Dominic Odey
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The Sauce of the Middle Ages
How Worcestershire sauce changed the way we look at medieval manuscripts. If the name Charles Dyson Perrins strikes a chord of recognition today, it is probably in connection with the Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce developed by his grandfather, which helped create the family’s fortune. In Worcestershire, Perrins’ name remains associated with his many philanthropic projects, from hospitals to the Dyson Perrins Church of England Academy. But for scholars of manuscripts he is known because of the imposing catalog of 135 volumes written for Perrins by George Warner, retired Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, published in 1920.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction
Menstruation and the Holocaust
Durations are a truth of lifestyles, but little is mentioned. How did ladies within the concentration camps address the private being made public within the maximum dire and extreme occasions published in history nowadays quantity sixty-nine difficulties 5 May also 2019
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction
The only Ones Left
Kids’ Accounts of Surviving the Holocaust . Jackie Y. Constantly notion of himself as a ‘North London Jewish child’, even after learning in 1951, elderly ten, that he become adopted. He later discovered out he turned into born in Austria, but his adoptive dad and mom have been reluctant to expose extra. Earlier than getting married in a synagogue he had to show his beginning mom changed into Jewish. Taking this possibility to snatch files that his adoptive mother stored in a secure, Jackie found his real call turned into Jona Jakob Spiegel and that he had been in an awareness camp.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction
Forgiven not Forgotten?
An extended and particular challenge to the present-day cult of reminiscence. There's a large literature on the 1/3 Reich and the explosion of state violence it provoked, first in Germany after which across Europe. The destruction of tens of tens of millions of humans culled from ethnic organizations, specifically eu Jewry however also Slavs, Roma, and Sinti and homosexual women and men, as well as members of political corporations taken into consideration enemies of the Nazi country, has come to outline the ancient narrative of the second international warfare.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction
The man The Allies overlooked
The man The Allies overlooked Auschwitz Witold Pilecki might be a family name if ancient reputations were based on advantage. Yet, the Polish military captain who volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz in 1940, to document on the Germans’ nefarious activities inside the camp, is little regarded out of doors Poland.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction
Ghetto girls
The Jewish women played a crucial function within the Polish resistance in opposition to the Nazis. Judy Batalion introduces her groundbreaking examination of Polish resistance against the Nazis by describing her 12-year look for the Jewish ladies who performed a vital function. What she uncovers, in criticizing and poignant element, are the testimonies of the ‘ghetto girls’ who paid off Gestapo guards, concealed revolvers in loaves of bread and messages of their pigtails, and fought in armed struggles. These ladies, their beliefs, friendships, and outstanding sacrifice emerge from the shadows. Without sentimentalizing their achievements and the rate paid for the dangers they took to save their families, pals, and network, Batalion’s collective biography affords an enormous contribution to Holocaust history.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction
Tick Tock
On the difficulty of retaining time with the human beings of the past. The gradual drag of time – while we’re caught on preserve at a call center or sitting thru some other interminable online assembly – may experience like a characteristic of contemporary lifestyles, however, it changed into familiar to Geoffrey Chaucer. His tragic hero Troilus, compelled to attend ten days to be reunited together with his like Criseyde, feels his global decelerating: ‘the days Moore and lenger each night’. Yet if we’re tempted to count on that for Chaucer and different medieval people time turned into honestly much less medical than for us, we want handiest remind ourselves that this ‘Father of English Literature’ also wrote a guide for the most famous timekeeping tool of the center a long time: the astrolabe. Addressed to his ten-year-old son Lewis, the treatise, entitled Bread and Milk for Kids in early manuscript copies, signaled Chaucer’s preference to bring the proper technology of the time to as huge an audience as feasible.
By Dominic Odey12 months ago in Fiction