Third International History of Knowledge Conference The History of Knowledge Conference brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to further develop the field and its impact on other disciplines and society. The theme of this year’s confer...

📣Join us for the 3rd History of Knowledge Conference, "Decentering the History of Knowledge"! The event will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027.

📝A call for papers will follow in Fall 2026. For more information:
1) Register with "hokconference27@uu.nl"
2) Visit: www.uu.nl/en/news/thir....

Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"

by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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Michaelina Wautier review – an astounding lost artist steps out of her male contemporaries’ shadows Wautier’s mighty paintings have been misattributed to her male peers for 300 years, but now UK audiences can enjoy their first encounter with a 17th-century trailblazer

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I am beginning to see people write like LLMs. There are tics of rhetorical pointing in social and news media slops that are characteristic of these models. I think that this is a deeper problem of human-generated text than we have figured out how to solve, yet.

Vacancy for a fully funded 4-year PhD at @uvahumanities.bsky.social on the key roles played by social science, demography, and nutritional science during the blockades of the First and Second World Wars, especially where they related to food.

Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers Patrick Anthony presents his new book Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers, which tells the story of earth and atmospheric sciences assembled across world mineral frontiers in t...

Join Environment & Society's @uvahumanities.bsky.social book preview tomorrow at midday in the Bushuis, room E1.01E.

Patrick Anthony (Uppsala) will present his forthcoming book, Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers, with commentary by @mathijsboom.bsky.social Boom (IISG)

Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe No one should be taken from their home at dawn and put on a deportation flight. We’re building 100,000 voices against mass deportations in Europe. Sign now - and help us get there. Let’s stop this tog...

We’re building 100,000 voices against mass deportations in Europe. Sign now - and help us get there. Let’s stop this together! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Nearly 30 years after opening the original 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣 album, Oasis stand with War Child once again:

‘Acquiesce (Live from Wembley Stadium, 28 September ’25)’ - bonus 7” single inside the gatefold vinyl of 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣(𝟮) and a hidden track on the double CD.

Stream & download Friday: warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions* Abstract. Transparency, or publicity as it was then called, became a fundamental value linked to popular sovereignty in the late eighteenth century. Those

New on advance access: "Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions"

by Katlyn Marie Carter (‪@notredame.bsky.social‬)

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Join us for today's Environment & Society Research Seminar presentation by Daniel Margocsy on "Deforestation in Indonesia, 1678", with a commentary by Tristan Mostert, at midday in E1.01D at the Bushuis @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries

'The Crown’s Silence, a book published this week, details how monarchs from Queen Elizabeth I to George IV used the trade in enslaved people to boost crown revenues and defend the British empire.'

‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi...

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

Join us for today's Environment & Society Research Seminar presentation by Daniel Margocsy on "Deforestation in Indonesia, 1678", with a commentary by Tristan Mostert, at midday in E1.01D at the Bushuis @uvahumanities.bsky.social

IHR Low Countries programme 30 January David Hopkin: Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion 13 February Jeroen Puttevils: Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries 27 February Feike Dietz: Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) 13 March Sam Geens: Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries 22 May Valika Smeulders: The Rijksmuseum: New Horizons

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries!

Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic* Abstract. Historical scholarship has long highlighted the extensive landscape interventions initiated by state agents, early capitalists and experts in the

From the current issue: “Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic”

by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

As much of the US gets ready for a weekend of brutal cold and snow, we recommend brightening your wintry day with this gallery of beautiful images from GEMS AND THE NEW SCIENCE by Michael Bycroft, the first book-length history of gems in early modern science. Bask in the glow: buff.ly/zZGBXy3

Have an unpublished essay on science, medicine, technology, or natural knowledge before 1800, from anywhere in the world?

Consider submitting it to the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize by 15 February. Full details here: brill.com/view/journal...

Have an unpublished essay on science, medicine, technology, or natural knowledge before 1800, from anywhere in the world?

Consider submitting it to the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize by 15 February. Full details here: brill.com/view/journal...

spreading the news about the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize 2026 Competition! Early Science and Medicine and the Early Sciences Forum of the History of Science Society's prize competition for the best essay...

Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"

by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Thank you!

Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian? — audio A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...

Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @contingent-mag.bsky.social, and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me!

The audio version:
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Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

Becca Good, the wife of Renee Good, has released her first public statement since the shooting

“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”

first few paragraphs of "SUPER PLANTS Bigger, disease-free crops may be created in the lab" by Wallace Immen The Globe and Mail (Canada) June 15, 1981 Monday

continuation of same with this passage highlighted: "The institute has had success fusing tomato cells with tobacco plant cells to create tomato plants whose leaves are high in protein and can be used for animal feed, Dr. Apple said. "We haven't tried smoking them yet."

wait, is this the origin of tomacco from The Simpsons?

from a 1981 article in the Globe and Mail. could anyone send me a copy of the original? and does anyone know if this claim is serious? the entrepreneur quoted was known for exaggeration, so I'm not sure IPRI actually tried making tomacco.

Antislavery and the Original ‘Scramble for Africa’, 1807-1879 Keynote Lecture for 140 Years Beyond the Berlin Conference, Africa Centre and SOAS Friday 12 December and Saturday 13 December 2025   Alan Lester Most British imperial historians have tended t…

In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...

“Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order…”

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...