Reposted by Anna AlexisCatherine Curzon @madamegilflurt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025This #frockingfabulous dress of Spitalfields silk dates to c.1725. And that pattern matching is a thing of beauty! #Fashionhistory via the Met. 613716
Reposted by Anna AlexisDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Boston Common was a crucible of resistance in spring 1775, at the very start of the American Revolution, 250 years ago to the month. 424347
Reposted by Anna AlexisTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/c... via @statnews.comstatnews.comCDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administrationThe Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says. 179
Reposted by Anna AlexisMarianne 🔆 @greatabysmal.northsky.social · 04/04/2025Angels from the Heidelberg Coptic Magical Papyri Project. Michael accompanied by his two Powers, intended to be copied onto an amulet. P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 686. (KYP M166), 10th century #Medieval #Manuscripts #Angels #Papyrus #Coptic @anestudieswue.bsky.social @dfg.de 28625
Reposted by Anna AlexisLaura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid. 1214602786
Reposted by Anna AlexisKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/04/2025They do i at least one thing which is get people to not feel so alone. 622781309
Reposted by Anna AlexisLunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Be like Rosemary #HandsOff #April5 205138493170
Reposted by Anna AlexisThanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/04/2025loving this one i saw on another site #handsoff 535934930
Reposted by Anna AlexisAndrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Working on an extensive update to this toolkit for current conditions - mapping for survival, community defense and building spaces of resistance and resilience - stay tuned! 515556
Reposted by Anna AlexisMike 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @notkissinger.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I’m not an economist but there seems to be a ton of charts out the last few weeks that all look something like this 257493
Reposted by Anna AlexisBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 22/03/2025For those of us who grew up in the Reagan 80s, when the spectres of Stalin, Mao & Castro were invoked as terms of harshest condemnation by the GOP, it is almost unimaginably disorienting to find ourselves in a right-wing dystopia led by people who apparently view Stalin, Mao & Castro as role models. 15373102
Reposted by Anna AlexisI support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Putting your opposition on record may seem futile but it is the stuff that history is made from. 427661
Reposted by Anna AlexisStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 28/10/2024 2432105
Reposted by Anna AlexisArtBible @artbible.info · 22/03/2025Today's pick: David Slaying Goliath (ca. 1616) - Peter Paul Rubens. David has just slain Goliath with a stone from his [..] #art #Rubens www.artbible.info/art/large/363.html 032
Reposted by Anna AlexisJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Self-Portrait By Sofonisba Anguissola about 1556 "The maiden Sofonisba Anguissola, depicted by her own hand, from a mirror, at Cremona." (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) 28416
Reposted by Anna AlexisJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11/03/2025THANK YOU FOR CRYING OUT LOUD www.politico.com/news/2025/03...politico.comJudge halts deportation of Palestinian activist whose arrest was celebrated by TrumpMahmoud Khalil is a legal U.S. resident who had a prominent role in Columbia University protests. 623838
Reposted by Anna AlexisYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Update from Jerusalem: the Educational Bookshop was once again raided by Israeli Police about an hour ago. Police confiscated books, arrested an employee and shut down the bookshop. 215790
Anna Alexis @anna-alexis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Someone just tried to yell me that Lorenzo de' Medici named his first child after Lucrezia Donati. He was not such a big momma's boy that she helped him write love letters when he was a teenager for this erasure. 210
Reposted by Anna AlexisThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15/01/2025It's #NationalHatDay! Here's some excellent headwear (and moustaches) from an album of 19th-century Ottoman fashion. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/1... 726362
Reposted by Anna AlexisCarolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social · 30/12/2024This makes me giggle ridiculously but there was apparently an Astronomy prof in Portsmouth in 1775 who lay in wait for unsuspecting tourists to jump out & lecture to them! I can just imagine the academic ambush! #18thcentury #navalhistory #Portsmouth #history #archives #astronomy #academiclife 910417
Anna Alexis @anna-alexis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Someone just compared Martin Luthor to Elon Musk. We have strayed too far to come back, I fear. 000
Anna Alexis @anna-alexis.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Why do I have to beg and grovel for a job but employers can treat me like shit and waste my time????? 130
Reposted by Anna AlexisPictures of the Floating World @floatingworlds.bsky.social · 23/12/2024 Tokuriki Tomikichiro (1902-1999) The Nawa Shrine in Inshu, Prefecture of Tottori Series: Famous sacred and historic landscapes #japanese #woodblock 08913
Reposted by Anna AlexisGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Letters from Byron, Nelson and Elizabeth I among collection discovered in British stately home www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...theguardian.comLetters from Lord Byron, Elizabeth I and Benjamin Franklin among collection discovered in British stately homeRare autographed cache found by researcher at National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor 619133
Reposted by Anna Alexishookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The year is on its knees, waiting for the blade of ice. We roast ale. We roast cider. Rough music fills the air. The Bone Horse dances the night #WinterSolstice 171035257
Reposted by Anna AlexisDr Josephine Wilkinson @miladyjosephine.bsky.social · 21/12/2024📖Speaking of the real Musketeers, do you know why Dumas made Aramis a man of the church... (This article has been previously published, but I've changed the title better to reflect its subject) dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/07/how-...dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.comThe Real Aramis and the ChurchA history blog by Dr Josephine Wilkinson, author of Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen. 051
Reposted by Anna AlexisJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 21/12/202421 Dec 1545: William Cecil marries for the second time #otd - his new wife is the stunningly erudite scholar Mildred Cooke (KateEmerson) 0252
Anna Alexis @anna-alexis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Call me Elizabeth I the way I refuse to wash my makeup off at the end of the day. 100
Reposted by Anna Alexishookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/12/2024There is another ghost map of England. It features no stately homes, no castles nor ruined abbeys. It is charted by those who tramp hard roads and sleep in abandoned buildings. It is a map of murder barns, haunted hedges. Doors you won't knock at even when your stomach is hollow. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts 324539
Reposted by Anna AlexisChapps @chapps.bsky.social · 18/12/2024One of my favorite artifacts in the #MetMuseum is this Etruscan terracotta statue of a young woman. The elaborate necklace and armband appear to have been reproduced from molds of actual jewelry. 🏺 #ancientbluesky Late 4th-early 3rd c. BCE (Lavinium?). 📸 me 1539664
Reposted by Anna AlexisKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18/12/2024it's notable to see who is expected to deal with and not complain about constant death threats, versus who gets to write columns about it 71294311
Reposted by Anna AlexisTom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Way to go, Naomi & @uchicagopress.bsky.social! X 081
Reposted by Anna AlexisLaura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024FYI: #AHAPerspectives offers an honorarium of $100 for articles published in the print magazine. You don't have to be an AHA member to write for us, and we are always open for pitches on the discipline of history, from research to teaching & learning to professional issues. 🗃️historians.orgWrite for Us - AHAThe Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association Perspectives welcomes articles on all aspects of the practice of history and by all kinds of historians, at all degree levels, and of all profes... 25631
Reposted by Anna AlexisAwash In Time @awashintime.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The National Archives tool is even more helpful. It tells me what I could buy in specific years. For example, in 1600 two pounds buys a cow, or 70 lb of wool, or 40 days skilled labour. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-con...nationalarchives.gov.ukCurrency converter: 1270–2017Try our online currency converter and find out how many animals, stones of wool and quarters of wheat you can buy, and how much you could earn. 033
Reposted by Anna AlexisΧοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Testing BlueSky’s capacity for historical threads! A thread about my recent paper on Ibn Fadlan, (not) the Vikings, & 10th c. Eurasian trade & diplomacy. Read if you like medieval history, Middle Eastern history, Iranian history, numismatics, economic history, & investigative historiography! 1/? 1230398
Reposted by Anna AlexisMedievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Deck the halls with medieval cheer—shop our exclusive Christmas card collection today! Medievalists.redbubble.com #ChristmasCards #Christmas #Medieval 0236
Reposted by Anna AlexisDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/12/2024#Oathbreakers is "historical writing at its finest." - @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. A top-10 new release in history from Amazon Books. It's got swords, sex, witchcraft, demons, betrayals, one irritating dude named Bernard, and the fate of Charlemagne's empire hanging in the balance. Out today! 78781277
Reposted by Anna AlexisTim Mathews @timmathews.bsky.social · 10/12/2024This one seems to be blowing up. So, while you’re here, check out this non-profit that collects charitable contributions and uses them to pay off medical debts. unduemedicaldebt.orgunduemedicaldebt.orgUndue Medical Debt HomepageUndue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt. 210621
Anna Alexis @anna-alexis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I've never felt so insulted and attacked in my entire life. 110
Reposted by Anna AlexisTim Mathews @timmathews.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Here are my book recommendations for the new year: Read the books you already bought. 4746481858
Reposted by Anna AlexisBOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Who will be the first to anger the gods in a specific way by giving the Mari Lwyd a bottle of Malort 1269
Reposted by Anna AlexisAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 27/11/2024I must not dunk. Dunks are the time-killer Dunks are the little stress that bring on social alienation I will ignore bad takes I will allow them to pass, or block them And when they are off my feed I will read things that matter And where the takes have gone there will be nothing Only I will remain 501611510
Reposted by Anna AlexisNina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 11/12/2024‘How many dead Palestinians are enough?’ The unbearable prescience of the late poet Refaat Alareer. The author was killed by an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...theguardian.com‘How many dead Palestinians are enough?’ The unbearable prescience of the late poet Refaat AlareerThe author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change 14421
Reposted by Anna AlexisMeg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024No lies detected as usual from my bestie @mskellymhayes.bsky.social:organizingmythoughts.orgInsurance Denials, Chronic Pain, and a Nation’s RageOne might call this development “a morbid symptom” of a late-stage sickness. 0234
