notcom.hypotheses.org/8617 a nice podcast on Flora Danica, a project led by Christoffer Basse Eriksen at Aarhus University (Danemark) - to enjoy #flora #histsci #histplants #plantstudies #planthumanities #18thcentury

The publication of ‘Flora Danica’ in 18th century Denmark — With Christoffer Basse Eriksen

Following our collaborative workshop, 'Bookish Bodies, Flowery Worlds: Expertise and Collaboration in Early Modern Natural Philosophy', held at Aarhus University, we are delighted to share the latest ...

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Delighted to receive author copies of the book I wrote with Laurence Publicover: this comes out this month from @uchicagopress.bsky.social -- with chapters on sea burial, scientific efforts explore and inhabit the seafloor, on the deep-sea cables, on salvage and deep-sea mining.

Newly published! Becoming Painters Women's Education & Practice in Early Modern Europe www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/beco... Between 1550 & 1650, several women in Italy & Northern Europe managed to establish themselves as successful artists. The bk focuses on how these women worked as artists.

Becoming Painters - ACC Art Books UK

Title: Becoming Painters, Pages: 192 Pages, Publish Date: 26th Oct 2026, Author: Edited by Cynthia Osiecki, Edited by Kristian Wikborg Wiese, Edited by Patrizia Cavazzini, ISBN: 9788281541771. This st...

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The first issue of Sonance: a journal of #earlymodern sound studies is out in the world!! And it is open access! It's in honour of the late, great, Bruce Smith and you all should read it immediately! sonance-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/sonance/issu...

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Inaugural issue in memory of Bruce R. Smith | Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies

Inaugural issue in memory of Bruce R. Smith

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Who mapped Africa? theconversation.com/who-mapped-a...

Who mapped Africa? Debunking the myth that Europeans alone plotted the continent

African guides drew lines in the sand to help Europeans understand the terrain. But they rarely got the credit.

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Are you working on a non-fiction #book aimed at a ‘trade’ publisher? Want to bring your research to a wider audience? Looking for #writing space and creative inspiration? In March 2027 I'm running this #course @ihr.bsky.social, featuring brilliant colleagues. Info: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Just announced: AHRC placement scheme for arts and humanities PhD students and ECRs to spend time at named institutions in US, Africa, and East Asia www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

International Placement Scheme 2027

Apply to undertake a placement at an international cultural institution. You must either be:

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"Complete objectivity is an illusion; context and power always enter in." An excerpt from @laurenfklein.bsky.social's new book "Data by Design":

A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral

Nearly 450 years ago, an unnamed Ñudzahui painter mapped his community’s history and land claims for a Spanish king — on his own terms.

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We’re so pleased to share that the UK Web Archive has been restored and available to use 💻 You can now search millions of archived UK websites. Find out more about the archive and how to use it on our website link.bl.uk/mis

UK Web Archive restored

We’re pleased to share that the UK Web Archive is back and that you can now search millions of archived UK websites.

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🚨 Join us on 5 November for our next CHSTM seminar! We'll be workshopping a chapter from @trichocolea.bsky.social's thesis entitled "Privateers, Wrecks and Curiosity: The Collections of George Handisyd, Surgeon, 1686-92" 🐚 #envhist #histsci #collections All info here: www.chstm.org/group/collec...

Check out our New Phytologist Tansley Insight on fungal insect symbionts and their role in insect-plant interactions. @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Frenemies forever: when parasitic fungi become an insect's secret weapon

Insect symbiotic yeast and fungi shape host–plant interactions.

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Very glad to start a new week with the release of a new article: "Trading the Globe's Flora from the German Provinces: The Unio Itineraria in Esslingen, 1825-1845" (Itinerario) and co-written with the lovely Ella D. Müller ✨ #envhist #histsci #collections Available OA: doi.org/10.1017/S016...

Don't forget to sign up for "The many faces of Sans Souci: Black watchmakers in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Caribbean" if you're keen to join the friendly & welcoming London Group of Historical Geographers in person or online for this Tuesday's Institute of Historical Research seminar.

