Madagascar's ancient baobabs store 700 years of climate secrets—what they reveal Madagascar is home to seven species of baobab trees, of which six are found nowhere else on the planet. Many of the trees have been alive for well over 1,000 years. The ancient trees have become symbo...

Madagascar's ancient baobabs store 700 years of climate secrets—what they reveal.
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: Hi everyone! I'm Dr. Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani and I'm here to answer questions about my new book "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World ... Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

Happening now: Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani is answering questions about his book Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran on the subreddit r/AskHistorians. The AMA will be going through 4:30 PM PT.

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That's clownist

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Here I go again: falling for Baroque Porn... Can't wait!
youtu.be/clJE_v1vock?...

Call me crazy, but I don't recall that in 1482 the turban-wearing party was doing the besiedging.

Some would say that the Black Sea is a minefield... historiographically speaking.

pay for his plans.

That's so easy to understand this narrative that it becomes almost impossible to counter. Nowadays it's even easier to believe as we just need to look at who is ruling over us at the moment...

well-equiped army.

How to solve that dilemma? Easy tax the people who produce the sole exportable commodity at hand: cereals.

With iirc a 90% tax rate, there was no chance the Ukrainian peasantry wouldn't starve. Stalin was not a psycho killer, he was just ruthless enough to have millions die to

After about 100 years of mismanaging the necessary funds to catch up with the West, the Russian central power found itself without an industry, no local capital pool to fund industrialization and no access to international capital markets.

Yet more than ever the man in power needed a powerful and

starts killing everyone). It maybe how it was experience by many of the victims, something akin to a whole state turning maniac, but it is not the most compelling way of explaining history.

Allen is probably the best example of how to efficiently explain how Moscow came to organize the Holodomor.

Unpopular opinion:

Sure there are those arguing in bad faith, but many would accept the reality of the Holodomor (and other genocides) if they were taught in a different manner.

We tend to fall for the Ann Frank fallacy (everything is dandy untill for no apparent reason one player goes rogue and

Sumamos un nuevo homenaje al historiador José Ángel García de Cortázar detallando su producción científica en abierto. Empezando por las publicaciones de Memoria Digital Vasca/Euskal Memoria Digitala de @sanchoelsabio.bsky.social
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#CienciaAbierta #Historia

Selection pressure and institutional adaptation: An evolutionary comparison of the 1340 and 1348 epidemics in Florence, Italy - Journal of Evolutionary Economics Evolutionary economics is a powerful lens for understanding the heterogeneous, complex, and bidirectional relationship between economic development and disease spreading. This paper supports the relev...

It's a rare day when new work in Black Death studies surprises me. But today is that day!

I've been working for over a year now on the question of why Italian scholarship on the BD has ignored the well-documented *pestilenza* of 1340 described by Giovanni Villani. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Looking forward to reading Alain Ruscio's new book, having recently finished his magnificent La première guerre d'Algérie: Une histoire de conquête et de résistance, 1830-1852

No great equalizer: Young laborers were hit hardest by early modern plague A multidisciplinary archaeological team has examined plague burials from a 17th-century monastery turned hospital in Basel, Switzerland, shedding light on how social status impacted plague mortality i...

No great equalizer: Young laborers were hit hardest by early modern plague. #Archaeology
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DIONIOSIO DELLA VECHIA: UN MERCADER Y ESPÍA EN TURQUÍA EN LOS AÑOS 30 DEL XVI:
www.archivodelafrontera.com/archivos/dio...
El mercader y espía Dionisio della Vechia envía al embajador imperial en Venecia, Lope de Soria, una carta de avisos de interés, “memoria de Levante”...

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

In honour of the Pope's visit to Algeria, here's a reminder that you should read this article that is topical in so many ways (mercenaries, blockade, Christians visiting the Muslim Maghrib....): The_Papacy and Christian Mercenaries of Thirteenth Century North Africa

www.academia.edu/8603889/The_...

J'ajoute que ce livre paru en France aux @edladecouverte.bsky.social paraitra simultanément en Algérie aux éditions Barzakh.

Stephen White Prize For The Best First Book In Slavonic And East European Studies

Reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement, revealing the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East.

📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/basees-2026/...
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Really happy to share our new preprint on the co-occurrance of Y.pestis and Erysipelothrix spp. during prehistory. 🔥🔥🔥
In the study, we find the earliest evidence to date of Y.pestis in Southern Europe and 60 new Erysipelothrix genomes spanning 20k years 🦠🐄🚶‍♂️⌛
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

oh wooooooh!!!!!

(Parution) Épidémies antiques en Méditerranée et au-delà histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/epid... #histmed #histSTM

Stakes of origins: how interactions with states (un)made a family in the interwar eastern Mediterranean Spanning the 1880s to the 1930s, this article examines the experiences of a family in the eastern Mediterranean whose ‘origins’ acquired new legal significance amid state efforts to categorise and ...

New out open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Stakes of origins: how interactions with states (un)made a family in the interwar eastern Mediterranean" by Orçun Can Okan

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

c'est qq chose qui était demandé depuis le début de l'opération Epic Furry par une partie des marins américains qui ne comprenaient pas qu'on permette à l'Iran d'exporter son pétrole et qui disaient en substance: coupez le nerf de la guerre.

We warmly congratulate Postdoc @chanelle.bsky.social on receiving the @eseh.bsky.social 2025 Bristol-Bern Prize in Public #EnvHist for her "outstanding" project "Ghost Tours: The Haunt of #EnvironmentalDegradation and #Colonialism." 🌿

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#481 - The Ottoman Empire and the Supernatural: A Dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis about the Supernatural in the Early and Middle Ottoman periods.

Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis about the Supernatural in the Early and Middle Ottoman periods.

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II.22.22 – VIAJES DE PIETRO DELLA VALLE EN EL S. XVII – Ferhabad – «Entre Cosacos y Georgianos»:
www.archivodelafrontera.com/bibliografia...
...el Cosaco que yo me había encontrado en Ferhabad, adonde había llegado atravesando el Mar Negro muchos días después que yo...

Congrats! Is it going to be mostly geared towards day-to-day practices or is it going to be a heroic plague-and-institutions take?

"Nasce un Greco. Nasce un Turco"

Celle-là je me la garde pour titiller oi filoi.