To the inevitable cries of “just digitize everything, then;” not an answer. Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.

Amalia S. Levi, PhD@amaliasl.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Sometimes holidays are for paint. Progress on my self-portrait “Saudade”. #portrait #paint #oilpainting #artist #portraiture

#anneboleyn #tudor #history #historian #medieval

One of my Nonna’s favourite poems, her husband passed away when he was 84. A respectable age, but my Nonna lived to be 100 years. She missed him every single day. We often read poetry together or simply sat in silence. #poetry #poet #poem #literature

Do y’all ever think of how good of a deal Anne of Cleves got out of the whole annulment situation? #tudor #historian #history #HenryVIII

Sometimes history is finding the 1879 edition because the 1886 edition is incomplete but the 1879 edition has gone on an unauthorised lunch break. #history #medieval #historian #anneboleyn #tudors #sources

I bet you didn’t know Anne Boleyn was mixed. That might surprise you to hear, since we only know Anne as Queen of England. But in truth, by the time she returned to England, she had been on the Continent for nearly a decade. Culturally, she was mixed. #anneboleyn #historia #history #medieval #tudors

Chief Mischief Loki wishes to be involved at all times. Not to brag but this is why I don’t need to do lateral raises. #cat #cats #gym #lifting #pets

151.269 words, 1.405 footnotes, 57 artworks, 2.443 manuscripts examined, 71 primary sources, 149 secondary, and 1 tired historian; thesis sent to @gregmw4.bsky.social. Soon it’ll be time to defend. And after? Let’s discover how Anne Boleyn got to Burgundy. #PhD #Tudor #medieval #historian #history

How it feels one day out from submission 😂🤪 #phd #tudor #anneboleyn #history #medieval

Waking up from a post-PhD editing nap only to realise you now look like a whole wookie. Send help. #hair #research #historytime #oops #ohno

Just thinking about waking up on 19 May 1536 and knowing your husband ordered you the best swordsman all the way from France just to behead you. #AnneBoleyn #OnThisDay #History #Tudors #PhD #Research #Anne

“These bloody days have broke my heart” #AnneBoleyn #History #Tudor #Medieval #Boleyn #Research #ThomasWyatt

A very tired s[h]elfie to say: finished draft one of the thesis and am officially retreating to my bed for the weekend. Almost time to submit, after that, time to share my research with you all. #medieval #tudor #history #phd #anneboleyn

#gone #girl

Here's three minutes of us talking about human skin.

When you’re on holiday but the archives send you that one letter you’ve been searching for since December 2024 … bonjour, Signeur Claude Bouton. #archives #manuscript #history #document #palaeography #tudor #tudors #anneboleyn #burgundy #book #books #booktok

I have questions, but I doubt they’ll be answered. #cat #cats #holiday #mischief

Interested in the rest of my video on Queen #AnneBoleyn? Come have a look on Instagram I’m @MarlouvanGendt. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #History #HenryVIII

You know that moment when you look at a cat and think, “my word, what a graceful creature, what perfection.” And then you look over and see the other one and it’s just full derp, no holds barred, mid-licky? This was that moment today. #MaineCoon and #cat #cats

Want to know about the #MayDay traditions of #AnneBoleyn at the Hof van #Savoy in #Mechelen? I gotchu boo! Catch me @marlouvangendt on Instagram for the full story ☕️🫖👀 #Tudor #Tudors #history #Boleyn #May #Burgundy #Burgundian #Habsburg www.instagram.com/reel/DJGyq4J...

One of my favourite aspects of writing a biography of Elizabeth Boleyn was gathering evidence for her time in Katherine of Aragon's household. Elizabeth's long and fascinating court service during Henry VIII's early reign was one of the inspirations for me to write this book in the first place (a 🧵)

Happy #Friday! Mr Miu the #MaineCoon has decided that today his War on Flies starts in earnest and has proclaimed himself the Lord of the Flies after catching three of them in a single hour. #cats #cat

#ThrowbackThursday to when I held the poor Chief Yeoman Warden of the Tower of London prisoner in Anne Boleyn’s prison cell to tell him all about what Anne got up to in her spare time. Poor man. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #history #London #TowerOfLondon #yeoman #historian

“Dear heart, how like ye this?” - Sir Thomas Wyatt. Manuscript text: “Marchionesse of Penbrok” #palaeography #manuscript #history #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #AnneBoleyn

Am I about to disagree with the identification of a hand (TH2) in the Devonshire Manuscript? Sure am. And I’ve got evidence to back it up too. Hold on to your britches, this is gonna be a bumpy ride folks. #history #manuscripts #palaeography #text #manuscript #handwriting #boleyn #tudors #tudor

Want to know the solution to this riddle, possibly written by #AnneBoleyn, in the Devonshire #manuscript? Stay tuned for more on Anne #Boleyn and her time at the court of Margaret of Savoy. 🧐 #BLMSAdd17942 #Burgundy #history #herstory #Tudor #Tudors #palaeography

Oh hai Henry. When your signature is super subtle so you gotta write it extra large. #Tudor #Tudors #HenryVIII #England #History #manuscript #palaeography #folio

When you get the goods from the Archives Départmentales du Nord Lille and you get stacks and stacks of letter reproductions that all point to #AnneBoleyn and what she was up to in #Flanders in 1513. #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #history #herstory #archives #archival #manuscript #manuscripts #paleography

When you find such good gossip on #AnneBoleyn that you’ve got to hide under a napkin just to dish it. #history #herstory #writing #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #Flanders #EarlyModern #Renaissance #Reformation