I had a lovely time yesterday visiting #TheBritishMuseum exhibition #AncientIndiaLivingTraditions An exhibition I highly recommend! #museum #india #religion #comparativereligion #history #museums #skystorians #academicsky

#Academia is wild y'all. Go to a meeting about a potentially collaborative conference and suddenly you're in a meeting with rockstar #historian Philip Mansel! My #historyfangirl heart the whole time! #skystorians #academicsky #TIOL #travellersinottomanlands #levantineheritage #ottoman #history

@universitypress.cambridge.org offers a huge range of #openaccess #academic publications on a range of subjects, including #ottomanstudies www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #history #ottoman #resources #publication #skystorians #cambridgeuniversitypress #academicsky

Courtsy of #WIASN facebook group - too good not to share! #academicsky #skystorians #academicyear

Internet: Use a VPN to keep your browsing safe! Also the Internet: With a VPN we will block you from many websites and functions unless you disable it! #internetsecurity #vpn #internet #browsing #computing #computersecurity

Love a #bookmail day! Finally got my hands on #BerengariaofNavarre by the amazing @gabbystorey.bsky.social #history #skystorians #medieval #queenship #booksky

My alma mater @unibirmingham.bsky.social holds an amazing collection of over 3000 #middleeastern #manuscripts in the Mingana Collection, cared for by the Cadbury Research Library. Explore them here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/c... #skystorian #history #ottoman #arabic #persian #syriac #archive

Check out the work of the @erc.europa.eu funded GHOST project, Geographies and Histories of Ottoman Supernatural Tradition. Website: ghost.ims.forth.gr FB: www.facebook.com/ghosterc2018 X: x.com/ghost_erc #ottoman #history #supernatural #skystorians #ghostproject #supernaturalhistory

Can you believe @history-hit.bsky.social agreed to have me back? Another fun chat with @mattlewishistory.bsky.social on the Ottoman-Venetian Wars for the #echoesofhistory series! podfollow.com/.../4d00ceaa... #history #ottoman #historian #assassinscreed #ottomanvenetianwars #podcast #skystorians

Pleased to present #TIOL new website! travellersinottomanlands.com #travellersinottomanlands #academicky #ottoman #history #skystorians #travel #MENA

Delighted to share my @history-hit.bsky.social Echoes of History #podcast episode on the Fall of Constantinople! podfollow.com/echoes-of-hi... #history #ottomanhistory #historygram #constantinople #jobbinghistorian #historyhit #echoesofhistory #academicsky #skystorians

Just don't try to have a converdation with me in these languages! #duolingo #french

Spotting a historical inaccuracy on a TV programme because you were alive at the time when it was set 💀

www.dailysabah.com/arts/from-ro... #history #ottoman #skystorians #scent #perfume

www.islam21c.com/history/city... #history #ottoman #skystorians #london

This is exciting and I am looking forward to visiting when the Tapestry is here! www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... #history #skystorians #museums #bayeuxtapestry #academicsky

Late post but a great evening at The British Museum on Monday with a discussion of @jennylinford.bsky.social new book Repast with Alexandra Green and @signesjohansen.bsky.social #history #skystorians #food

www.hurriyetdailynews.com/centuries-ol... #history #ottoman #skystorians #academicsky

A Discussion Session, Exploring Identity through Memory Emel Sevinc in conversation with Elif Toker-Turnalar. #lseturkiye #skystorians #academicsky #batas

Love it when someone approaches you at a conference, told you they read your article and thought it was very interesting! #batas #skystorians #academicsky #lseturkiye

Panel 2 of the day Diaspora, Displacement and Collective Trauma with Basak Kale, Tugce Bicakci-Syed & Asli Kandemir #batas #lseturkiye #academicsky #skystorians

Panel 1, Turkish Foreign Policy in a Global Age with @mustafakutlay.bsky.social @ozihnioglu.bsky.social @digdemsoyaltin.bsky.social @emelin777.bsky.social #lseturkiye #academicsky #skystorians #turkiye

Welcome and opening remarks from @ygursoy.bsky.social & Elif Toker-Turnalar. #lseturkiye #academicsky #turkiye #skystorians

Looking forward to a day of #turkishstudies courtesy of British Association of Turkish Area Studies (BATAS) at #lse #lseturkiye #skystorians #academicsky

And... we have a cover!

