Some people may remember that the majority of series editors resigned last summer in protest against Amsterdam University Press' sale of their film and media program to Taylor & Francis/Routledge. T&F and Routledge, while formerly respectable publishers, are now / mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

This thread is a delight (and echoes the arc of youthful ambition and pragmatism I am right now reading in this year's Masters application!)

A lovely tribute

This finals season I just want to be clear that posting student work online to make fun of it is evidence that you are a bad teacher

We are delighted to share the programme for this term's instalment of OSER. All welcome!

"48% of students have gone without food for financial reasons and 23% do so several times a month" "France launches one-euro university meals for all students " www.euractiv.com/news/france-... #HigherEd #edchat #AcademicSky

VANISHING CULTURE is out now! From #InternetArchive, this book looks at what is disappearing online. It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to vanish 🕳️ 📖 Download: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... #DigitalMemory #Books

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

A History of Textile Cleanliness. Washing and Perfuming Fabrics from the Medieval to the Modern Period #infoclioevent

📢 Petite bouteille à la mer : je cherche un.e jeune chercheur.euse qui travaille sur l'époque de Louis XIV (pas forcément directement sur lui) et qui serait à l'aise pour en parler dans un podcast avec de l'humour (hmm) ! Je suis preneuse de partages et conseils, merci d'avance !

Christine Casey’s most recent book is absolutely marvellous

If the question is, “how long after announcing a space (like @skeuomorphpress.org's forthcoming Undead Media Lab) do folks start approaching you about donating equipment?” the answer seems to be “days, perhaps mere hours”

Some recompense made by the British Museum to the dealer who taught it a lesson in ethics but sadly the case was not resolved before his death.

I use many of these sites and I will be checking out the others. Quite a few of them also do audiobooks, particularly LibriVox; I’m part of their free community of audiobook readers

C'est moi où il existe à peu près 1500 sites institutionnels différents pour accéder à des manuscrits médiévaux numérisés? ARCA, Jonas, CALAMES, mandragore, sans parler du web non francophone... Les médiévistes ont reproduit en ligne la bibliothèque labyrinthique imaginée par Umberto Eco :)

Ouch. And…truth.

I mean... they're not wrong!

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia >threaten the Pope himself with personal violence >heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion >misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

Are you, too, interested in how rare books come to be valued and wondering why we keep honoring their collectors? Pay attention to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and @christianalgar.bsky.social (among others). It's a key area of feminist bibliography and something we're interested in at PBSA

A sickening amount of wealth will soon be transfered - how will this "inheritocracy" redraw what is expected of art on walls, in private interiors - only partial answers below.

L'enssib lance un appel à candidatures dans le cadre d’un contrat doctoral pour une thèse en histoire du livre, des bibliothèques et histoire contemporaine. @enssib.bsky.social . www.enssib.fr/actualites/a...

If you happen to be near Purdue on April 7th, I’ll be giving a keynote at their Digital Humanities Day “Anemoia, AI, & Skeuomorphism: The Material Turn in Digital Humanities” will try to theorize the growing interest in material technologies & "dead media" among DH practitioners—more at the link!

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians

I have an archivist joke, but a historian who found it in the collection I processed and using the finding aid I wrote will say it was lost and he discovered it.

it just occurred to me that let there be light was the first prompt

My undergrad DH course next week is on Tokenization and hidden labour - might start with this snippet!

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

Second “explainer” piece here www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#Rouen Albumine & Collodion – Rouen en photographies (1850-1920) Expo du 6 mars (vernissage) au 31 juillet - bibliothèque patrimoniale bibliotheques.rouen.fr/agenda/album...

For the "everything is online" crowd in the back: Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.

A great exhibition is coming up soon at the Musée Cognacq-Jay: Révéler le féminin. Mode et Apparences au XVIIIe siècle. www.museecognacqjay.paris.fr/expositions/... #fashion #portrait #France #C18th #earlymodern #exhibition

It’s #WomensHistoryMonth and to celebrate we’re offering you the chance to take part in a special Transcribathon with @factsandfiles.bsky.social. Transcribe and enrich letters, diaries and documents written by women. There are prizes for participants who transcribe the most! ➡️ bit.ly/4tZyxAL

This was such a great event!

In case your articles are still on Academia.edu: why?

‘There are lots of ways in which oral and manuscript forms of the transmission of news continue alongside it – it is not the case that Europe gets the newspaper and thinks, here we go. You still have people singing ballads.’ John Gallagher on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WE DONT NEED ANOTHER AUSTEN ADAPTATION UNTIL WE GET BELINDA OR EVELINA

My L1 course about Monarchy and Parliament in early modern times in the British Isles is in the news 🤴 ⚖️ ! (A great thread 🧵 below on the Yoon Suk Yeol trial verdict in South Korea).

🔴 Gallicagram v2, nous voici ! 🔴 Nouvelle interface en react vachement plus stable et rapide, nouveaux corpus (Mediapart, Libé, le Parisien, Le Figaro…), recherche contextuelle, comparaisons inter-corpus, filtre rubrique, bilingue, infinite scrolling... on vous explique tout ! 📌 www.gallicagram.com

Perfect! This thread will be the intro to next week's DH course on Digitized corpus & Historical research!

Join the Society for the History of Collection, and come to the private visit of the Comte d'Artois exhibition on 27 February at 10:30 a.m. The visit will be guided by Benoît Delcourte, curator of the exhibition. Register: thesocietyforthehistoryofcollecting.wildapricot.org/event-6527616

Join the Society for the History of Collection, and come to the private visit of the Comte d'Artois exhibition on 27 February at 10:30 a.m. The visit will be guided by Benoît Delcourte, curator of the exhibition. Register: thesocietyforthehistoryofcollecting.wildapricot.org/event-6527616

We are absolutely thrilled to share our Draft Programme for the Late Stuart Court Symposium - We have an amazing lineup of speakers! If you are interested in joining us in-person or online, sign up now using our Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980806533...

An interesting (and biting) review of an AI for Student Companion, warning that "students should see firsthand how these supposedly revolutionary software applications flatten thought, reward conformity, erode interactivity" - let's teach students how the slop is made before dishing it out

This is who runs this account

One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.

Do I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)? (would love to see portfolios)