Why were the 80s future-obsessed? 🎞️ Our new article explores the nuclear fear and tech that defined a decade.
Read more: www.verbumlibere.com/why-were-the-1980s-obsessed-with-the-future-and-what-does-that-tell-us-about-today
Which 80s sci-fi predicted today best?
#80s #Cinema #skystorians #filmsky
Ladybird Oliver Cromwell book says Oliver Cromwell was carried onto a roof by a monkey. With illustration.
‘It is impossible to imagine what England might have been like to-day if the monkey had dropped him.’ #skystorians is the Cromwell and the monkey story remotely true?
Wat een fantastische vraag van @bramderidder.bsky.social Iemand nog ideeën? Ik hou wel van 'Bolwerk', maar de historische hive mind hier heeft vast nog meer suggesties. #geschiedenis #skystorians #earlymodern
Sixth (and final) part of this series on the #NewOrleans connections of #NYC #Mafia boss Giuseppe #Morello.
#NewYork #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
En passant, as we all are more interested in news about the Pope and the papacy, this summer of 2026 will be the first full sunny season in which the Pope's soldiers of the #SwissGuard are allowed to have sun pavilions to protect them from the sun. #skystorians
#History #Skystorians New review drop! Ross Cameron Georgios Giannakopoulos's The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe (MUP, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468...
@giannako.bsky.social
The next in my series from caves to Christo in fifty objects drops tomorrow! Subscribe today so you don't miss it. #skystorians #art
anneleader.substack.com/s/annes-top-50
Found in the Densho Digital Repository
A photograph of Japanese American mess hall workers at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. The photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto. Caption on back: "Mess 29-27 crew, April 9, 1944"
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
A smiling craft fair exhibitor stood behind their stall which has viking jewellery and other crafts.
Returning to the #IMC2026 Craft Fair will be the wonderful Viking Agenda 🎊 😁
Take advantage of your time between sessions and admire what these talented exhibitors have brought for our delegates to buy! 😁
vikingagenda.com
#MedievalSky #SkyStorians
Women in Textiles
Remuneration, #LabourRelations, and #Gender in Europe during #Industrialization
(Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries)
Edited by Manuela Martini
Info: bit.ly/4cgxEeY
#LabourHistory #SocialHistory #GenderStudies #GenderHistory #skystorians
🎙️🎬 🎨 Our highly-illustrated Exploring Art History video podcast is also available on Spotify! Fascinating conversations with art historians discussing a wide variety of artistic styles and periods.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #Archaeology #Roman #medievalsky #art
open.spotify.com/show/67R9FYO...
A 17th-c. French engraving showing the Strait of Hormuz.
A 17th-c. French engraving showing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran.
🗺️ How often do you look at maps? What if those maps are a hybrid of science & imagination, incl. in Trump’s fantasy world?
Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #Iran
#OTD (April 9) in 1966, Joseph #Valachi attempts to take his own life while held in federal prison at #MilanMI.
#MafiaHistory #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
On this date, April 9... • in 1895, Stella Frauto is convicted of counterfeiting. • in 1903, Paolo 'Kelly' Vaccarelli is arrested for shooting 'Dutch Louis' Melling. 'Monk' Eastman and 'Flit' Morris are arrested for the saloon stabbing of 'Big Dave' Bernstein. • in 1912, Francesco Bonanno, friend of the Terranova family, is found stabbed to death in his East Harlem grocery. • in 1921, avoiding underworld rivals in New York City, mafioso Nicola Gentile reenters the U.S. through Boston. • in 1925, Joseph Valachi begins a three-year prison sentence for burglary. • in 1929, Michael Sclafani and Frank Plaia go to trial for the murders of Rosario and Mary Graziano. • in 1946, John Stoppelli is convicted of illegally selling opium. • in 1947, entertainer Frank Sinatra is charged with battery after punching a newspaper columnist who connected him to Mafia boss Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania. • in 1964, an FBI informant is formally inducted into a Calabrian criminal society in Youngstown OH. • in 1966, Joseph Valachi attempts suicide while held at a federal prison in Milan MI. • in 1974, in Detroit, Anthony and Vito Giacalone are acquitted of income tax evasion. • in 1984, 400 law enforcement agents raid homes and businesses across the U.S. to break up the 'Pizza Connection' heroin ring. • in 1987, Nick Scarfo of the Philadelphia Crime Family and 11 others are indicted for gangland murders in New Jersey. Image of Anthony Giacalone.
