"To save expertise, we need to resist technocracy. In the case of international organisations, this requires that we demythologise their origins, that we acknowledge they have never been independent from politics, and that we refrain from technocratic wishful thinking."

Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · 5d ago

As @janeijking.com argues in this Essay, technocracy lies at the heart of the legitimacy crisis that international organisations face today. The problem is not expertise, but the technocratic use of expert advice

Professorship! The European University Institute (my PhD alma mater) in Florence, Italy, is seeking a new Chair in Intellectual History, 1500–Present. Deadline: 10 September www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

A different insight into #WomensWork. All three of the women named by Thornton were servants in her household (Mary a former servant, Hannah a current one, as was Barbara, albeit for Thornton's niece who was staying with them). #EarlyModern

Alice Thornton's Books@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

20 July 1668 #OTD Thornton fell ill on hearing of rumours circulating about her: 'Barbara Todd, did impudently accuse, before my face, my servant (Hannah Ableton) for telling her from one Mary Breakes of several stories —which were very great lies and falsehoods against myself' (Bk Rem, 122). 🗃️

20 July 1668 #OTD Thornton fell ill on hearing of rumours circulating about her: 'Barbara Todd, did impudently accuse, before my face, my servant (Hannah Ableton) for telling her from one Mary Breakes of several stories —which were very great lies and falsehoods against myself' (Bk Rem, 122). 🗃️

Very pleased to find not one but two great new books waiting for me on my return to the office: Philippa Carter, Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Frenzy in Early Modern England

Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Frenzy in Early Modern England

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Finally got my hands on this #DisHist nugget from @profdavidturner.bsky.social. Congratulations, David - smashing to see it out in the wild!

Check out our new July releases, including "Inside the Body of Black Feminism" by @samanthapinto.bsky.social, which connects historical studies of medical racism with Black feminist theories of the body. buff.ly/zs9RK2C

Dr. Samantha Pinto’s book release date is today. Please join me in congratulating @samanthapinto.bsky.social 💐💐💐💐

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · last mo.

Check out our new July releases, including "Inside the Body of Black Feminism" by @samanthapinto.bsky.social, which connects historical studies of medical racism with Black feminist theories of the body. buff.ly/zs9RK2C

Just some fascinating #earlymodern archival tidbits with a lot of insights for #DisabilityHistory and now I cannot stop wondering what really happened...

Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 3w ago

Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?

The PARISH ERC CoG project is now on Bluesky – follow us for updates! We are also recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study #earlymodern parish communities in the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call! Spread the word! #ERCCoG www.abtk.hu/en/positions...

Postdoctoral Positions in the PARISH Project

The Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow to collaborate on the ERC-funded pr...

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The PARISH #ERCCoG project is now on Bluesky, dedicated to #earlymodern parish communities! Please follow the project’s BSky account! We are recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call!

ERC PARISH@erc-parish.bsky.social · 3w ago

The PARISH ERC CoG project is now on Bluesky – follow us for updates! We are also recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study #earlymodern parish communities in the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call! Spread the word! #ERCCoG www.abtk.hu/en/positions...

"One of the most interesting moments in historical research is not when you find an answer, but when the answer unravels or hits a wall." So true! But I seem to constantly need a friendly reminder of this because I tend to forget how lucky I am when I hit that wall. #earlymodern

Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian@elizabethstjohn.bsky.social · 4w ago

When the archives and records fade, the novelist can confidently step through the door and get to work. And it is in that liminal space that all storytelling begins. On my Substack I discuss how I discovered the missing princes for my #historicalfiction. elizabethstjohn.substack.com/p/inside-my-...

New #OpenAccess article by @helenaaeberli.bsky.social on pica, a lesser-known eating disorder, and its gendered associations with pregnant women and pubescent girls in early modern England. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistMed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CYRU3R...

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Anna Stärk@annastaerk.bsky.social · last mo.

Polizeigewalt gegen einen jungen Schwarzen? Im Sommer 1704 zünden wütende Demonstranten die Polizeiwache am Neuen Markt in Wien an. Die Polizisten suchen einen Sündenbock. Ohne Beweise behaupten sie: Der Angolaner Jacob Bock ist schuld! Doch der war am Neuen Markt nicht einmal dabei. 1/5

Convent lending formed part of the everyday functioning of Vienna’s economy in the 15th century.

