Has anyone written about carbon monoxide poisoning from a historical perspective? How people understood what was happening, how common it was, how people avoided it? #skystorians 🗃️
Christophe Schellekens
@christopheschfir.bsky.social
Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense. Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University. Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
You have 29 more days to submit an application for the short-term Nottebohm Fellowships for #Bookhistory research in Antwerp! Come do research in the collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum and/or Hendrik Conscience Library! consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
Nottebohm Fellowship for Book Historical Research | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
Every year, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus offer a short-term Nottebohm fellowship to two researchers, with the gracious support of the Thierry and Frédéric Not...
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📣Calling the lovely historians of Bluesky📢 Would anyone be super-generous and share with me an AHRC standard grant application that's been successful since the application format changed (four years ago, maybe)? I will owe you a cuppa and some cake. #Help #Skystorian #Skystorians 🗃️
Colorful Neon Thank You Sign
Alt: Pink, blue, red, yellow neon sign saying thank you pulses in the centre, reflects on the floor, and the same colours appear in strips alongside the walls, as if the thank you is moving past them.
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Any recommendations from #earlymodern scholars here for poetry (or literature more broadly) that reflects on seasonal change or rhythms?
A long shot: is anyone currently doing research at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú in Lima? I'm trying to track down two seventeenth-century single-sheet printed broadsides. I'd be very grateful to connect. Thanks! #earlymodern
Dear hivemind, can anyone with access to Dutch Pamphlets Online get me a copy of this one? Knuttel 6475. Copie translaet uyt het Portogijs, waerin verhaelt wort de Vrede dewelcke ghemaeckt is tusschen de onderdanen vanden koningh van Hispanien... (1649) www.degruyterbrill.com/database/dup...
One last chance to visit! Museum Plantin-Moretus closes temporarily from Monday, 3 August while we prepare a renewed permanent exhibition. Reopening on 5 December 2026. We hope to see you then! ✨ #earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory 📜💙📚
Ach, Femme Gaastra overleden. Geweldig VOC-kenner en een heel aardige man ook nog eens. www.zeegeschiedenis.nl/2026/07/28/i...
In memoriam: Femme Gaastra 1945-2026 - Nederlandse Vereniging voor Zeegeschiedenis
Ons bereikte het droevige bericht dat oud-hoogleraar zeegeschiedenis FemmeGaastra is overleden. Hij is net 81 jaar geworden. Ik koester enkel goede herinneringen aan ‘mijn’ oud-docent. Het beeld staat...
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Started the day with an interview with Lithuanian radio. As so often when I am interviewed by non-English speaking media, the interviewer was a highly competent woman. Is there any research on the gender-distribution of English-as-a-second-language, particularly among academics and journalists?
Together with Chiara Lacroix and Monika Baár, we are editing a special issue on disability memory, and we welcome proposals for contributions! Deadline: 31 August. For more information, see: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Disability Memory
The aim of this Special Issue is to bring the histories and memories of disability into the mainstream of European history. We invite contributions that challenge established narratives by foregroundi...
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My English History isn't always what it could be- did any authors of "An Agreement of the People" (thought to be Walwyn and Wildman perhaps among others) at the Putney Debates advocate for giving women the vote as well? Can you share to help me find the right historians on here?
In November is het zover! Dan verschijnt het boek dat ik samen met Marianne Eekhout, @arjannobel.bsky.social, Godfried Nijs heb samengesteld. 80 thema's verbonden aan 80 plaatsen vol nieuwe verhalen over de Opstand in de Nederlanden wbooks.com/winkel/gesch...
Atlas van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog
Ontdek de Tachtigjarige Oorlog in tachtig thema’s, met lokale verhalen, kaarten en beelden over Opstand, geloof, strijd en dagelijks leven.
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I'm Not a paleograper, but these seem ... weird?
Do I (or you) know any historical palaeographers on here? I need some opinions on these texts (just a simple first pass). They are English. I'm just trying to vaguely date them so I can do some proper digging...
Has anyone written a good summary article on the museum funding crisis in the UK? I should know this...
Ik vind dat de VRT dit soort boetes in dagen winst moet uitdrukken. De netto winst van Alphabet in 2025 was 132.17 miljard dollar. ECB exchange rate €1 = $1.1408: * Winst: 115.86 miljard euro * Dagelijkse winst: 317.4 miljoen euro * Een boete van 2,8 dagen winst.
Europese Commissie legt Google boete op van 890 miljoen euro omdat het eigen diensten voortrekt vrtnws.be/p.Nv6GdPemw?t=178... @vrtnws.be
Fellow historians! I am considering to attend 'Les Rendez-vous de l'histoire' for the first time, since its central theme this year -merchants- is very much up my alley. I am curious about experiences from colleagues outside of the French system who have attended the conference...
CFP: Economic and Social History https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-163675 Berlin, 21.10.2026-17.02.2027, Research Colloquium Social and Economic History, Humboldt University Berlin, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.08.2026 Social and Economic History
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📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history
The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...
As aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian record
UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.
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Hullo #earlymodern istas. If you happen to use my work (books and articles, anything) in your teaching, now would be a good time to tell me which ones, and in which courses (and unis).
Professor Whittle is one of four colleagues in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Exeter elected to Fellowship of the British Academy this year. 🗃️ ALL FOUR of these outstanding scholars were placed at risk of redundancy last month. Here's their statement:
Job alert --and a really fine one too! Chair in Intellectual History at one of Europe's finest academic institutions, the European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social in Florence, so in Machiavelli's town! Have a look: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
Marktbevraging! Is er enige interesse in een serie podcasts over het leven en welzijn van keizer Karel V. Uiteraard dient mijn boek als basis :)
CFP deadline today for some great sponsored sessions at @rsaorg.bsky.social 2027 in Philly: The Sack of Rome at 500 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... The "Last Florentine Republic" at 500 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... Global Cities in the Early Modern World www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Renaissance Society of America
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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court reverses U.S. vs Belgium.
In other news, Geoff Hurst’s crossbar goal from the 1966 World Cup has been retrospectively dis allowed by FIFA.