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Feb 12, 2020 12 tweets 28 min read
And now we have @annatoledano on ‘Resurrecting Lost Objects in the Natural History Museum’ #ResurrectingObjects #MuseumTwitter #BSHSGlobalHist @annatoledano 1/11 #Museums aren’t forever. Might seem counterintuitive at 1st, but decay, loss, destruction are the norm for objects, not the exception. A challenge for #twitterstorians is to tell stories of lost things from other sources and via new methods #publichistory #BSHSGlobalHist
Feb 12, 2020 13 tweets 19 min read
Now over to @matsfridlund for ‘What is Global Nuclear Culture? Understanding Nuclear Energy’ #NuclearEnergyCulture #NuclearCulture #NuclearEnergy #HenryMoore #BSHSGlobalHist @matsfridlund 1/12 It is time to take Jeff Hughes’ 2012 question ‘What is British #nuclearculture?’ from the national to the #transnational sphere in a study of the #Anglo-American conception & global reception of Henry Moore’s #ColdWar sculpture “Nuclear Energy”. #BSHSGlobalHist British historian of nuclea...Jeff Hughes’ article “What ...Henry Moore in front of his...
Feb 12, 2020 13 tweets 12 min read
@skidwayy is here now to talk about ‘Complexities Around Translating Scientific Knowledge in 19th Century British India’ #ScienceInUrdu #BSHSGlobalHist @skidwayy 1/12 While Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), founder of @AligarhMuslimUn, is a well-known figure in South Asia, his contributions to science education and popularization are relatively unexamined. Today, I am going to introduce us to some examples #histSTM #BSHSGlobalHist The cover for ‘The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan’ (2018).