JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

All the pieces in the new @equatormag.bsky.social are amazing, but Lina Mounzer's examination of the "tyranny of hope" and the complacency with which Western media looks at the world struck a chord. www.equator.org/articles/the...

Today we launch at new @EmpirePodUK series- WRITERS ON EMPIRE We kick off with a four-part look at George Orwell linktr.ee/empirepoduk

Next time your mate is deep in a reverie about the immutable, exceptional nature of English identity, you might want to show them this picture and remind them that 300 years ago this would have been enough to send the entire kingdom into a revolutionary, effigy burning, chapel torching frenzy

📖🔓Now online! #PdH20 is now available on our website. This special issue, edited by Noemi Alfieri, is dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge" praticasdahistoria.pt #openaccess #openaccessjournal

📖 In a paper published in the Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, @joseferreira.bsky.social writes about Bernardo Peres da Silva (1775-1844), the first and only Indian to be appointed governor of the Portuguese #Empire in Asia. 👉 www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/browse/the-p...

📰 O número 47 do jornal MAPA inclui uma entrevista de três páginas à equipa do projecto #FIREUSES — "Paisagens de Fogo", na qual falaram sobre mega-incêndios, o fogo como sujeito político, os eucaliptos, a gestão da paisagem em Portugal, entre outros temas. Já nas bancas!

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Porque temos um país que arde todos os anos? No número de outubro da edição portuguesa do Le Monde Diplomatique, o @fredericoagoas.bsky.social, o Miguel Carmo e eu tentamos responder a esta questão examinando a história e as políticas de florestas e fogos em Portugal. pt.mondediplo.com/11741

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

‘Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire. The deepfakes are fascistic dream machines.’ @clairelwilmot.bsky.social on the far-right deepfakes proliferating online: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928" by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

📖🔥After another fiery summer in Portugal, our latest article presents a brief overview of the long transition from a rural economy based on the extensive use of fire to a forested landscape that is regularly devastated by large wildfires. www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/roca...

It was crazy to write about #Indonesia as the situation kept escalating from hour to hour jacobin.com/2025/09/indo...

⏰Don't forget our ongoing call for papers for the special issue "Radical Histories, Distorted Pasts: The Far Right and the Political Instrumentalisation of History"! Proposals (up to 500 words) until 17 September.

“Anyone can get their phone out, but I had tasted the meaning of joie de vivre.” A beautiful defense of language learning.

I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet. If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.

Ler livros é um esquema em pirâmide. A pessoa lê livros, que lhe fazem ter vontade de ler outros livros num ciclo perpétuo em que a lista de livros para ler está constantemente a aumentar.

🔥O projeto FIREUSES divulga 3 entrevistas em torno do estudo do fogo em Portugal. As entrevistas com a geógrafa Raquel Soeiro de Brito, com o engenheiro silvicultor João Filipe Bugalho e com o engenheiro agrónomo João Castro Caldas contaram com a colaboração da produtora TERRATREME. rb.gy/ljvuck

O programa do Governo conhecido este fim de semana traz várias novidades, mas há opções que se mantêm. Enquanto se acena com a descida dos impostos, a obsessão com os excedentes orçamentais continua a travar o investimento necessário em várias áreas 🧵

📖 In History of Science, Inês Gomes and @fredericoagoas.bsky.social examine ‘the intersection of environmental history and the history of science, specifically the impact of forestry science and fire management on land use and community dynamics’. #FIREUSES 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🖥 O colóquio “50 Anos de Dipanda. A imprensa africana e a democracia”, que decorrerá em Luanda entre 28 e 30 de Maio, vai ter transmissão online. podem encontrar o link Zoom no nosso site. ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/50-an...

Shout this, by @casmudde.bsky.social, from the rooftops. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The final, grim confluence of Marxism and rightwing populism will be the understanding that "real" jobs are dirty, nasty ones that people wish they could leave, and only "elites" have work they might possibly enjoy, or gain satisfaction from.

✍️ @pdh-journal.bsky.social has a permanent call for papers. It is an #OpenAccess jounal indexed in #Scopus. It accepts proposals for articles, bibliographical essays, interviews, critical reviews, issues, and thematic dossiers; in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French. 👉 praticasdahistoria.pt

📖🔓My latest article has just been published in the Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi! It tries to examine the links between politics and agriculture in the 'Age of Revolutions', through the case of the Goan liberal Bernardo Peres da Silva. www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it/browse/the-p...

🇵🇹 🌳 🔥 Sous la dictature d’António Salazar, les politiques de boisement ainsi que l’interdiction de diverses techniques de brûlage effectuées par les paysans ont contribué à faire du Portugal une véritable “poudrière incendiaire”, affirme le magazine Visão.

📖 The journal Geographies published a paper by a group of members of the #FIREUSES project on "Pyrostories", ie, Portuguese literary texts in which fire is explicitly included in the narrative. #LiterayLandscapes #Wildfires 🔓 #OpenAccess: www.mdpi.com/2673-7086/4/...

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

We're are pleased to announce that Mary Lorena Kenny's article, “Irreconcilable differences? A reckoning with Confederado History in Brazil”, published in #PdH16 received the BRASA Best Article Prize in Social Sciences! Congratulations Mary! brasa.org/bestarticlep...

When politics is moving fast but you already printed the forms… #administration #earlymodern #revolution

FIREUSES na imprensa! 🔥 observador.pt/2025/04/24/i...

📰 Na Visão desta semana, uma reportagem com Miguel Carmo e José Ferreira acerca dos resultados do projecto #FIREUSES, que revelou como as políticas florestais do #EstadoNovo e o desprezo pelo saber popular foram grandes factores para o surgimento dos grandes #incêndios em Portugal. Já nas bancas!

Esta quinta-feira, 24 de Abril, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal! Não percam 🔥

🆕 IHC received the maximum grade — Excellent — in the international FCT Assessment of Portuguese R&D Units! 🤩 Thank you for making us better! #bluestorians #skystorians #bskystorians

In a few hours we launch a brand new series @empirepoduk.bsky.social VICTORIAN NARCOS- THE STORY OF THE OPIUM WARS

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🔴 The IHC fully endorses the statement published by the IFPH, which strongly condemns 'the banning of books, the censorship of historical narratives, the surveillance of students and educators, attacks on memory sites, and the imposition of ideological agendas (...)'. 👉 ifph.hypotheses.org/5720

an idle thought I've had at the back of my head for a while is that a lot of white collar/middle class jobs used to be legitimately fun and/or intellectually stimulating and/or ludicrously well paid and now they're few or none of those things, and we don't talk about that at all

Dia 24, conferência final do projeto FIREUSES na BNP. Não percam!!

just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”

Woohoo, our Itinerario special issue 'Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires' is now out in its proper, physical form! 🥳 Check out the introduction by myself and Andreas Greiner here: doi.org/10.1017/S016... And the entire table of contents here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

📖🔓"From ‘Anízia Maria’ Indigenous Museum to Museum of the Indigenous Peoples of Piauí" by Anna Bottesi, Elayne da Silva Nascimento and Helane Karoline Tavares Gomes in #PdH19 #openaccess praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view...

Coming soon! Part 1 of a double podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian Marcus Rediker. Pirates fought every colonial empire, and created their own ways of living free from authority. Listen first by supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/124916009

Okay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram

📖🔓"Joint Acquisition and Shared Custody in Art Museums: The Case of the National Gallery of Canada" by Jessica Minier in #PdH19 praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view...

Se se interessam por história do século XX português, leiam o livro da Marta!