InterregnumMay 1

On the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Christopher Reid writes its history from below and centres the standpoints of the Black Americans and indigenous peoples that influenced its development.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/may-day-special-the-american-revolution-race-rebellion-and-a-new-imperial-nation/

#USHistory #History #HistoryFromBelow #radicalhistory #usa #America #americanrevolution

May Day Special: The American Revolution – Race, Rebellion, and a New Imperial Nation

On the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Christopher Reid writes its history from below and centres the standpoints of the Black Americans and indigenous peoples that influenced its development.

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Show threadMathiasTCK.bsky.socialApr 12
I believe #HistoryFromBelow or #PeoplesHistory describes the opposing view, and focus more on the: "history of the masses and not of celebrities" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%...

People's history - Wikipedia
People's history - Wikipedia

kit lecter 🦇👹Mar 24
Thought I'd share some of the vintage/antique book finds from the last ~6 months. ​​

Left to right, top to bottom:

In a glass darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu from 1948 — I had been looking for a vintage copy of Carmilla with no luck until I realised it had originally been published in a short stories collection. It's a blue clothbound under the paper slipcover.

Consult Me — undated but from at least 1904 going by the inscription inside. The entry on how to ride a bicycle is hilariously unhelpful.

Modern Cookery by Eliza Acton from 1851 — the spine is missing so will need to do a repair job, otherwise in really good condition for its age.

The Best Way Book 3 — undated but this was originally published sometime around WWI possibly 1915. I now have all three Edwardian volumes in my collection!

Dracula by Bram Stoker — undated but most probably from 40s or 50s as per some research. I had been looking for a 'pocket sized hardback' clothbound edition for a long while now. And this one was also within my budget (most antique/vintage editions of the book go for at least a couple hundred quids at the cheapest).

Now, the only book I am actively looking for is a 'pocket sized hardback' clothbound edition of Frankenstein. It has the same issue as Dracula. It's gonna be a luck thing to find one. ​​

#LowSpoonsHistorian #History #AntiqueBooks #VintageBooks #BookLover #BooksOfTheFediverse #Dracula #ModernCookery #BestWayBook #ConsultMe #InAGlassDarkly #SheridanLeFanu #ElizaActon #BramStoker #SocialHistory #HistoryFromBelow
Kalvin Aug 1, 2025

The first sources of the history of the people and regions that have been colonized, exploited, invaded, and stolen are oral and verbal sources. These are the primary sources; oral information passed from person to person explains what information has survived, as colonial records often silence or override them.

#OralHistory #DecolonizeArchives #IndigenousKnowledge #ColonialSilence #TruthTelling #AncestralVoices #HistoryFromBelow #PeoplePoweredHistory #MemoryAsResistance #CulturalPreservation

MuirJul 26, 2025
‘Palestine and the Commons: Or, Marx and the Musha’a’ by Peter Linebaugh. #MarxistEcology #HistoryFromBelow
https://mronline.org/2025/07/24/palestine-and-the-commons-or-marx-and-the-mushaa/
Palestine and the Commons: Or, Marx and the Musha’a | MR Online

In 1958 the assistant headmaster did the Bible reading at the morning assembly of the Karachi Grammar School (Pakistan), founded in 1848 by the Church of England. The reading from Acts 17:23 concerned St. Paul’s declaration upon seeing the Athenian monument to an unknown God. “What you worship but do not know—this is what I

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BrewminateJul 22, 2025

ECHOES OF HISTORY (THEN AND NOW):

Ranke: Primary sources and objectivity.

Modern historians: Sure — but whose story got archived?

History isn’t neutral. It’s contested ground.

#Brewminate #Historiography #HistoryFromBelow #EchoesOfHistory #Postmodernism

MuirJun 14, 2025
‘Christopher Hill: Life and Legacy of a Radical Historian’ #Marxism #HistoryFromBelow #TheWorldTurnedUpsideDown
https://mronline.org/2025/06/13/christopher-hill-life-and-legacy-of-a-radical-historian/
‘Christopher Hill: Life and Legacy of a Radical Historian’ | MR Online

Christopher Hill looms large in the landscape of British Marxist historiography, perhaps the indispensable historian of the English Revolution for generations on the Left.

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Mink StoleJan 29, 2025

My friend @queerwriter put together this amazing project!

You Are Here – peer to peer survivor writing – is Jet's second survivor writers platform; building on the first: Playing With Fire which took place in 2021.

You Are Here offered an expanded series of workshops, a survivor writers group, and a series of interviews for the Wellcome Collection archives.

You can check out the zine, creative pieces produced by the writers group and interviews here: https://jetmoon.org/you-are-here/

#survivor #queer #crip #SMDykes #dyke #lesbian #LGBT #LGBTQ #SickFucks #ResilientAndResisting #QueerWriting #fiction #poetry #DisabilityRights #trans #migration #PerformingArts #UK #London #disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicFatigue #CreativeWriting #literature #QueerHistory #HistoryFromBelow #transfem #transmasc #WorkingClassWriting #WorkingClassQueers #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #addiction #PsychAbolition #trauma #BDSM #HIV #PTSD #HepC #ClassWarfare #genderqueer #kink

You Are Here

Introduction You Are Here – peer to peer survivor writing – is my second survivor writer’s platform; building on the first: Playing With Fire which took place in 2021. You Are Here offers an expand…

InterregnumJan 12, 2025

In the second part of Workers and Empire, Christopher Reid surveys the relationships between working class revolts in the centre and the periphery of the British empire, and draws lessons from George Padmore, CLR James, and George Orwell.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/workers-and-empire-2/

#imperialism #workers #decolonial #history #politics #peopleshistory #historyfrombelow

Workers and empire: Learning from early 20th century resistance politics in Imperial Britain – Part 2

In the second part of Workers and Empire, Christopher Reid surveys the relationships between working class revolts in the centre and the periphery of the British empire, and draws lessons from George Padmore, CLR James, and George Orwell.

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Show threadSelin @ Real Scientists DEOct 21, 2024
3/x Methodisch mussten die Aktivist*innen neue Wege gehen, denn in Archiven oder Museen waren ihre Spuren nicht gesammelt oder gar gezielt „vergessen“ worden. Die #oralhistory erlebte so eine ihrer Sternstunden, aber auch die #materialhistory oder die #historyfrombelow.