Laurie VossI think I'm happy enough with my #OneThousandYearsOfWomen list that I'm ready to share the spreadsheet ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11GsNsB_sdGkmsnvjr0hiI0D2ynLfTU9mVoAt33LFb7M/edit#gid=0 ) and start the project in earnest. I've included the threads of women already covered in #EuropeanBios so it's "only" 29 bios, many of which I've already read while slowly putting the timeline together, so this might take "only" a year! :-P
Catherine of Aragon came first and lasted longest by an order of magnitude so we're going to spend more time on her. Born in Spain in 1485, she was younger sister to the cruelly abused Juana of Castile, who we covered previously (https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/110568677322572284). Her parents were Isabella of Castile (who we covered in #EuropeanBios https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1363701464305000448) and her shitty husband Ferdinand.
Laurie Voss (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #OneThousandYearsOfWomen continues today with Juana, Queen of Castile, often called (both rudely and incorrectly) Juana La Loca (the mad). Her life is pretty bereft of fun facts: she was born a political pawn, cruelly used, abused and endlessly gaslit by her husband, her father and her son, branded mentally ill for the convenience of others, and died without having experienced any real agency over her affairs in her entire life.
jimkennedyThis is the kind of content I've been missing since moving from the other place.
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https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/109787218505528694
[email protected] - Well! It has been a while since I did a historical bio thread. Project #EuropeanBios is over and so is Twitter. The successor is a new medium, Mastodon, and a new project, #OneThousandYearsOfWomen, historically important women from approximately 1000CE to present. Here is Empress Matilda, born 1102, who spent decades trying to become queen of England ...
Laurie Voss (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Well! It has been a while since I did a historical bio thread. Project #EuropeanBios is over and so is Twitter. The successor is a new medium, Mastodon, and a new project, #OneThousandYearsOfWomen, historically important women from approximately 1000CE to present. Here is Empress Matilda, born 1102, who spent decades trying to become queen of England and failed, and had to accept as consolation seeing her son become king and being direct ancestor to all British royalty right up to today.
Well! It has been a while since I did a historical bio thread. Project #EuropeanBios is over and so is Twitter. The successor is a new medium, Mastodon, and a new project, #OneThousandYearsOfWomen, historically important women from approximately 1000CE to present. Here is Empress Matilda, born 1102, who spent decades trying to become queen of England and failed, and had to accept as consolation seeing her son become king and being direct ancestor to all British royalty right up to today.
The #EuropeanBios threads have been rescued from the sinking ship of Twitter and are currently being cleaned up and edited into at least a website, possibly a book. #OneThousandYearsOfWomen doesn't have a primary list or a website or anything yet, so this is the first one but may not end up being first chronologically. Forgive me, this isn't my full time job or anything.
It took me two and a half years to write the #EuropeanBios series but I had no idea it would take me more than six months to edit them up into a book. Most of the time is spent tracking down copyrights of the various images and maps I used and replacing them with public domain versions when necessary.
mengwongRT @seldo: It's been far too long since my last #EuropeanBios thread, but getting married is very distracting! Entry #73 is Ada Lovelace, r…
CK's Technology NewsEuropean Bios: Ada Lovelace
https://twitter.com/i/status/1512970436669173763
It's been far too long since my last #EuropeanBios thread, but getting married is very distracting! Entry #73 is Ada Lovelace, regarded as the first computer programmer, and I am here to enthusiastically back up that story: she talked like a coder, before there was any code.
Laurie Voss on Twitter
“It's been far too long since my last #EuropeanBios thread, but getting married is very distracting! Entry #73 is Ada Lovelace, regarded as the first computer programmer, and I am here to enthusiastically back up that story: she talked like a coder, before there was any code.”
joschihttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1495198592533164034.html 🧵
It's time for #EuropeanBios entry #69, which we can all agree is nice. Our subject today is Ludwig van Beethoven, born 1770, world famous composer, musical genius and barely functional alcoholic whose life was miserable from start to finish but created joy for millions.
