A day in the National Archives is good for the mind, good for the soul, and bad for the sciatica. Going home to sleep with an ice pack under my back and a cat on my chest.

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Choose your writer! Cannot decide which has worse handwriting Caroline of Ansbach vs Sarah Churchill! #earlymodern

I posted this before but I think it deserves 'To be S E E N'. From the 'London Daily Post', 8 September 1736. It's an ad for Ammazoo Snuff that uses the promise to see a rattle snake as its gimmick to get ppl in the door. Or behind the Royal Exchange in this case. #earlymodern

Could not tell you why, but I did not expect Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough's handwriting to be this messy. #earlymodern

"Ultimately, the UK needs to review how higher education is funded and regulated. We cannot leave the future of essential teaching and research to a scramble for students and a race to recruit." #Skystorians

A symbol of confident transparency – the reflecting pool offered the observer a mirror of reality, however ugly that reality may have been sometimes – is being transformed into something so obviously fake. It's the ultimate display of insecurity: it says "I am afraid of you seeing the ugly reality"

Iirc, this is from the 'London Daily Post', 8 September 1736. Just one of the fun ads I encountered while researching my MA dissertation.

For #Caturday here is my cat, my child, and my fellow adventurer, Blue. She is 13 y.o. and cancer free! I found her on the streets of NJ and we've been basically inseparable for the last 12 years.

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

Definitely recommend your student look up some handwriting manuals from the period to get a sense; also the secondary lit by Simran Thadani and Heather Wolfe! (Ex: www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...)

@maddypelling.bsky.social after reading "Writing on the Wall" the copious chalk graffiti in Margate takes on new meaning. People never change. Maybe they don't carry chalk in their pockets anymore but when they find it...

Oh yay! The wonderful @hannahrosecascio.bsky.social is now here! Give her a follow, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians! Exciting ongoing research developing a relational biography approach to Caroline of Ansbach.