Talk about dramatic swings... Today Wordle Bot tells me that my grid was 1 in 252.

Borch, 21. April 1626
Nachdem General Fuchs Ragetz eingenommen, sich vor Wolmerstatt gelegt - da ist ihm der Herzog von Friedland [Wallenstein] entgegen gekommen.
Scharmütziert, aber Fuchs zu schwach, sich zu Tangermünde über die Elbe zurück gezogen. ... 1/2

My book Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War (2023) looks at four military institutions - feudal cavalry services, militias, regular armies, and war commissariats - and investigates how they evolved, mutated, stagnated, or withered in 1618-1648. Open access at hup.fi/books/m/10.3...

Wordle Bot has a (relatively) new feature for the "uniqueness" of your grid. Most of the time, I've been in the 1 in a few thousand range. Today, I was at 1 in 48,315. (In this case, the higher number isn't good, alas.)

Sad news. RIP
For early modernists, the original Bertrande de Rols.

Hessen, 15. April 1626
Gestern zu Fach und den Dörfern herum, Lichtenau, Allendorf, Uls u.a. die Tyllischen Soldaten aufgeschlagen.
Der Rittmeister Berghauer soll mit 124 Pferden und tausenden Bauern nach Schmalkalden im Anzug sein.
Gestern Obrist Schönberg in der Stadt Grebenstein Quartier ... 1/2

It's funny to think that in the original Schlesinger list, the worst thing that US presidents ever did was be corrupt. Grant and Harding were at the very bottom. Trump amazingly combines the faults of Grant and Harding with those of Buchanan and A. Johnson, with none of their virtues.

As your list makes clear, "worst" is a slippery concept. Some are effective in committing evil; some are inept in facilitating evil; some are just not up to the requirements of the moment.
I still think Bush II should supplant Johnson, with post-2025 Trump surpassing Bush.

"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️

Dessau Elbebrücke 1626, von Merian

Leipzig, 10. April 1626
Die Mansfeldischen, die sich zur Dessauer Brücke begeben, haben die Speisen auf dem Tisch gelassen und sind eilends von dannen.
Zu denen führt auch der Dänemarker sein Volk.
Unser Kurfürst befindet sich zu Colditz, lässt das geworbne dänische Kriegsolk hin u. wider passieren.

École d’été – Beyond the Battlefield. Consequences of premodern Warfare for Society, Culture and Landscape Wars do not end when the weapons fall silent. Therefore, when dealing with war and armed conflict, it is necessary to consider their consequences. These can be divided broadly into the following th…

École d’été – Beyond the Battlefield. Consequences of premodern Warfare for Society, Culture and Landscape

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#CfA 📢 Summer School 2026: "Thinking High and Low. Elites, Experts, and the Masses in the Early Reformation", Institute of Reformation History
📆 1-5 June 2026 | 🏫 Université de Genève
⏰Deadline: 15 April 2026
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#EarlyModern #Reformation #SummerSchool

Out of curiosity, what % of Brits do you think could explain the difference between Historic and Ceremonial Counties and could name them all?

Discovered Herbert Langer's thesis from 1970 by accident, and it's actually pretty amazing stuff. I am properly impressed by the width and depth of his analysis.

The Men Who Fought For Manchester: a history of the Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote Tracking the movements of a single body of soldiers, never mind individuals, through the chaos and carnage of the British Civil Wars can be a challenge to even the most dedicated of historians. While ...

Tracking the movements of a group of soldiers, never mind individuals, through the chaos of the British Civil Wars can be a challenge, but this is the story — such as we can tell it — of the men of the Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote earlofmanchesters.co.uk/the-men-who-...

✨Speech/less in the Early Modern World✨
Research Workshop, 23-24 April 2026
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Places limited. Please register as an attendee by 12 April: forms.gle/k9Xnz4gVFhe2Syez9

Thank you event sponsors! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

One can underestimate how much difference an aptly chosen title can make to reception history of an academic work.

All 11.333.878 buildings in the Netherlands

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it!
Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

Poignant 1643 graffiti, for @jonathanhealey.bsky.social

Émojis les plus utilisés entre février et juillet 2020 pour une requête COVID dans les tweets archivés par l’INA

🚨 Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales

'Les sources nativement numériques. Enjeux de #documentation et de #redocumentarisation'

par @valeriesch.bsky.social , Frédéric Clavert et @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social

Un article à lire en #openaccess

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mir begegnet in den OriginalTexten von vor 400 Jahren ja oft die CamelCase Schreibweise (BinnenMajuskel) für Komposita, wie hier "AdelsPersonen" oder heute "WestIndien"

ich finde das so schön und praktisch und toll lesbar!

können wir das nicht einfach auch alle wieder machen?

Bremen, 6. April 1626
* wegen Mang Proviants sucht Tilly ständig andere Quartiere
* dem Wallenstein sind in 3 Monaten über 2.000 Soldaten ausgerissen (zu den Dänischen gelaufen)
* Halberstädter Kriegsvolk einen Convoy von 600 Pferden zertrennt, Wagen davon bekommen ... 1/4

If you are interested in #earlymodern architectural drawings and are an ECR under age 36, *APPLY FOR THIS*! Deadline: 20 April. #CFP

Coffee with a Codex: Astronomy in Arabic An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...

For #CoffeeWithACodex on April 9 (12pm Noon ET, on Zoom), @leoba.bsky.social will bring out LJS 478, a collection of astronomical treatises, with a particular focus on the astrolabe. The copy was completed in A.H. Jumādá al-Ākhirah 625 (May 1228). #medievalsky

Register here: https://bit.ly/4d0PPYh

Engraving of a group of nobles entering a gate.

5 April marks the 460th anniversary of the Petition of the Compromise of the Nobility, presented to regent Margaret of Parma in Brussels. Its first demand was an end to Philip II's harsh prosecution of Protestants.
#reformationinthelowcountries

NEW POST: CFP: ‘Creating the Sacred at Court. Sensorial Practices and Experiences in Europe (1300–1800)’ (Bratislava, 21-23 Sep 26), deadline 15 May 2026.

See the full post and call for papers on H-Net: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

I suspect I would be very good at this game if I could figure out a) how to zoom in and b) how to avoid clicking when moving around the globe. (I know that Beijing is not in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.)
www.maptap.gg April 4
98🔥 8😱 87🎓 98🎯 96🔥
Final score: 862

Image of session proposal for 'Digital Approaches to Reconstructing Rural Worlds in Europe, c. 1500-1900'

Historians of rural Europe! @joshrhodes.bsky.social and I are putting together a session for ESSHC 2027. If this is up your street, we'd love to hear from you! 👇

Wien, 1. April 1626
Schlesien: Mansfelder stark im Anzug / deshalb Aufgebot im ganzen Land, auch Lausitz / Kaiserl. nach Glatz und Sazer Kreis / 4 neue Obristen in Schlesien bestellt, über 30 Werbungs Patente ausgeteilt / ... 1/3