That was my thought, too. Though it wouldn't be original to Eistenstein, given her methods, it would give us a constrained (though very large) bibliography to find the source.

Ah yes -- and to me in particular.

Huh?

Since posting this, the copilot toggle has remained off for an unprecedented span of time on both PC and mobile. So, thanks for listening, MS, I guess.... But also, please stop 'listening', you creepy surveillance weirdos.

Yes -- they're blocking me.

Huh. I'm on the same blocklist but Latest from Mutuals is still working for me....

Nah, some of us consider 'Kind regards' violence to begin with; you've really annoyed us if we use it OR if we elevate the formality of the email, including the valediction and salutation. Brevity, for us, is a sign of haste, laziness, familiarity, or affection, not a sign we're irked.

Breaking news from the past: human biology, not so binary...

Thanks! I've just started reading Conway's 2010 article in The Library Quarterly...

🌿🌾 You like gardens? You like history? And games? Then rejoice, because LOBELIUS is here!

Thanks to official partners, Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Meise Botanical Garden, the players can skim through the 1581 Kruydtboeck by Matthias de l´Obel. Can you make the most beautiful early modern garden?

Ah, a self-nomination! I should have explicitly invited those too. But in any case, this is splendid for also involving another favourite topic, tabletop games with historical themes.... Now I have to buy both Anjou and Lobelius...

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🧪 Rethinking early modern method 🔓️

In our latest issue of the BJHS, Christian Henkel shows how Johann Christoph Sturm drew on Francis Bacon—revealing a surprisingly Baconian approach to experiment, hypothesis, and reforming scientific practice in a still largely Aristotelian context.

Anyone here have a favourite reading on the topic of digitisation as [(not)] preservation? If not, please share if you think some of your followers might....

No opt out is unfair, Ian. MS will let me opt out of Copilot for Outlook on my work PC every day, and on my mobile every 15-30 mins! How many more opt-outs could I possibly want?

Blood, debt, toil, and arrears: why thirty years of policy struggle has left us without the higher education system we deserve New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK

Yeah, that's a convincing and nuanced explanation of why Cambridge is affected by the HE crisis... I'm not going to debate you, but for the benefit of downstream readers here's a link to a different analysis.
post18.co.uk/blood-debt-t...

Anyway - solidarity with everyone going through the HE wringer right now.

UK HE shrinking a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

UKHE is in such a state that Cambridge has now made it onto the list, with dozens of redundancies already apparently. Still, not to worry, only in that merely ornamental discipline of, er, epidemiology. So many lessons learned - and already forgotten - about pandemic preparedness, I guess...

#UK: The government’s new free speech complaints system for universities, however well intended, risks undermining free expression rather than protecting it.

Cash-strapped universities may self-censor to avoid heavy fines.

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: May to June 2026 - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following five schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates between 8 May and 5 June 2026. For further information o...

Research funding for historians: the Society currently invites applications for 5 grant programmes: to support individual and project-based research by historians across a range of career stages bit.ly/4vzzNeB.

Closing dates for eligible applicants fall between 8 May and 5 June 2026 #Skystorians

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🔮 Science, fiction, and the future 🔓️

In our latest issue of the BJHS, John Lidwell-Durnin examines how Jane Webb Loudon used fiction and popular science to imagine futures shaped by revived past knowledge—showing how speculation helped define science’s cultural meaning in the nineteenth century.

Ah, they are illustrating pretty standard terms for kinds of meteor -- unusual lights in the sky -- as described in sources such as Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History.

What are you interested in Daniel? I recently looked at leaping goats for the OED, and might be able to help out...

#CFP for #earlymodern folks! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"!

Bristol Radical History Festival 2026 - Bristol Radical History Group The Bristol Radical History Festival returns this Spring for its eighth edition, with history talks, panel discussions, films, history walks, performance and exhibitions. There will also be space devo...

The Bristol Radical History festival is next weekend! It’s structured around four main themes, Propaganda, Utopias, Welsh Risings and the 1926 General Strike. There are exhibitions in the MShed and elsewhere, and two walking tours around Bristol. It’ll be great! #brh #radicalhistory

Photo of 'the cages' in Marsh's Library

Image of blue tits and kingfisher in gouache on vellum, c.1730

Page from a 16th century herbal showing hand-coloured poppies

Applications for the inaugural 'Museum Plinth Project' close this Friday 17th April. The residency offers artists a 6-month residency to engage with the collections of Marsh's Library or the National Museum. visualartists.ie/advert/open-...

And here's one with my fantastic colleague @martinjohnes.bsky.social.

And here's another one, with my excellent colleague @tomasirish.bsky.social.

History and Heritage Studies: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with Museum Wales (RS951) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea University in conjunction with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales, examining the imperial and colonial associations of their natural sciences collections.

Please share widely, and get in touch if you want to know more. Closing date 22 May.

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⚓️ Naval medicine at sea 🔓️

In our newest issue of the BJHS, Manon Williams explores post-mortem practices in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars—showing how surgeons contributed to medical research onboard.

More in the latest BJHS:

Since it's Open Access non-members get access to research content too! (Not that you shouldn't be a member of the BSHS, of course...)