Historical Highlights #013

historical highlights

From an unseen Charlotte Bronte story to Thanksgiving foods to Russia’s royal lost family, here are this week’s historical highlights.

Unpublished story and poem by 17-year-old Charlotte Bronte discovered in a book belonging to her mother. 

Faint writing found on the back of “recycled” medieval painting “The Kiss of Judas.”

“Fragments of a mediaeval manuscript hidden in the spine of a book for hundreds of years could shed new light on Ireland’s greatest cultural treasure, ‘The Book of Kells’.” 

Squash, corn, cranberries, turkey: “The Story of Four Thanksgiving Ingredients” 

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Thanksgiving Menu, 1968. Civilian Conservation Corps.

New database from Library and Archives Canada: Carleton Papers – Book of Negroes, 1783.

If you’re interested in maps, check out this exhibition from Digital Public Library of America.

“Great-grandson of Russian Tsar dies in Australia: Russia’s royal lost family rediscovered”

Any finally, short stories from a vending machine?! 

Have a lovely weekend!

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