Mastodawn

We don’t like to think about death, but the way we die says a lot about how we live.

My latest review explores No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee, a book about how even the most ordinary deaths are shaped by culture, community, and time.

https://quitebookish.com/2026/04/01/no-ordinary-deaths-a-peoples-history-of-mortality-by-molly-conisbee/

#books #bookstadon #history #socialhistory #reading #bookblogging #grief #death #bereavement #belief #nonfiction

No Ordinary Deaths – A People’s History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee

It’s going to happen to all of us. We don’t know when, we don’t know how. Ideally, perhaps, it will take place peacefully after a long and fulfilling life. We might be surrounded …

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IHC 3d ago

📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.

👉 https://tigrepapel.pt/loja/historia/memorias-dissidentes-repressao-e-resistencias-quotidianas-de-homossexuais-e-lesbicas-nas-ditaduras-ibericas/

#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros

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

The Ghost Monk Mar 21

'D'Absinthe' by Kees van Dongen, 1902. A cruel but no doubt accurate depiction of the effect the narcotic wormwood-derived liquor had on the working population of continental Europe. I suppose the London equivalent would have been gin. #artsky #findesiecle #socialhistory #Edwardian #skull

IHC Mar 20

🆕 Yvette Santos has begun a stint as a Visiting Researcher at the Laboratoire des Études Romanes at Paris 8 University. Until August, the IHC researcher will be moving her research on Portuguese emigration to France.

👉 Find out more at https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/yvette-santos-paris/

#Histodons #Migrations #PortugueseMigrants #France #SocialHistory #EmigraçãoPortuguesa #HistóriaSocial #França

IHC Mar 17

🗣️ We've opened the #CallForPapers for the international meeting "Between wars and peace: New Perspectives and Challenges of Portuguese Migration (1914-1945)", that seeks to reflect on a variety of subjects related to the history of Portuguese migration during the interwar period.

📍 It will be hosted by the Université Paris 8.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/between-wars-peace/

#Histodons #SocialHistory #InterWarPeriod #PortugueseMigrants #Migrations #HistóriaSocial #EmigraçãoPortuguesa #EntreGuerras #CFP

ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ Mar 15

Victorian ladies:

https://www.bbc.com/videos/c1532n3v9kwo

#Victorian #history #SocialHistory #OralHistory #1890s

BBC Archive 1970: Victorian teenagers look back at the 1890s

What was it like to be a teenager in the Victorian era? Two women, now in their 90's, talk about their younger days in the 1890s.

BBC

Dr Stefanie Affeldt Mar 12

»If oral knowledge was never meant to be read off a page, are libraries and archives really the best way to return it to the communities it belongs to?« https://buff.ly/jP30xk8 #FirstNations #AI #SocialHistory

Susan Hodges Mar 9

The transition into retirement is a major life milestone that deserves a bit of wit.

I’m sharing a delightful new resource by Marshal Flam: "Funny Retirement Limericks to End Work Life with a Laugh." It is a straightforward, For those who appreciate concise storytelling and a good-natured ribbing of corporate culture.

Full article here:
🔗 https://www.wordlelimericks.com/funny-retirement-limericks/

#Retirement #Limericks #WorkCulture #CreativeWriting #SocialHistory #Author #Writer #Writing #BookS #Blog

IHC Mar 4

🆕 FCSH hosted the closing session of the #VINCULUM project, coordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rosa. The session featured presentations by Vítor Cardoso and Henrique Leitão, both beneficiaries of the European Research Council.

♾️ It was also the moment for the premiere of the documentary ‘VINCULUM: a journey of scientific research’

👉 We tell you much more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/vinculum-end-beginning/

#Histodons #ERC #EU_funded #ERCCoG #SocialHistory #ModernHistory #Entails #Heritage #Inheritance #SciComm