The many faces of Sans Souci: Black watchmakers in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Caribbean

London Group of Historical Geographers

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Join us on 28 October, 15:00–16:00 CET, for the next online Instructing Natural History seminar! Christoffer Basse Eriksen (@cberiksen.bsky.social, Aarhus University) presents “Botanical Bureaucracy: The Fall of Georg Christian Oeder and the Survival of the Flora Danica.” 🧵 1/3

Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! In "The Obfuscations of Coloniality" Sindre Bangstad traces the conceptual origin of coloniality and critiques its application as an exclusively Western phenomenon. #OpenAccess for a limited time. @jich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Obfuscations of Coloniality

In decolonial theory, the foundational concept is ‘coloniality’. Introduced by the late Peruvian heterodox Marxist sociologist and dependency theorist Aníbal Quijano (1928-2018) in an article in a ...

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In action today at Slindon Church, West Sussex, where the “founding father of English racism” Edward Long is commemorated. My keynote linking Long, the enslaved Roque Ferdinand and the current backlash against the Church of England’s Project Spire available here: alanlester.co.uk/blog/edward-...

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀’ 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀? Join us for this upcoming S&T in Asia talk by Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez (UCSC). Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #sts 🧪

'Booth’s maps form the backbone of a new exhibition at Senate House library titled A Place to Call Home, which charts the history of housing and poverty in London over the past 200 years.'

Blue for poor, yellow for posh: the London maps exposing centuries of terrible housing

From rent strikes to squatting, a new show reveals how people have managed to keep a roof over their head in London – and the mould and astronomical rents that persist

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Very excited to speak about the meanings of mantises across the Cape colonial frontier tomorrow afternoon @ox.ac.uk! www.asc.ox.ac.uk/events/globa...

Global Intellectual History Seminar | Seminar 1: Consider the Mantis: IKaggen, Means of Subsistence, and Misunderstanding Across the Cape Colonial Frontier

A seminar series on global intellectual history in Michaelmas Term 2026.

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Blurbed this superb book from @amalkc.eurosky.social and am very excited that a copy landed at my door this morning! Those interested in the legacies of colonialism would be silly not to order a copy.

‘At Musm’: The British Museum in 1826 The British Museum and its staff are some of the most consistently referenced elements in Madden’s 1826 journal. The entry for the 2nd January (the first working day of the year) begins with “At Musm”, referring to the British Museum, as do all but one of the…

‘At Musm’: The British Museum in 1826

The British Museum and its staff are some of the most consistently referenced elements in Madden’s 1826 journal. The entry for the 2nd January (the first working day of the year) begins with “At Musm”, referring to the British Museum, as do all but one of the entries for the first week of the year. Madden spent a considerable amount of time at the Museum and yet he was not employed there at the beginning of 1826.

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🚨Free public lecture on the Norman Conquest @sas-news.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social on November 12. Book now to hear Dr Mark Hagger explore the impact of 1066 on Britain. 👇 #BayeuxTapestry #YearOfTheNormans #Millenium www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

"A day of destiny for England": The Norman impact on the British Isles 1066-c. 1135

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Classic eighteenth-century problem: getting your books past the French privateers in the Irish Sea. #BookHistory

Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Academic urban legends - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014

Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently,...

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An inspiring work! Artists & geographers are restoring Indigenous names to rivers and mountains, reconstructing the geographies of nations that existed long before the US and Canada: Transforming maps into works of art that challenge centuries of dispossession. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/mapping-wh...

Mapping What Colonization Could Not Erase

How Indigenous artists are reclaiming geography, confronting colonial histories, and defending the right to land, memory, and identity.

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So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images. Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!

As part of our wonderful Archives Revealed project, we’re super excited that our co-curated exhibition “Archives Revealed: Unlocking a colonial collection” is open! FREE to visit and open Tues-Thurs 10-4pm. I’m so very proud of this project and all the fantastic people who’ve worked on it with us.

AUTUMN 2026-7 Term Card Kicking off tonight at 5:30pm, we have a full slate of seminar papers planned for this term covering a range of topics across the long eighteenth century. Registration to attend will be available at the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social

On the 20th anniversary of Zotero's 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions

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I'm so pleased to see that this volume is now published! Congratulations to the editors & contributors - Alice Thornton’s Books Reassessing the Life Writings of a 17th-Century Woman Edited by Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Jo Edge / @hagenilda.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Alice-Thornt...