Call for papers for an upcoming conference at the IEG: submissions very welcome! ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optim...

Frankfurt aufgepasst: Übermorgen stellt Richard Rohrmoser (Uni Mannheim u. aktiv bei #hist4dem) sein Buch über die Geschichte der Antifa auf dem Campus Westend der @goetheuni.bsky.social vor. Die Veranstaltung ist öffentlich. 🏛️Seminarhaus, Raum 0.104 🕕15. Mai, 18 Uhr

Das hier 👇 war gestern Nachmittag in Mainz. Es war ein langer und anstrengender Tag - aber diese Veranstaltung war das Highlight. Es wurde lebhaft diskutiert. Der Wunsch, so etwas zu wiederholen, gerne bald, wurde gleich mehrfach geäußert. Für Kilian und mich kann ich sagen: Gerne.

Diskussionsveranstaltung „Geschichte in der postkolonialen Demokratie“ am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) in Mainz am 8. Mai 2025. Ein Thread zu dieser #hist4demAktion im Rahmen der Aktionswoche #demokratiestärken 👇. (1/12)

Eine wichtige Veranstaltung zu Anliegen und Vielheit des Postkolonialen! Herzlichen Dank an @geschichtsadmin.bsky.social, Kilian Harrer, das IEG Mainz und @hist4dem.bsky.social für die Organisation! Und die @ente-bagdad.bsky.social fürs Mitwatscheln!

It's always a thrill to see Elizabeth I's (larger than life) signature! You can see it in person in our "How to Be a Power Player: Tudor Edition" exhibition now through the end of July. And check out this opportunity to learn to read early modern handwriting! Tricky but rewarding! 👇

What were the top musical hits of Shakespeare’s England? 🎶 On the podcast, researchers @angelamcshane.bsky.social and Christopher Marsh of the 100 Ballads project discuss what these ballads tell us about moral norms, sensationalism, and everyday life. Listen at: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

New #openaccess Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, @adendros.bsky.social library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... @nconstantinidou.bsky.social @leuvenup.bsky.social @jarrikvanderbiest.bsky.social

Das ist heute!

"Wir sollten dahingucken, wo Leute digital die Fahne hochhalten für Demokratie.“ Anja Neubert mit Verweis auf @akubiz.bsky.social bei der Diskussion mit @moritz-hoffmann.de und Lars Gräßer (@grimmeinstitut.bsky.social) zu Social Media und Demokratie an der @unicologne.bsky.social #hist4demAktion

Here's the whole tooled pigskin binding. The book inside, published by Katherine Gerlach in Nürnberg in 1585, is comprised of two musical texts, one of which is printed (particularly beautifully) in red and black on vellum! i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

AND the front attachments also have a sunny disposition! 🌞🌞

Sun, Sun, Sun, Here It Comes A little darling of a 16th c. German book clasp at #NewberryLibrary (Case C 868 .586). Looks a bit like a sunflower, doesn't it? 🌞🌻#EmotionalSupport #BookFurniture

#Skystorians, I'm trying to see if there's an interest in an online early modern/late medieval German paleography group, where we'd transcribe or look over documents together on Zoom. If anyone would be interested in joining something like this, let me know! #EarlyModern #MedievalSky 🗃️

Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism

We are delighted to publish today 'Reading Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England', by Hannah Jeans bit.ly/4c7Oufy Hannah's is the 22nd title in the New Historical Perspectives book series with @ihr.bsky.social and @uolpress.bsky.social It's available free Open Access. #Skystorians 1/2

#onmydesktoday: A book devoted to #earlymodern news. More precisely to the news flows of certain years, in script and print, and many languages. A focus upon serialised news flows and their storytelling. Good tidings, #newshistory.

Here's a VERY Rare Book! Dare I say.... a UNICORN? How could I (almost) miss that it's #NationalUnicornDay? #volvelle #interactive #popup #NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Vielleicht das beste, was man im Moment tun kann: In Schallplatten investieren. Bei Isovinyl in Buxtehude.

I'm giving a #hextag talk about the Basque Witch-Hunt in Liverpool on Thursday 17 April! Everyone is very welcome. 😊 #earlymodern 🗃️ www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/talks/the-wi...

Please share this CfP - Nonconformity and the Revolutions Bath, June 21st Any papers relating to C18 Dissent and the revolutions are most welcome

An absolutely stunning photo! The 35m-long #Roman shipwreck, along with its cargo of 6,000 (!) amphorae was discovered in 2019 off the coast of the Greek Island of Kefalonia. It’s one of the largest Roman shipwrecks found in the Mediterranean. Photo: Ionian Aquarium 🏺 AncientBluesky

Šuppiluliuma II. wurde in den Gruppenchat aufgenommen 👍.

