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Dear #dutch #historians
This brooch belonged to a dutch policeman who acted against the German occupation in the 1940s.
Can anyone say, whether this was part of a uniform, a personal belonging or else?

@histodons
#materialhistory
#concentrationcamp
#resistance
#amersfort
#netherlands #history #nazi #police

Dear #dutch #historians This belt buckle belonged to a dutch policeman who acted against the German occupation in the 1940s.
Can anyone say, whether this was part of a uniform, a personal belonging or else?

@histodons
#materialhistory #concentrationcamp #resistance #amersfort

Cursory checking my collection of newspaper scans, it seems that the phenomenon is more common than I thought. And apparently I did not pay attention to this material aspect of periodicals when reading them as sources for my research on #Damascus.
The next stamp is from a copy of *Thamarāt al-Funūn* (ثمرات الفنون) also published in Beirut. This time the scan is from a private collection of the editor's heirs and held by the German Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB).

#ArabPeriodicalStudies #BookHistory #MaterialHistory #PeriodicalStudies

Recent Explore story about Jamaican silver in the NMS collection #colonialhistory #Scotland #materialhistory https://www.nms.ac.uk/jamaicansilver

In preparation for their talk tonight at Chicago Public Library with @gerberhart, Milo busted out their formal wear. This t-shirt from ACT UP/Chicago has been in their personal collection since 1992. It’s been to protests, dance clubs, Senior Prom, high school graduation, university commencement, and more.

#aidsactivism #actup #actupfightback #paracticesafersex #usecondoms #queertshirts #queerarchives #materialhistory #fightaids

In preparation for their talk tonight at Chicago Public Library with @gerberhart, Milo busted out their formal wear. This t-shirt from ACT UP/Chicago has been in their personal collection since 1992. It’s been to protests, dance clubs, Senior Prom, high school graduation, university commencement, and more.

#aidsactivism #actup #actupfightback #paracticesafersex #usecondoms #queertshirts #queerarchives #materialhistory #fightaids

In preparation for their talk tonight at Chicago Public Library with @gerberhart, Milo busted out their formal wear. This t-shirt from ACT UP/Chicago has been in their personal collection since 1992. It’s been to protests, dance clubs, Senior Prom, high school graduation, university commencement, and more.

#aidsactivism #actup #actupfightback #paracticesafersex #usecondoms #queertshirts #queerarchives #materialhistory #fightaids

In preparation for their talk tonight at Chicago Public Library with @gerberhart, Milo busted out their formal wear. This t-shirt from ACT UP/Chicago has been in their personal collection since 1992. It’s been to protests, dance clubs, Senior Prom, high school graduation, university commencement, and more.

#aidsactivism #actup #actupfightback #paracticesafersex #usecondoms #queertshirts #queerarchives #materialhistory #fightaids

Any scholar of #MaterialHistory or #DressHistory or #FiberArts can tell you the value of antique textiles, and how most humanities scholars can tell you about how archives conceal as much as they reveal.

Well, the same is true of recreation. Looking at an object, even using an object, cannot give you the kinds of knowledge that comes from making and remaking.

That work is hard as fuck and there is so much failure along the way. So, so much failure, and so much reward.

#Quilts #quilting

I never know whether admitting to a thrill from holding and owning a trivial object like this - an #Imari ware #teapot of about 1815 - suggests one isn't serious about history. I hope not. #Materialhistory can be, perhaps must be, partly about the senses and the delight in touch and the stimulation of those colours. Am I, though, romantically associating it with an imagined breakfast table, a broadsheet Times and news of Waterloo? Possibly.

I never know whether admitting to a thrill from holding and owning a trivial object like this - an #Imari ware #teapot of about 1815 - suggests one isn't serious about history. I hope not. #Materialhistory can be, perhaps must be, partly about the senses and the delight in touch and the stimulation of those colours. Am I, though, romantically associating it with an imagined breakfast table, a broadsheet Times and news of the #BattleOfWaterloo? Possibly.

I never know whether admitting to a thrill from holding and owning a trivial object like this - an #Imari ware #teapot of about 1815 - suggests one isn't serious about history. I hope not. #Materialhistory can be, perhaps must be, partly about the senses and the delight in touch and the stimulation of those colours. Am I, though, romantically associating it with an imagined breakfast table, a broadsheet Times and news of Waterloo? Possibly.

I never know whether admitting to a thrill from holding and owning a trivial object like this - an #Imari ware #teapot of about 1815 - suggests one isn't serious about history. I hope not. #Materialhistory can be, perhaps must be, partly about the senses and the delight in touch and the stimulation of those colours. Am I, though, romantically associating it with an imagined breakfast table, a broadsheet Times and news of the #BattleOfWaterloo? Possibly.

I never know whether admitting to a thrill from holding and owning a trivial object like this - an #Imari ware #teapot of about 1815 - suggests one isn't serious about history. I hope not. #Materialhistory can be, perhaps must be, partly about the senses and the delight in touch and the stimulation of those colours. Am I, though, romantically associating it with an imagined breakfast table, a broadsheet Times and news of the #BattleOfWaterloo? Possibly.