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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📖 - Beaucoup aimé la BD Mămăligă de Zoé Barthélémy qui raconte son erasmus à Bucarest. Partie sans savoir exactement où se trouve la Roumanie, on découvre la capitale à travers ses yeux émerveillés. Son enthousiasme est rafraîchissant. J'étais presque aussi triste qu'elle à la fin de son séjour...

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

My article "Obiceiurile de căsătorie ale țăranilor români" (1837): O lucrare necunoscută a lui Mihail Kogălniceanu și soarta ei ["The Marriage Customs of the Romanian Peasants": An unknown work by Mihail Kogălniceanu and its fate] now #OpenAccess (in RO, w EN+DE abstracts) aiix.ro/tomul-lxii-2...

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Tomul LXII, 2025 - Anuarul Institutului de Istorie „A. D. Xenopol”

STUDII ŞI ARTICOLE MEDIAEVALIA » SUZANA SIMON, ALEXANDRU SIMON, Doamna Clara și Papa Inocențiu al VI-lea în vara anului 1360: înainte și după apariția Mitropoliei …

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

[WORK IN PROGRESS] A phase downplayed by Russia, almost forgotten by historians. The Russian occupation of the Romanian principalities that followed the 1828-1829 did not end with the Russian administration (Jul. 1834). On a smaller scale, it carried on for two more years.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"A culture is no better than its woods." - WH Auden

A photograph I took of a bridleway in Gloucestershire on a beautiful day in early November, 2017, with the crunchiest leaves imaginable underfoot and the last bit of gold and green showing in the corridor of trees overhead.

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Trying to make the best out of a bad situation, I would think that this is a best time for amateur archaeology along the shore of a major river with such a rich history. I know what I would do if I was back home at Giurgiu.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#OTD 85 years ago, the Romanian authorities established the Chişinău Ghetto. While many local Jews had feld, Jews on the roads & from nearby towns who survived massacres were gathered into the historic Jewish neighborhood, soon totaling over 11,000 people.

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I love old-timey letterheads. Today I found my favourite (so far). That of the Council for Philanthropic Establishments, Wallachia (1830s and 1840s). Love how symbols, ornaments, drawings, and fonts (including Cyrillic in Neo-Gothic style) blend here.

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Ceva pentru @cristigaspar.bsky.social . „Aci” ca sinonim pentru acolo? Document emis „aici” în București, referitor la situația de „aci” din Craiova. 1829

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This aged like a carton of milk on summer asphalt.

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I delved into military history by placing units on a map. I'm now continuing into the private day-to-day lives of ordinary individuals. What a ride so far. Wallachia under Russian occupation (1828-1836). A story still to be told.

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

1842 Bucharest - Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, Portrait of Madame Filipescu clasate.cimec.ro/Detaliu.asp?...

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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Nouvelle lecture : Anne Rolland-Boulestreau, "Guerre et Paix en Vendée (1794-1796)". #lecture #Vendee #Revolution #CivilWar #GuerreCivile 📚📖

Couverture du livre Guerre et Paix en Vendée (1794-1796) par Anne Rolland-Boulestreau. En couverture le tableau « La guerre et la paix » par Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1776.

Il faut près de deux ans, entre mai 1794 et mars 1796, pour que la France tourne la page de l’insurrection vendéenne. Alors que se poursuit la « guerre sans miséricorde », les premiers pourparlers de paix sont initiés dès le printemps 1794.
Cette pacification militaire et politique est un processus complexe qui conduit Républicains et Vendéens à mettre fin à un conflit particulièrement violent et meurtrier. Un tel acte de concorde, qui suppose la réintégration de la Vendée dans le cadre national, ne peut se concevoir sans compromis. Combattants et civils doivent accepter les conditions d’une paix singulière, afin de permettre la reconstruction économique, sociale et morale d’un territoire ravagé.
L’histoire de France offre peu d’exemples de pacification d’une guerre civile. À partir de sources souvent inédites, Anne Rolland-Boulestreau explore l’aventure de la jeune République française en quête d’une paix nécessaire en Vendée.

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Miss Lubino @misslubino.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Volver a la libreta con un apunte turquesa :) #illustration #bicillustration #drawing #doodling #sketchbook

Primer boceto para la siguiente serie que quiero hacer este año.

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granttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A colorized photograph of a column of Romanian mountain troops advancing down a valley in Crimea during WW2.

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Adriana Horstman @ingadriana.ro · 19/01/2025

Look at this tree we found in the forest, it has all the colours of the rainbow 🌲

Truck of a fallen down pine tree, parts with and without bark

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

[Wallachia, Russian occupation] After so many reports of violence, shortages and army misconduct, finally something positive to read. A Don Cossacks squadron commander saving a pregnant woman and 2 children from drowning. Ialomița district, 1832.

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Romanian painter Alexandru Phoebus (1899-1954). I generally dislike this style (too modernist for me), but this might be one of the best styles to capture Bucharest's eclectic spirit. From Romania's National Museum of Art Collections.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Histoire & Odyssée @histoireodyssee.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Innovateur passionné, le photographe Léonard Misonne (1870-1943) a créé le mediobrome, un procédé mêlant bromure d'argent et retouches à base de charbon et d'huile. « Le sujet n'est rien, la lumière est tout », disait-il. 🔽

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

'The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England' by @rach-anderson.bsky.social in the AHR. Finding 'resilience' in local petitions, with photos & transcriptions. The latest addition to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography 🗃️: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

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Rachel Anderson, The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England, The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 1640–1667, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae465. Abstract: Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper explores the process of recovering from outbreaks of plague in smaller communities, households, and even by individuals. In doing so, it examines resilience on a micro-level in terms of the economic, emotional, and practical concerns of individuals following a period of crisis. This paper showcases six early modern petitions, each transcribed here in full, providing insight into the responses of communities to severe outbreaks of epidemic disease. These sources reveal the practical measures required to foster resilience: each petition demonstrates a series of unique needs and essential interventions. The usual systems of relief proved inadequate when faced with the unprecedented demands of plague. This made the bonds between friends and neighbors crucial to the survival of their communities. Only when these bonds were pushed to their breaking point did early modern people turn to authorities. These petitions show us when and why those points were reached.

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Hello, everyone! Sorry for my long silence! X is sill my main SM account, since I find it hard to migrate or manage accounts on two platforms. I simply lack the time. However, since it's becoming unbearable, I will be gradually moving here, or at least be more active here. Cheers to all!

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

don't miss the chance to come and join us at our new department! info on application procedure, deadlines, and everything else available at the link below.

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Bogdan Mateescu @bogdanmateescu.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Romania, "The Peak of Nostalgia": 1. The painting 2. The street 3. The actual peak 4. The peak viewed from the 👆street

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🇺🇦 Talvi 🦁🍉 @hellawyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Looking for people to follow who research: victimhood/victimisation (all disciplines), nationalism (same), identity/memory (same). Feel free to let me know if you’re one of these people! ✨ Also interested in anyone in: social psychology, IR/diplomacy, Jewish studies, (e)migration, Queer studies.

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Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Scouring through probate records from Bistrita, Transylvania, and came across this well-fitting quote: should you lose everything, preserve your good name.

Inside cover of a manuscript with writing in Latin.

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