Offre d’emploi – Vertretung einer Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte (Früh- und Hochmittelalter), Universität Hamburg Einrichtung : Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Fachbereich Geschichte Wertigkeit : Pauschale angelehnt an W2 Arbeitsbeginn 01.10.2026, befristet auf der Grundlage des Teilzeit- und Befristungsge…

Offre d’emploi – Vertretung einer Professur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte (Früh- und Hochmittelalter), Universität Hamburg

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Wat er in dat huis allemaal niet als vrijdenkerij wordt gepresenteerd. Comenius en een genderfluide god (natúúrlijk is die genderfluide, dat wist Vondel ook) op één hoop met alchemie en zo nog wat. Heel leuk om te bezoeken maar pas op voor dat frame @nrc.nl

Bolwerk is mooi. Of Kazemat. Of Bourtange 😃

Wonderful fellowship opportunities in maritime history at an amazing institution in the heart of Amsterdam 👇👇

Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama.

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Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027

Painting considered workshop copy is in fact by Rembrandt, expert says Exclusive: UK owner’s version of Old Man with a Gold Chain reunited in Chicago with undisputed work by Dutch master

Gary Schwartz still going strong.
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Opinie | Ik ben een docent in rouw AI: Schrijven, mijn beroep, mijn roeping, verliest aan betekenis. En het onderwijs, waar ik ooit vol idealen en inspiratie in stapte, dreigt een intensief samenwerkingsverband met Sam Altman en consor...

Mijn collega Merel Kamp schrijft dit zo goed op: wij docenten zijn in de rouw. Zeker op de opleiding waar wij werken:

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Does anyone have a current email address for Daniella Novakovic? I'm trying to get in touch with her. Please send me a DM.

*Commercial*, @kb.nl, commercial.

Opinie | Je verslaat Forum voor Democratie niet door ermee in debat te gaan Extreemrechts: Hoe om te gaan met extreemrechtse partijen in een democratisch bestel? Behandel ze niet als normale politici, schrijven Léonie de Jonge en Simon Otjes. Daarin hebben alle journalisten e...

Hoe om te gaan met extreemrechtse partijen in een democratisch bestel? Samen met @simonotjes.bsky.social leg ik uit in @nrc.nl waarom “in debat gaan” niet werkt. We reageren hiermee onder andere op een stuk van @tomjanmeeus.bsky.social, die opriep wél in debat te gaan. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Samuel Pepys had significant professional and social connections to transatlantic slavery in the years covered by his diary and afterwards, mediated by his involvement with two English slave-trading companies – the Royal African Company and the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa. He also owned and sold at least two enslaved people in London in the 1670s and 1680s. This article uses previously neglected manuscript evidence to reassess Pepys’s involvement in enslavement and his status as an enslaver. It emphasizes three themes: the relationship between Pepys’s official connections to the African companies and his private ownership of enslaved people; the development of his involvement in slavery within his extensive social and professional networks; and Pepys’s own agency in curating his official and personal archives to shape and limit our knowledge of his slave ownership. In doing so, it considers how the consciously expressed professional and ethical priorities of administrators and slave-owners like Pepys shaped the complex archival traces of slavery in England and erased the experiences and voices of enslaved people.

📣Out now on #firstview

Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689'

#Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️

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Society launches new funding programme for International Fellows and Associate Fellows - RHS The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch a new programme, from today, to support the work of International Fellows and Associate Fellows. Recipients will be members of the Society, resident o...

We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu

Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children in 1st wave of social media addiction lawsuits A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children's mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law. The case was among the first to reach tria...

Pretty big news:

Jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children in 1st wave of social media addiction lawsuits

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To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.

To tilt Hungarian election, the Russians proposed staging an assassination attempt

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In de meeste landen en regio’s brokkelt het cordon sanitaire rond uiterst rechts af Het idee roept weerstand op en uiterst rechtse partijen, zoals het Duitse AfD, gebruiken het om hun eigen slachtofferrol te versterken. Deze aanpak is toch noodzakelijk.

Hoe omgaan met uiterst rechts? Na de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen is deze column in @groene.nl opnieuw relevant. Er bestaan zo veel misvattingen rond het cordon sanitaire: www.groene.nl/artikel/cord...

📣First 2026 Issue of the HJ!

Featuring articles from historians including @adambforsyth.bsky.social, @adam-q.bsky.social, @joelherman.bsky.social, @davidandress.bsky.social, @feichen-uol.bsky.social and more!

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De prijs van vrij denken: Over academische vrijheid, klasse en vrouw-zijn in de wetenschap (Annie Romein-Verschoorlezing 2026) Academische vrijheid lijkt een vanzelfsprekend goed, maar in werkelijkheid is ze ongelijk verdeeld. Niet alleen door politieke druk of maatschappelijke verharding, maar ook door subtielere vormen v…

Academische vrijheid is niet alleen de vrijheid om te spreken, maar ook de mogelijkheid om als spreker erkend te worden, betoogt @nadiabouras.bsky.social in de Annie Romein-Verschoorlezing 2026.

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A fragment of a orange tile with an imprint of a child's left foot.

A fleeting moment preserved for millennia: around 1,900 years ago, a child stepped onto a Roman tile left to dry in the sun before firing, leaving behind a footprint that still speaks across the centuries.

Found in Nijmegen, on display at Museum Het Valkhof.

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"The scale and speed of autocratization under the Trump administration are unprecedented in modern times. ...The level of democracy on the LiberalDemocracyIndex is dwindling to 1965 level – the year that most regard as the start of a real, modern democracy in the USA."

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Just out: the new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social is clear:

"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history"

V-dem uses a global dataset on democracy with over 32 million data points for 202 countries, from 1789 to 2025.

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PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE (1.0 fte, 4 years / 0.8 fte, 5 y...

Please help spread the word #medievalsky!

Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council:

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Vond ik grappig! 😊 Fruin bladerde in 1903 door een Zeeuwse rekening uit 1521 en vond er een kostenpost voor “een rotte mande appelen” voor het aan de kaak te stellen (aan de schandpaal zetten) van een crimineel. De publieke bekogeling met rot fruit was dus van overheidswege geregeld.

Beste van twee werelden!

Ah we're on!

Hoping to stream Dirk van Miert's inaugural @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social with the best possible view, but alas

Ok, it's in Hessels III.ii, 2628-29 (nr. 3843) and 2653 (nr. 3890) but no specifics ☹️

Van Meteren jr gives documents in store to the church, I'll look up the reference in Hessels to see if it gives a clue as to where exactly they are being kept

Yes, "onder" might mean "among" if "schrifterij" means "writings/documents" but it might also mean "in the keeping of" if "schrifterij" is a place but I think you're right that the former makes more sense.

There was one, I think, but cant remember where I read it