FRIDAY! If you want to join on Zoom, make sure to register in the next 24 hours so you get the official zoom link But also: Bloomsbury's lovely in Spring. #SkyStorians #EarlyModern #LowCountries #AngloDutch

Tolle Nachrichten! Unser Forschungsverbund erhält eine zweite Förderphase bis 2029. Das hat der Senat der @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de nun entschieden. Wir freuen uns und sind gespannt auf die kommenden Jahre mit vielen spannenden Projekten! 🎉 Zur Pressemitteilung: idw-online.de/de/news849618

#Transkribus als Werkzeug für die Kolonialforschung in Lateinamerika, von Gilson Mateus auf @red-hd.bsky.social#Transkribus “Del manuscrito antiguo al nuevo mundo: Transkribus como herramienta metodológica en los estudios de la Historia de la América Colonial”

Looking very soft-spoken. With his megaphone.

Doktorand:in gesucht: www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Fresh from the press: www.steiner-verlag.de/Konfession-R... With a contribution by me (in German) on "Täuferische Rechtskulturen", pp. 99-117.

19 Mar 1541: Henry VIII & Catherine Howard move through #London on the Thames aboard royal barges #otd (BM) She was executed on 13 Feb 1542

#onmydesktoday: a book about #earlymodern communication networks, postal infrastructure and the beginnings of European journalism. With mailbags, couriers, and so many postal routes. From @rmidura.bsky.social! This one is for #NewsHistory and #Skystorians with an interest in communication flows.

New project funded with £1 million by Lloyd's Register Foundation at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy explores the history of transatlantic slavery. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/m... 1/3

"Don't shoot! Let's talk about this instead!" Ethiopia, 19th c. (?) #rifle #cross #africanart

Checking the proofs of my "Hand-List of Prints from the Jesuit Mission Press in Japan and Related Materials" (out soon in link.springer.com/book/9783662...) atm and look what's online now: The Rio de Janeiro copy of Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam (1603) @ acervobndigital.bn.gov.br/sophia/index... 1/

"Wanna hear the last from St. Upid?" "Oh no, no, I can't anymore!" Vienna, Codex 93, 13th century: digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/vi... #histmed #medievalsky #skystorians

#Rewilding in Europe - Genealogies, Imaginaries and Practices of Conservation in the #Anthropocene - international conference starting next Wednesday 19th March @Museum Koenig Bonn, sponsored by @valuepast.bsky.social For programme and registration see leibniz-lib.de/en/events/re...

📢 WEBINAR NEXT WEEK! 📢 We're hosting a Zooniverse progress update Webinar on Wednesday 19 March @ 14.00 GMT We'll: Share some exciting volunteer finds 📜 Share updated stats about project progress 📈 Answer questions submitted in advance 🙋 Joining info: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... 🧵1/2

The @austhistassoc.bsky.social has created a new advocacy toolkit for historians theaha.org.au/advocacy/ The Royal Historical Society's own 'Toolkit' bit.ly/3skly1l now includes details of the AHA resource as well as others from #History and humanities groups in the UK / RoW #skystorians 1/2 👇

What makes us value certain objects? 🧐 The Material Culture of Wills project is transcribing 25,000 early modern wills, to find out how people's relationships with their possessions changed over 250 years. Find out more in this Success Story: bit.ly/3Fk8U8O @materialwills.bsky.social

Brass or bronze candlestick of a figure in contemporary German costume, German, early 16th century (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/

#HamburgerKulturgutDigital: Wappenbuch des Senats der Stadt Hamburg (1501). Eine Zusammenstellung der Wappen aller ratsfähigen Hamburger Familien. Eine farbige Selbstdarstellung zum Anbruch der Neuzeit: resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de/kitodo/PPN18... 1/2

At the end of each day, make sure that every used letter is collected for recycling. BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.135r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

A sad day for historians of the Reformation and early modern Europe. Thomas A. Brady, Jr. (1937-2025) taught an entire generation of historians how to think about religion and reform as a problem of social and cultural history, not just matters of theology and politics -- important as they are, too.

Als #Komponistin die protestantische Sammlungsfrau Barbara Kluntz (1661–1730) aus #Ulm, die 3 Choralbücher schrieb (nur noch 2 erhalten). Ihr größtes Vorbild war die frz. Dichterin Georgette de Montenay, deren Bild sie mit hineinklebte 😍 #InternationalWomensDay susanne-wosnitzka.de/zum-8-maerz-...

Delighted to announce my professorial inaugural at UCL on 28th May, do sign up be great to see you all there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-frame...

This multi-authored article has now appeared in print: Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Volume 45 (2025), 27-52. I'm now working on as many as 6 more collaborative pieces... Rather unconventional in my field but exceptionally rewarding.

A flyer for the 2024 paperback edition of "Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs" a book I co-edited with Fernando Checa Cremades has just landed on my desk www.routledge.com/Festival-Cul...