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share this article Courtesy Vintage Postcards from the African World; copyright Jessica B. Harris Author and culinary historian Dr. Jessica B. Harris reflects on a hobby that has spanned more than half a century in this excerpt from her 2020 book, “Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play.” share this article A deltiologist is someone who collects postcards. I have spent more than 50 years of my life as a postcard addict roa...

Terminology, Dates, Titles and Translation 1  1 Newspapers, Broadsheets and Pamphlets  2 The Spread of the Newspaper  3 Understanding the Growth of the Press and the Mechanics of Reporting  4 Bibliographical Coverage  6 Newspaper Research, the Public Sphere and Network Analysis 2  1 The First Fifty Years. Hopes and Setbacks  2 The Long and Short Story of Success and Failure  3 Promoting the Idea of the N...

Owen Hatherley , April 17th, 2021 08:57 Owen Hatherley interviews Jonathan Meades about his new book Pedro and Ricky Come Again, a massive collection of his writing from 1988 to 2021 – and on why he’s no longer making television Photo by Pablosievert. CC BY-SA 4.0 The last time I saw Jonathan Meades was in May 2018, in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. In a flat surrounded with books, paintings, pictures, and postcards he’d made himself, and as we got through several b...

Acts of Care , Sara Ritchey recovers womens healthcare work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices. Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical role in medieval healthcare has been obscured because scholars have erroneously regarded the evidence of t...

Thinking It Through: Politics or tribalism, Americas choice By Richard Reeb For the Victorville Daily Press Politics has long had a bad name but it is far preferable to the available alternatives. Ever since the Greek city, or polis, superseded clans as the effective and superior governing unit, true citizenship emerged, and politicians discussed and deliberated prior to taking action. But in the rest of the world, individuals were submerged in tribal identities borne of kinship, race or skin c...

April 9, 2021 17 Minutes This is the second half of the fourth part of our four part (I, II, III, IVa) look at the production of textiles, particularly wool and linen, in the pre-modern world. Last time, we looked at commercial textile workers and the finishing processes for textiles (fulling, dyeing, etc) which generally took place in a commercial context. This week, we are going to look at the other major element of the commercial textile trade, which were the merchants who traded i...

It has long been a dream of central planners and interventionists to set a global, uniform tax rates for all regimes. These globalists know that so long as sovereign states have the ability to freely set their own tax rates, some regimes are tempted to engage in “tax competition” in order to attract capital. When this happens “tax havens” which allows companies and individuals to “shop around” in terms of where to put their productive wealth. The antidote to this “problem,” we a...

Show more Billy Kay celebrates Scotland’s profound engagement with the Flemish & Dutch people. If your name is Fleming, Douglas or Murray, if you play golf or curling, if your house has red pantiles or crow step gables, if you speak Scots and use words like hunkers or howff and if you studied law or medicine at a Scottish university, then you’ve been touched by Scotland’s links to the Low Countries - a cultural legacy that came with trade, religious and intellectual exchan...

Scotland’s centuries-old links with the Flemish and Dutch people celebrated in new Billy Kay documentaries Michael Alexander speaks to Newport-based broadcaster Billy Kay about his new radio documentaries exploring Scotland’s centuries-old relationships with the Low Countries of Europe. Think of Scottish history and perhaps it’s a triumvirate between Scotland, England and France that comes to mind with Scotland perpetually at war with England and an But Flanders can arguably be viewed...

© Supplied by Courier artist I grew up in Montrose.  A favourite childhood walk, in easy walking distance of home, was to the Curlie. As its name suggests it was an outdoor curling pond in the days before the introduction of indoor curling. The long-defunct Montrose Curling Club originally played on the Mary Loch, at Little Mill on the outskirts of the town, on the Brechin road.  The Mary Loch was drained in the 1920s and there is no trace of it now. © Kim Cessford Indoor curling is the nor...