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Join us 8–9 October for "The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence" at The National Archives, UK, and online. Explore newly catalogued documents from captured ships that reveal wartime lives and a global conflict. Register: www.eventbrite.de/e/the-prize-... #Rev250 #earlymodern #history

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The Prize Papers of the American War of Independence (Online)

An International Workshop on the UK Prize Papers and the American War of Independence: Wartime Lives, Capture, and Transnational Exchange

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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 23h

Great collection! Especially for those who are interested in Japanese maritime history! #maritimehistory #Japanesehistory #collections 👇

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 14h

Picture of a Thames wooden fish trap(7th to 8th century AD) at Isleworth in the London Borough of Hounslow faces downstream; Chelsea is facing upstream. Structurally, the traps appear to be part of a headwear and an ebb catch fish going up and down with the tides. #coastalhistory #muSEAum #fishtrap

Chelsea (Fish trap 1 – dated to AD 730-900) and Isleworth (dated to AD 650-890).
Source : Thames Discover

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 13h

All of this. Absolutely spot on. I wince whenever I hear someone use “drinking the kool-aid” as a throwaway putdown.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 18h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine what we could create in a world where rage donations went to historical societies, libraries, and institutes instead of long-shot Senate bids.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h

It's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief.

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Jay 🏞️🔜 Howloween @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 14h

🐦‍⬛❕HUMAN EXPERIENCE Stickers have been restocked on my ko-fi!! :> ko-fi.com/s/3ecf690ed7 #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

A picture of a 3-inch anti-generative AI rainbow holographic sticker with a formline design on it. The design has a black border with sparkles lining it. Text within the border reads “you cannot automate the human experience.” The formline design depicts a decapitated robot head with vacant eyes. Next to it are two ravens, with one raven perched on the head with a piece of the robot’s antenna in its beak.

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Bournemouth University Archaeology and Anthropology @buarchanth.bsky.social · 12h

Another great find from the sea Heather and Liv from our maritime unit discovered this grindstone during a circle search near the 13th century Mortar Ship Wreck Such stones were rotated to sharpen tools and are known from the 9th century Could this be contemporary with the wreck? #FindsFriday

Two divers recover a medieval grindstone from the sea bed

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 13h

Natalie Zemon Davis, 1996: “I still find history full of wonders; I still find in the differences in past societies a way to take stock of the present—a source of sober realism, but also a source of hope." Read more about why history matters and the importance of historical thinking in public life.

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Why History Matters - AHA

Why Study History Historical Thinking in Everyday Life The AHA offers resources for educators and students on the importance of studying history, and reflections on why learning about the past helps u...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 14h

In the week Flanders seems to sign the death sentence for its cultural sector (FLANDERS! You know! Can Eyck! Rubens! Plantin! The Antwerp Six!) the Pope launches his new Renaissance… We may need to find someone who remembers this entire Northern Renaissance thing.

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 14h

A wee video about Shetland sheep for Shetland Wool Week #Shetland #Shetlandwoolweek

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 14h

Spent some time this morning drawing a raven. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Art. Black and white drawing made of abstract shapes and lines showing a raven or crow in flight. It's wing is above it, caught mid-flap, and it's feet trail beneath it. It's eye is fixed ahead, looking at the horizon and the future.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 17h

Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. It must have been a treasured possession! From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circular Saxon brooch made of copper, the front of which is ornately embellished with gold and garnets. There are five raised, circular, gold bosses which are outlined with inlaid garnet slabs, and each set with a central, round garnet. Four of the gold bosses are arranged around a fifth, larger, gold boss in the centre of the brooch. The central boss sits within a star-like, four-pointed geometric shape composed of a mosaic of inlaid garnet slabs. The outer edge of the brooch is decorated with two rows of tiny inlaid polished garnets. The eight gold sections at either side of the four smaller bosses are decorated with raised gold filigree which looks like looped, braided cord. Parts of the brooch are worn, with some chipped edges, and missing garnet stones. The brooch measures approximately 7 cm in diameter. It is displayed on a clear glass surface. It was excavated from a woman's grave by AOC Archaeology in 2000 ahead of development construction works. This type of brooch was a fashionable status piece amongst wealthy aristocratic Anglo-Saxon women in the AD 600s. The woman's grave also contained glass beads and silver rings.

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Nick Jenkins @nickjhistorian.bsky.social · 23h

If you visit the Somme, Ypres or Vimy Ridge, you can see sections of "preserved" First World War trenches. Head south to the St-Mihiel Salient, though, and you can spend hours wandering in the woods among trench systems that have hardly been touched since 1918.

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 14h

We were thrilled that Waverley visited us in Newhaven Harbour last week. Lots of people came out to great her! #SussexCoast

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please don't cut back hedgerows until wildlife has taken all the autumn berries! #gardening #nature

Bright red berries with hazy green hedgerow behind them

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever

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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History

The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🗃️ 🏺 Absolutely loved this book, the deepest dive into the possibilities around Boudica herself - who she was, where and when things happened – but also what her uprising and eventual defeat meant for the Iron Age communities of Britain

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 16h

These really are remarkable books. I could add so many more, such as Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast, Amitav Ghosh’s In An Antique Land, and more. These are books that have kept me company, or helped me think about how to write differently as I wrote my roar in private.

