Amazing triple profile portrait. Who are they? Why all together, staring at something we cannot see? By Lucas d'Heere, whose day is today.
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Bodies, vapours, spirits and dissent in early modernity | Professor @Stockholms_univ
Vi var 50 000 ute idag och demonstrerade för klimatet. När vi i början av tåget var framme vid Gustav Adolfs torg hade de sista inte hunnit lämna Vasaparken. Så underbart att se hur många vi är som är enade!
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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...
My first book is finally out! Here's a blog post about it: cambridgeblog.org/2026/07/fren...
Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul
In the last decade of his life, my paternal grandfather suffered from undiagnosed vascular dementia. During those years, we saw sudden changes in his speech, mood, personality and behaviour, ranging f...
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No matter how good the dataset, this remains: “If no actual human wrote it, no human edited it, no human signed off on it, then what right does it have to tell me, a human, anything about my and our collective human history, art or culture?” @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social in Naomi Rea's piece. Gift.
AI companies are throwing museums a lifeline. What do they want in return?
Touted as a way to engage visitors and boost funding, new tools are triggering concerns around trust and ethics
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Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · 2mo agonot so much throwing museums a lifeline as massively exaggerating the biases in the sources, if the cited case at Leighton House is anything to go by
Whilst writing about trav(ailing) #earlymodern bodies all summer, I forgot to advertise that my latest article is out in the world. It’s about English travellers’ ahum stomach problems in the Levant (on brand, I knew, I think Kirsty Rolfe once called this draft ‘flux capacitor’…).
Doktoranden Ernst Cederholm @ernstcederholm.bsky.social har utvecklat en digital valkompass som ska ge väljare en annan bild av svensk politik än traditionella valbarometrar. Plattformen minDemokrati bygger inte på partiernas vallöften utan på hur de har röstat i riksdagen. www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...
A new special issue in P&P on medicine, race, and slavery edited by our Director!
Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
Thanks to all sending messages of support as me and my colleagues in Humanities and Social Sciences at Exeter face being made redundant in September. I'll be back here once it's less hot & I can think. Please consider signing & sharing this petition: www.change.org/p/stop-redun... #EarlyModern 🗃️
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some fascinating 1877 classified adverts in code reminding me I need to read Hannah Frydman’s new book on sexuality and classified ads
Five minutes walk from my office, there is this.
very sad to hear of the death of the one and only Carlo Ginzburg as a PhD student had the immense privilege to hear him at an event organized by Lyndal Roper IIRC
Mickaël Wilmart@mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 3mo agoCarlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
The manager of a nazi-tolerating social media company is found with maggots overflowing from the mouth. Suspicion falls on Midsomer Pastures’ brewer, obsessed that a decline in tourism might threaten the Museum of English Rural Life.
It's been a hot minute since I posted anything, but I would like to advertise this fantastic opportunity for two fully funded PhD students to work with me and my colleagues on early modern money. Application deadline 9 August 2026! #earlymodern #skystorians #economichistory #money #phdopportunity
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Välkommen att söka anställning vid Södertörns högskola! Hos oss blandas ämnen, perspektiv, människor och erfarenheter. Här finns de nyfikna och de ifrågasättande. De som söker oväntade kombinationer, ...
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Looking ahead to what promises to be a landmark gathering next year. It's the *60th anniversary* of @srsrensoc.bsky.social , the conference is taking place at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social, and the theme is explicitly inviting us to move beyond limits... Cannot wait - spread widely!!!!!
The Warburg Institute@warburginstitute.bsky.social · 4mo ago*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...
It’s a sign that your application will be successful when you easily can create acronyms of the project title, right? #skystorians
Life is a bowl of cherries. And it's great! From Giovanna Garzoni, 1651, because today is her day.
Iva Lučić’s and my introduction to our Timber Colonialism special issue with the Journal of Historical Geography went online today: “Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade” #envhist authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8X2_6yx5...
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It seems that books are a bit like buses... 'Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe' edited by Christine Ott, @jillburke.bsky.social and me is out now!! #EarlyModern Also including contributions from Alex Pyrges, Andrea Baldan, @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social, Pablo García Piñar, and Roberta Colbertaldo
