Plebeian feuding in the #earlymodern Prince-bishopric of Würzburg was a male affair. Of the over 150 pardons for declaring or conducting a feud from the 1520s-70s, only one was issued to a woman, while three men were also pardoned for issuing defiances over claims of their kinswomen. (1/11) 🧵

This major Samurai exhibition curated by my friend and colleague, Oleg Benesch, is a must see.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... This is definitely the end of #Brexit

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Needs to happen…

Just read Fukuyama’s brilliant Origins of Political Order. Guess what, cultural relativists, #earlymodern European states are historically unusual, and that matters today.

The sectarian left is, after all, sectarian.

👇🏽Martin Wolf’s answer is to rejoin the single market #Brexit

Set piece boredom…

The Würzburg data provides the thus far richest proof that plebeian feuds (Fehden) and their mediation by the state continued well after the practice was banned in the Holy Roman Empire in 1495, as is demonstrated by princely remissions (Landshuldung) or ‘pardons’ for feuding. (1/3)

The decline of violence UK since the 1990s is unheralded social progress. More evidence that overall rates of violence have little to do either with policing or inequality. #skystorians

Zoran Mamdani’s a gooner

A reminder on your next trip to #China that slavery is not a historical problem.

This is astonishing. More great reporting from the #ft

Bravo. Doubt it’s possible to get economic history back into the curriculum though.

Dump it on Farage. Put rejoining the Customs Union in the next manifesto.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Rejoining the customs union is the best way to call out Farage and isolate Reform.

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Here's Timothy Snyder on why Trump tells so many lies. [SOUND ON 🔊]

It’s interesting how feeble civil society has proved to be in the US.

share.google/67AfzMLebCN5... York council. Stop pandering to Fascists.

All those flags around are just a coincidence, right?

York now resembles the Shankill Road. It’ll barbed wire and watchtowers next.

An acute critique of cultural history, fashionable Whiggery and an article that has implications for #earlymodern history.

My sons just released their first album #newmusic

Thanks to David Myers for this amazing review. Relieved to have the endorsement of a Germanist. Waiting to see what the English have to say. #skystorians #earlymodern

What’s holding you up, Keir?

on.ft.com/458PQUy Unfortunately, History has a tendency to repeat itself.

Bromley, 1652. Bet these highwaymen were from Catford.

Historicide. Good word.

Any #earlymodern English historians help me with information on Sir Thomas Wortley knt. shot in an affray in St Martin’s in the Field, 1656?

Montesquieu more cited than read. Much misunderstood. A prophet for our times.

Why haven’t we switched to closed papers already? Universities are complicit.

Really proud of Sian.

Pity the poor historian. This is going to unleash a flood of dreadful MA Dissertation proposals. I know one colleague who has already banned Anne Boleyn and witchcraft as potential topics. Sensible.

Disappointing news…

Letter of Remission for the bodyguard of Thomas Poyntz, English religious refugee, 1546.

At the launch of the amazing Pardons project in Brussels.

It might be worth adding why we are spending billions on Aircraft Carriers, which are sitting ducks and depend on US support ships?

PSG are a great team, but they now join Real Madrid and Manchester City in the pantheon of clubs that all real fans should hate.

More reflections on Pinker…The Enlightenment was a complex phenomenon. Students will need to learn about its contribution to racism…but they’ll also need to know about Diderot.

The biggest problem with Steven Pinker is that he’s very much like the people he effects to despise. He doesn’t weigh the evidence and he doesn’t do his research properly. He’s a culture war warrior, where polemic trumps (!) thinking. Just another example of the closing of the American mind.

Don’t get me started on Steven Pinker…

Show the men the way #Arsenal

Please keep him…

National emergency. It’s time to stop tinkering with benefit cuts and raise income tax on upper middle class people like me. Simple Rachel.

Impressed that a ferry has a rare book library, including an early edition of Voltaire’s Dictionnaire Philosophique. Well done Brittany Ferries.

Think this article has a lot of relevance for historians. We’ve become obsessed with print culture and representation. Experience is more significant historically, but of course harder to get at. #skystorians

On the road to Normandy in the footsteps of my great uncle, Teddy, wounded with 47 Royal Marine Commando at D-Day.

In case you missed it ... Here's proof that Brexit is directly responsible for the rise in net immigration. The simple truth is that we need foreign workers – and while EU workers generally came alone, workers from further afield need to bring their families with them. Otherwise, they won't come.