I had the *immense* honour of working on two of the RSA's 2025 Award-winners! My congrats to @rmidura.bsky.social and @smunozar.bsky.social !!

www.rsa.org/news/721395/...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
www.dukeupress.edu/the-new-king...

#BookHistory gang, I *need* you to act.

There had been one of an entire #ItsyBitsyGutenberg shop in 2022 and we didn't get it to the required number of votes 😭

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Academic history colleagues, list all the different courses you teach. 🗃️
Mine are:

1. Reformation
2. Renaissance
3. Early Modern Low Countries
4. Women in Early Modern Europe
5. Europe and the World 1400-1700
6. Early Modern Europe
7. Western Civilization to 1500
8. Grad Seminar in Ren and Ref

1. Renaissance
2. Reformation
3. Espionage & Surveillance
4. Digital History
5. Global Early Modern Empires (undergrad historiography)
6. History of Violence (graduate historiography)

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

Yes, it is very handy!

There are a number of buste in the Archivio di Stato related to reorganizations and the movement of books from the archives to the Biblioteca (lots of correspondence and administrative directives). I think in Materie Miste, and I'm sure even more has ended up in the Museo Correr collections.

Thanks, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social! Also love to see that someone else finds that Mitelli image so rich. I had to convince a few readers to keep it!

This is a beautifully written piece- delighted to be a part of it!

#CfA Our institute journal #QFIAB covers a wide range of historical periods, from #medievalstudies to #ContemporaryHistory.
#ItalianHistory, #MusicHistory
Deadline for the next volume 106 (2026), is 31 January 2026 - more information: dhi-roma.it/index.php?id....
#skytorians @rmidura.bsky.social

@rmidura.bsky.social joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about her @cornellupress.bsky.social release #Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and #Communications Revolution in #EarlyModern Europe #skystorians #BookSky 📚💙

newbooksnetwork.com/postal-intel...

Assistant Professor (History - 20th c. U.S.) Spring 2026 20th Century U.S. History tenure-track announcement.

Job alert: www.usna.edu/HRO/jobinfo/...

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

My pleasure! Thanks for a great read 😊

In some personal news, I've got a new project debuting in January 😁

The Donnie Dark I made a new friend meme, altered to be about technology and eugenics. Donnie is in image 1 captioned I made a new technology. His psychologist asks New or eugenics again? Donnie ruefully confesses Eugenics again.

This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.

a poster with a blue background and an isometric pattern of green hexes with a blue and red decoration. the text reads CALLING ALL HISTORICAL GAMERS: Playful Time Machines is an NWO-funded research project investigating what historical video gameplay means to players. We are looking for survey respondents aged 18 and up who play grand strategy, action/ adventure, and shooter games about the past! Fill in our survey at edu.nl/7w3yn!

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

When cats are confused by or upset about something, they just smack the shit out of whatever it is that's frustrating them and I think that's beautiful.

Added! 👋

A (long) thread of (anglophone) #StarterPacks and #feeds of interest to #EarlyModern #skystorians.

The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.

If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇

All welcome (not just postdocs!).

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience

Inside the Master of History Program at Virginia Tech YouTube video by Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Sharing a great new video for our (funded!) History MA here at Virginia Tech. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions or info for students who may be interested: #academicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzZl...

Being a podcaster costs $40 for a decent mic and $18 per month for hosting. The hard part is having something interesting to say. Get a degree in that!

Had a lovely brief visit back in the Bay! Great fun discussing #17thcentury conspiracies with groups at Stanford and Berkeley 🕵️‍♀️

a man with blonde hair is wearing a denim vest and says hey girl . ALT: a man with blonde hair is wearing a denim vest and says hey girl .

Real “hey girl” energy

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.

2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.

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The evil that men do lives after them

Thank you! ☺️