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VINTAGE POSTCARD Insurance Riders Horses Swiss Militaria Company Winterthur

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December 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.*

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.

#WomenInHistory #SwissHistory 🗃️

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1920s suffragists marching through a street. They are pulling a parade float that carries a giant paper mache snail.
February 7, 2026 at 11:28 AM
louisemangos.bsky.social
#HistFicMay
#HistoricalFiction #readers #MedievalMystery #SwissHistory #WilliamTell #KnightsTemplar

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May 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.

#WomenInHistory #SwissHistory 🗃️
1920s suffragists marching through a street. They are pulling a parade float that carries a giant paper mache snail
February 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A brief history of Switzerland, enjoy!

#switzerland #swiss #history #historyofswitzerland #swisshistory #travel #wanderlust #shorts #thecurrentfocus
Switzerland: a brief history
YouTube video by The Current Focus
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December 1, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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For more information, see here: www.unige.ch/cmcss/actual...

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La virilité en question - du 21 au 24 octobre 2025 - Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités (CMCSS) - UNIGE
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October 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
genderandhistory.bsky.social
In this OA article, Jamie Page analyses how ideas of manhood were used to make sense of the the 1489 ‘Waldmann Affair’ in Zurich, and places them within a larger story of the emerging Swiss Confederation.

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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
This article examines chronicle accounts of the so-called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt ...
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September 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM
carvehername.bsky.social
#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.

#WomenInHistory #SwissHistory #Histodons
1920s suffragists marching through a Swiss street. They are pulling a parade float that carries a giant paper mache snail.
February 7, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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“The Secrets of Morgarten”
TWO WEEKS to publication!
#HistoricalFiction #MedievalMystery #SwissHistory #WilliamTell #KnightsTemplar
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November 22, 2023 at 8:20 AM
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Elisabeth Müller, author of "Six Kummerbuben“, was born #odt in 1885 in the Emmental valley. For her numerous works, Müller received the Swiss Youth Book Prize, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, and Literature Prize of the City of Bern.
#SwissHistory
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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We are delighted that our video essay on working animals ruralfilms.eu/ruralfilms/v... is also being discussed in Latin America.
#AgrarianHistory #aghist #SwissHistory #ruralhistory
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November 7, 2023 at 10:36 AM
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Giovanni Segantini was a painter of realistic symbolism, and his pointillist paintings of the high mountains still inspire enthusiasm today. Many of his works are associated with landscapes in the Grisons, where he lived for many years. He died #otd near Pontresina in 1899.
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September 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Aktuell: Porträt über das Archiv für Agrargeschichte AfA im Spendenmagazin von stiftungschweiz.ch:
spendenmagazin.stiftungschweiz.ch/das-virtuell... Das AfA kann seine Arbeit nur weiterführen, wenn es Spenden erhält. #aghist #foodhistory #ruralhistory #archivCH #histCH #SwissHistory
November 24, 2023 at 11:55 AM
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We've just recently celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Murten when the Swiss army, helped by the Alsacians, the county of Lorraine and Austria defeated Charles the Bold. #history #switzerland #swisshistory
The Battle of Murten. Illumination from the Amtliche Berner Chronik (Official Chronicle of Bern) by Diebold Schilling the Elder, Bern, Burgerbibliothek, manuscript Mss.h.h.l.3, folio 765.
August 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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If you’re on #TikTok, hop over & watch me #read the #prologue of my #HistoricalFiction #MedievalMystery #TheSecretsOfMorgarten #publishing on #December6th
Please #like my #video & #follow me! I’ll follow you back if you have an account 📚❤️ #BookTok

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November 6, 2023 at 4:47 PM
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Switzerland Becomes a Federal State

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September 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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1653 peasant revolt forces Swiss cities to concede power #citycountrysideconflict #PeasantWar #Swisshistory
1653 peasant revolt forces Swiss cities to concede power
Switzerland's 1653 Peasant War ended in defeat and executions for the rebels, but it forced the cities to ease their control over rural communities, according to SRF. On September 6, 1653, Niklaus Leuenberger, known as the Peasant King, was beheaded and quartered in Bern. His limbs were displayed…
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August 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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If you are around, do come to the opening of our exhibition at the Maurice Chalumeau Centre for Sexual Sciences (in Geneva) on the 21st of October! We look forward to seeing you there!

🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
drninastuder.bsky.social Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social · Oct 6
If anybody is in Geneva in the week of the 20th of October: Please come on Tuesday, the 21st of October 2025 (5:00pm), to the opening of the exhibition “Masculinity in Question: Remedies and Devices against Nocturnal Emissions (18th to 21st Centuries)” at the CMCSS, Campus Batelle, Bâtiment A!

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This image shows a black and white, early 20th century French advert for an electronic belt (Herculex, by a Dr Sanden), early 20th century. On the right hand side is the drawing of an older man in formal clothes, while on the left hand side, there is a drawing of two young, white men, wearing only shorts. The one on the left is holding up one of these belts in his right hand, while also wearing one, while the one on the right is on his knees, in the process of getting up, looking up at the other man. The title of this advert is "Regained Virility".
October 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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June 23 is #Jura Independence Day. A regional public holiday celebrated by the Canton of Jura in #Switzerland. It commemorates the separation of the Jura region from the Swiss Canton of #Bern, leading to its establishment as an independent canton on this date in 1979.
#swisshistory #SwissCulture
June 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
agrararchiv.bsky.social
Flavio Eichmann, Generalsekretär der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte (www.sgg-ssh.ch) erklärt, wer die parlamentarische Gruppe "Geschichte" der SGG ist & und was sie macht: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbB-... #archivCH #SwissHistory
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Flavio Eichmann (Generalsekretär SGG)
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March 19, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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The AM 2024 of the Agricultural History Society takes place on June 5-8. The Archives of Rural History (ARH) are organising a Session on films. With: M. Ó Fathartaigh, J. Anderson, P. Moser & Diana Méndez Rojas
Program: aghistorysociety.org/2024-meeting
#AgrarianHistory #aghist #SwissHistory
March 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Zwei Blicke auf ein Fach: Die NZZ berichtet von schwindendem, die Wochenzeitung WOZ von steigendem Interesse der Jugend an Geschichte...
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Archiv für Agrargeschichte: Wer die Geschichte nicht verstehen will | WOZ Die Wochenzeitung
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February 29, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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William Tell (2024): when a Swiss legend becomes a British lecture in bad CGI, token casting, and historical amnesia. Crossbows, mountains, and absolutely no point.
#WilliamTell #FilmReview #SwissHistory #CinemaFail #CastingChaos
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William Tell Me Lies (Tell Me Shitty Little Lies)
What’s more insensitive? An adaptation of Wilhelm Tell without Indians, or one without Swiss and Austrians? Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 drama centers on the Swiss struggle for independence from the H…
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August 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM