"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️

Leipzig, 10. April 1626 Die Mansfeldischen, die sich zur Dessauer Brücke begeben, haben die Speisen auf dem Tisch gelassen und sind eilends von dannen. Zu denen führt auch der Dänemarker sein Volk. Unser Kurfürst befindet sich zu Colditz, lässt das geworbne dänische Kriegsolk hin u. wider passieren.

École d’été – Beyond the Battlefield. Consequences of premodern Warfare for Society, Culture and Landscape rmblf.be/2026/04/09/e...

#CfA 📢 Summer School 2026: "Thinking High and Low. Elites, Experts, and the Masses in the Early Reformation", Institute of Reformation History 📆 1-5 June 2026 | 🏫 Université de Genève ⏰Deadline: 15 April 2026 🔗 www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/ensei... #EarlyModern #Reformation #SummerSchool

I've been eagerly awaiting this piece by Burton & @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social for a decade (see below + this supplement: github.com/interedition...). Their critical analysis of code behind a popular DH pub represents a road not taken in DH. We'd do well to follow that road now that there's a map.

Discovered Herbert Langer's thesis from 1970 by accident, and it's actually pretty amazing stuff. I am properly impressed by the width and depth of his analysis.

Tracking the movements of a group of soldiers, never mind individuals, through the chaos of the British Civil Wars can be a challenge, but this is the story — such as we can tell it — of the men of the Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote earlofmanchesters.co.uk/the-men-who-...

✨Speech/less in the Early Modern World✨ Research Workshop, 23-24 April 2026 Emmanuel College, Cambridge Places limited. Please register as an attendee by 12 April: forms.gle/k9Xnz4gVFhe2Syez9 Thank you event sponsors! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

Poignant 1643 graffiti, for @jonathanhealey.bsky.social

🚨 Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales 'Les sources nativement numériques. Enjeux de #documentation et de #redocumentarisation' par @valeriesch.bsky.social , Frédéric Clavert et @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social Un article à lire en #openaccess 👇 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

mir begegnet in den OriginalTexten von vor 400 Jahren ja oft die CamelCase Schreibweise (BinnenMajuskel) für Komposita, wie hier "AdelsPersonen" oder heute "WestIndien" ich finde das so schön und praktisch und toll lesbar! können wir das nicht einfach auch alle wieder machen?

Bremen, 6. April 1626 * wegen Mang Proviants sucht Tilly ständig andere Quartiere * dem Wallenstein sind in 3 Monaten über 2.000 Soldaten ausgerissen (zu den Dänischen gelaufen) * Halberstädter Kriegsvolk einen Convoy von 600 Pferden zertrennt, Wagen davon bekommen ... 1/4

If you are interested in #earlymodern architectural drawings and are an ECR under age 36, *APPLY FOR THIS*! Deadline: 20 April. #CFP

For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 9 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social#CoffeeWithACodexwill bring out LJS 478, a collection of astronomical treatises, with a particular focus on the astrolabe. The copy was completed in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228). #medievalsky Register here: https://bit.ly/4d0PPYh

5 April marks the 460th anniversary of the Petition of the Compromise of the Nobility, presented to regent Margaret of Parma in Brussels. Its first demand was an end to Philip II's harsh prosecution of Protestants. #reformationinthelowcountries

NEW POST: CFP: ‘Creating the Sacred at Court. Sensorial Practices and Experiences in Europe (1300–1800)’ (Bratislava, 21-23 Sep 26), deadline 15 May 2026. See the full post and call for papers on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Historians of rural Europe! @joshrhodes.bsky.social and I are putting together a session for ESSHC 2027. If this is up your street, we'd love to hear from you! 👇

Wien, 1. April 1626 Schlesien: Mansfelder stark im Anzug / deshalb Aufgebot im ganzen Land, auch Lausitz / Kaiserl. nach Glatz und Sazer Kreis / 4 neue Obristen in Schlesien bestellt, über 30 Werbungs Patente ausgeteilt / ... 1/3

Interesting that prominently mentioning "News from Tilly's Headquarters" was a selling point in Antwerp. #30yearswar

Hessen, 30. März 1626 Etliche Reiter aus Minden Schloss Rederode überfallen, kaiserl. Obristen Graf von Schlick gefangen bekommen. Dänische Reiter zu Friedwald eingefallen und den holsteinischen Capitain Freiherr Kinsky gefänglich genommen. Reiche Beute, neben Schmuck 8.000 Reichstaler. 1/3

I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Keen to gain a better understanding of handwriting from the Early Medieval through to the Early Modern period? Our Summer School course could help! Book your place now 👉️ ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini... Bookings close 22nd May 2026, bursary deadline 7th April. #palaeography #paleography #LIPS26

oooooo! This will be such an exciting Masterclass to participate in. Run, don't walk, #earlymodern #SkyStorians in Nordic countries, if you're a PhD student yourself or have PhD students who should apply.

Sounds like a cool project!

Just published by Brill. A long-awaited, important work on reformation, revolt and the material culture of religion in the Low Countries by a distinguished scholar. #reformationinthelowcountries

The Filth and the Fury. Victorious general Tilly cannot house his Catholic League soldiers in Stade in May 1628, because Charles Morgan's retreating Anglo-Scottish soldiers had left their billets in such a vile state of squalor and mess.

NYPL developed its own e-reader, then shut it down last year :( libanswers.nypl.org/faq/430249 NYPL Labs had an *amazing* team, then brought in a CTO from a different industry that didn't understand its unique value: urbanomnibus.net/2017/03/urba...

Wolfenbüttel, 26. März 1626 König Christian von Dänemark in gr. Kriegsbereitschaft, 36.000 zu Fuß / 6.000 Pferde ohne Mansfeld Armada, werden noch 20.000 erwartet, gerade 6.000 aus Holland. Tilly hat S. Andreasberg u.a. Orte im Grubenhagerland abbrennen lassen 🔥 ... 1/2

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

Sounds interesting. Reminds me of David Sabean's Vetterleswirtschaft. (Always have to put those early modern German peasants front and center!)

24.3.1626 gibt dem Herzog 80.000 Reichstaler / Herzog Weimar nach Rhede / Herzg hat den Domprobst und Dechant von Osnabrück gefänglich hinweg geführt / span. Capitan Wuymann im Stift Münster von Hanenfeder und Bauer alle erschlagen - 30 tote Bauern mehr: brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...

Very cool! Trying to work out the name... John Reesnitz? #30yearswar

Oops. Forgot to note the anniversary of Invisible Adjunct shutting down, 22 years ago yesterday. One of my little social media rituals.

A new interactive map for @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social in #WomensHistoryMonth - I mapped all the places mentioned by Alice in Event narratives. thornton-play-books.github.io/play-books/eve…

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

Join us when we uncover what really sent Vasa to the bottom! We’re delighted to announce this special online lecture next Monday, 23 March, 1-2 pm, by Fred Hocker, Director of Research at Vasa Museum Stockholm. #earlymodern #history #maritimehistory

🚨🚨 Announcing: SUMMA 🚨🚨 Simple spreadsheet software for calculating with Early Modern English currency. gjhilton.github.io/Summa/

Sem: Frühe Neuzeit erzählen https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161185 Frankfurt am Main, 21.09.2026-23.10.2026, Birgit Emich / Xenia von Tippelskirch / Michael Leemann, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.08.2026 Frühe Neuzeit erzählen: Frankfurter Sommerkurs in …

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The German Peasants' War (1524-26) was the largest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Lyndal Roper recalls how a cycle ride around Germany helped her to appreciate the sheer scale of its history.

'It was announced today that the 2026 Holberg Prize is awarded to the Australian British historian Lyndal Roper for her groundbreaking research. Majse Lind of Denmark is awarded the Nils Klim Prize.' #Skystorians

Done some spring cleaning for my London Lives Petitions Project webpages. Dataviz should no longer be broken, checked links, added a few updates. london.sharonhoward.org/llpp/

16.3.1626 "Ist immer schad / dz so gute Länder also schändlich verderbt werden". Preussen hat eine Defension des Lands beschlossen, wollen 5.000 werben und sich mit ihrem Landvolk in Bereitschaft halten. aus: brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...

I completely forgot I made this... a big list of English judicial records, 1500 to 1800, published and often online!

Account books are to an embarrassing degree, catnip to me: | compulsively paw them, euphoric, drooling, purring softly. I hadn't really understood why, until I came across this brilliant, diamond hard aperçu, altogether wasted at the foot of a dusty book review.

RIP Jürgen Habermas. Undoubtedly one of the most important post-WWII German thinkers. I was never sure if the bluesky feed jurgenhabermas.bksy.social was actually him or not, but he was certainly active on social media.

On 18th March IMH will host a seminar by Dr Filip Hren on Croats in the #ThirtyYearsWar at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social Details of time and location in the link below #WhatsHistory #EarlyModern #17thCentury 🗃️ www.linkedin.com/posts/instit...

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409 🎉🎉🎉 To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...