Studentische Hausarbeiten, with an essay by Jan van den Hombergh on"Die Ästhetisierung der Freundschaft. Die Briefe Margaretes von der Mark (†1409) an Mechtild von Geldern (1324–1384)", Heidelberg timetravellinghistorian.blogspot.com/2020/01/stud...

Une université américaine lance une enquête sur un professeur d’archéologie suspecté d'être un « antifa » www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/19/u...

Yes! Der Historikertag heißt jetzt "Tag der Geschichtswissenschaft". Der Vorschlag wurde mit überwältigender Mehrheit angenommen. @vhdonline.bsky.social

The murder of archbishop Engelbert of Cologne 1225 is the subject of the medieval panel at @historikertag.bsky.social feat. Claudia Garnier, @katha-m.bsky.social and Claudia Lauer. And what a fitting location it has. More: www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...

Auf dem Weg nach Bonn - wir freuen uns auf die Sektion am Donnerstag, es wird spannend! Wir berichten von Frauen (und Männern) an Höfen, in Hotels und Restaurants und verbinden die Geschichte kulinarischer Ästhetik mit Geschlechtergeschichte.

Notke. Tai se osa, mikä on säilynyt.

Translation:

Dear #MedievalSky & #SkyStorians, could you help, please? I am looking for depictions of orcas from before 1700 I already know: Olaus Magnus, Sebastian Münster, Pierre Belon, Guillaume Rondelet, Conrad Gessner, as well as the ones on bestiary.ca (s. pic) & the mural in Greifswald Thanks in advance!

Currently looking at the page proofs for Fall 2025 special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies on "eighteenth century coasts." Thanks again to @dominikhhh.bsky.social @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @tarquinhh.bsky.social who helped me with suggestions about the #envhist of climate. #CoastalHistory 🗃️

Nigel Farage and the UK Reform Party? Really UK? REALLY? Seriously, what the hell? Have you learned nothing from the United States dumpster fire incompetent Nazi corrupt clown show? Or even just from your own Brexit disaster? You really want to look at ALL that and say “we can do even worse?

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Sehen wir uns in Bonn? Würde mich sehr freuen!

Colloque – La ville au présent. Temporalités et rythmes urbains en Europe occidentale (XIVe-XVIIe siècles) rmblf.be/2025/09/03/c...

Yes, everything is <waves hands>, but I get to teach about these this week. So there's that. #envhist #cdnhist

Introducing 'Port City Territories in Action' (PACT), a COST Action tackling the challenges of energy transition in port city territories🌱⚓ -interdisciplinary research -real-world pilot studies -collaboration with local communities We explore ways to connect people, ports, and sustainable futures!

Am 31. August 1819 fasste der Deutsche Bund die Karlsbader Beschlüsse. -Verbot der schriftlichen Meinungsfreiheit und der Burschenschaften -Überwachung der Universitäten, -die Schließung der Turnplätze (Turnsperre von 1820 bis 1842), -Zensur der Presse -Berufsverbot für liberal gesinnte Professoren

Reçu aujourd'hui cette somme dirigée par @hautcoeurpc.bsky.social et Catherine Virlouvet. 1060 p. pour une synthèse de grande ampleur et une histoire économique de la France renouvelée. Et une modeste contribution de la part...

4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot

Today in 1350 Edward III's fleet defeated a Castilian fleet off Winchelsea. Known imaginatively as the Battle of 'Les Espagnols sur Mer.' I think it's the last time an English king commanded in a sea battle. Possibly also the first battle in the West in which cannon were used

Project output! Brilliant article by my colleague Matthias Berlandi out now in The English Historical Review: 'Market Positioning over Productivity: Rethinking England’s Eighteenth-Century Grain Export Boom' #earlymodern #eighteenthcentury doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...

De gegevens van duizenden WIC-opvarenden zijn nu online te doorzoeken #wicopvarenden wic-opvarenden.dekok.xyz/browse

What a resource! Early modern maritime historians check this out … seafarers of the Dutch West Indian Company 17thC #maritimehistory #sailors #earlymodern

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

High transit ridership is diverse ridership -- diverse in every dimension: wealth, trip purpose, physical ability, gender, language, nationality, race ... Always push back on cultural stereotypes about "who rides public transit." Plan as though everyone counts.

Last few days to register your interest in the Maritime Britain End of Project Conference - deadline for proposals to speak is 1/9/25 ⚓⚓⚓ eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b... & conference organiser @medievalmariner.bsky.social is now here!

Ob es der Tagesschau-Redaktion bewusst war bei der Illustration ihrer Meldung? Das Tattoo des Arbeiters ist jedenfalls der perfekte Kommentar zur Berliner Amo-Debatte: *Furor Teutonicus*... 🙄

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

in May, I published an invitation: Write a letter to the sea. the eighth letter (in a form of a postcard) is written by @stevementz.bsky.social from Branford, Connecticut, USA. Steve is a longtime friend of the Sea Library and a godfather of the Blue Humanities: sea-library.com/2025/08/20/0...

Stip: Jeanne Baret Anschubstipendien "Maritime Transfers" für Promotions-/Projektvorhaben (Univ. Trier) https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-156970 Trier, , Transmare Institut, Universität Trier, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.09.2025

Regional maps in premodern Westfalia - Regionale Kartographie im vormodernen Westfalen - Neues Bich OA @gga-hagen.bsky.social ub-deposit.fernuni-hagen.de/receive/mir_...

Other whales frighten sailors from Lübeck and must be driven away with loud wind instruments or by throwing barrels into the sea. 4/10

Le Puy du Fou n'était qu'un avant-goût de ce qui nous attend : le spectacle historique est devenue la nouvelle arme de la bataille culturelle menée par l'extrême-droite pour diffuser insidieusement ses valeurs en manipulant le passé... et les publics de ces spectacles. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

A technology that never disappoints...

CFP: Die Hanse als Identität: Public History, Historiographie, Erinnerung https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156818 Lübeck, 24.05.2026-25.05.2026, Nikita Malinovskii, Universität Bielefeld; Tomke Schöningh, Universität Hamburg; Jan-Willem Waterböhr, Universität Bielefeld / Stadtarchiv …

Thou shalt not remove exhibits from museums. Indiana Jones will punch you in the face.

‘The coast exerts an increasing pull on the collective cultural imagination as Greco-Macedonian ships enter new waters under Alexander and his successors.’ Josephine Quinn on the coast in the ancient world: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Rigorous historical research, grounded in evidence and communicated to the public through museums and other venues, is a critical hindrance to fascism. There is only one reason Trump wants to do this.

Today is the feast of Clare of Assisi, d. 1253. Here she is, with a very nice book of her own, in the Hours of Louis of Savoy, BNF lat. 9473, made in the mid-15th c. 🕯️ #medievalsky

"For more than 50 years, Heritage’s leadership has dreamed of this moment: a presidential administration willing to destroy and then remake the nation’s “heritage” in the service of right-wing triumphalism and now, via Roberts, Christian nationalism." Lesenswert! 👇

What times do we live in, where an ordinary German bookshop chain offers a casual presentation of banned books - banned not in the usual oppressive countries, but in the US!

CFP: Macht verhandeln, Geschichte erinnern: Zur Konstruktion und Funktion von hansischen Machtgeschichte(n) durch Forschung, Politik und Kulturakteure https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156614 Lübeck, 25.05.2026-28.05.2026, Hansischer Geschichtsverein / Hanseatic History Association, …

Jeden Tag bis zum Historikertag eine Fachsektion! Heute: Machtvoll im Wartestand? Einsetzung, Funktion und Handlungsmöglichkeiten spätmittelalterlicher Koadjutoren mit: Nina Gallion, Laura Potzuweit (Sektionsleitung)

"the sea is back in vogue. Blue Humanities has taken over large parts of the academy in the last decade, bringing the human relationship with oceans, rivers, lakes and seas to the top of the scholarly agenda just as those waters gather to end humanity for good." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

On things that I love: I wonder just how the sea gets into you, under the skin, into the blood in your veins. I don’t think I could live without the sea. And yet I am terrified of the open ocean.