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Tracy Borman OBE @tracyborman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Absolutely thrilled that mine is among the @waterstones.bsky.social Best History Books of 2025 🎉🎉🎉 @hodderbooks.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/11/2025

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Write an #advocacy letter to your Representative! The #NCPH2025 attendees are keenly aware of what’s at stake in the realm of #PublicHistory right now. Send a pre-stamped postcard for the cause and boost morale with a cute cat sticker at the Advocacy Committee Exhibit Hall booth (up thru 5pm, 3/29).

Board of postcards that describe what public historians are advocating for in their letters and appeals to elected representatives. Examples include: a living wage, LGBTQ+ history, national parks, NPS staff, IMLS and NEH.

QR codes with tips for writing an advocacy letter and stickers.

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publichistoryqub.bsky.social @publichistoryqub.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Interested in an MA in Public History? Where better to study than in Belfast! Want to hear more? Sign up now to join our information webinar this Monday at 5pm BST (noon EST) www.qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/w...

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Hey! Are you a #museum or material culture nerd in Atlantic Canada? There's a three-day conference with some promising sessions coming up in May at Dal... check it out, share with friends, etc. www.eventbrite.ca/e/material-c... #CdnHist #PublicHistory

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Material Culture of the Atlantic Conference

Join us for a deep dive into the objects and artifacts that tell the story of the Atlantic region's rich cultural history!

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🚨 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 I started something new: Scholar.DIY — a public benefit company to help scholars turn research into meaningful digital storytelling. 1/6

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Who can relate?

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

From the intro of my forthcoming book (May 2025): *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*: "Maritime escape was a long, slow-moving, and unstoppable oceanic wave of resistance, bigger and more powerful than we have ever known." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...

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Emily Shaver Kay (she/her) @emilykay24.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

first day back in office after the holidays and the weather outside makes me want to go back to bed with hot cocoa ❄️🥶☕️

Picture of a view from a high-story window looking out onto snow-covered roofs at a university.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

friend: let’s watch a christmas movie me: [putting lord of the rings on] friend: i said a christmas movie me: there’s elves

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Emily Shaver Kay (she/her) @emilykay24.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I love living in a college town after students leave for breaks. It feels delightfully spooky working on campus when it’s a ghost town. 👻

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Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The Mary Eliza Project is a collaborative public humanities initiative that uses historic records to illuminate diverse women’s political engagement in Boston. We focus on the historical moment of 1920. 🧵

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/12/2024

Need a gift for the woman who DOES everything? Holding It Together is a gift of recognition and a gift of ungaslighting--showing her that if she's burned out, it's because billionaires and their cronies maintain the illusion of a DIY society by forcing her to work overtime and underpaid. #booksky

Book cover of Holding It Together surrounded by images of objects associated with the work often done by women and the phrase "Need A Gift for the Woman Who Does Everything?"

With endorsements from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jennifer Breheny Wallace, and Ai-jen Poo.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

More good news: the book will be entirely open access 🔓📖 (free digital download) thanks to a Dutch Research Council grant 🪄 📚

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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A book I edited is finally out! The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Love in the Early Modern Age. It has brilliant contributors and illustrations - and yes, I gave the Frenchman the last word on love

A cultural history of love in the early modern age; book cover, detail from Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/12/2024

the library should host a monthly 'how to cook an egg' night where adults and children alike are provided a quiet, judgment free space to learn to properly cook an egg. this would do society a lot of good

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This Day in Labor History: December 10, 1976. Undocumented workers in Chicago leather plants voted to unionize, leading to battle for them to have access to U.S. labor rights. Their employer soon had some of them deported for unionizing. But the Supreme Court intervened for the workers for once!

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a

The book Smart Blonde by Dolly Parton on a blue library trolley

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

REALLY IMPORTANT UPDATE PLEASE SHARE #ASafeChoice physicians WILL prescribe medication abortion via telehealth FOR WOMEN WHO ANTICIPATE NEEDING THIS MEDICATION. REPEAT: You do NOT need to be currently pregnant to get this prescription. In an era of potentially draconian abortion bans, take note!

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Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Like Tom Holland's Lip Sync battle, we repost this every time it comes across the TL.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 06/12/2024

Everybody’s getting their jokes off but The Daily Mail somehow made the funniest video

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The other day I was pitching our Gilded Age course to undergrads: “Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a nation where the wealthy had insane power and ordinary people were reoeatedly crushed by them until they lashed out in anger?”

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

ok just trying to get my head around "stopping at a starbucks before you carry out your assassination plot"

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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I’ll be presenting about my new book on January 9, 12pm EST / 6pm CET on a virtual roundtable with two other amazing historians of Germany. Please join us! 👇

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CONFLICT NEWS FELLA @warosintfella.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

Ad for the position posted at interfolio @ apply.interfolio.com/159279

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Richard Cassidy @rjcassidy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shameless plug for my short guide to pipe rolls: just one day left to get the paperback at £5 off. www.routledge.com/Approaching-... #medievalsky

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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Application deadline extended! Are you passionate about accessibility in your professional organizations or experience navigating access needs? Consider applying as a Discussant for a virtual Working Group on Accessibility, Disability, and #PublicHistory. Submit at ncph.org/conference/o... by 12/15.

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

When I was in high school, the guidance counselor used to speak really scornfully about easy electives like "underwater basket weaving" but I have contemplated this for 35 years, and I still think underwater basket weaving sounds really hard.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The audacity of the university asking employees for donations. Every institution! Every year!

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My forthcoming book, *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North,* now has a page on @ubcpress.bsky.social's website! Very excited to see it appear next June 1st -- and more motivated now to finish reviewing these copyedits 💪 #cdnhist www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

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A Cold Colonialism

A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 02/12/2024

One thing I want to make clear! If you set your username to a domain, you can change it later without any loss to your account. Let me step through some scenarios:

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 03/12/2024

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ & ✊🗃️ go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV

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Radical Histories

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

found a worse version of the adult who still lives in their glory days of high school and it's an adult who still lives in their glory days of twitter

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

they will see

$What to Do When Someone Has a Panic Attack • Ask if they've considered that in season 6, episode 4 of the Sopranos, an episode of Gilmore Girls is playing on TV. In S07E17 of Gilmore Girls, Richard is wearing a tracksuit. Lorelai makes a joke about it by implicating a lunch date with Tony Soprano. • Ask if they realize this means that both the Sopranos and Gilmore Girls exist as television shows in the other's universe. When the Gilmore Girls watch the Sopranos, they will see themselves. When Tony Soprano watches Gilmore Girls, he sees himself and his family. • Like two facing mirrors; Gilmore Girls and Sopranos, a recursion, fractal, etc.$

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Anyone who thinks the Parthenon friezes would be somehow less well exhibited or preserved outside of London needs to check their biases and go visit the Acropolis museum in Athens. Which is incredible, and is ready and waiting to receive them. Oh yeah there's a fantastic pinball museum nearby too.

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Emily Shaver Kay (she/her) @emilykay24.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If only we could have snow days as adults…

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Hello friendos Today's tip from your librarian here Did you know libraries have courteous, experienced reference librarians who can and will help you get started researching just about anything? They can also help you sort good, trustworthy information from the bad.

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I published a compilation of comics I posted to social media from 2020 to 2024! 322 pages of pandemic, thoughts about history and museums, mental health, and finally, quitting my job to move back home. Now available in my Etsy store! #bsnm littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/1820...

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