#OTD (Apr 09)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.
#EastHarlem #YoungstownOH #MilanMI #Philadelphia #NewJersey #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
In this extract from How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons, Nicholas J. Higham introduces his account of how, as Roman Britain ended, Anglo-Saxon England emerged.
yalebooks.co.uk/how-anglo-sa...
#skystorians #medievalsky
Lively @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Bowen and Imhof about @brepols.net The Burgeoning #European #Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints via the Platin-Moretus Press of #Antwerp. #Skystorians #EarlyModern #Belgium #LowCountries
newbooksnetwork.com/the-burgeoni...
Välkommen till Historiska föreningens vårmöte! Gunhild Eriksdotter & Linda Qviström, "Iscensättningar av värme och ljus: Boendepraktiker och inhomhusmiljöer under tidigmodern tid". 23 April, kl. 17, Geijersalen (ingen föranmälan, ingen avgift) Efterföljande sexa på Historiska institutionen. Pris: 120 kr (studenter 100 kr). Dryck finns at köpa. Anmälan (bindande) senast 14 april till historiskaforeningen@gmail.com OBS! Kontant betalning
@hfuppsala.bsky.social håller vårmötet 23 april 2026 i Geijersalen på @uu.se Engelska parken. Gunhild Eriksdotter och @lindaqvi.bsky.social presenterar "Iscensättningar av värme och ljus: Boendepraktiker och inhomhusmiljöer under tidigmodern tid". Häng med!
#EarlyModern #skystorians #SocialHistory
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social söker en universitetslektor i idéhistoria! Det är en halvtid tillsvidareanställning och sista ansökningsdag är 27 april 2026.
#AcademicSky #jobs #skystorians #HistoryOfIdeas @humanioraumu.bsky.social
A man sitting at a working desk, reading, and simultaneously looking something up in a second book. He is also wearing a corn of flowers.
Two easy working improvements from the year 1537:
1) a dual monitor setup to read and write faster
2) a flower crown to look notably cooler while doing the reading
#skystorians
Closing conference of the "Paul in the 16th c" project:
A conference of triples: each panel consists of an exegete, a reformation historian, and a systematic theologian presenting on the same text from the corpus paulinum...
#earlymodern #reformazing #skystorians
Reasons why me and @lauramorreale.bsky.social and @merleeisenberg.bsky.social started @middleages4educate.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/ng... #medievalsky #skystorians
Collage of four photos. The largest one is a woman smiling wearing sunglasses and a read scarf with trees in the background. Smaller photos show an empty classroom with chairs; a blank white board; and a history building in the evening with lights on the sidewalk.
Home from teaching my last class. I cleaned off the board one last time. Will take a while for my body & heart to realize that the weekly pace of adrenalized class preps & racing to class has ended. My brain knows. Am in a perplexed state waiting for body, heart, & brain to be in synch. #skystorians
#skystorians of the 70s: Getting my head around Jim Abourezk (owner), Bill Janklow (bartender), and Russell Means (dancer) all working at the same bar (The Gay Lady) in Rockerville, SD at the same time in the 60s. Did Mcgovern ever stop by for a drink?
Truman’s gambit fell flat, however, and Stevenson won the nomination on the first ballot.
He was ready for a rematch. One question remained, though: Who would be his running mate?
#skystorians #history #polisky
A crossover of history and film coming tomorrow... think The Terminator, Nineteen Eighty-Four, RoboCop...
#skystorians #history #historysky #filmsky #film #movies
Making Things Meaningful in Early Modern Europe (Panel) Date: 29 October 2026 – 31 October 2026 Deadline: 10 April 2026 Location: Chicago Sixteenth Century Society Conference Panel Field: Bodies, Nature, Knowledge (formerly History of Science & Medicine) The organisers are welcoming abstracts for 20-minute papers that explore the ways in which social interactions, encounters, and negotiations shaped the meaning and/or power of things in early modern Europe and beyond. In recent years, pathbreaking studies in the field of material culture studies has shown how the material qualities and affective properties of things and materials (including exotica, naturalia, and materia medica) played an active role in shaping how substances and objects were perceived, classified, used, manipulated, and invested with meaning by early modern contemporaries.
#CfP: 'Making Things Meaningful in Early Modern Europe' Panel at Sixteenth Century Society Conference, 29-31 Oct 2026, Chicago. Abstracts by 10 April 2026
#Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents rensoc.org.uk/announcement...
Relevant to historians seeking a bit of research dosh. #Skystorians
