I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

✂️ Kürzungen an Hochschulen gehen auf Kosten der Beschäftigten, der Studierenden, der Wissenschaft — & unserer Demokratie. Den Preis dafür zahlt unsere Gesellschaft als Ganzes. Das ist heute sehr deutlich geworden in der Sendung. Zum Nachhören! ⬇️ #IchBinHanna www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-viele-ku...

Passend zum gestrigen Panel "Alkohol - Macht - Leistung" von @mareenheying.bsky.social, @lisbethmatzer.bsky.social und Sina Fabian steht am Stand von Campus der Sammelband "Gefährlicher Genuss", betreut von @juetzhd.bsky.social und gefördert von uns #histotag25 www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

This just still worked for me, so give it a shot, if you are not planning to sign yourself over to Academia.ed u’s new terms and conditions 👎👎👎

🗺️ An Ottoman Map of #Australia, 1894 #Map #OldMaps

🎺📖 Happy to say that The Word made Flesh now is available for pre-order (also in slightly more affordable paperback)! 🎺📖 #earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...

Search the database to see if your book/article/whatever is there and sign up!

What a resource! Early modern maritime historians check this out … seafarers of the Dutch West Indian Company 17thC #maritimehistory #sailors #earlymodern

Mareike Witkowski untersucht in unserem neuesten Blogbeitrag eine besonders prekäre Berufsgruppe und ihre Gewalterfahrungen am Arbeitsplatz: Hausangestellte. Verbale und körperliche Gewalt galten häufig als legitim und blieben oft folgenlos. Mehr erfahrt ihr hier:

Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln) „Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“ 1/2

Dr Jagjeet Lally, Associate Professor of the History of Early Modern and Colonial India, joins the latest episode of You’re Dead to Me - the comedy podcast that takes history seriously! 🎧Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Interesting & critical review of the new V&A Storehouse by @profdanhicks.bsky.social artreview.com/what-isnt-at...

I have absolutely no idea if non-US residents can sign up for these things, but as one of the several million people whose works were also available on LibGen, I've given the firm representing the plaintiffs my details here: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... You can too!

This is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval demographic connections between Europe/Britain and Africa. Another piece in the giant jigsaw of human migration history!

Ade, David Stratton! A truly wonderful film critic on an absolute gem of Australian tv. He and Margaret Pomeranz sparring convivially over a film was always balsam for head and heart. #film #abc

New version of the Slave Voyages website launched: www.slavevoyages.org/blog/slavevo... #History #EnslavedHistory 🗃️

I just read a clearly AI-fueled or AI-written book in my academic niche, and while I stumble to finish it, I predict that future historiography will have literature categories and markers like *published post 2024* or *published ante 2024*. Our days will be seen as the barrier between these worlds.

Even Johanna van Riebeeck chewed betel nuts according to her shopping list from 1709 when sailing from Batavia to Amsterdam. #foodhistory #drugs resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexic...

Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release

Good read: Archaeology and the archive plus the afterlife of shipwrecked vessels … www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

NEW ESSAY: Pins and Needles – Textile Observations by 18th Century Naturalists on Long-distance Journeys. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/pi...

From the archive. In 1629, the Batavia, a ship of the Dutch East India Company, met disaster off the coast of Australia. A new analysis of the shipwreck’s tree rings uncovers how such vessels were built to advance European colonialism. Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

This is a very good example of how complex and huge the challenge of digitising records is There are more than 5 million record cards and over 1100 boxes of registers An interesting, albeit dusty job! Most of these records will not be accessible for some years, mostly because of the ‘100 year rule’

Wow, Jack Bouchard’s 2024 @envirohistory.bsky.social article is phenomenal. It’s as beautifully and compellingly written as a novel, while making very important interventions in animal and maritime history as well as #envhist. Highly recommend! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Hungarian government's desperate efforts to ban the Budapest #Pride2025 have been thoroughly thwarted. Long live freedom, liberty and democracy. So proud of Hungarians - from all walks of life and political persuasions - for showing up en masse today. 📷 András Jámbor©️

Hurrah! Can’t wait to listen in #history

Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).

New article! 'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research. It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it! Some context below: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Half a pair of late 17th-early 18th century breeches, the baggier sort based on the Copenhagen Naval Memorial.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #skystorians #histsci #animalhistory #earlymodern #envhist #linnaeus #Sapmi #colonialism

HOOKED: New exhibition on 500 years of addiction opening soon @rcpedin.bsky.social 📅30 May 2025 – 13 Feb 2026 🕰️Mon – Fri, 10am - 4.30pm 🏛️Physicians' Gallery, 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ Free entry #histmed #skystorians

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:

Unearthed: The Power of Gardening is now open! 🌱 Discover botanical treasures, medieval manuscripts, contemporary artworks and the stories of the remarkable people and plants that shape our gardens today. Book now: bit.ly/BLUnearthed Members go free

Registration open! Excited about this roundtable bringing together the brains of @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social @kabcommons.bsky.social @worsted.bsky.social from @mrcwarwick.bsky.social & Ansar Ahmed Ullah from the Swadhinata Trust 19 May, 6-8pm, @rshc.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/changing-t...

Free acces link for c. 3 weeks to my latest article on coffee and tea in early eighteenth-century Halle Pietism. #history #pietism #foodhistory #earlymodernhistory academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...

OMG #oceanhist #histsci #envhist

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“As food insecurity grows globally, foresight planning for sustainable food systems has become critical. Here we argue that history—through detailed data, case studies and methodologies—can profoundly enhance the robustness of scenario planning.” Great stuff. #EnvHist www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The temperature spreads in temperate North America were extreme even for the temperately acclimatized British, Irish, and Hessian troops who fought for the British Crown." - @erinspinney.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/04/12/t... #envhist #histmed #climhist #brithist

#onmydesktoday: a history of beer in Ireland, with monks writing beer reviews, ale brewing Viking women, and zombies. Sláinte.

From the Archive: Waterproof Garments – The Long Nineteenth Century (800 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/wa...

Blas Hernández, notary of Lima, doodling sea motifs whilst probably being bored between power of attorney and power of attorney...

An interesting find amongst @prizepapers.bsky.social today : branding on bill of lading? #maritimehistory #skystorians #earlymodernhistory #ships

New followers: welcome to the strange & wonderful world of medical history! Here's Napoleon's toothbrush, c.1810. Napoleon brushed his teeth regularly using opium-based toothpaste. His toothbrush has a silver gilt handle and bristles made of horsehair, which would have been very rough on the gums.

Oh goody - am now looking forward to cleaning the bathroom …

Danke Hamburg! ♥️ Danke, dass ihr euch der AfD entgegenstellt.

Here's another one for those who like #EarlyModern and #18thC paintings of working women. The Woman Shopkeeper, British School, c.1790-1800. artuk.org/discover/art...

Da geht mir das Herz auf! Zehntausende Menschen stellen sich der rechtsextremen AfD in #Riesa entgegen! Danke ♥️ In diesen Zeiten erfordert es Entschlossenheit und Mut, sein Gesicht gegen Rechtsextremismus zu zeigen, ob hier in Riesa, in den AfD-Hochburgen oder im Netz. Halten wir zusammen!

Calling all working on drinking studies …