Delighted my collaboration with Industrial Museums Scotland @shacklington.bsky.social ‘Sniffers in Residence: Using Smell to Engage Intergenerational Audiences with Industrial Heritage' is one of the projects to be funded under this scheme! Look out for industrial smelly things from April onwards!
My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern
20 February 1583: Ambassador Mendoza writes home about a picture sent from Flanders featuring the Netherlands depicted as a cow an early version of this 1630s painting. It features Philip II trying to control the cow, his spurs drawing blood; William of Orange milking it, a sign ... 1/
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Ein paar Plätze sind noch frei und noch nehme ich Anmeldungen entgegen: turns.hypotheses.org/2356
Dank der Gemälde von Sascha Schneider gilt mein erster Post hierzu noch nicht mal als jugendfrei. Man lernt nie aus 🤷. Zu sehen übrigens: Gefühl der Abhängigkeit (li), Lichtsieg (re), beide ca. 1920.
Und wer es ganz genau wissen mag, hier gleich das ganze Programm zur Ansicht turns.hypotheses.org/files/2026/0..., mit dabei: Hannah Elmer, @juliaheinemann.bsky.social, @isabelleschuerch.bsky.social und digital zugeschaltet Miriam Weiss 🥳 (2/2)
Liebe #skystorians: 🤫 so unter uns, noch 5mal schlafen, dann ist es schon so weit: meine Experimentierwerkstatt zu #Bias in der #Geschichte an der @univie.ac.at, organisiert am @ihb-oeaw.bsky.social und gefördert vom @fwf-at.bsky.social . Noch nehme ich Anmeldungen entgegen 🤗 (1/2)
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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IHR programme for the Europe & the World Seminar 12 January: Yahya Nurgat: The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf 16 February: Frederica Gigante on "Enslaved Networks: Muslim Lives and the Movement of Knowledge and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean" 9 March: Sheilagh Ogilvie: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid 23 March: Pablo Gómez: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality
AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three!
Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Open letter @arolsenarchives.bsky.social: Consistent Action Against AI-generated Holocaust Distortions on Social Media Platforms
Ein Friendly Reminder für alle #skystorians, die Lust und Zeit auf eine Experimentierwerkstatt zu #Bias und #Herrschaft haben. Bis zum 10.01.2026 habt ihr noch Zeit, eure Ideen bei mir einzureichen. Ich bin schon gespannt. Alle Infos findet ihr im Link:
Liebe #earlymodern #skystorians, kurz vor der Zeit zwischen den Jahren habe ich mir mit einer für Februar geplanten Experimentierwerkstatt zu #Bias und #Herrschaft ein kleines Geschenk an mich selbst gemacht. Frist des Calls 10.01.2026, alle Infos: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Sie entwickelte eine bahnbrechende Methode der Teilchenphysik und machte Kernreaktionen sichtbar. In Wien erhielt sie nicht einmal eine bezahlte Stelle.
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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OMG OMG OMG! Belgian universities ARE SPEAKING OUT! And brilliantly collectively. LOOK! hogeronderwijsinopstand.be
Belgian unis are also facing drastic cuts that will change what universities are. It's so hopeful to see staff pulling together so thoughtfully. Let's protect what we know to matter.
And here's the essay part of that post. sharedhistoryproject.org/essay/few-ex...
We are excited to welcome @wedgie-bce.bsky.social on November 30th for our online speaker series!
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #witchcraft
Thanks for those AI robots messing up a Bavarian civil law code! For those in Vienna or soon in Vienna, there is currently a beautifully disturbing exhibition of #HitoSteyerl at the MAK: www.mak.at/vermittlung/...
"This work simulates a cupboard, located in a niche, inside which two boards have been fitted as shelves, covered by a glass sheet held in place by a narrow wooden frame, with a lock in the center of the left jamb from which some keys are hanging. On the bottom shelf are ranged objects of indigenous, Chinese and Spanish origin. Pertaining to the first of these cultures is a tompeate or palm-leaf basket, some gourds for drinking chocolate, one of which sits atop a hammered-copper chocolate pot and the other behind it, as well as a carved coconut shell with silver trimmings, also used for drinking chocolate. From China, there is a blue and white porcelain plate, while the chocolate jar, the glass and the bottles are of Spanish origin. The middle shelf holds two silver plates with scalloped edges, in front of which there are four cylindrical wooden boxes for cajeta (Mexican caramelized-milk confection) or some other type of confiture. In the center there are two small loaves of wheat bread behind which there stands a honey pot, covered with a clothe from which a spoon handle is protruding and lastly, on the right, there is a keg that might contain olives or some other sort of pickled food covered with a plate. The top shelf holds series of objects associated with the arts: book and notes, stringed instruments, a palette and some brushes, a sculpture and a saw. This piece passed to the MUNAL from the San Diego Viceregal Painting Gallery in the year 2000." https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/cupboard/1AEcwQ1XSN1qLw?hl=en
Antonio Pérez de Aguilar, Artist's Cupboard, c. 1769 (Museo Nacional de Arte INBA, Mexico City)
I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions!
#FlemishArt
#WomensHistory
#ArtHistory
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Our latest issue of #Diplomatica is out ! Volume 7.2 is here, with great contributions on topics such as Ferrante I of Naples, and Chinese literary diplomacy. It includes a debate around a manifesto for new diplomatic history written by some of our members. Check it out here: tinyurl.com/Diplomatica
Die #Hofzwergin Luisa wendet sich im 16. Jh. an die spanische Königin: Ihr Bruder durfte wegen seiner Größe nicht dem #Franziskanerorden beitreten. @juliagebke.bsky.social über die Verhandlung von körperlichen Normvorstellungen & sozialen Grenzen.
habsmon.hypotheses.o... @ihb-oeaw.bsky.social
Liebe #earlymodern #skystorians, habt ihr Lust auf eine kleine Zeitreise an den spanischen Königshof im 16. Jahrhundert? Und wollt ihr wissen, was Luisa, die "Hofzwergin", und die spanische Königin, Anna von Österreich, umtrieb? Dann schaut mal hier👇
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Grinning woman holding a fat grey book in front of a house door with a skeleton graffiti
Screenshot of a publisher's website
📯 Netzwerke der Nonnen are a material object AND open access available! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/netzwer...
The text and metadata were produced by Alejandro Salamanca - @desvelandooriente.com. Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/111D/4/ORT53. Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone
The text and metadata were produced by Alejandro Salamanca - @desvelandooriente.com. Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/111D/4/ORT53. Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone
Francisco Ortiz, originally from Santoña, was appointed as shipmaster of the Fort de Nantes by the Spanish charterer, Francisco Sánchez de Madrid. His personal archive, comprising more than 500 documents, reveals many details about his personal life and his social relationships.
Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.
#earlymodern #witches #halloween #scholar #academic #gothic #horror #history
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#earlymodern ads are never boring!
An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟
St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.
How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680?
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
