27 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
The expected: 17th C Papal stuff, Ge'ez liturgy, classics. Less common: Inquisition reports, Venetian chronicles, Apocalypse commentary, and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
New Book: The Preacher & the Alter Kids
Amazon Kindle on sale for only $4.99
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mystery, laughter, and revelation.
#BlueSky #BlackSky #Booksky
#BlackHistoryMonth #LoveIsBlind #travelphotography #art #breakingnews #startrekacademy
#Skystorians 🗃️
Kids for Kefauver!
A gaggle of boys sit on the steps while Kefauver makes a speech in Florida in May 1952.
#skystorians #history #polisky
Amazon Kindle on sale for only $4.99
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mystery, laughter, and revelation.
#BlueSky #BlackSky #Booksky
#BlackHistoryMonth #LoveIsBlind #travelphotography #art #breakingnews #startrekacademy
#Skystorians 🗃️
Last 3 days I have been honored to present on a seminar "Crises in the Medieval and Early Modern World" at Faculty of Geography and History, #UniversityofValencia, #Spain.
Really lovely experience for 1st international presentation.
Shootout to hosts!
#envhist #histsci #skystorians #academicsky
Only two weeks left to the LMS Colloquium on Medievalisms!
Please do join and don't hesitate to spread the word 🤩🎉
#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #academic #historians
The highlighted 'unicorn pope' is part of a series of manuscript prophecies concerning the Papacy (from Joachim of Fiore: Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus), and I am totally interested in getting to know why exactly Gregory XII was dealing with a unicorn.
#skystorians, do your magic
Mark your calendars #Skystorians, because on Monday April 20th we're hosting an #AMA with Dr. Charles L. Ponce de Leon, author of Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How A Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America !
I've been immersed in this (with a great deal of help) and am v impressed. What a brilliant work (on Russo-French relations during the Wars of Religion). Kudos to Sergey Ryabov! #skystorians #earlymodern #baltichistory
www.litres.ru/book/s-m-rya...
#OAH2026 Check out our podcast The Humanities in the World. We talk to scholars from around the world about how can history, literature, philosophy, and the arts help us understand—and change—the societies we live in. buff.ly/lOvV73C #Skystorians #Humanities
Currently in Gwynedd. The heraldic images on the shield are a lion, a griffin, a rose & ‘ermine chevron between 3 Englishmen’s heads’ #skystorians #cymru #history
On this date, April 18... • in 1891, future southern California Mafia boss Ignatius 'Jack' Dragna is born in Corleone, Sicily. • in 1906, Faro Amato dies of gunshot wounds suffered in Los Angeles the previous day. • in 1925, a federal grand jury in Colorado indicts Joseph Roma for narcotics offenses. • in 1929, convicted of the murders of Rosario and Maria Graziano, Frank Plaia and Michael Sclafani of Brooklyn are sentenced to death. • in 1932, Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania and Meyer Lansky are spotted by police as they arrive by train in Chicago. • in 1936, NYPD detectives return Lucania from Arkansas to New York City. • in 1950, New York Parole Board issues a good conduct certificate for Thomas Lucchese. • in 1963, Teamsters officials Charles O'Brien and Frank Meli are indicted for misuse of union funds. • in 1967, FBI is reportedly building an Interstate Travel in Aid of Racketeering case against Louisiana and Florida mobsters who attended La Stella Restaurant meeting in New York. • in 1997, a federal grand jury indicts Dominic Strollo and Pasquale Ferruccio of Ohio and three others for conspiring to illegally funnel laundered millions to a southern California casino. Image of Pasquale Ferruccio.
#OTD (Apr 18)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.
#LosAngeles #Colorado #Brooklyn #Chicago #Arkansas #Louisiana #Florida #Ohio #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
The head of Night on the Tomb of Giuliano de'Medici by Michelangelo. In her tiara you can see two lunar crescents surrounding a star.
The head of Night on the Tomb of Giuliano de'Medici by Michelangelo. 🌙 ⭐ Look at the nocturnal hints in her tiara: two lunar crescents surrounding a star.
Next week we’ll release an in-depth conversation with Michelangelo scholar Prof. William E. Wallace.
🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #academia
To celebrate the publication of my new book, my latest Youtube video explores what it was like researching in the Vatican Archives while writing it! youtu.be/fQn-37zpUes @durhamtheology.bsky.social @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social #skystorians #skyhistory #youtube #vatican #catholicism #history
'The National Archives has digitised a vast data set of more than 700,000 pages, painstakingly transcribing census returns in a process which took three years, that gives an intimate snapshot of a nation in its infancy and the lives of a recorded population of 2.97 million.' #Skystorians
Who says you can't shake hands when you're on TV?
