This is such an incredible thread. Just trust me.

Real “Letterpress is my Passion” energy here.

*historian here!*

“living thru the end times… AGAIN”

no one likes historians because every time someone says “oh this is unheard of”

historians are all like “well actually”

and fundamentally it just doesn’t sound as impressive if you have to say
“in these slightly precedented times”

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 2

Our spring 2026 issue is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Horace Walpole

The Duchess of Kingston or the Countess of Bristol

17 APRIL 1776, LONDON: “You may think of America, if you please, but we think and talk but of one subject”: Horace Walpole writes to a friend in Italy of how London is obsessed with the Duchess of Kingston’s trial for bigamy.

A white ceramic jar made in the shape of a human face, with a wide nose and flaring nostrils, two whiskers protruding from the nose, a small closed mouth, and large wide eyes with two thick eyebrows and small ears and little hands on either side.

🏺 I hope you all can enjoy this friend-shaped Bes jar from Late Period Faiyum, now at the World Museum in Liverpool. 📜

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/bes...

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Small sigwalt printing press fitting in the palm of a hand.

Who wants to see itty bitty printing presses?

Royal Studies Journal

Welcome to the Royal Studies Journal

We’re an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global royal studies across all periods, places, and disciplines.

Explore our latest research, special issues, and book reviews, Join the conversation:
rsj.winchester.ac.uk

@royalstudies.bsky.social

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

Text of a drop down menu on my site Resources First Gen Academics Independent Scholar Resources Job Listing Sites Pitchables

So many resources! But we can always have more!

On blackwhiteandread.com, we now have resources for first gens like me (finding cfps & orgs), independent scholars (open access libraries/archives for unaffiliated researchers), job seekers, and public scholars looking to pitch work. Check it out!

A cute figurine of a bear made from amber. It looks like a gummy bear

A figurine of a hippo with a hole in his back and a loop of gold going through the hole. The figurine is made of a transparent glassy material. Rock crystal, perhaps. It looks not unlike a Foxe's glacier mint.

A carved bust of a bearded man in a brown material, against a red background. If you told us it was carved from chocolate, we wouldn't argue.

A figurine of a hippo in a green material (nephrite, apparently, whatever that is). It looks like it could be a wine gum, but one of the green ones that no one really likes.

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

Silhouetted pteropod flapping against the distant sky

Front gate of Christ’s College.

Typewriter looking residence building

Pathway with pink and white flowers on the right side against a stone building

Huge thank you to @marloavidon.bsky.social and Aelfred for putting together @stuartsymposium.bsky.social! It was so much fun and I’d do it again without a second thought 😄

Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with a freshly mown lawn featuring intricate curved stripe patterns around the circular building.

Ground-level view of striped grass patterns on the lawn beside the Radcliffe Camera, showing alternating light and dark green lines stretching across the grass.

A lawn mower on the striped grass outside the Radcliffe Camera, highlighting the precision-cut pattern with people and historic college buildings in the background.

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱

No, it’s not AI.

Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team.

📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

“A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad”. Gregory of Tours (539-594):

Morning sunlight on a stone and pebble walkway that goes across well manicured grass with a tree and lamppost on one side. Light colored stone buildings are in the near distance.

An apricot and cream pastry on a light colored plate is in front of a dark colored smaller plate with a glass mug of latte on a wooden table

Good morning from Christ’s College

Getting ready to blather on about PRINS JØRGEN AF DANMARK all day long at an exciting conference about the late Stuart court at Christ’s College Cambridge. Looking forward to hearing many amazing papers

Journey to the Moon - NASA Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, and will reach the lunar sphere of influence—when the Moon's gravity exerts more force on the Orion spacecraft than the Ear...

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

b/w photo of Algernon Swinburne, looking at camera, his enormous bouffant hair parted, making it look even odder than it already would. He has a wisp of moustache, and a skinny, big-nosed, rodent-y look

It’s the 189th anniversary of the birth of one of the oddest of Victorians – which is a high bar, because Victorians were deeply weird people, but this was poet and flagellation enthusiast Algernon Charles Swinburne 🧵

I grow increasingly worried that when we tell our students that we aren’t using AI they think we’re lying to them.

Roman Mosaic Unearthed - Southwark, London, UK <3 What Time Reveals (9 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/03/28/f...
Two archaeologists gently uncover a large Roman mosaic beneath a construction site near The Shard in central London. The vibrant geometric patterns, preserved underground for nearly...

End of a seventeenth-century letter with squiggly lines and scratches across the lower half of the page, below the text quoted in the post

One of my favourite things to find in historical letters are scribbles by very small children: "Mrs Ann is last [in presenting her service] because she will haue itt in her own carictteer" ✍️

More publication news!! @sashahandley.bsky.social
and my new co-authored article, 'Sleep, Scent, and Household Medical Care in Early Modern England', is now available open access in @historyworkshop.org.uk !

Based on research for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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 🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Pepys ‘curated’ letters to conceal being offered enslaved boy as bribe – research Cambridge University historian uncovers letter to diarist who was a naval official in 1670s

Pepys ‘curated’ letters to conceal being offered enslaved boy as bribe
Cambridge University historian uncovers letter to diarist who was a naval official in 1670s

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The actual #OpenAccess research:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#History #EnslavedHistory

“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

if you're not WRITING youre WROGNING am i right LADIES