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Liz Harper @archivistliz.bsky.social · 23h

The National Archives UK @uknatarcsector.bsky.social has announced eight Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award projects open for expressions of interest from potential UK HEI co-supervisors! lnkd.in/eG5MG6SQ

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21h

Join us Wednesday 7 October at 5:30 pm at the Institute of Historical Research, London or on Zoom, for Miles Ogborn's "Law, Violence and Empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials of 1832". Free and welcoming to researchers, students & the public. Please register in advance. #Skystorians

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Miles Ogborn, ‘Law, violence and empire: Understanding the Jamaican uprising trials of 1832’

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 21h

Whilst on my break from caring for my ancient mother this morning, I walked around Lewes, noticing the body parts on beautiful doorways. A face, a hand, to delight the passer by

A blue door with two round windows like eyes a knocker like a nose and a letterbox mouth

A putty coloured door with a black metal hand door knocker above which is an oval enamel number plate with a number 4 on it

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23h

The Migration Museum, London, is hiring a part-time (3 days per week) curator for a year to help build the vision of the new museum. £40k pro rata plus 5% matched pension contribution. Deadline for applications 18 October.

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We’re Hiring: Curator, Contemporary Art (Part-time)

The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 23h

The big but hidden impact of the implosion of smaller regional universities is the pressure on research academics to prioritise teaching or switch to teaching contracts and abandon research as a frivolous pursuit in this financially unstable crisis. This will dramatically shrink future scholarship.

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 22h

A great day y'd at WreckNet (network of shipwreck archaeologists and museums) symposium in Southampton. Great plans are afoot for the south coast! Thrilled to be told that my PhD research led to reinterpretation of the Isles of Scilly museum's exhibit on shipwrecks and lighthouses. I needed that!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Sussex has moved away from Turnitin, UEA has indicated that it will, and in private conversations I’ve had with SU colleagues, other universities are signalling that a Southampton-style exit is on the cards.'

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A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays

Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.' - I don't know a single severely disabled person - all of whom have reams of medical evidence of impairment and illness - who hasn't had their conditions deliberately downplayed by benefit assessors

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future - @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future

EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Decorated bronze pony cap with long, slender curving horns

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What more could you want in a book? Read it.

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Bathing Huts At Low Tide. Bexhill-On-Sea." Postcard sent 2.10.1913. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Holiday #Postcard #History #1910s

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday I had an adventure by the #Thames with writer, author of the acclaimed book London Clay, #mudlark (and many other things!) Tom Chivers. He was #mudlarking and I observed: you need a licence to mudlark on the foreshore. Research for my new book #Mud: A Human History. See AltText for more!

Tom Chivers and Catherine Clarke (selfie photo) on the foreshore

The soft mud (alluvium) layer deposited by the tide each day. Here it's scooped onto a trowel. GORGEOUS consistency - Tom compared it to 'ganache'

Caribbean coral, used as ballast by the East India Company ships which moored here

Two revetment posts. One of these is wood, the other is a huge whale bone!

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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Come work with us at Winchester! We're hiring a 0.5FTE open-ended contract in pre-1800 English Lit. Details at the link. Deadline 14 October. Please share! Lecturer in English Literature at University of Winchester share.google/2la1PLwY1Tey...

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Lecturer in English Literature at University of Winchester

An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in English Literature is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026

Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/09/2026

Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2

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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2027: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September 2026 and runs to Monday 14...

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 Oct 1804 // A number of Royal Navy fireships were expended in an attack on invasion barges assembled at Boulogne. Explosive casks and torpedo-catamarans (floating bombs triggered at a preset time by a clockwork mechanism, invented by American engineer Robert Fulton) were also used.

Watercolour and ink drawing of the British attack on Boulogne, October 1804. The British fleet is in the foreground and the French fleet can be seen in the shelter of the coast in the background, with the port of Boulogne in the centre. Image: National Maritime Museum via Wikimedia Commons.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 Oct 1817 // 16-gun brig HMS Julia, anchored off Tristan da Cunha while a party went inland to fetch water, was driven ashore by a sudden gale. Her cables broke and she struck the beach, rolled over, and was wrecked. 55 men and 1 woman died. (National Maritime Museum image) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Charles W. Browne, 'Wreck of HMS Julia at Tristan da Cunha South Atlantic' (1818). National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: public domain image. A drawing showing a sailing warship being wrecked among churning waves at the bottom of a steep cliff.

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 01/10/2026

We are thrilled to announce Bathsheba Demuth as the new series editor of Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books, succeeding Paul S. Sutter. We’re grateful to Paul for 12 years of extraordinary leadership and excited to see Bathsheba carry the series into its next chapter! @brdemuth.bsky.social

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Bathsheba Demuth Appointed Weyerhaeuser Environmental Series Editor

Bathsheba Demuth steps in as the new series editor for Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books at the University of Washington Press, succeeding Paul S. Sutter.

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Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tickets are now available for the 'Maritime Histories from the Margins' conference, National Maritime Museum, 11-12 November 2026. Co-hosted by @uopmaritime.bsky.social and Royal Museums Greenwich. For ticket information and the conference programme, see www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

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Conference - Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present

A two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring marginalised histories in maritime contexts from c.1500 to the present day

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Friday was the hottest day *ever recorded* for Earth's oceans, on average. Oceans continue to absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from global warming: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti... via @sfchronicle.com

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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive

Human-caused global warming and a strong El Niño are adding excess heat to the oceans, threatening marine life and providing storms with more energy and moisture.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just had lunch w 6 undergrad researchers @theotherrbg.bsky.social and I have been working w and let me tell you the JOY of hearing them talk about ideas, history, literature, languages, science for humanity, classes on theory and why they want all that in the face of AI. We were 🥹🥹!

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 29/09/2026

Oh good we're doing the goldfish brain "why is everyone sick again all of a sudden what could this mystery virus possibly be" discourse, as every fall. Covid. Still. Exists.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.

A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had bookmarked this and just now listened. Fantastic episode. The enslavement of Native Americans was based on *where* they were. They were on land that settler Americans wanted. It was qualitatively distinct from the enslavement of African Americans and those differences need to be understood.

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