillag

[aidil @climateaidil]

in malaysia, our orang asli struggle to claim ownership to their ancestral land.

as unsustainable development grows, their settlements shrink. their culture, history & bond with nature are being erased. #KembalikanTanahAdat

[Museum of British Colonialism @museumofbc]

The Museum of British Colonialism stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s right to resist settler colonialism and apartheid. See our full statement below, or on our blog: https://t.co/H9C4xKy4JD

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

“The #decline and discontinuance of the use of the #surfboard, as #civilization advances, may be accounted for by the increase in modesty, industry or religion.”

#History

[HISTORY @HISTORY]

Women and men began surfing in Hawaii and other Polynesian islands for centuries. But the arrival of American missionaries in the 19th century disrupted the mixed-gender sportWomen and men began surfing in Hawaii and other Polynesian islands for centuries. But the arrival of American missionaries in the 19th century disrupted the mixed-gender sportWomen and men began surfing in Hawaii and other Polynesian islands for centuries. But the arrival of American missionaries in the 19th century disrupted the mixed-gender sport.

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

Business Insider notes that both Kevin and Hunter “face multiple federal charges, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and unlawfully entering a restricted building.”
#CapitolRiots

[The Root @TheRoot]

Kevin Seefried, the Man Who Stormed the Capitol With the Confederate Flag, Is Going on Family Vacation While Awaiting Trial https://t.co/gtesQP1t1d

[Histories Beyond Histories @BeyondHistories]

"In celebration of #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth let’s remember the invisible battles that people fight every day, and the extraordinary circumstances many endure for a better life."
@olorunbunmi_ lists down 5 documentaries on the #refugee & #immigrant experience.
#mustwatch

[Alice Elizabeth Bendel - Writes @alicebendel]

Writing for @mirralliance I watched five documentaries about the #refugee and #immigrant experience. If you're interested in the experience of individuals who brave deserts and seas praying for a better life, I suggest watching any or all of these films. https://t.co/JCSCowlo1E

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Read @BeyondHistories' story "The Nameless Numbers in the Sea" on its #Blog

#STORY
https://t.co/T3tIy02pKE

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Sumner Hall is currently presenting an #Exhibit documenting the "#History of #Racial #Terror #Lynchings in #Maryland" in the window of the Historical Society of Kent County's Bordley History Center.

https://t.co/e252SdYpkA

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What's a guitar?

Check out the #history of the #evolution of the #guitar into 7 #musicalinstruments : @RobScallon & Brandon Acker
https://t.co/bm9XAkucYq

You can also read @openculture

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" #HumanRights groups warn the law gives the #immigration minister a new power to overturn #refugee status."

https://t.co/Jme23K1kEw

🖊️: @bendohertycorro
📰: @guardian

#Australia #asylum #detention

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#ICYMI

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Do we see casualties as just faceless numbers rather than persons? Read this @beyondhistories’ short story about the #migrant crisis and how narratives influence our mindsets.
https://t.co/T3tIy02pKE