I’m delighted to have contributed two chapters to this fantastic new handbook on Jack the Ripper. My research is on the number of victims, and past and present police perspectives. I’m looking forward to reading all the other essays!

Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅 Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world. #WorldEnvironmentDay #BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️

Fantastic talk last night from Reina Lewis courtesy of @thebiaankara.bsky.social at @britishacademy.bsky.social London! #history #skystorians #ottoman #academicsky

Another great members lecture last night at British Museum. Dr Finkel on great form as always discussing the Babylonian map of the world. #skystorians #history #ancienthistory #lecture #academicsky

www.hurriyetdailynews.com/calligraphie... #ottoman #history #turkiye #skystorians

As a new member of Richmond Local History Society I was happy to be able to get our member Mark Lucas' book at Richmond May Fair. The Rise and Fall of Richmond Palace. #skystorians #history #localhistory #booksky #richmond

At this point its muacle memory! #duolingo #languages #languagelearning @duolingoverde.bsky.social

Through my letterbox today! Can't wait to dive in (and maybe read to my 8 month old!) @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social #history #skystorians #medhist #booksky

In 1683, #camels took part in the Ottoman siege of Vienna. In this military map of the Saxon artillery chief captain Daniel Suttinger (1640-1689) the fleeing of the Turkish troops and their camels are shown. #maphistory #skystorians Access the zoomable map: www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/ob...

www.dailysabah.com/life/history... #history #ottoman #skystorians

www.hurriyetdailynews.com/life-of-piri... #history #ottoman #skystorians

First day back after maternity leave be like.....

www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-e... #history #ottoman #skystorians

A huge thank you to all the wonderful speakers, performers and attendees at this year’s #HistFest!

Love reading? Enjoy history? Join our free monthly book club! This month we’ve been reading Courting India by Nandini Das and His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet. All welcome! histfest.org/history-book...

Wonderful; thanks! And some podcasts and videos (more to come) about Humans: A Monstrous History, if you fancy them: www.surekhadavies.org/podcasts

Book haul from @histfest.bsky.social featuring @k8lister.bsky.social @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social @moudhy.bsky.social @lswisnom.bsky.social #history #skystorians #booksky #histfest2025 #histfest

Thanks so much for attending and for sharing this! I have a bunch of podcasts up on my website, and videos are starting to come in: www.surekhadavies.org/videos-1

Rounding off a fantastic festival with @katewilliamsme.bsky.social on Palaces, Queens and Scandals. #histfest2025 #histfest #history #skystorians

Fantastic panel artwork at #histfest2025 I am thoroughly in favour of poster prints being sold on the @histfest.bsky.social website! I would buy them! #histfest #history #skystorians

Another talk I have been very excited for! @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social & @k8lister.bsky.social on Humans: A Monstrous History. #histfest2025 #histfest #history #skystorians

Listening to Anne Sebba discuss her book about women in Auschwitz who survived by playing in the camp’s female orchestra. Performing for Nazi officers and labourers, facing deep moral struggles. A powerful talk, chaired by historian Kate Williams @histfest.bsky.social @katewilliamsme.bsky.social

Second panel of the day Anne Sebba & @katewilliamsme.bsky.social on The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz #histfest2025 #histfest #history #skystorians

Kicking off with a #JaneAusten panel with Amber Butchart, Prof John Mullan and @rebeccarideal.bsky.social #histfest2025 #histfest #history #skystorians

Day 2 #histfest2025! #histfest #history #skystorians