For Presidents’ Day, I thought I’d put together a thread of *other* Presidents talking about George Washington and slavery. Away we go! 🧵/1

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Happy Friday 13th!

So. This Valentines Day, when your beloved -- or aspiring beloved! -- comes at you with chocolates or flowers, think about how they measure up to eels. Ask yourself: "Would they eat their own bones just to be with me?" Probably not. 'Cause no one's as romantic as an eel. /fin

You want to read this thread for what we (don’t) know about eel sex, and you want to stay for the alt text.

“I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody.” — Charles Darwin Same dude, same 😔

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

This makes me feel better about how long my dissertation is taking to complete

Setting aside the absurd notion that “AI” can do the work of historians, where is the employment number coming from??

I've had a number of exciting abstracts for the Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present conference but I've decided to EXTEND the deadline to 22 Feb, as I'm away the prior week so won't be reviewing apps then! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Please share. Ask Qs below! 🗃️

its just been downhill since then also it does have a tiny little curly tail

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.

final thoughts on this. from our THE BRIGHT AGES (page 252)

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

Urs Graf, c. 1485-c. 1528. A couple embracing on the shore of a lake c. 1516 (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII) That hat looks like it's alive. Would you embrace a man wearing that hat?

Please get in touch if you would like a plain text version of the programme!

So excited to be a part of such a phenomenal group of scholars all talking about the Late Stuart Court!

that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊 (Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)

I wouldn’t call them “horny” even though they are pornographic, but reading Marvell’s Advice to a Painter poems as an undergrad absolutely had me asking *so many questions* that I had to do a PhD to get answers. “Desperate pencil” still makes me laugh 🤭

How barbaric? In the seventeenth-century, European maps still had "BARBARIA" as a part of Africa in them. Barbaria derives from the Arabic term, bilad al-Barbar (land of the Barbar) and was a term contemporarily used mainly for Coastal Northeastern Horn of Africa. 🦁 #earlymodern #maphistory

Alexis is a prof in my department and she’s seriously so cool!

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History

In Colombia, street ice cream carts announce their goods with a bell, which is the origin of a variant of “all talk and no action” that goes mucho tilín tilín y nada de paletas. It means “a lot of ding-dong and no lollipops.”

Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

That might not have worked if the driver had been more than just an asshole, but that’s a whole different timeline from the one we were actually on! Our agency as a group existed between a complex web of factors partially obscured by darkness and miscommunication & a wide array of possible outcomes.

I once interned for a nonprofit (doesn’t really matter which/sector). My job was as a historian, to research and write as a historian about decades of language shifts across massive funding orgs. I was repeatedly asked about making graphics and I could never figure out how that was supposed to help

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'

On this day 108 years ago, biographer, critic and Bloomsburyist Lytton Strachey went round Virginia Woolf’s gaff and talked dirty – and not for the first time. According to an entry in Woolf’s diary (written the following day)... 🧵

I just think that 18th centuryists should get a higher word count for their bibliography. This book's title is 42 words long and I have the same word count as a paper on 'Ulysses'? Travesty. 18th century books with titles whole pages long and I still have to fit this article into 5000 words?

The page (fol. 93v) is part of a manuscript devoted to virtues - and vice. Many knights are riding animals and beasts, as these creatures stand for certain attributes of virtues or vices.

First up, this is the full page of the manuscript that was made in 1447, Southern Germany.

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

We must care for the idiot within He needs a friend

This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end! It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

In the spirit of the New Year, our latest “Document of the Week”, chosen by our Editorial Assistant, Chloe Haney, is an illustration titled “The Birth of the New Year”, published in The Illustrated London News in 1846. Read the full post here: buff.ly/k3CCWt4

Hello new followers! Can I take this opportunity to flaunt the upcoming publication of my new book (on Feb 3rd), a critical edition of the Grand Tour diaries of George of Denmark, detailing his adventures in Restoration England in the summer of 1669? And here is a discount code! BB135

#earlymodern folks: what are some good websites w/ transcribed primary sources in English for period 1300-1700? Trying to point my students in useful directions. I know about things like British History Online, TNA, etc, but would welcome your suggestions. Even just snippets or excerpts are fine.

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

Almost missed this cfp deadline, but never fear because multiple friends sent it to me! I feel so seen by my people hahaha