Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a research scholarship from @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de to continue my work at the German Maritime Museum as Senior Fellow on my new project “Convicts’ Letters” (Calcutta to Australia, 1803) including research trips to the UK and Australia #earlymodern #history

Around 1650, Sweden’s ships sailed beyond the Baltic for the first time. Dutch captains and lieutenants in the Swedish navy guided this expansion. Join our online lecture on Monday, 1pm CET, in the Ships & Seafaring series: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #maritimehistory #history

Next Monday (February 9th), Hielke van Nieuwenhuize talks about the role Dutch Seamen played in Sweden's expansion beyond the Baltic Sea during the Swedish "Stormaktstiden". Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #skystorians #earlymodern #maritimehistory

Games im Unterricht einsetzen? Aber klar doch! Im neuen Heft von Lernende Schule berichten Patrick Heike-Kolde und ich aus unserem Gamelab, wie digitale Spiele den Geschichtsunterricht bereichern – mit praktischem Ratgeber. #BlueLZ #Games @akgwds.bsky.social www.friedrich-verlag.de/friedrich-pl...

Games im Unterricht einsetzen? Aber klar doch! Im neuen Heft von Lernende Schule berichten Patrick Heike-Kolde und ich aus unserem Gamelab, wie digitale Spiele den Geschichtsunterricht bereichern – mit praktischem Ratgeber. #BlueLZ #Games @akgwds.bsky.social www.friedrich-verlag.de/friedrich-pl...

Feuer und Flamme für das #histocamp26 – gemeinsam sind wir stark mit Partnern für Geschichte! Wir freuen uns, dass @degruyterbrill.bsky.social das histocamp 2026 unterstützt. Danke für das Vertrauen, das Engagement für Geschichte und den Austausch. #geschichte #barcamp #publichistory #verlag

New discovery: A wooden structure, identified as river bank protection of the #Roman harbour, has been unearthed in Cologne. www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-... #RomanArchaeology #archaeology 🏺

This is amazing and not Al: youtu.be/ovzoNbUkg6k?...

The Nissia Shipwreck Project. It's about and Ottoman-era shipwreck at the Famagusta cape. Listen to this episode 👉 audioboom.com/posts/882720... #maritimehistory #shipwreck

Handreichung für Lehrkräfte zum digitalen Spiel „Erinnern. Die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm“ jetzt online – mit unseren erprobten Unterrichtskonzepten. Wie erinnern wir? Eine Frage, die aktueller nicht sein könnte. #BlueLZ @neuengamme-mem.bsky.social @bullenhuser-damm.bsky.social @paintbucket.de

Neu in „Medaon“: Gemeinsam mit Markus Bassermann stelle ich das Remembrance Game „Erinnern. Die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm“ vor und zeige, wie wir es im Gamelab für einen reflektierten Einsatz im Geschichtsunterricht zu NS-Verbrechen nutzen #BlueLZ #erinnerungskultur www.medaon.de/de/artikel/e...

Dear history fans, what objects would you like to see in an exhibition on privateering & life at sea in the 18th century? Everyday objects, letters, navigational instruments, or something unexpected? It will also explore forced migration. I’d love to hear your thoughts #earlymodern #maritimehistory

Check out the link below for more information and the registration for Alejandro Salamanca Rodríguez's (@desvelandooriente.com) book presentation and the workshop on Early Modern Transatlantic Migration here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Our first event of this term is taking place very soon, on Thursday 5 February! Holly Fletcher (UCL) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'. You can sign-up to attend in person and online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dear history fans, what objects would you like to see in an exhibition on privateering & life at sea in the 18th century? Everyday objects, letters, navigational instruments, or something unexpected? It will also explore forced migration. I’d love to hear your thoughts #earlymodern #maritimehistory

i’m a librarian and i really love archivists and their mission. we librarians serve the people of the present. archivists serve posterity.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Despoten im Osten und Westen - man bekommt leicht das Gefühl, wir wären dagegen machtlos. Aber das ist Unsinn. Wenn wir wollen, sind wir rechtsstaatlich denkende DemokratInnen immer noch die tonangebende Macht in der Welt. Wir müssten nur ein bisschen Mut haben. (Thread)

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

Dive into maritime history! Join us Monday, Jan 26 (1–2 pm CET) for SHIPS & SEAFARING 1500–1800 with Dr Felix Rösch from Lübeck’s heritage department. Discover the spectacular 17th-century Lübeck shipwreck & its place in North European shipbuilding. Online on Zoom! #archeology #earlymodern #history

Dive into maritime history! Join us Monday, Jan 26 (1–2 pm CET) for SHIPS & SEAFARING 1500–1800 with Dr Felix Rösch from Lübeck’s heritage department. Discover the spectacular 17th-century Lübeck shipwreck & its place in North European shipbuilding. Online on Zoom! #archeology #earlymodern #history

Exciting discovery! Mind you, I'm still hoping that we one day find a book written by a medieval housewife describing daily life in detail, especially about all the bathing they did ;) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Next week (26/01 @ 1PM), the Ships & Seafaring Talks - a Prize Papers Talks Special Edition with the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven welcomes a very special guest: underwater archaeologist Felix Rösch from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, who is excavating a very special Hanseatic merchant ship!

I have some terrible news for my haters

This is a great speech, but its also completely insane that the Prime Minister of Canada needs to call for coordinated global resistance to American tyranny.

Happy Martin Luther King Day my friends: "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war." Speech given on December 11, 1964 after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Locked in a quasi-permanent war over resources, Yucatán and Honduras became a hotspot of empire, trade, and indigo in 1779. Learn more in our online lecture with Prof. Milagrosa Romero Samper, “Mad about the blue,” on 19 Jan, 1pm. #earlymodern #history Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians Here: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Locked in a quasi-permanent war over resources, Yucatán and Honduras became a hotspot of empire, trade, and indigo in 1779. Learn more in our online lecture with Prof. Milagrosa Romero Samper, “Mad about the blue,” on 19 Jan, 1pm. #earlymodern #history Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

For the first talk of the second half of our Ships & Seafaring 1500-1800 series - A Prize Papers Talks Special Edition, Milagrosa Romero Samper is taking us to Honduras to tell a tale about dye-ing feud! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians

Sometimes I read historical letters that make me smile – until they quietly break my heart. A father wrote tenderly of his daughter on board. Moments later, I learn that he had to bury her after their arrival. Historical research, at times, can truly hurt.

Sometimes I read historical letters that make me smile – until they quietly break my heart. A father wrote tenderly of his daughter on board. Moments later, I learn that he had to bury her after their arrival. Historical research, at times, can truly hurt.

Neu in „Medaon“: Gemeinsam mit Markus Bassermann stelle ich das Remembrance Game „Erinnern. Die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm“ vor und zeige, wie wir es im Gamelab für einen reflektierten Einsatz im Geschichtsunterricht zu NS-Verbrechen nutzen #BlueLZ #erinnerungskultur www.medaon.de/de/artikel/e...

In Hessen wurde 2018 ein kostenloses ÖPNV-Ticket für alle Landesbediensteten – zum Beispiel Leh­re­r:in­nen, Rich­te­r:in­nen oder Verwaltungs­mitarbei­tende eingeführt. Es ist ein großer Erfolg: 36.000 Autos weniger. 👍 #Verkehrswende 💚 www.taz.de/!6140131

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Und was, wenn wir EuropäerInnen eine demokratische, soziale Gesellschaft bauen, in der niemand unter die Räder kommt, und sich dann herausstellt, dass das auch ökonomisch am besten ist und den größten Wohlstand bringt? Faschismus ist kein Naturgesetz. Wir könnten doch wagen, Trendsetter zu sein.

Another exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke. Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3

Vielleicht haben Netzwerke wie Bluesky keinen Einfluss. Aber man weiß mindestens, dass Menschen, die so denken wie man selbst, da sind. Und das finde ich in diesen Zeiten beruhigend.

Zum Start eines verdammt entscheidenden Jahres für den Klimaschutz. @luisaneubauer.bsky.social über Moral, Zerrissenheit, Frustration und Zuversicht www.deutschlandfunk.de/klimawandel-...

Helau!

We strongly condemn the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former Commissioner Thierry Breton. Link to full statement: link.europa.eu/NtMX4K

As it’s Christmas, I thought I’d share with you a painting by the Low Countries painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c1525-1569) who painted one of the most atmospheric artworks in 1565; The Hunters in the Snow. I’ve used software editing to bring the image back to how it might have originally looked.

On Christmas Eve 1757, sailor Dieterich Salomon wrote from the ship Concordia off St. Eustatius to his "dear father, mother, and sister", thankful to "celebrate Christmas" far from home yet close in heart. His letter reminds us: Christmas begins wherever people think of one another. Merry Christmas!

On Christmas Eve 1757, sailor Dieterich Salomon wrote from the ship Concordia off St. Eustatius to his "dear father, mother, and sister", thankful to "celebrate Christmas" far from home yet close in heart. His letter reminds us: Christmas begins wherever people think of one another. Merry Christmas!

Wir sind erst seit Kurzem hier bei Bluesky und bräuchten bitte eure Unterstützung: Insta legt unseren Hauptaccount immer wieder lahm und wir würden hier gerne die verlässliche demokratische Alternative aufbauen. Könntet ihr unseren Account vielleicht weiterempfehlen? Das wäre eine Riesenhilfe 💝🌟

Nicolás Cranisbro (or Cranisbrough) was a passenger on the Fort de Nantes. He belonged to an Anglo-Spanish family from El Puerto de Santa María . His personal archive contains many letters, some of them entrusted to him for his delivery, He also had calligraphy exercises, prayers...

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.