Few bibliophilic joys quite like receiving a book (all the way from Bratislava no less!) with uncut pages. 😍

Reading some of Gobineau's fiction for a short piece I'm writing and never cease to be amazed by just how vile that guy was.

Buying new headphones online and was asked if I want to leave *the company* a tip (Trinkgeld). No I do not want to leave a tip to the company from whom I am buying headphones online. The tip is the money I am giving you for the headphones I am buying online.

My girlfriend, who runs a queer archive, is looking to publish an essay of an overarching / comprehensive look the history of queer political and social organizations in East Texas and is on the hunt for queer periodicals, journals, and magazines that would be interested. Anyone have suggestion?

We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern

This is ridiculously flagrant antisemitism, even by the usual gutter standards of Galloway's outfit

Let’s try again: I’d like to hear about new research from Scottish historians. Especially ECRs whose work may not get much attention. This is because I have a newspaper column where I publicise new work by Scottish historians! Tell me about your research!

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

CFP: Premodern State Formation: New Themes and Directions (Dresden: Dresden University of Technology, 20-21 MAY 2027) [DEADLINE 31 OCT 2026]. esclh.blogspot.com/2026/08/cfp-...

CFP: Premodern State Formation: New Themes and Directions (Dresden: Dresden University of Technology, 20-21 MAY 2027) [DEADLINE 31 OCT 2026]

(Source: TU Dresden )   Organised by: Klaas Van Gelder (Brussels) & Hannes Ziegler (Dresden) Date: 20.-21.5.2027 Place: Dresden University o...

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As prime minister my first bill would be to make it a criminal offence to put fortunes like this in fortune cookies.

SCANDALOUS! A course on political theory n which you *checks notes* read political theory Also weird this guy assumes it will be pro-Butler and Marx rather than, like, pro-Hegel.

Ptarmigan McGrouse@pamcg.bsky.social · last wk.

This guy is a PHILOSOPHER OF MONEY and he thinks that it’s wrong for a literary theory course to teach Marx.

Surely this is the face-eating leopards story to end all face-eating leopards stories

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · last wk.

How it started… how it’s going

We’ve invented War with Cartels from tom Clancy’s famous novel Don’t Go to War with Cartels

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · last wk.

ICYMI we've got two warships, a bunch of Marines and Army Special Forces in Ecuador waging what looks like a war against cartels.

Man visits quirky island on business. Doesn't have much luck. Heats up at the end.

Dan Hon@danhon.com · last wk.

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

Absolutely stoked my review of Andrea Wulf's new biography of Georg Forster is out in History Today! Particularly excited because this is my first piece for a non-academic audience. I hope you like it! www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

‘The Traveller’ by Andrea Wulf review

The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf brings the most enlightened of Enlightenment radicals into the mainstream.

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Honestly find it kinda funny that The Spectator think a generic crank with a sandwich board is like their secret weapon to convincing people pretty much every climate scientist on earth is wrong.

Just don't get a penguin to do your due diligence. Expert swimmers, atrocious fact-checkers

I'm ordering a PDF scan of a short 200 y/o document from Jagiellonian Uni in Krakow, but they want an exorbitant €15 "foreign order" fee, about 4x the domestic equivalent. They won't say how they define foreign/domestic, but it seems just presumed ethnicity. This has gotta be against EU law, right?

Guys will literally post this then go brag about their NFT monkeys

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last wk.

well, Craig, we can't all be studying money and bitcoin now can we?

My latest article, "The Orphans of Bishop Richard Fletcher", is now published and open access! I dug into Star Chamber & Chancery records to uncover the lives of playwright John Fletcher’s sisters and how they were exploited by a predatory gentleman: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Orphans of Bishop Richard Fletcher: New Archival Discoveries on the Siblings of Playwright John Fletcher

This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596...

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I enjoy a nice edition as much as the next historian, but "breathtaking" feels a bit excessive here.

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last wk.

The Thomas Paine Collected Writings collection is now available worldwide! This is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writings in six breathtaking volumes. Learn more & save 40% with code PAINE40: press.princeton.edu/collected-wo... #ThomasPaine #History

In Woke 2.0 Critical Doll Studies will be mandatory at every level of the educational system.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last wk.

well, Craig, we can't all be studying money and bitcoin now can we?

That fascism thread is weird. "All human societies feature some sort of violence and power differences, therefore fascism is universal" feels a lot like saying because all appleseeds contain a precursor to cyanide, every orchard is a poison factory.

Baffling that Sandbrook thinks a) "normal people" care whether you say UK or Britain and b) he has any idea what normal people think.

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 2w ago

You’d think a historian would be more intellectually curious, wouldn’t you?

Avoid becoming the most-hated European university with this 1 weird trick: Don't hire outspoken racists; if you do hire an outspoken racist, listen to complaints when they're raised, don't wait until said racist causes an international stir then suddenly decide the complaints are valid.

Carsten Timmermann@ctimmermann.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ghent University is in deep sh*t, receiving flak from all sides.

The most charitable interpretation of "I hate his views but must defend his right to have a cushy postdoc" is that it's turkeys voting for Christmas

roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 2w ago

A final thing to consider is how Nathan Cofnas views Academic Freedom in his own words. Cofnas clearly supports purging the academy of his ideology enemies or think academic freedom matters. “From our perspective, there is no path to success that doesn't involve removing the activist non-scholars”

Life hack: the best way to avoid being suspended from your job for racism is to not violate your contract by doing racist stuff.

The 300 academics coming out to bat for Nathan Cofnas's "academic freedom" will also be putting their weight behind all the people being pushed out of academia for having left-wing sympathies across the US, right?

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

Cofnas was not doing the thing he was hired to do. Academic freedom does not cover ”not doing your job.”

Hi #UCU. My voting recommendations for the NEC casual vacancy ballots which drop this week. Please share! For UK-wide HE: Madeleine Moore 1 Tilia Lenz 2 For Women's rep FE: Helen Kelsall 1 More on our wonderful Maddie here! ucucommons.org/madeleine/

Casual NEC vacancies

Casual NEC vacancies UK-elected member (HE) UCU Commons is delighted that our member Madeleine Moore (Loughborough University) is standing for the current casual vacancy (UK-elected membe...

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Hi, this is your lawyer calling. It is specifically because they don't read the syllabus, that you must write it.