Stefan Bauer
@stefanbauer.bsky.social
Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Next Thursday, 19 February 2026, 5:30pm London (12:30pm NYC/6:30pm Brussels), Kate Travers (Warwick) will speak about ‘The Face in the Tower: Reading Petrarch in the Early Fifteenth Century’. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR London. To register: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...
Italy 1200-1700
Seminar
history.ac.uk
Free on Zoom! Suitner on "Venice and the Radical Reformation: An Italian Republic in European Context" www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... 22 Jan 2026, 5.30 UK Time
Venice and the Radical Reformation: An Italian Republic in European Context
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On Thursday, 11 Dec, 5:30pm London time (12:30pm New York/6:30 Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’. Online-via Zoom ONLY. All welcome - Please share. To register, see www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
On Thursday, 11 Dec, 5:30pm London time (12:30pm New York/6:30 Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’. Online-via Zoom ONLY. All welcome - Please share. To register, see www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture
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I was pleased to name my "Books of the Year" for History Today magazine: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi... @historytoday.com
I was pleased to name my "Books of the Year" for readers of History Today magazine: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
Books of the Year 2025: Part 1
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Caravaggio's Cupid - painted in 1602, censored on public transport in 2025
Modest goal of the day - "skimmed that tastes like semi-skimmed"
On Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, 5:30pm London time, Antonio Pattori (Oxford) will speak about ‘An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy’. Via Zoom & IHR London All welcome - Please share invitation To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy
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On Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, 5:30pm London time, Antonio Pattori (Oxford) will speak about ‘An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy’. Via Zoom & IHR London All welcome - Please share invitation To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy
history.ac.uk
NEXT MONTH: The Baptistery in Florence and its Bronze Doors at the British Museum in London (study session), Wednesday, 3 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00 London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #florencebaptistery #britishmuseum
On Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, 5:30pm London time (1:30pm New York/6:30pm Brussels), Alex Lee (NYU London) will speak about ‘Disability and Community: Healing Miracles and the Bianchi of 1399’. Free! Online-via Zoom & IHR Senate House, London To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Italy 1200-1700
Seminar
history.ac.uk
I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians
Bluesky
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My review of @stefanbauer.bsky.social and Simon Ditchfield's edited collection A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered, in Marginalia Review of Books. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/moderni...
See here: pureinfotech.com/disable-ai-o... However, one of the steps didn't work and I had to modify it. In Step 11, for the Edge browser, I had to add "https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s" rather than the recommended "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" in the URL setting. Works now.
Disable Google AI Overviews on Search on Chrome and Edge
To disable Google AI Overviews results in search, on Chrome and Edge create a custom search engine using "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" code.
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In the latest issue Historische Zeitschrift, there is only 1 single review on early modern history. And that one's on Goethe. What happened to German historical "science"? www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
Historische Zeitschrift Volume 321, Issue 2 -
Volume 321, issue 2 of the journal Historische Zeitschrift was published in 2025.
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Managed to switch off the AI answer box on my Google search -- happy days!
I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians
Bluesky
my.bsky.social
My review of @stefanbauer.bsky.social and Simon Ditchfield's edited collection A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered, in Marginalia Review of Books. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/moderni...
Many thoughtful articles on Artificial Intelligence in the autumn issue of the @indexoncensorship.org Magazine - including a piece by King's very own @drkatedevlin.bsky.social www.indexoncensorship.org/events/truth...
Truth, trust and tricksters in the age of AI - Index on Censorship
Join us for a panel discussion and launch of Index’s latest magazine issue on Wednesday 1 October at City St George’s, University of London.
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The IHR Italy 1200-1700 (London and online) seminar programme has been published: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Italy 1200-1700
Seminar
history.ac.uk
AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices #AcademicPublishing #Science #AcademicJournals #WCRI2026 #WCRI www.science.org/content/arti....
AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices
New algorithm could help scientists avoid publishing in shady titles
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For those interested in news in Early Modern Europe, this has just landed on my desk from Penguin #skystorians #16thC #EarlyModern
The new Society for the Study of the Past now has socials! 🥳🍉 You can find us on Insta or here on Bluesky: @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social Or check out the website here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com
Society for the Study of the Past
A new history of the world...
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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Reminder: submit to the Historical Materialism London Conference! From 6-9th of November - with a Postgrad pre day on the 5th. We're running a stream with Notes from Below on Workers and Capital! Get in touch for more info and submit here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
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Would you like to become a KCL UCU caseworker? The branch is hosting a training session on casework on 19 May 2-5pm followed by a social event. Sign up here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... We are each other’s strength
Fill | KCL UCU Casework training and social
Register for the casework training and social. The training will run 2-5pm on the 19th of May. The social will start afterwards. After registration, we will invite you to the outlook event with…
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This morning’s Gmail inbox counter was a monument to the endless tide of either empty or strictly functional words - or both.
As someone who's spent many years studying an Augustinian who wrote about the lives of the popes, I’m really happy to see an Augustinian become pope.