Few better ways to spend a Friday afternoon than to scheme with other history nerds about how to commemorate the US 250th anniversary. Panel features @sarageorgini.bsky.social, @lizcovart.bsky.social, @theotherrbg.bsky.social, @jmadelman.bsky.social, & @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social.

Coming this afternoon at #USIH2025, a fun session on thinking about public history and #America250, moderated by @sarageorgini.bsky.social and featuring me, @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social @theotherrbg.bsky.social @lizcovart.bsky.social (unfortunately @katejewell.bsky.social can’t be here).

sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients link: mysnapmap.com

My book now has a page + a publication date!! Baby steps to feeling more real. @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Page: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert. recipes.hypotheses.org

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

Don't forget the deadline for applications to the June 2026 #SHAFR Summer Institute at The Ohio State University @mershoncenter.bsky.social is Dec. 15. Open to advanced PhD students & early career scholars www.shafr.org/index.php?op...

Apart from all the bells and whistles on the site itself, some users may like to know that the London Lives bibliography has been Zoterified (so it's searchable etc): www.zotero.org/groups/45875...

Looking forward to talking with @alexiscoe.bsky.social about the histories of family and genealogy and why the political contexts are so impossible to ignore... I mean she does say this conversation is for history cranks and fiends. 😁

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

Ooooh, Wildly Different! Just ordered! 📚 🛒 🗃️

1850. The Public Libraries Act means councils in England & Wales can now spend local taxes on libraries. Some London regions are VERY slow to adopt the act. St Pancras rate-payers object to “wasting” money on “showy luxuries”. Fifty years pass before a free library opens in the district #PubLibs 💙📚

Greenwich by moonlight

Something pleasant for your scrolling. A view of Lake Michigan on a gorgeous fall day.

This cheerful little fella wishing you a funtastic All Hallows Eve. (From an account of Cooke's voyage, 1712. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc)

the sun has come out

HIP benefits still available if you have 1 cent left on SNAP card. BPS students still get free meals. #boston

Wu: #Boston and the Boston Foundation starting a fund to help 140,000 Bostonians who get SNAP benefits to afford food. Starting with $1 million in seed funding. BPS, BHA will be alerting people how to get aid, 311 operators trained on resources. boston.gov/snap

Applications are open until Tuesday 31 March for the RPS Ambache Fund, offering grants of up to £5,000 to support performers, ensembles, venues and festivals putting music by historic women composers at the heart of their programming. Find out more: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/performers/r...

look who won the office costume contest

Perfect little leaf.

something beautiful #MuseumsAreNotNeutral #DaveThePotter www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/29/m...

Out of curiosity, I looked to see if Chewy had a pet food donation program, and they do: www.chewy.com/g/give-back Enter your location and it lists area organizations, including pet food pantries, and their needs. Also seems to be a good place to start if you are in need of pet food too.

Read more booooooooks!👻📚

Fantastic opportunity for a field biologist to work with the @birdscanada.bsky.social grasslands team (who definitely ROCK) #birds

HBD 🎂 (290?!) to the one and only John Adams! From the #archives: I wrote about how the descendant of a Puritan maltster raised a glass… 🗃️ earlyamericanists.com/2015/10/30/a...

HBD 🎂 (290?!) to the one and only John Adams! From the #archives: I wrote about how the descendant of a Puritan maltster raised a glass… 🗃️ earlyamericanists.com/2015/10/30/a...

(Boston) Free farmers market in JP including bread and produce, Thursdays 11-1, 12 South Street #SNAP

Come work with meeee!

Michelle Wu’s Boston

Saw this perfectly-timed exhibit and can't stop thinking about it. So thoughtfully researched and curated. The way they displayed the pieces was creative, inclusive and thought provoking. And it's free just like everything in the library.

The Boston Public Library and the Greater Boston Food Bank have teamed up to bring more flavor to your neighborhood and need your help! Donate unopened spices and dried herbs to the BPL locations listed below and the GBFB will gift them to families and individuals across Eastern Massachusetts.

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'

Sunset in Boston Harbor from Boston Light! Thanks Boston National Historical Park!

Anne of Hungary & Bohemia, wearing another fine bejeweled hat in 1519. By Hans Maler. It’s his day.

Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/

Goodnight and thanks for all the egrets. Hope everyone can find some joy this weekend. ❤️ 🪶

Baltimore Symphony offering free tickets for federal workers my.bsomusic.org/events?k=FED...

at least tomorrow is friday

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare. I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛 #NoHunger

Tuesday’s cloud show on the South coast 💛 Got lucky as the heavens opened soon after 🌧️ #sunset #photography #sussex #reflection #seascape #sky #beach #nature #metoffice #photohour @stormhour.com

Greetings from 🗽 on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 08:30. Current conditions (via NOAA): 🌞 Fair/clear Temperature: 10.6° Relative Humidity: 58.52%

🚨CFP🚨 The Midwestern History Association invites proposals for the 12th Midwestern History Conference, Thursday, April 30–Friday, May 1, 2026, hosted by Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in conjunction with its annual Altman Symposium in the humanities. Submission Deadline: Monday, December 8, 2025.

The rings of Saturn. And a tiny bright light in the distance... Venus.

Heading to the printers soon and out in both the US/UK in three months! #booksky 📚 Available for pre-order now wherever books are sold: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Where to watch the Head of the Charles: See course map, road closures

Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...