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For the folks in the back: OCR predates LLMs. HTR software predates LLMs. Digital Humanities predates LLMs. Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs. YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.

Het zal @jonalendering.bsky.social deugd doen dat in de St Trophime kathedraal in Arles ook kaarsen worden gebrand voor de Libanese marronitische heilige St Charbel

Arles: St Trophime cloister

Arles romain: theatre, arena, baths of Diocletian, Roman city wall

Musee Departemental Arles Antique

Miljoenenboetes, het toeslagenschandaal en discriminerende algoritmes leidden niet tot echte verandering bij de Belastingdienst. 🎧 Luister s7e8 voor een overzicht van alle nominaties voor de Big Brother Awards: www.bitsoffreedom.nl/podcast/de-g...)

Les Baux, a surprisingly lively history

Reminder: ClogLard 2026 is coming #spreadthelard

In 2017 Starkey came to speak at my school (yeah, yeah) and during the post talk drinks-and-nibbles thing he basically said this to me and some other six formers faces, at which point he was rapidly whisked away by the headmaster

Surprisingly, I don't think our collective governments should demand an apology from Trump. Our collective veteran associations should sue him. Sue him until the pips squeak. It's the only language he understands. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @profgsheffield.bsky.social

There's still so much to talk about Tolkien and his work, but it is great to see how rereading the LotR trilogy always invites people to spend more time in that world. That is its greatest strength

Vanmiddag was de uitreiking van de eerste Uteneng Prijs voor Toegepaste Geschiedenis: trots op Wim van Meurs en zijn team! Zij deden in opdracht van tientallen gemeentes onderzoek naar de onteigening van Joods vastgoed tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

All genocide is local.

This delightful silliness gives hope for the future

She wasn't supposed to be at the address of her parents, because she was in hiding elsewhere, but on 29th of December 1943 she was visiting them. Trucks stopped and German police blocked the street. The man who hid them Jacob de Blauw—a resistance leader—was beaten so badly, they came out of hiding.

Veel van die miljardairs verafschuwen publiciteit en blijven graag anoniem. Dan zou ik bijna denken, kom laat de journalistiek hun functioneren en openbare levens eens binnenstebuiten keren, makkelijk vindbaar op internet.

Wondering about which books in my collection were ones I hunted for a long time before finding, vs buying online, vs "I had no idea this existed until I stumbled upon it"

Very moving visit to Thiaroye today. This is the site where Senegalese soldiers just returned from having participated in the Liberation of France were massacred by the French. Excavations are ongoing to find more bodies in the mass graves. Recent estimates by scholars put death toll at 300-400.

It's here!

Nu al een epische misdaaddraad!

Watched Hell’s Angels, which I don’t believe I’d ever seen. The big dogfight is famous, and the second shot here, of the planes swooping into formation, is like Hermes Pan was behind the camera; then the edits: medium, suddenly on the wing, suddenly in the cockpit, closer in on a pilot.

We’ve mocked up a scenario for Clog Lard. We’ll see if it’s a bit too unbalanced… #spreadthelard #wargaming

Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians Here: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Tuft of Cowslips (Bosje sleutelbloemen) aquarel uit 1526, gemaakt door de Duitse kunstenaar Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

Recently digitised - June 1945; at Kalaw in the Shan States of Burma, British and Indian troops of 19th Indian Division enter the town. #filmcataloguing #ww2 #history Full film, by Gurkha cameraman N S Thapa: IWM JIN 74 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Vandaag was ik bij een interdisciplinaire expert meeting over desinformatie georganiseerd door NWO. Ontzettend veel geleerd. Één inzicht, van Jon Roozenboom, was voor mij een eye-opener en wil ik graag delen. Kijk even op deze website: www.cotsi.org

Watching a presentation by Prof. Stephen Hodkinson on Sparta and the realities of Spartan life with a talk titled 'Spartan Warriors? Modern Myths and Ancient Realities'. Fascinating facts! Hosted by @classicsacademy.bsky.social. #AncientBluesky

Now Hegseth can have any woman in the world nudified above his desk!

🧵 I suspect that there are a lot of people out there, who are deeply troubled by the actions of ICE, but are also uncomfortable with the response of activists. One friend preferred the protests from the civil rights era. I pointed out that at the time, most mainstream white Americans disapproved...

And for the people fleeing wannabe space wanker and his racist hordes there is also this starter pack for women in history …

We seem to be having another influx… For those looking to shortcut to some military history nerds…

It's a new year, so it's time to repost this starter pack again. Let me know if you wish to be added. #earlymodern go.bsky.app/VsHZ9xJ

#OTD in 1790, a new state was born: the United Belgian States. Various entities o/t Habsburg Netherlands declared Joseph II was no longer their sovereign & established a confederal republic. It was over by Dec 1790.

Mooi beeld met een krachtige boodschap. Posterwaardig.

BelloLudi Trojan Rabbit now available for pre order. A game within your game! www.belloludi.nl/winkel/Bello...

Most of the tech the Americans used in Venezuela (helicopters ships) was designed and built in the 1980s/90s. The high-tech has captured the imagination but it really shouldn't have. Read The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton. It will help you get over your neophilia. a.co/d/felNoRW

Ik krijg vaak de vraag: hoe word ik ook een volksverhalenexpert? Het grootste deel van dat antwoord is: door veel zelfstudie. Ik ging zelf de wetenschappelijke boeken over mythologie door, las hele volksverhalencollecties, en deed zo heel veel ervaring op

Eighth Army started Op CRUSADER with ca. 800 tanks. By 9 Jan, 7-8 weeks in, ALL of these had been lost. Remaining tank strength were rebuilds and new arrivals. It was a catastrophic performance of British armour. @alanallport.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social

Anyone else hearing this song in your head? youtu.be/MN_9VqfVQ9c?...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... while I think I might have set a new record for “ums” in a single recording, this interview by Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social was a joy to give. If you’re interested in East African history, the Cold War, or building militaries give a listen!

Met een opmerkelijk staartje van de auteur:

Hij moet gewoon nog een keer, de column van @marcialuyten.bsky.social voor het nieuwe jaar:

This also goes for historical wargamers, modellers and frankly: every hobby. Social media sometimes makes us forget we do this for fun [To be honest, this is why I don't post much of my painting online. I think it isn't very good.]

I recently made a video about book recommendations regarding the Italian navy: youtu.be/rpUJESo-1-o?...

Africa (the Italian African Studies journal) is back, now fully open access, and they published one of the first reviews of my book Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu's Borderlands. It's written by Luca Jourdan and it's very generous.

Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...