@saracaputo.bsky.social I saw your book and thought, that would be an excellent read for our sailing trip in Croatia. Was not disappointed, great book!

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived! Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

"Ocean routes’ complicated beginnings." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @saracaputo.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The latest special issue of @scottishhistreview.bsky.social, on Scotland's Environmental History, is out! Thanks to the guest editors, Rebecca Main, Richard Oram & Annie Tindley, for their fantastic work. Read the issue on the @edinburghup.bsky.social website: www.euppublishing.com/toc/shr/104/2

Paperback day!

Did a seagull write these

So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social: "Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access) academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

People don't seem to know that anyone can buy an interrail pass which makes European train travel much cheaper. Please tell them! www.interrail.eu/en

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Excited to be giving the keynote address for this on Thursday afternoon, entitled 'Making and Unmaking the World of the Early English East India Company'. The talk involves a lot of drinking, multilingual cursing, and things going up in flames. And that's if it goes well! #earlymodern #skystorians

Really enjoyed speaking to Julian Clover for Cambridge Radio's Cambs Politics cambridge105.co.uk/cambs-politi...

There's no doubt that editors for academic publishing need more help and support to keep things going. But my god, this isn't it. I've published in a number of OUP outlets. This would force me to reconsider. I suspect other #SkyStorians will, too.

So happy to see this out! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... #CoastalHistory

Wrath keeps overtaking me everytime I think about RFK. Why? I'm a type 1 diabetic. I got it when I was 14. Guess what you need if you're a type 1 diabetic? Insulin. Or you die. But my family believed that it could be cured with herbs & faith healing. I had a near death experience when I was 14. 🧵

Applications now invited for the Society's Masters' Scholarships 2025-26 bit.ly/4bJs8je Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians

A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.

Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right? No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bas.ac.uk

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

🌊🌊🌊New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Check out Sijian Wang (Uni of Hawaii at Manoa)’s rvw of @saracaputo.bsky.social (@cambridgeuni.bsky.social)’s bk _ Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, & Maritime Travel_pub 2024 @uchicagopress.bsky.social #oceans Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

The @royalhistsoc.org reports on the tragic and stupid cuts to university History provision in the UK. The RHS alone has worked with 23 depts in trouble, and 90% of post-92 History groups have made cuts. Madness. royalhistsoc.org/rhs-presiden...

Such a great surprise in the post today! Fantastic study by @jakedyble.bsky.social. Digs really deep into early modern Italian archives and comes out full of original ideas. It won the British Commission for Maritime History Prize, too! Open Access: openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/publications...

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude! All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume! Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

@bubblesvampire.bsky.social @martypaul10.bsky.social As the United States has now started a Tariff war with Penguins 🐧 I should warn you guys they are tough 🤨

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

The Scottish History Society 2025 Conference, Presidential Lecture & AGM is on Saturday 29th March! We had a fantastic time last year hearing about research so join us for a great day of papers and discussion. Free to members, £5 non-members. www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...

#CoastalHistory #OpenAccess #MaritimeHistory #Maritime

Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.

Why do we draw journeys as lines on maps? Historian @saracaputo.bsky.social reveals their histories in 'Tracks on the Ocean', exploring how oceanic navigation and cartographical 'ship tracks' have profoundly shaped our understanding of movement. Discover more - link below ⬇️

Short 🧵🗃️ I am beyond delighted to share @journalmaritime.bsky.social's new Open Access roundtable of Seth Stein LeJacq's "Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy", featuring @saracaputo.bsky.social, Jo Stanley, Mary Conley and Graham Willett. This will be a wonderful teaching resource... /1

@jakedyble.bsky.social's wonderful new book Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe is being released today! 🥳🎉 It's available Open Access, so you can download it for *free* at the link below 👇 Also in print for £28.99 from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory #EarlyModern

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

Excited for the @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social seminar on 6 March. @saracaputo.bsky.social will present on "foreign" British Navy seamen in the Napoleonic wars and the 'instability of national boundaries'. You can join us in person or online. Sign up via the link. www.history.ac.uk/events/forei...

Do you want a world where you have to actively opt out if you don't want your words stolen? If not, there are only 3 days left to fill in the UK government's consultation on AI use of copyrighted works. The ALCS provides some good guidance here: www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀, 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗲 𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗯𝗲́𝗿𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘂 𝗫𝗩𝗜𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗲̀𝗰𝗹𝗲 Par Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi Plus d'infos: bit.ly/42LbpL9 #Geography #Cartography #Spain #Portugal #HistoryOfScience #Technology #Navigation #Geographysky #Cartographysky

Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Join Sara Caputo, author of #TracksOnTheOcean, for a free online talk with the Royal Museums Greenwich Discover why journeys are represented as lines on map, and how this history has shaped our understanding of movement 🗺️ rmg.co.uk/whats-on/onl... @saracaputo.bsky.social

Genuine lol from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

From next week our X account will close and be archived. We will be solely on BlueSky where we will continue to promote #history, historical practice and the humanities. Please do join us #Skystorians

You can here my ramblings on all things maritime and the Civil Wars here

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians