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A new weekly podcast will investigate the remarkable hidden history of everyday objects in your home. Made by award-winning history network, Noiser. . ....
[The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything, by Ruth Goodman, Liveright Publishing Corporation; 2020. xxi +… ....
Ian Hacking, RIP. Our academic professional societies do an absolutely abysmal job of informing their members of their colleagues’ deaths. Death notices and obituaries typically appear in these organizations’ bulletins months or even years after a scholar’s death. Members of the Organization of American Historians must pay extra to subscribe to a publication that lists deaths. You might think that historians, of all people, would do more to remember their parting. ....
What’s the next homespun COVID trend? How about line-drying your laundry Drying laundry on a clothesline offers benefits for health, finances and the environment. By Anna Hanks During the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, seemingly everyone was self-soothing by baking bread, even people who previously used their ovens strictly to store their winter sweaters. Whether it was from a commercial bread shortage, a desire to reduce trips to the market or a yearning for some Little House on the Prairie cosplay to fill the suddenly empty hours, there was an early communal need to knead. With COVID cases still rising alarmingly even as we are starting to get shots into multiple arms, we’re inching through a brutal winter of discontent. It’s time for another homespun trend, one with actual benefits to your health, your wallet and the planet. It’s time to return to line-drying our clothing. ....