Hello Fedi! We are the still-in-progress Twin Cities Radical Community Archive. This project aims to collect, preserve, and increase access to left-wing, working-class activism in the Twin Cities metro, both historically and currently.
#OnThisDay, 2 Dec 1954, Winifred Atwell becomes the first Black person to top the British singles chart with her track “Let's Have Another Party”. Originally from Trinidad, she moved to London to take up a place at the Royal Academy of Music.
@CarveHerName she featured in the British Library's exhibition Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music last year. Her recording of The Poor People of Paris was on all the Museums in Boxes sent to libraries across the country
Masking in public. Public transport over car driving with acknowledgement that some people need a car. Twitter alumni from the early exodus. Love heist films. American and English languages with a few other basics under the tongue: Italian, Spanish, Swahili, Japanese. Best trip ever was Antarctica.
TOITŪ Visual Sovereign - which is screening in Auckland and Wellington this August as part of the NZ International Film Festival -follows art curator Nigel Borell as he prepares for the opening of the Toi Tū Toi Ora exhibition.. https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/chelsea-winstanley-don-t-put-your-own-dreams-aside
The film shows Borell navigating Covid-19 disruptions and "institutional resistance" from within the Auckland Art Gallery, Winstanley says, and for her, its key moment is when he decides he can't stay on as curator.
"You can't help but understand that that struggle is actually beyond the four walls of the gallery and perhaps in other institutions around our country,
"It's an opportunity for us as Māori and Pākehā to really examine our relationships and not to be afraid. Don't be afraid of Māori being in positions of shared power, or just maybe being in charge of their own Tino rangatiratanga [sovereignty] as they should be." #film#nzpol#GLAM#IndigenousIP
Frank White crossed the Atlantic 18 times during WWI on a secret mission for the Bank of England. Luxury liners, submarines, maple leaves, and secret orders... A really interesting read (if we do say so ourselves...)
A pressing of a canadian maple leaf (from page 364 of the diary mentioned in the blog post). Writing appears beneath it that reads "The maple leaf of Canada". Copyright is Bank of England Archive
Tolles Projekt!
QueerSearch macht queere Geschichte sichtbar: Daten und Sammlungsobjekte aus verschiedenen europäischen Archiven und Sammlungen machen queere Geschichte digital zugänglich.
Riverside homes: The illustration shows what the Must Farm [UK] settlement might have looked like during its brief habitation in the ninth century B.C., before its destruction by fire. Because of partial demolition of the site by quarrying in the 1960s, it is not known how many dwellings the palisade originally contained. Construction required a huge amount of timber, mainly oak and ash. Scholars believe that the Must Farm community was one of many and that these raised structures were an established local custom. Archaeologists believe more such sites may lie hidden under the fenland clay. Illustration by Santi Pérez.
For more information visit: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/must-farm-england-bronze-age-artifacts
A few weeks ago I created 'The Primary Source' to help researchers find and use Australian GLAM collections (that's galleries, libraries, archives, & museums) by aggregating collection news and providing a space to share updates and seek help. I've been adding new posts most days, so thought it was about time I wrote something up about what it is, why it's needed, and how you can contribute. There's even a little look back to 1998... https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/20/the-primary-source-glam-collection.html#GLAM#histodonshistodons group
Punk pioneer David Johansen & his family are asking for your help, (they’re facing financial woes brought on by his cancer battle). Follow this link and give what you can: https://www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohansenfund.html
Here’s an illo I drew of Johansen, (in Buster Poindexter mode) for New York Press on 5/16/01.
In my quest to automate all the things, I've created a new dashboard to summarise digitisation progress at the National Archives of Australia. Every Sunday afternoon, after my harvest of recently digitised files runs, the dashboard will (should?) be updated to display information about files digitised in the last week, the current year, and since my harvests started in 2021. https://wragge.github.io/naa-recently-digitised/#archives#GLAM#histodonshistodons group#digitalHumanities
Screenshot of the dashboard, showing the summary of files digitised in the last week. The information displayed includes the total number of files digitised, a bar chart showing the number of files digitised per day, the number of series from which the files were drawn, and a list of the series containing the most files digitised.
Queens of the Nile Exhibition at Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in the Netherlands. (Image credit: Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos via Getty Images): A row of intricately decorated ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, featuring vibrant painted designs and hieroglyphs, displayed in a dimly lit museum exhibit.
Two Halloween pumpkins (it's the same one, not two different ones) side by side: on the left is the daylight version showing the carving by day, and on the right is the pumpkin lit at night as it's meant to be seen. The carving is of a most dreaded beast: the grey silverfish, scourge of archives, libraries and museums! Conservators shiver in their cardigans everywhere.
Ornate urn in a bronze pot, the pot's rim is broken in several places. The liquid found in this urn in a burial chamber in Carmona, Spain is the oldest wine in the world.
Juan Manuel Román/"New archaeochemical insights into Roman wine from Baetica," by Daniel Cosano, et al., Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol No. 57, 2024, Article No. 104636; June 16, 2024 (CC BY 4.0)