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Remembering Kim Shattuck, lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter of the American punk rock band The Muffs, member of The Pandoras and short-term bassist for the Pixies, died far too early 6 years ago today at the age of 56
Remembering Kim Shattuck, lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter of the American punk rock band The Muffs, member of The Pandoras and short-term bassist for the Pixies, died far too early 6 years ago today at the age of 56
Socialist, theosophist + women's rights activist Annie Besant was born #onthisday 1847. Read @ResObscura on her book Thought-Forms (1901), an intriguing work grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia #OTD
#OtD 30 Sep 1918 a small unit of 36 Ukrainian revolutionaries in the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine engaged in their first battle, crushing a much superior counter-revolutionary German force in the village of Dibrivki. Learn more: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collections/books/products/no-harmless-power-the-life-and-times-of-the-ukrainian-anarchist-nestor-makhno-charlie-allison
#OtD 30 Sep 1918 a small unit of 36 Ukrainian revolutionaries in the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine engaged in their first battle, crushing a much superior counter-revolutionary German force in the village of Dibrivki. Learn more: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collections/books/products/no-harmless-power-the-life-and-times-of-the-ukrainian-anarchist-nestor-makhno-charlie-allison
#OnThisDay in 1791, the first performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Pictured here the magnificent set design for “The Hall of Stars” from Act 1, Scene 6, designed by the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. (Buy a print of it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/the-hall-of-stars-a-design-for-the-magic-flute/) #OTD
#OnThisDay in 1791, the first performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Pictured here the magnificent set design for “The Hall of Stars” from Act 1, Scene 6, designed by the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. (Buy a print of it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/the-hall-of-stars-a-design-for-the-magic-flute/) #OTD
Born #onthisday in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes, author of one of the most illustrated books of all time, #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-don-quixote #otd
#OtD 29 Sep 1922 Irish postal workers who had been on strike since 10 September achieved concessions from the government and their union called off the strike https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10142/irish-postal-strike-ends
#OtD 29 Sep 1922 Irish postal workers who had been on strike since 10 September achieved concessions from the government and their union called off the strike https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10142/irish-postal-strike-ends
Born #onthisday in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes, author of one of the most illustrated books of all time, #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-don-quixote #otd
#OtD 28 Sep 1907 socialist revolutionary and anti-colonialist Bhagat Singh was born in what is now Pakistan. An advocate of working-class uprising, he attacked Gandhi for his fear of the proletariat. He was executed by the British in 1931 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10060/bhagat-singh-born
#OtD 28 Sep 1907 socialist revolutionary and anti-colonialist Bhagat Singh was born in what is now Pakistan. An advocate of working-class uprising, he attacked Gandhi for his fear of the proletariat. He was executed by the British in 1931 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10060/bhagat-singh-born
#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965/battle-of-holbeck-moor
#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965/battle-of-holbeck-moor
“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves."
#OnThisDay, 27 Sept 1962, Rachel Carson's influential book 'Silent Spring' is published, documenting the environmental impact of pesticides.
Read more here: https://carvehername.org.uk/sixty-years-of-silent-spring/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves."
#OnThisDay, 27 Sept 1962, Rachel Carson's influential book 'Silent Spring' is published, documenting the environmental impact of pesticides.
Read more here: https://carvehername.org.uk/sixty-years-of-silent-spring/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/on-benjamins-public-oeuvre #otd
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