John Levin

@anterotesis
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Digital History, Radical History, Social History.
Dadaists, Coin clippers, Absconding Debtors, Londoners.
Critics and Critiques of Political Economy.
Open Access, Public Domain, Hacking Around.
Editor of British History Online at the IHR.
Also Cats & Spain.
Blog:https://anterotesis.com
Alsatia: Debtor Sanctuaries of Londonhttps://alsatia.org.uk/site/
Statutes Project:https://statutes.org.uk

Not before time:

France overturns law classing people as property – 178 years after it abolished slavery

National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/france-votes-code-noir-slavery-law-colonialism

#LegalHistory #EnslavedHistory

France overturns law classing people as property – 178 years after it abolished slavery

National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed

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As a contributor to the #Wikipedia family of sites (mainly wikisource atm) I have signed this petition,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

supporting the Wiki Workers United union, and against the recent sackings of Community Tech Team workers.

Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity - Wikipedia

The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Foundation has now fired a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike. To stand in solidarity with them, sign the petition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

For more, read on!

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Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity - Wikipedia

Hal Foster · At MoMA: A Dose of Duchamp

In​ 1973, when a Marcel Duchamp retrospective was last staged in the United States, the critic Lucy Lippard declared...

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Census of England and Wales. 1911 ...

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Published last year, but I've only come across it now, an #OpenAccess book on prisons in the ancient world:

Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration
https://www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.239

#CarceralHistory

Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration | University of California Press

<p>This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to 600 BCE . Analyzing a wide range of sources—including legal texts, archaeological findings, documentary evidence, and visual materials—Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney argue that prisons were integral to the social, political, and economic fabric of ancient societies. <i>Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration </i>traces a long history of carceral practices, considering ways in which the institution of prison has been fundamentally intertwined with issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and imperialism. By foregrounding the voices and experiences of the imprisoned, Larsen and Letteney demonstrate the extraordinary durability of carceral structures across time and call for a new historical consciousness around contemporary practices of incarceration.</p> <p>“An instant classic and an astonishing resource that will forever change how we think about the history of incarceration.” — Candida Moss, author of <i>God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible</i></p> <p>“Larsen and Letteney’s work both uncovers a hidden past and provides a roadmap for historians, criminologists, and practical reformers alike to find, listen to, and recenter too-often silenced voices.” — Keramet Reiter, author of <i>23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Longterm Solitary Confinement</i></p> <p>“Larsen and Letteney have given us nothing less than a disturbing new framework for understanding the pervasiveness of institutional violence and social control in classical antiquity.” — Carlos F. Noreña, author of <i>Imperial Ideals in the Roman West: Representation, Circulation, Power</i></p> <p>Matthew D.C. Larsen is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian History and Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen. Mark Letteney is the Carol Thomas Professor of Ancient History at the University of Washington.</p>

Manual of Military Law

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Really can't wait to read this:

Imprisonment in Early Modern England
Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society

by Richard T Bell.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/imprisonment-in-early-modern-england/098CBA398DBDB9B69C314718C8ECA600

(But am going to have to til October.)

#History #DebtHistory #CarceralHistory

Imprisonment in Early Modern England

Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Imprisonment in Early Modern England

Cambridge Core
Supply Manual (war).

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