8000 fragments! Congratulations, @fragmentarium.bsky.social! Folks, PLEASE survey your early modern bindings and share what you find. #fragmentology

Kelmscott Manor, William Morris's home on the Thames in Oxfordshire. It's been recently restored, and is looking stunning inside and out. A wonderful garden on a hot day, complete with croquet.

Siesta https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/siesta

Pablo Picasso, Project for a Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire, 1962 (enlarged version after 1928 original maquette) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136194

A male Indigo Bunting snacks on Autumn Olive flowers

Roman timeline cleanser alert!!! 😃😃😃

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Wrapping up a keynote I'm giving later today for a grad student forum and am enthusing --swooning even-- about historiography. Nothing will provoke my professional energies and pride more than the work we do to make new knowledge.

Berenice Abbott, Woman wiring an early IBM computer, from the 'Documenting Science' series, 1938-58

Carrie Mae Weems, Portrait of Myself as an Intellectual Revolutionary, 1988

Shakespeare is in Bloom in Dorchester 🪴 Our CSC2 Company opened their Stage2 production of Romeo and Juliet today for more than 1,000 energetic students from across New England. Two Public Performances Only: May 30th at 2PM and 7PM 🎟️ ➡️ https://ow.ly/vLWZ50Z2Xc5

We just found out who designed this vibrant early 1910s dress! Grace Pinder who had given up her acting career in 1906 to open the dressmaking business ’Armide’, find out more here: www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/armi... #womenshistory #gracepinder #edwardianstyle #armide #historyofdress

I'm in @uk.theconversation.com today on the #BayeuxTapestry, 1066, and insights into English experiences of the Norman Conquest in some remarkable #medieval texts. theconversation.com/the-bayeux-t...

Yes, #HATM peeps. Suffs is streaming on the PBS ap, that a lot of smart TVs can access. It is on the ap under Great Performances season 53 episode 18 and titled "Suffs." www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/s... There is also an option to watch on PBS's YouTube channel if that is easier. See yall Sunday!

We’re hiring! 📣 The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale seeks a recent humanities PhD with experience in program-building, innovative humanities work, and higher ed service for a Postdoctoral Associate in Humanities Leadership. $70K + $3K stipend | Deadline: June 12, 2026 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/185526

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New to Latin and old handwriting (Palaeography?) in your archival work/family history/historical project? Rusty with these skills or looking to improve them? Not sure how to get started properly? Then this series of summer schools in Birmingham are for you. #Skystorians

So excited to participate in this conversation on Thursday at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide! 🗃️

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Lilacs still blooming in the Arboretum #Boston

I've been attempting to be braver in sharing my work lately. It is scary! But I put a bunch of work into this and it should be shared cause these ladies had such interesting lives. 🗃️

Each student outlined the life story of a person in three different generations of their family. They made a migration map, a family tree, and brought in artifacts from their families’ stories.

Yellow Accompaniment by Vasily Kandinsky, 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137897

🗃️ Twas a great conversation tonight @mhs1791.bsky.social 👏 I was in the reading room where it happened, buy + cite their books! #250 #JuntoPride @michaelhattem.bsky.social @publiusorperish.bsky.social

Greed and chaos, get rich quick schemes meet corruption. The (South Sea) BUBBLERS bubbl'd (c 1720). I swear I wasn't looking for it I just opened a drawer @jcblibrary.bsky.social.

Another thing I saw today — cygnets! Baby mute swans in Indian Ridge Marsh, on the Southeast Side.

Registration just opened. Do join us for what is shaping up to be a great symposium. A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices of Seventeenth-Century Scotland Date: 11 jun • 09:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-kingdom-...

🗃️ “When done well, notes and text speak together, evidence and argument united in the work of knowledge creation in a way neither could effect on their own.”—Sharing this @kawulf.bsky.social classic whilst editing so so many footnotes 🤓 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/11/07/d...

✔️usable draft of conference paper ✔️accompanying powerpoint ✔️NINE DOLLAR amtrak to tomorrow’s boston flight anyone can sign up to tune into the @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social America 250 conference, where I’ll be presenting on Felicity www.eventbrite.com/e/remember-t...

It is a small glimpse into a world where art education was considered important for wealthy women. Everything in the room reflects the atmosphere of classical antiquity, from the bust on the table to her clothing, which resembles a Greek or Roman garment.  👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200410811

‘Remembrances of days foregone’ All's Well That Ends Well (I, 3) The Abbey's archive is one of the oldest in England. The documents we care for, from royal charters to administrative records from the medieval monastery, chart life at the Abbey since the 10th century. #ShakespeareSunday #Time

A little #Caturday, 007 edition #HATM

JOB for recent MLIS grads! Nadia Sophie Seiler Rare Materials Residency Split between Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, July-Dec. 2026) & Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, CT, Jan.-May 2027) Application deadline is May 22 amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

Shoes retailed in London, made in France, 1900-1920. Via The Met.

ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.

From our artifacts cage with Library Assistant Alexis - "Officium Seraphici Patris Nostri Sancti Francisci" is an oversize a choral score by the Franciscan Order in 1773. The book was intended for use in mass, the musical notation being large enough for parishioners to read it from a distance.

Cool book alert! 🚨 @lollardfish.bsky.social

Heading to New York for this lecture tomorrow - which actually has a Zoom option (link in comments). If you’ve missed the 100 times I’ve spoken about COMMON SENSE, pls tune in! And believe it or not I still have new things to say…

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Joan Miró Le sourire des ailes flamboyantes - The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings - 1953 oil on canvas 35 x 46 cm

🗃️ “Politicks is the Science of human Happiness—and the Felicity of Societies depends entirely on the Constitutions of Government under which they live.”—John Adams, ante March 1776 #amreading #250th www.masshist.org/publications...

🗃️ “Politicks is the Science of human Happiness—and the Felicity of Societies depends entirely on the Constitutions of Government under which they live.”—John Adams, ante March 1776 #amreading #250th www.masshist.org/publications...

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

🎨 I know there’s a lot going on, so here are some adorable young patrons meeting the Louvre for the first time, enjoy! 🗃️ 🇫🇷 m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7j8...

Thanks to #EXARC (the international Association of Experimental #Archaeology, #OpenAirMuseums, #TraditionalCrafts, and #HeritageInterpretation) for sharing my blog post. I’m thrilled to be part of a community doing such exciting work to share history in innovative ways. www.exarc.org/exarc-blog/b...

Job alert! Associate Director Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UC Santa Barbara Salary: $84k-107k www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... aka come work with me!!!

The world in a drop of rain Photo by Mary Ellen www.universalhub.com/2026/world-d... #Boston #WestRoxbury #MillenniumPark #trees

And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever