how could we possibly know the ancient Romans said it like this?! well, it's simple! they were truly more advanced than many medieval european civs in many ways, which included leaving a lot of texts. someof the texts give VERY precise examples of how they spoke, how words were pronounced, etcetera. pretty neat, right?!
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#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE
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Arturo Zoffman's lecture at Sabanci University on his new project, ‘The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship’, funded by the European Research Council, is available on YouTube.
The lecture took place in the context of Arturo's research stay funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
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Contrary to what many might think, it’s not just students who “go on Erasmus” to other countries. An example of this is researcher Arturo Zoffmann, who went to Turkey to spend a month at Sabancı University in Istanbul with the support of the Erasmus+ programme. 
What is he doing there? We'll tell you here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/arturo-zoffmann-erasmus-istambul/
#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.
Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”
Prague Astronomical Clock located in Old Town Square, Prague, Czech Republic. The oldest parts of the clock are thought to date back to 1410.
Cláudia Ninhos is one of the authors of the article ‘Travailleurs portugais et espagnols dans l'Allemagne nazie : trajectoires parallèles, chemins croisés’, published in the journal Exils et migrations ibériques aux XXe et XXIe siècles.
In it, the authors show how the life stories of Portuguese and Spanish labourers crossed paths several times in Nazi Germany.
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-exils-et-migrations-iberiques-2024-3-page-197
#EuropeanHistory picks of the day:
@yvonne - Historian of medieval women & religion in Europe
@domwass@scholar.social (main) & @domwass@ramblingreaders.org (book reviews) - Medieval historian at University of Cologne (in German & English)
@BHO - Digital library of British history
@IHChistory - Multidisciplinary research institute in modern & contemporary history, Lisbon
@eseh - European Society for Environmental History
@bhp - British History Podcast
@OxMedStud - Oxford medieval studies platform
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Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Sept 1943, Pearl Witherington parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French Resistance and a courier was tasked with moving papers and equipment around their network.
Witherington takes over leadership of her network, eventually commanding 1,500 maquis and overseeing the surrender of 18,000 German troops.
We are very proud to announce that Arturo Zoffmann has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council!
Over the next five years, through the comparative history of eight European countries, he will try to answer the question: Were states of exception a factor in the rise of European dictatorships in the 20th century?
Jenny Eclair's random pick of the year 1642 for her 1 minute history lecture in #Taskmaster seems to be frustratingly good when actually looking at a list. Cardinal Richelieu & Galileo Galilei's deaths, the birth of Sir Isaac Newton, #Rembrandt finishing the Night Watch painting all from that year.
Queen Christina in charge in Sweden. Maria de Medici + Louis XIII. The First English Civil War aside.
#OnThisDay, 22 Aug 1943, Yvonne Cormeau parachutes into France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
She worked for 13 months and was never captured. You can hear her story on the Imperial War Museum site. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80007171
#OnThisDay, 30 July 1942, Yvonne Rudellat arrives in Nazi-occupied France by boat as courier for the Special Operations Executive. She works for 11 months before her capture.
She had been shot in the head during her capture, and failed to recognise other agents who greeted her in Ravensbruck. She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and died there of typhus just after its liberation.
#OnThisDay, 17 July 1979, Simone Veil became the first President of the European Parliament, and the first woman to preside over any EU institution.
As Health Minister in France, Veil had passed laws enabling access to contraception and legalising abortion.
Very early #OnThisDay, 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. The British SOE worked with resistance fighters across German-occupied Europe.
Skarbek had been the first woman to be an SOE agent when she'd previously been sent to Hungary and Poland in 1939-41.
Who were the #galebovi of the Mediterranean?
In this talk at the History on the Edge festival in Ljubljana, Anita Buhin talks about the mythology associated with these men (a clue 
) and the story of Jerry Cambridge. You can also find out more about the work of the IHC researcher.
Who were the #galebovi of the Mediterranean?
In this talk at the History on the Edge festival in Ljubljana, Anita Buhin talks about the mythology associated with these men (a clue ) and the story of Jerry Cambridge. You can also find out more about the work of the IHC researcher.
#OnThisDay, 26 Jun 1949, all Belgian women are able to vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time.
