Tonight we celebrate with Hungary by having homemade chicken paprikash and spaetzle

AHA Files Lawsuit to Defend the Presidential Records Act - AHA The American Historical Association, in collaboration with American Oversight, filed a lawsuit last night challenging a recent memorandum from the Department of Justice declaring the Presidential Reco...

The AHA, with American Oversight, filed a lawsuit challenging a DOJ memo declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional—threatening access to millions of records, including at the National Archives.

This case is about public access to our nation’s history.

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I was just at the common too and thought those shoes were more effective than any media coverage

No Kings in Boston

Sores, sweat and secretions: the pox in early modern London Podcast Episode · HistoryExtra podcast · March 23 · 36m

Despite (or because of?) current events, history is more relevant than ever. Thanks so much to @historyextra.bsky.social for the opportunity to share a different kind of history of disease
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English Regional History and Record Societies - RHS About this listing The following is a listing of English record societies specialising in historical research and publishing in selected regions. If you are member of one of the following societies, a...

In addition to today's guide to national history societies in the UK and Ireland, we also have listings of c.100 Record Societies.

These societies are central to our research culture, with a focus on regional history / primary source publications. Here is England: bit.ly/4sPSwk3 1/2 #Skystorians

I get a scam email from someone claiming to be hosting a book club and wanting to read my new book every single day. I am utterly baffled by this trend. Why would a book club need an author's permission to read a book? Don't they know that book clubs just, ya know, read the book?

This has been the best way to remind everyone to renew the ole annual membership

COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Also: everyone should read this book.

Women's History Month 2024, 4: Alice Thornton and the North American Connection Blog article - 21 March 2024

For #WomensHistoryMonth we are resharing some of our past posts on Alice Thornton. As it is also #InternationalWomensDay we are sharing Patricia Phillippy's post on Thornton's North American connections. #EarlyModern #Skystorians 🗃️

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Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

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currently teaching 19th-c sectarian medicine and struck by the long roots of anti-elitism in the US. Students picked up on it right away: "they sound like instagram influencers!"

I love that there’s a kids book (All in A Drop) about Leeuwenhoek and early modern science tho it made me think of this image and now curious about said drop…

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A window display out of an author’s fantasy - I’m here for it and so deeply grateful to the @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social for the support 😉

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England Who wrote in early modern England? What did they write and why did they write it? How did their writing fit into the wider worlds that they inhabited? In this talk, Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell and Michael Powell Davies – all from Birkbeck University of London – will address these questions by introducing their ongoing Leverhulme-funded collaborative project on non-elite writers in England from c.1570 to 1730. Our research explores the writing practices of people below the level of the gentry and clergy, considering their biographical contexts, their motivations and their contributions to written culture. In addition to giving a bird’s eye view of the sorts of writers and texts we are studying, each of the three speakers will discuss a couple of specific examples of particular writers, including the notebooks of a midland villager, the spiritual diary a London wigmaker, and the confessions of a condemned widow.

'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England'

Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there!

Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Author Series: The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London About the book: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks, along with their...

For Boston area peoples: there’s a fun-fact-filled talk about the history of STIs at Harvard’s @countwaylibrary.bsky.social on March 31!

libcal.countway.harvard.edu/event/15805705

Amanda Herbert and Kevin Dawson debut a new HLQ article category called Early/Modern Connections: original #earlymodern research in service of the public good. The article and cover feature art by Ebony Iman Dallas. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/article/983132

A person holds the book "Reading Biblical Greek: A Graded Reader for Beginners" by Steffen G. Jenkins, with foreword by Jeremy Duff. The cover features large A and Ω symbols. Books are blurred in the background, sitting on wooden shelves.

A hand holds the book "The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London" by Olivia Weisser. The cover features an illustration of historical figures. Books are visible but blurred on a wooden shelf in the background.

A person holds a book titled "Keeping Hold" by Kate Smith, featuring a cover image of a painting of an individual with a dog. The background has wooden shelves filled with books.

A person holds the book "Broken Cycle: World Politics in the Age of Dissent" by Randall L. Schweller in front of bookshelves. The book cover features an ancient column with a cloudy sky in the background.

From biblical Greek, to the scandalous secret disease of early modern London, we've all sorts of new books for you to get stuck into. 🙌📚

There is 'Reading Biblical Greek' by Steffen G. Jenkins, 'The Dreaded Pox' by @oliviaweisser.bsky.social, 'Keeping Hold' by Kate Smith and many more. 🤩

Thank you for mentioning the history too and why the 1600s still matter!

How did people in the seventeenth century understand ending a pregnancy? Find out tomorrow, Thursday 2/19, at Mary Fissell’s talk, ‘Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America.’ 4:00–5:30 PM in 470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley. #History #Gender #Medicine

Discover how shame, secrecy and so‑called “shame‑free” cures helped turn the pox into the first modern disease and how Londoners navigated silent shopping, social judgement and new attempts at objective diagnosis.

Read more about Olivia Weisser's new book, 'The Dreaded Pox'🔗 https://cup.org/4qJwePw

2026 Annual Meeting American Association for the History of Medicine in conjunction with theAmerican Association for the History of Nursing   99th Annual Meeting   Buffalo, New YorkJune 3-7, 2026 Preliminary Program avai...

The AAHM, in conjunction with the AAHN @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social, is pleased to share details about our 2026 Annual Meeting in Buffalo, NY.

Join us for what promises to be a dynamic gathering of scholars!

Learn more about our upcoming meeting here: histmed.org/buffalo-2026...

Chuffed to see this ranking!

One of my fave diaries! If I recall he also mentions location in the house.

The Dreaded Pox Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - The Dreaded Pox

Happy VD day! Hot off the press on this lovely Valentine’s Day- THE DREADED POX - a history of having and living with VD (venereal disease) in London hundreds of years ago. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

I had a fun conversation with Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book THE DREADED POX and all the wild ways to treat a clap in the 1700s. newbooksnetwork.com/the-dreaded-...

Front cover image of History Workshop Journal issue 100, with a hand-drawn illustration of a Wollemi pine.

The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever.

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A beautiful day to vote!

Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 2

Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...