Kinda tired of coked-up Silicon Valley losers who haven't read a book in seven years telling me my job is stupid

@bryonycoombs.bsky.social and I have been making ink @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social historical reconstruction lab. My v. easy 1555 recipe is from Alessio Piemontese’s Secrets - it involves wine, very Italian - and made pretty good ink, even with my Scottish galls. Can’t wait til our workshop!

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

"There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know." - W. E. B. Du Bois

Reporting by Michela Moscufo
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive Using language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation.

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you . ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling and saying thank you .

Early modern historians! 🗃️ What book(s) would you particularly recommend for understanding early 17thC France, especially in a global context?

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”

Happily there are now digitized copies online of Apian's glorious Astronomicum Caesareum, including this one owned & annotated by Johannes Albrecht Widmanstetter, who explained Copernicus's heliocentric theory to the pope 10 years before C's book came out: www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/... #HistSTM

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

From Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century Kaye 2000

Highlighted excerpt: It is hardly surprising that the earliest surviving letters from university students witness their preoccupation with monetary shortages and record their pleas for financial aid. N.17 N. 17. Charles Homer Haskins, "Letters of Mediaeval Students," in Studies in Mediaeval Culture (New York, 1929), 1-35, esp. 7-21, 27-28.

The earliest documentations of Oxford students are of them needing money

“It is hardly surprising that the earliest surviving letters from university students witness their preoccupation with monetary shortages and record their pleas for financial aid.”

If you love making problems for yourself you’re going to love doing a phd

I love how focusing on your manifestations means something very different in qc

Love this thank you

The RSA is participating in a social media campaign with @acls1919.bsky.social this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple & proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research! #earlymodern #RenTwitter #TalkAboutHumanities

Selling Education in England, 1650–1715* Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Front cover of a book - the image in the top half appears to be an embroidery of 6 human figures in an outdoor scene at night, with trees.

I am happy that this book is now published (in the series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)!

Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642
Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company
By Amrita Sen

www.routledge.com/Performing-I...

Title and abstract for Vadas, András. “Plague in Time of War: The Example of the Seventeenth-Century Hungarian-Ottoman Frontier,” The Seventeenth Century 40, no. 2 (2025), 357-382.

I don't ordinarily include post-1500 studies on my 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography, but I'm making an exception for this study of 17thC outbreaks in the Carpathian Basin b/c it's so innovative in its methodologies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #histmed #EpiSky #EarlyModern #OttomanEmpire

OK, fellow early modernists, this I'm teaching the grad seminar on early modern Europe for the first time in 5 years. What monographs in English, preferably in paperbook/ebook formats, can you recommend that work well in seminar instruction? And thanks! #earlymodern 🗃️

Progressives vs progressivists [derogatory]

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated:

More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector
$925 million for AI
$81.8 billion over 5 years for military

However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

It’s a very difficult time to ignore the states for those of us who love catholic history

Thanks to @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @aucointaylor.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social (via @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social), for reminding me that my kids are slackers. 🗃️

Lovely discussion of *The Experience of Work in Early Modern England* in the LRB:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Back To The Future Talking about Islamic themes in Albrecht Dürer's prints

Susan Dackerman is on the @ideasroadshow.bsky.social Exploring Art History podcast to discuss her latest book, Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East:

#CFP: RADICAL PRINT CULTURE IN THE LONG 18TH-CENTURY

Join us for a day long discussion of the political power of print, featuring keynote lectures by Dr Helen Williams & Dr Esther Chadwick & a handling session inside the Borthwick Archives.

More Info:
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

#18c #18thC

Dr i have a sore throat— ok do you have a bag of live lice? What about some salt? Or, mallow leaves and some figs with a bit of new milk? How about white dog-turd burnt to perfect whiteness? A leg of stocking that has been long worn close to the flesh?

And, for sore throats— choose your poison i think ill take the bay salt

Boyle’s Some Recipes of Medicines (1688) on burns

Thread detailing Mark Carney’s war on libraries, knowledge, and culture throughout so many parts of society.

His deep cuts to the public service are not in line with the vision he presents of a bold and more independent Canada.