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graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they π³οΈβπ Cambridge, Massachusetts THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
It's the anniversary of the Boston Massacre!
So this week on the Untitled History Podcast, @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social and I break down the myths and reality of what happened. And why it became such a landmark moment in the American narrative.
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Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm β¨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social ,
and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Recently heard Barenaked Ladiesβ βWhat a Good Boyβ for the first time since I was a teenager and that was a bit of a punch in the face.
A bouquet wrapped in yellow paper left at a grave featuring a life size Jesus in marble with two lambs
A long text carved into a marble plaque commemorating the manufacturing process of luxury campers, I assume, since my French is not up to this one
Grave of Henri and Henriette Henon with the life size Jesus and a life size weeping mourner, also marble clasped hands and a marble bank of roses
Flowers for Henri and Henriette Henon, visionary manufacturers of the camper trailer in the 1930s. In 1944, they hid an injured American airman in a luxury caravan in the woods near Albert, which honestly had to be a fairly strange experience.
Yes - itβs not very far from Beaumont-Hamel, but on a part of the battlefield that is a little less visited. Itβs a postage stamp park in the middle of agricultural land.
A large pink rose, single, ceramic
A ceramic basket bursting with pink and purple flowers
A ceramic basket with three tiger lilies
A ceramic pillow made of violets with a rosebud bouquet in one corner
a selection of lovely majolica grave decorations from civilian cemeteries in/around Albert
A bronze caribou memorial with windmills in the background
Also stopped at the Newfoundland Memorial in Gueudecourt. The windmills are pretty impressive up close.
Sunrise, with orange glow on the horizon lighting the undersides of the clouds pink and orange
sunrise from the Thiepval Memorial
And itβs not a local legend or something β the American airman (Donald Rentschler) talks about hiding in the Newfoundland trenches in his Escape & Evasion report in 1944.
Yes, Iβve been! Always a delight to meet the young guides. I write about the Newfoundland memorial a little in my book because the local Resistance used the trenches to hide some airmen during a crackdown on safe houses in the area in 1944.
Gravestone for a man and three children killed in 1940, with an enamel plaque showing their portraits
A marble plaque with gold lettering and an oval enamel portrait of a young couple
Marble plaque with portrait for Robert Barous, born 1934, killed 1940
French cemeteries are full of personal memorials to civilian victims of bombings. The Leriche family in Albert and 5yo Robert Barois in Arras were killed by German bombs in 1940; Gilbert Lefevre and Yvonne Croquet were killed by Allied bombs in 1944.
A French village memorial with words Beaumont Γ ses morts, sculpture of a female figure holding the limp body of a French soldier
A list of 6 soldiers from Beaumont who died in the FWW
A list of civilian victims, including 12 who died in captivity
This trip, I am trying to learn more about the civilians who lived in villages around Albert. In Beaumont-Hamel, men and boys over age 12 (and some women) were deported to Germany. The village memorial commemorates soldiers from the village and also civilians who died in captivity.
A ceramic wreath made of pink roses, purple violets, and green leaves, infiltrated by moss and fused to the grave marker
I love French cemeteries, and I love these old majolica memorial wreaths in particular. This one has been fused to the tomb by moss. (Ovillers-la-Boisselle)
A small white and red building with sign βlesbΕufs mairie 1926β
Visited the Lesboeufs mairie, where Brig. General Arthur Vanaman (USAAF) was held prisoner by a very confused German junior officer in June 1944. Vanaman referred to this building as the βhoosegow,β and now that I see it, I get it.
It's all in how questions are worded and issues are framed. For example, 64% of respondents hold contradictory opinions on transgender policy. This is why Democrats should lead with a vision, not pander to the Fox News manosphere.
Itβs a warm day in Arras, which means the cemeteries are full of tiny lizards basking on the stones.
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
this is so ghoulish and disgusting
I was gonna say
In a win for the Gullah Geechee people on St Helena Island in South Carolina, access to a long-used cemetery has been restored
You'll understand our campaign more from this launch video than anything else. We gave it our heart and soul. Give it a watch.
This came up in my interview yesterday with a trans woman on the ground - her coworker is also trans and hadn't heard about the law whatsoever.
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Over 17 THOUSAND people of the Korean #adoptee diaspora in the US, spanning the entire period up to its inception 70 years ago, lack US citizenship because of their adoptersβ inaction.
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Quote: βIn Wortegem-Petegem we have recovered around 350 shells over the past 3 days. It appears that this site was used as an ammunition depot during World War I. An impressive, but also confrontational reminder of our past.β
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πΊποΈπ Thanks to Emma Southon's ASTONISHING new book #Servus*, when I look at these objects (and pretty much everything else made "by" Romans), what I see are layers upon iayers of enslaved labour
*out in May, pre-order it, you will not be disappointed
This is why you can't really collaborate with the feds under any circumstances. If your policy is "we will only collaborate with them when it's unrelated to civil immigration enforcement" then the Trump administration will just lie about what they're doing!
Marisa is legit. Please share if you know someone she can talk to.
University of Michigan Middle English compendium entry for "malapert" meaning impudent, shameless, or presumptuous
Some of these are pretty fun!
I also like "malapert":
I quite like "maidpale." Alert the romantasy authors.
list of adjectives from 7ESL.com, in green and white columns: ADJECTIVES STARTING WITH "M" Maat Macabre Magenta Maioid Malian Meadow Magged Maister Malic Meager Macaronic Maggiore Majestic Malicious Meagre Maccabean Maggotish Major Malign Mealiness Macedonian Maggoty Majorat Malignant Mealy Macerative Magian Majorcan Mallard Mealymouthed Machiavelian Magical Majuscule Malleable Mean Machinal Magisterial Makable Malleal Meandering Machinelike Magistral Makeshift Malleolar Meandrian Machining Macho Magistratical Malacissant Malnourished Meandrous Magnesian Malacozoic Malodorous Meandry Macilent Magnesic Maladaptive Malonic Meaningful Macled Magnetical Maladjustive Malpighian Meaningless Macro Magnetiferous Maladroit Maltese Meanspirited Macrobiotic Magnetized Malapert Malthusian Measled Macrocosmic Magnifiable Malapropos Maltonic Measly Macrodactylic Magnific Malar Malty Measurable Macrodont Magnificent Malarial Malvaceous Measured Macrognathic Magnified Malarian Mammalian Measureless Macropodal Magniloquent Malarious Manable Meated Macrosporic Magyar Malawian Managerial Meatless Macrotous Mahratta Malayan Manal Meaty Macroural Maiden Malaysian Manchu Meazling Macrural Maidenlike Male Mandaean Meccawee Macruroid Maidpale Malecontent Mandarinic Mechanic Maculose Maieutical Maledicent Mandative Mechanised Mad Maigre Maledict Mandean Mechanistic Madagascan Mailable Malefic Mandelic Meckelian Madbrained Mailclad Maleficent Manducable Meconic Madcap Mailed Maleficial Manducatory Meconinic Madding Main Maleic Maned Mecopterous Maddish Mainpernable Malevolent Maneless Med Maestoso Mainstreamed Malevolous Manerial Medallic Magdala Magellanic Maintainable Malformed Maniable Meddlesome Maintained Malgracious Maniacal Meddling 7ESL.COM
A list that will make you check the OED and say, "huh, I guess that is a word [in a technical scientific field or obscure early modern context]." Still not sure they're all adjectives, but π€·
