The beautiful thing with history is that the more you learn, the more difficult the questions become.

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

Still going strong! Presenting "Gustav's Hand" with @johansjoberg70.bsky.social at the annual conference of Svenska Arkivförbundet.

18thc trunks for paper. Just two of many in my files. One of these I'd been waiting decades to see. It's in the VMHC exhibit Un/bound and belongs to the Madden family. An 18th c ancestor of this free black family kept her freedom papers +more. Wasn't discovered in an attic until the 20thc.

May (Gustav) the fourth (Adolf) be with you.

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

The latest issue of pre-Tinder studies

I en tid när utbildning ofta reduceras till ekonomi eller neurovetenskap, blir det allt viktigare att vi kan föra en diskussion om utbildningens och bildningens mål och mening. Stort tack till redaktör @jennymarianilsson.bsky.social !

Pleased to see @mirandabryant.bsky.social's report from the new Badin exhibition at the National Museum in Stockholm, curated by my friend and colleague Åsa Bharathi Larsson of Södertörn University. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

German/Netherlandish School, 16th century Portrait of a Man in Red c. 1530-50 (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

"Historieprofessor Kristian Gerner har avlidit" www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/hist...

Vacker utstyrsel till hästar med dekorerade beslag, sporrar och bett – den arkeologiska undersökningen från Sylta i Västmanland bjöd på spektakulära vikingatida fynd som nu visas i utställningen "Älskade hästar" på Historiska museet. svenskhistoria.se/aktuell-arke... #svhist

Try walking in my shoes: the #earlymodern edition. How BIG actually were these boots? The two lads in the image are about to dance - as you will see in the next post.

Tickets for #TUC2026 are officially available! Join us from 21-23 September at the University of Passau to discuss the future of specialised AI in historical research. Get your Early Bird ticket here: tuc.transkribus.org/tickets

CALL FOR PAPERS: Iustoria 2026: In the Shadow of Empires (Belgrade: University of Belgrade, 11-13 MAY 2026) [DEADLINE 15 APR 2026] 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/03/call...

Doktorandtjänst i idéhistoria med inriktning mot psykiatrihistoria i Uppsala! Vågar lova att detta är ett väldigt roligt jobb. :)

ESSHC 2027, in Lyon. Panel proposal submitted!

In this new article in History of Education, I have been analysing career trajectories of humanists beyond universities a hundred years ago: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today, with French tv-team, on Gustav III's private archive at @uu.se library.

Discussing the repatriation of human remains and the legacy of scientific racism with Finnish and Swedish colleagues at @ki.se. More to read at news.ki.se/calendar/ope...

Om någon är i Skåne-området i början av april och känner för att lyssna på ett samtal om folkkonsten mellan 1750 och 1850 så kommer jag vara med i precis ett sånt samtal på Svaneholms Slott den 9e.

Idag har jag varit på boksläpp på riksarkivet. Två nya delar av det medeltida Sverige. Det var kul! (Fast Sveriges vagga, Östergötland, saknas fortfarande- jobba på DMS!)

Igår föreläste jag om min bok på KUNGLIGA BIBLIOTEKET! Otroligt att få vara med om sånt här faktiskt! Jag fick också träffa @khalverson.eurosky.social som jobbar där! Vilken stjärna! ⭐️ Fyra föreläsningar kvar i vår, sen är den här säsongen avslutad. 😊

Habermas dead. Arguably outlived the public sphere. apnews.com/article/juer...

'Historisk tidskrift' har Tema Medeltid 2026! Se vår CFP!

The Valet Abraham Bosse 1602-1676 (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Still time to book - Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Idus martiae.

Årets bild.

Apropos higher education and its funding.

Medverkar i en ny antologi med ett kapitel om digitala metoder för att studera idéhistoria. Skriven för studenter på grundnivå och kan vara relevant för DH-nybörjare i andra humanistiska discipliner också (kunskapshistoria mm). Författad med Mathias Johansson på Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper.

Canadians cheating and being rude? What is the world coming to? 🥌

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

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

JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

“To achieve the recognition of this common ground, this mutual need, a new xenia needs to come into being, a renewed ethic of hospitality &revived sense of sanctuary, a fresh ethos, which is composed of ideas &beliefs, formed &carried by stories.”

Check out this Postdoc position below!

Matthew Howles (Science Museum) on “Curating Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum”. Exhibition introducing the image of Versailles as a "place of serious scientific" pursuits using objects from Versailles and other institutions.

Louis XV and Louis XVI had more personal interests in science, such as botany and astronomy for the former. Matthew Howles (Science Museum) on “Curating Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum”.

Louis XVI founding the Royal Academy of Sciences in the 1660s. Matthew Howles (Science Museum) on “Curating Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum”.

Louis XIV "also understood science as a tool for diplomacy". Copies of these instruments were given as diplomatic gifts to Persia, Siam, and China. Matthew Howles (Science Museum) on “Curating Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum”.

The Versailles landscape was carefully mapped by a scientist during 1660s. Finding water sources to create reservoires. Over eight million cubic waters then channelled to the palace, largely to supply the fountains. Matthew Howles on “Curating Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum”

The Marly Machine was used to pump huge quantities of water uphill. Fountaineers would whistle to each other when fountains were to be turned on as the King was strolling in the garden. Matthew Howles on “Curating Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum”.

A large menagerie was situated at Versailles. Used both for scientific investigation and to showcase gifts sent to the French King. "Star of the show" Louis XV's rhinoceros (died in the revolution, possibly stabbed by revolutionaries...). Matthew Howles at SCS

A botanical garden was also part of Versailles. For example producing the first pineapple grown in France. Matthew Howles at SCS

By the reign of Louis XV the setablishment of the Royal Academy of Surgeons. Also included here an obstetrics model. Matthew Howles at SCS

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!

Important perspective from Greenland.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism (Venice: Venice International University, 26-28 JUN 2026) [DEADLINE: 16 JAN 2026] 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...

Tidskriften "Glänta" prisas. Alla är välkomna! 15 januari, Humanistiska teatern, Uppsala. www.khvsu.se/arguspriset-...