Before banks, nuns lent money: how convents helped power medieval Vienna’s economy

Convent lending formed part of the everyday functioning of Vienna’s economy in the 15th century.

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Exeter historians need #earlymodern ists.

Alun Withey@dralun.bsky.social · last mo.

You may have seen reports of the devastating cuts that I & my colleagues in history at Exeter are facing. Thousands have already signed a petition to try & stop this attack on the humanities. But we need more help. Please consider signing the petition & share as widely as possible. c.org/wW5jZVLSJR

Heute komm ich zum Provozieren und behaupte: Was im Silicon Valley geschieht, ist nicht (mehr) innovativ. Wieso ich das sage? Lest ihr hier im neuen Keine Frauen-Newsletter

#12 Rolle rückwärts im Silicon Valley

Liebe Leser:innen, Seit knapp 20 Jahren sind Technologie und Innovation Kernthema meines journalistischen Schaffens. 10 Jahre lang habe ich eine Redaktion geleitet, die…

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Please consider submitting something! The next Forum theme is Early Modern Women and Generations (full cfp in the quoted post). Our Forum is a great home for shorter pieces. Submissions are peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts will appear in the spring 2027 issue. #earlymodern

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal@emwjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

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

A dear friend gave me Queen James, and it totally ignited my present WiP (a novel starring Gorgeous George Villiers). I am off to watch this with great anticipation and joy! #EarlyModern www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Queen James review – a fabulous documentary about the male lovers of Britain’s first king

Historian Gareth Russell has a gift. He’s entertaining and endlessly amusing in this confident TV transfer of his book about James I’s intimate companions

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Das BAföG reicht kaum zum Leben, der Nebenjob wird zum Hauptjob. Trotzdem will Ministerin Bär die versprochene Erhöhung kippen und rät: einfach mehr arbeiten. Tausende protestieren schon. Mach mit – unterschreib & teile! 👉 weact.campact.de/petitions/ve...

Versprochen ist versprochen - BAföG jetzt retten!

Im Koalitionsvertrag von CDU/CSU und SPD wurde eine Erhöhung der Wohnkostenpauschale auf 440 Euro pro Monat, eine Dynamisierung der Freibeträge sowie eine dauerhafte Anpassung des Grundbedarfs an das ...

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#earlymodern

Francois Soyer@fsoyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today's anecdote from the Lisbon Inquisition probably sets a record for vindictive pettiness. In 1544 a woman is denounced because whilst giving birth she “did not call out to the Virgin Mary but to her [own] mother.”

Let's just say, this pretty yellow and amazing volume came out this week in print, and will be available in open access soon (likely in June): www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Schreibkalen... It is about #earlymodern almanacs of German-speaking Europe: the #Schreibkalender

Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

Dr Joanne Edge

Historian and writer

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Congratulations to the volume editors, contributors and series editors on the publication of - Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Edited by Anni Hella, Anu Korhonen Blurb and table of contents: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Per...

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Lauren Working@laurenworking.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All about Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin: "The image of him is everywhere but no one seems to hear or read his own voice.” (Salad Hilowle)

Annika Bärwald@annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️

What do the #earlymodern chess-playing automaton, the "Mechanical Turk" from 1770, and today’s AI have in common? There’s still more of a human touch to AI than you might think or expect. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-menschlic...

KI und die vorgetäuschte Automatisierung - Der moderne Schachtürke sitzt in Kenia

KI gilt als autonom, doch im Hintergrund leiden Millionen Clickworker. Warum Künstliche Intelligenz ohne Ausbeutung von Menschen nicht funktioniert.

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It's no secret! Arno Strohmeyer's new article about Habsburg-Ottoman espionage practices is now available online. Read it in public or private on FirstView! #History #AcademicSky #Ottoman #Habsburg #Austria #Diplomacy #EarlyModern #Skystorians tinyurl.com/H-O-secrecy

Working on the history of hair? Or just found a hairy case study you would like to explore? We are looking forward to it! Please answer our CfP on „Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026“ and join us in Lucerne this October! #skystorians #earlymodern

#CfP 📢 "Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies", eds. Mary Katherine Newman and Rana Banna Seeking chapter proposals on how language and the senses shaped evidence in the #earlymodern world (c.1492–1700). ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 12 April 2026 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #HistoryOfKnowledge

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies

Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.

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