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Morning’ 🔆 Loved waking to the yarn generated on Traditional #Aboriginal #placenames. There is always dissonance when it comes imperialst #datacollection with a limited appreciation of Aboriginal cultural nuance and sophistication. Read more below. google.com.au/amp/s/theconve…
My Traditional language, the Mbarabram language is completey exctinct due to colonisation. So I believe its vital we support language revivals. Language is instrinsct to the expression of culture. A means of communicating share values, beliefs and customs.
Plus, there’s many borrowed English words from Aboriginal tribes, clans and nations, without any formal recognition. ‘Hard Yakka’ meaning ‘work’ from the Yagara language, the famous surfing brand ‘Billabong’ borrowed from the Wiradjuri group in South-West New South Wales.
THREAD. Whether poring over old/modern maps or going for a walk in new/familiar places it’s always fun to wonder what the landscape we see today was like in the past & why/how it became the world we know today. Here are my #Top10Books for beginners in #medieval #landscape history 
No. 1 is Christopher Taylor’s beautifully written, highly readable history of the English landscape - ahead of its time in 1983, still the best introduction today & quite ridiculously cheap secondhand. It far surpasses Hoskins, wonderful though the latter was in its time.
No. 2 is Rackham environmental history of Britain - also still unrivalled after just over 30 years. He showed how much one can tell about the past and present just by looking at trees, hedges, fields, grassland. It’s a stunner. Your world will never be the same (in a good way 😊)
THREAD. Here’s a story that always thrills me - the clues in some field- & #placenames to early #medieval daily lives, landscapes & society in the period between c400-700AD, using an example from Cambridgeshire in a landscape that wouldn’t usually get a 1st let alone a 2nd glance
2. I was most interested in woods & pasture, & in David Hall’s suggestion that some field-names preserve how people saw the landscape in the centuries c400-1100. So I found as many names as I could across 10 Cambs parishes & mapped them....
3. There were several variations on the same that that were specially intriguing: Offal or Orfill or Offil. And they lay in 3 neighbouring parishes - Eversden, Harlton, & Haslingfield. What did it mean?
