My kind, beautiful, brilliant, and beloved dog died day before yesterday and I am devastated. Alice, my darling girl. I will miss her as long as I live. #dogs

Harry Kane scored 6 goals for England in the World Cup. After he admitted he went golfing with Donald Trump he did not score again the rest of the tournament, and England are out. The Trump sports curse remains undefeated.

Get in the car. We're going to Bologna.

Wanted in Rome@wantedinrome.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

Bluesky this morning:

Historian humor, right here.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · last mo.

Pope Alexander VI would've loved this image

Connections Puzzle #1121 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Great puzzle!

1. It is astounding to me how many Americans cannot understand why the world is now rooting for #Belgium. 2. Why are we plagued with #FIFA? Were we all, globally, bad people in past lives? 3. I miss loving my country. #FIFAWorldCup2026 #TeamUSA Stop ruining football, you twat. Go Belgium.

Me, watching some tradesmen: Those guys all have dedicated pants. Painters’ pants, carpenters’ pants, plumbers’ pants. Why don’t we have academic pants? Felicity: I think those are just corduroys. Was hoping for a chat about dedicated dictionary pockets but I’m not sorry. #academia #skystorians

Rider Helena de Jong with Ed van der Elsken's iconic photo of her outside Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum

Cool Bike Art@coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📷 Ed van der Eisken

New Show! Shout out to @janalena.bsky.social for letting us interview her! Spotify, Amazon or 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... #skystorians #feminism #allabouteve #inwalksawoman

...and here it is! A pleasure as always to speak with @jakedyble.bsky.social about his research 🗃️ (With an updated link!)

Jake Dyble, "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany" (Boydell Press, 2025)

New Books in Early Modern History · Episode

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Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Starting to prep for my interview with @jakedyble.bsky.social for the New Books Network – stay tuned! 🗃️

Fabulous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Karl Whittington over @psupress.bsky.social #Queer Making: On #Artists and #Desire in #Medieval #Europe #Skystorians #BookSky 📚💙

This time, I am the interviewee. We are clearly having a great time with only minimal blasphemy. @inwalksawoman.com crew and I talk #AllAboutEve #feminism #WomensHistory #Eve #skystorians #Genesis #EveWasFramed

S6E1: All about Eve with Special Guest, Dr. Jana Byars

Podcast Episode · In Walks a Woman · June 12 · 1h 7m

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Goddamn. So much for her 2028 aspirations

Hart Cunningham@hart28.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

I have not lost a chapter since graduate school. Feels the same now, decades later. Fetch me my bathing toaster #skystorians #BookSky

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Phil Dutré 🇬🇱🇪🇺🇧🇪🇺🇦@philipdutre.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Leuk clipje voor al mijn collega-professoren in deze barre examentijden. #universiteit youtu.be/PGO4qgfm7DU?...

I manage to forget for 47 months what this one crazy month is like. #WorldCup #WK #VK #HupHolland

I got cardoon in my CSA box. It tastes like celery with a grudge raw. Any favorite #cardoon #recipes? #cooking #food

When I'm not interviewing authors, writing history, or planning parties for the AWCA, I'm doing development work for this truly outstanding playhouse in the place I will always call home. If you're in the midwest, make your way to the GhostLight for some amazing performances.

GhostLight Theatre tackles highly charged ‘Next to Normal’, opening June 11

The GhostLight Theatre is preparing to tackle one of musical theater’s most powerful and emotional productions when “Next to Normal” opens June 11 in downtown Benton Harbor’s Arts District. Winner of ...

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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social just reissued an old favorite. Check out my interview with the lovely Tim McCall about @uchicagopress.bsky.social Making the #Renaissance Man: #Masculinity in the Court of Renaissance #Italy. #skystorians #EarlyModern #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/making-the-r...

#AndreHazes blasting from this worksite this morning. ❌❌❌ #Amsterdam

I will not. #BookSky #graphicnovel

Geen idee. Just one mannequin leg. #Amsterdam

Check it out! My @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Denise Davidson @cornellupress.bsky.social Surviving #Revolution: #Bourgeois Lives and Letters. #skystorians #EarlyModern #HistFrance #BookSky 📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/surviving-re...

One of my former students just got into Edinburgh for her PhD in counseling psych. I’m so proud of her! I forgot how good this feels!

Guys, this is where my bike is supposed to go. #Amsterdam

Summer bowl season has begun. First #CSA #cooking

These people do love a good English-language pun. #Amsterdam #Dutch

I'm (always) homesick for the Northwoods. I read this brilliant piece by my friend* @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social and it helped. Folks, this is local history done beautifully. #skystorians #GreatLakes racketmn.com/whats-the-de...

What’s the Deal With Paul Bunyan? - Racket

A Racket investigation that’s larger than life.

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Delightful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Paola de Santo of @universityofga.bsky.social about The Ambassador and the #Courtesan: Political Bodies in #Renaissance #Italy #earlymodern #Skystorians #booksky #academicSky newbooksnetwork.com/the-ambassad...