Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The concept of re-emerging diseases has been a topic of Global Health discourse for decades. But as more & more controlled (but not eliminated) diseases re-emerge, historical knowledge (among clinicians, but also epidemiologists & the public at large) becomes more & more important. Hire a historian!

Happy Willy Wonka Experience Anniversary to all who are celebrating.

Fond memories of working at NTL, woman rang up screaming at me. Her husband in background shouts at her, “don’t talk to them like that. They’re on fuck all” Then he takes phone off her, and gives me a line which I have used myself since “Do you have a manager you dislike intensely I can speak to?”

Mark your calendars #Skystorians, because tomorrow we have an #AMA with Adam Cohen, author of Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History! Everyone is welcome to come ask all their questions on this incredible topic!

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I find it very strange to think about lost civilizations where people just had quite a chill time for generations and generations across millennia, living lives as if their world was eternal.

As good a reason as any to be reminded of this

Tonight at the @ihr.bsky.social Modern French History seminar, we have Prof Kevin Passmore speaking on the (sadly timely) topic of 'The French Extreme Right in the age of Fascism and National Socialism, 1919–1945' 🗃️ #skystorians www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

“The draft agreement … allows for the transfer of “special categories” of personal data – for example on political opinions, trade union memberships, information about a person’s sex life or their biometric data.” 👇

Apologies for the Twitter screenshot, but...

Blimey. Skinners' Accounts, 1618-19; MS30727/6, p 46 cc @davidveevers.bsky.social et al

@historicbostons.bsky.social is keeping accessible, free #publichistory available to all

"It's been hard, the writing, lately. Just comes in beautiful fragments like nods, now. Guess I'd rather just sleep forever this sleep, and forget. But the gnats keep buzzing in my ear. And the heat. And the dreams..." ---poet Jim Carroll

"Barney Blitz" ... once again, a real-life name that your book's editor would strike out as too self-consciously quaint

The administrators might have been conned by the AI hucksters, but the students, my friends, are all right. (The author is a history and economics major, I'll note.) www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

I write books. Feels like a silly thing to do at times. But I was reading Dorothy Sayers, and her protagonist author makes a point: if you’re an excellent barber it would be silly to work as a bad mathematician. I’m a writer. I scrape by on words and I make them matter. Because it’s what I do best.

In the Stationers' Register today, a couple of cheerful-sounding ballads: 'A right excellent and comfortable consolation for all oppressed persons', and 'A ballade intituled Remember thy ende'. 6/

Sharing for the weekend crowd. I am on the advisory committee for this so I'm happy to answer any questions. Please share widely! Compensation ● $1,500 per year ● Free AAHM membership ● Free registration for the AAHM annual meeting

upon the banquet of his funeral they most piously do pounce

Dramatic in Brighton today

living a notoriously evil life

your bill of fare is immutable

David Lee Vaughan III explores how Marchamont Nedham used Satanic imagery during the English Civil Wars to demonize opponents and shape political discourse in the 1640s. #RSA2026

this only makes sense if you either discount critical engagement or empirical evaluation as not engaging OR you have failed to familiarise yourself with the robust body of critical/audit work over the past number of years

Ok, here’s a proof of the 2nd layer, which adapts a broadside published in April of 1854 to warn Black residents of Boston about slave-catchers in the city, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Dear medievalist and medieval-curious friends, please help spread the good word about a new opportunity to enroll in the Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY may not be rich, but we are uniquely rich in medievalists! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/medie... #medievalsky

I'm sure I'm not the only historian who thought of this analogy.

Stefan Collini in 2013: "Future historians ... will at least record that, alongside its many other achievements, the coalition government took the decisive steps in helping to turn some first-rate universities into third-rate companies." #HigherEd #UKHE www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

No Jeopardy no it was more like 75,000 copies max!!!! Jeopardy the presses of this great nation simply could not have handled 120000 copies which is just a number Paine invented anyway!!! What is no pamphlet ever from 1776 Jeopardy!!!

The Journal of the Early Republic is currently accepting applications for a Book Reviews Co-Editor! Serve a three-year term beginning July 2026. Review of applications begins March 10, 2026. View the #JERPano CFA on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/13/c...

Malcolm Harris did a good job of describing how the tech bros got to this gilded insanity in his book Palo Alto: History of California, Capitalism and The World.

The people want drip. The house of Windsor cannot deliver. They are constitutionally incapable of drip. Bring back the glorious house of Stuart.

Topical 🧵

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

In case you missed it, the IHR Bulletin for February 2026 is out. Read it here: mailchi.mp/a115dcbd44a0...

One of my favorite things about Kathryn Rudy's manuscripts scholarship is the candor with which she describes her method and her advocacy of the value of slow, intensive scholarship that combines access to digital materials with first-hand examination. Here she is on the Bolton/Blackburn Hours. +

Join us today at #RenSA26 #RSA2026 for a roundtable on #earlymodern materiality, material culture, and emerging methodologies! What am I going to talk about? Diplomacy and women (what else?) but questioning how transportability and movement impacted gift-giving.

Derek Guy, Bluesky’s king of the teachable moment

THREAD. The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside. 1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

"If you're a writer—any sort of a writer, really—in search of an audience, you will find so much that's invaluable in this candid, spirited, and openhearted handbook." - @bcdreyer.social on #ThePublicScholar. Which you can pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

P.S. Applications for the upcoming Conserving Black Modernism cohort are now open until February 20, 2026: savingplaces.org/black-modern...

My favorite thread this week! 😂

Not new #AMA coming in! We're joined by Dr. Tine Van Osselaer, author of Apparition Fever: Observing the Virgin Mary in Belgium! #Skystorians can ask all their questions about this fascinating topic! There's also a coupon for 25% discount on the book! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

#BOOKGIVEAWAY - The Moscow Playbook: How #Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power with @beastofberglund.bsky.social Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social , then reshare this post for a chance to win a book T&C's coldwarconversations.com/giveaway/ #coldwar #sports

2026 basically

you need to MOGG (Meditate On Great Genres of literature)

Okay I am reading up on the circumstances of the writing and publication of Bembo’s history of Venice and it is unexpectedly hilarious. My man did not want to be a historian. And the Venetian senate didn’t really want a history!