1939: Bonnie Renard is eighteen and willing to die for France. ''Characters were fabulous. Best World War II history fiction Iโ€™ve ever readโ€ฆ Everything was fact based and believable yet written as a novel, so colorful and heartbreaking and loving at the same time.' mybook.to/UnderEnemySkies #WW2 #Frenchresistance #historymatters Lest we forget.

I just stumbled upon this short #film about John Snow, the doctor who discovered how Cholera spread. I am completely baffled that none other have made this historically significant story into a #movie or a mini-series. #BBC #Britain #UK #HistoryMatters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qATr4D_lqZU

Short film on the outbreak of an epidemy | Snow - by Isaac Ergas

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Saving local news also means saving the archives ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ

Not just the physical clips and photos, but the digital stories too. When they vanish, communities lose their only record of themselves their memory, identity, and history.

From newsroom moves to closures and broken tech, this loss is already happening quietly across the country.

There is still time to act and protect what remains.

Read more ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/saving-local-news-also-means-saving-the-archives/

#Poynter #LocalNews #DigitalPreservation #PressFreedom #HistoryMatters

'Bodenmarkierungen' #FotoVorschlag 'Floor markings'
One of more than 300 "Stolpersteine" in #Mannheim (andd more than 100.000 all over Europe) in memory of victims of the Nazi regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein

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#365projekt #365project
#Stolpersteine #NeverForget #HistoryMatters #Erinnerungskultur
#NieWieder #GegenDasVergessen
#photooftheday #shottoday #fotodestages #heutegemacht

โ€œTartariaโ€ on early maps doesnโ€™t mean a lost empire ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ

It reflects how cartographers labeled vast, unfamiliar regions.

Maps capture both knowledge and uncertainty.

#HistoryMatters #Cartography #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/tartaria-medieval-early-modern-maps-cartography/

Tartaria on Medieval Maps: Myth and Cartography

Explores how โ€œTartariaโ€ appeared on medieval and early modern maps, separating myth, geography, and evolving European knowledge.

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