Kefauver greets the studio audience after a televised event at KGLO-TV in Mason City, Iowa in 1956. (KGLO was a fairly new station, having gone on the air two years earlier.)
#skystorians #history #polisky
am convinvced that a # of my university students have long COVID. #highered #skystorians @academic-chatter.bsky.social
#skystorians #history Bluesky historians: I'm looking for some good books on French history for the Medieval, Renaissance and early modern period to fill some gaps in my knowledge. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!
Is "America's Public Bible" down or is that just an issue on my end? #skystorians
The 49th palaeography summer school in Birmingham incudes an advanced course on wills. It could be useful to experienced genealogists. #Skystorians #AncestryHour #Genealogy 🌳📜
‘I leave my soul to God’: Testamentary Records c. 1300-c.1600 (with Shelagh Sneddon)
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
#USHistorians stop by the @urpress.bsky.social stand at #OAH2026! Browse our books and URP's own with 50% off. You can find them at booth #600. buff.ly/JlfwWgp #Skystorians
Come and see us at #OAH2026! You can find us at booth #600. We're offering 50% off and free shipping on all orders for delegates, and our Senior Acquisitions Editor Christina Wipf Perry is on hand to chat about your book ideas. buff.ly/URWmm7m #Skystorians
Front page of RHS Blog post, 16 April 2026. Full text: In this post, Rowan Thompson introduces his new book — ‘Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire’ — which is published in April 2026 in the Society’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series with University of London Press. ‘Organised Militarism’ demonstrates that martial and militaristic sentiment remained an important part of mainstream British political culture, despite the ravages of the First World War. Rowan’s monograph examines the aims and activities of the Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire – two extra-parliamentary organisations established to promote naval and aerial supremacy. In doing so, it shows how martial and militaristic sentiment remained prominent, despite the ravages of war. ‘Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain’ is the 26th title in the Society’s New Historical Perspectives series for early career historians. Rowan’s book, and all other titles in the series are published free, Open Access, and in paperback print.
Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson
How did Britain promote naval and military air capacity post 1918? How did this relate to pacifist sentiment after the Great War?
In a new blog post, bit.ly/3OJ53as Rowan Thompson considers interwar 'organised militarism': the subject of his new volume in the Society's OA book series #Skystorians
Poster of the 2026 MIRCOM CONFERENCE "Common ground or walled gardens? The Jewish and Protestant minorities' contribution to Vivre ensemble" 19-21 May 2026, Sidney Sussex College
I'm happy to share the poster of our forthcoming 2026 MIRCOM conference in Cambridge @sidneysussex.bsky.social
The programme will be available soon.
#skystorians #AcademicSky
#minorities #InternationalConference
Author holding her book in front of a poster depicting her book and several others.
Canal Dreamers looks good large! How fun to celebrate books with the team at @uncpress.bsky.social in their booth @oah.org. If you are at the conference, check out the small version that you can actually open and read.
🗃️ #skystorians @sonyabonczek.bsky.social
On this date, April 17... • in 1854, 'Bill the Butcher' Poole of Manhattan is acquitted of assaulting a police officer. • in 1906, Faro Amato is fatally shot leaving the Los Angeles home of Tony Streva. • in 1907, Lt. Joseph Petrosino arrests New York City Camorra leader Enrico Alfano. • in 1914, Nino Sacco of Chicago gets two years in prison for human trafficking. • in 1920, Chicago vice racketeer James Colosimo, recently divorced from Victoria Moresco, marries Dale Winter. • in 1931, Ernest 'Hoppy' Rossi is killed in Brooklyn. • in 1936, New York detectives take custody of Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania at Hot Springs AR on the moment his extradition appeal period expires. • in 1951, Brooklyn Mafia leader Philip Mangano is seen for the last time by his wife Agatha. • in 1959, Vito Genovese is sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for narcotics trafficking, while Natale Evola gets 10 years and Vincent Gigante gets 7 years. • in 1980, the body of Philadelphia mobster Antonio Caponigro is found in trunk of car in the South Bronx NY. • in 1988, Anthony 'Nino' Gaggi, capodecina in Gambino Crime Family, dies in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center. • in 2008, Frankie Roche of Westfield, Mass., pleads guilty to the 2003 murder of Springfield Mafia big shot Adolfo Bruno. • in 2009, Gambino Crime Family leader Nicholas Corozzo is sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison for racketeering and two 1996 murders. Image of Enrico Alfano.
#OTD (Apr 17)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.
#LosAngeles #Chicago #Brooklyn #HotSpringsAR #Philadelphia #Bronx #SpringfieldMA #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
I am finishing up a book on early modern news in Europe, and I think I am aware of most research published in English, French and German. But I want to cite, mention and refer to much more relevant literature done in Europe on the topic. So, #skystorians communities with knowledge of ...
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