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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A belated but very nice surprise upon returning to the office after many months. And what a beautifully produced book it is, too! Thank you very much to the editors: Christin Facchini, Girolamo Imbruglia, Vincenzo Lavenia and Sabina Pavone

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#CfP 📢 “Imagining Difference in Early Modern London”, Elm Bank, Coventry University 📆 22-23 March 2027 |🌍 London ⏰ 1 October 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/news/733815 #EarlyModern #LondonHistory #MigrationHistory #SocialHistory

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#CfP 📢 Conference: "Reformation and Participation", Verein für Reformationsgeschichte / Society for Reformation History and the German Historical Institute 📆30 Sept-2 Oct 2027 | 🌍 London ⏰ 15 Sept 2026 🔗 www.ghil.ac.uk/events/confe... #Reformation #EarlyModern #ReligiousHistory

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My author's copies have arrived! It has been huge fun to work on early modern sacrifice with Francesco Quatrini. Thrilled that the book is now out with Routledge in the @emodir.bsky.social book series. Heartfelt thanks to our editors, and to our authors for their terrific contributions.

Book Cover of Fictions of Sacrifice.Early Modern Texts, Political Theology and Secularization, edited by Francesco Quatrini and Freya Sierhuis (Routledge, EMoDiR book series, 2026)

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Are shorebirds just the best birds? Their migrations are among the most challenging of any. And they have the coolest chicks, hands down. #WorldShorebirdDay #PostAShoreBird

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

hello folks. i'm currently running my lil socks off to help fight dementia! (did 12k yesterday for the first time in 5 years and somehow i can still move today!!) if you can spare a couple of quid (really £2 is perfect!) then i'd be truly grateful 🙏 www.justgiving.com/page/emilie-...

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Emilie's fundraiser for Alzheimer's Society

Help Emilie Murphy raise money to support Alzheimer's Society

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Pastries from the Heimische Bakery, Antwerp. OMG. And a bit nostalgic, too.

Pastries from the Heimische Bakery in Antwerp

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My God what a ferocious, hair-raisingly good book- absolutely sensational!

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oh bliss, it's out. That's my Sunday sorted.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ The goddess’s sacred bird with helmet and weapons transformed into a tiny armed warrior! Red-figure ceramic vessel made in Athens around 2,400 years ago! 📷 Louvre Museum, Paris collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335... #Archaeology

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

At last, the truth is beginning to come out. As far as I am aware only the Byline Times has reported on Orr and the creation of a far-right pipeline at Cambridge. Why did NOT ONE SINGLE OUTLET perform due diligence to check which people were behind the accusations against Arday?

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The landscapes and art forms of prehistory have a real hold over me at the moment, materializing when I am not looking for them: at the exhibition of trailblazing feminist land- and body artist Anna Mendieta, currently at the Tate Modern. And look at these miniliths, from the seaside in Ullapool!

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14/08/2026

We've updated our A-Z listing of UK history societies - now with links to c.140 societies and organisations that bring historians together and provide support: bit.ly/4wodFDb. Also of value for making connections, @balhnews.bsky.social's guide to local history groups bit.ly/4gaHYHA #Skystorians

Page from RHS website listing 'History societies, organisations and networks', with image of the Uk and text: The Royal Historical Society works closely with a number of other UK and Irish societies dedicated to the study, communication and promotion of historical knowledge and understanding.

Once a year, the Society hosts a half-day meeting of heads of UK history societies to discuss subjects of shared interest, such as publishing, membership and advocacy for the discipline. The Society also holds regular online meetings with its equivalent national organisations worldwide.

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Curious that while MSM is obsessed with #JasonArday the story of another Cambridge academic has been ignored - despite allegations of safeguarding breaches and overseas donors buying influence. @goldbergradio.bsky.social @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3zGv...

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James Orr: Reform's Cambridge Kingmaker

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/08/2026

Some of London's most attractive spaces are blue. Over the next decade, we'll restore habitats, tackle pollution and revive waterways across the capital. Here are the 10 locations being revitalised ⬇️ www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

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Revealed: London's 10 new wild swimming and revitalised beauty spots

Sir Sadiq Khan announces his 10-year plan to clean up the capital’s rivers, which he said had suffered from ‘decades of neglect and pollution’

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Very cool. This is going to sound slightly medieval but I've been thinking there must be some way to embed invisible apotropaic symbols in all those 'this page intentionally left blank' pages

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Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This morning's been all about Willow Warblers with a whopping post-dawn rush of them: for half an hour they streamed through the treetops at the Obs and left rapidly north into the brisk headwind - got quite a shock to walk up to one of our little mist-nets in the CEF and find 33 in it. Fantastic!

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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🔊Back in 2023 we ran our first Revels season, recording audio adaptations of plays before a live audience. We began with Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. It was a busy week of back to back playing. #drama #theatre #AudioDrama audioboom.com/posts/882200...

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Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe (Full Cast Audio Adaptation)

Dido, Queen of Carthage... what more do we need to say?

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#CfP 📢New Virtual Symposium: "Public-Making Spaces, Then and Now: Reimagining Early Modern Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century", @rsaorg.bsky.social and @16csociety.bsky.social 🗓️ 28–29 January 2027 | 💻Online ⏰ Deadline: 7 August 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/news/news.as... #EarlyModern #Humanities

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Call for Papers: New Virtual Symposium - Renaissance Society of America

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

But hey, let's pretend none of this is happening and keep sucking up and burning the last dregs of North Sea oil and gas www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

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Europe wildfires latest: More than 130,000 evacuated across France and Spain

Regional emergency management chief Carlos Novillo says extinguishing the Spanish fires is "beyond the capacity" of fire crews.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

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Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Viva España

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

📖 #Newbook by EMoDir member Finally available to French readers, Federico Barbierato’s landmark study of religious dissent, libertinism, and unbelief in post-Reformation Venice. 🔗 classiques-garnier.com/evangelistes... #EarlyModern #Inquisition #Venice #ReligiousHistory

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm going to be giving a talk on Selkies for this online course on The Folklore of the Ocean from the always-excellent Carterhaugh School. There's still time to join....

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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Hebrides are a paradise for birdwatchers: sea, mudflats, machair, heather, lakes, crags and hills. We saw Puffins, Great Northern Divers, Razorbills, White-Tailed Eagles, Arctic Turns and Skua's, but only this cheeky Rook that was after my chips was willing to pose.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Highly recommend listening/watching to this extraordinary episode of Makdiski Street with Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture. It's an incredibly lucid and specific description of the terraforming/deforming of Palestine, which he terms Ungrounding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3T4...

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Makdisi Street Reviews w/ Eyal Weizman

YouTube video by Makdisi Street

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Looking for a cool (in both senses of the word) place to spend 11:00-17:00 today in central London? The lower ground floor rooms at the British Academy are air conditioned and the speakers are electrifying. Free, but sign up.

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The British Academy Ideas Festival - Saturday

The British Academy Ideas Festival returns on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June. Celebrating bold thinking and unexpected discoveries from the histories that shape our identities to the forces influencin...

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The 2026 John Clare Festival is taking place 10-12 July - check it out below!

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 13/06/2026

I think states need to treat trillionaires as a national security threat.

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Blueskye, give me your best memes for 'copy edits' media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

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Panic Omg GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

GIPHY image by GIPHY

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 10/06/2026

16) These UK developments sit within a global fascistic turn with some of the most advanced patterns evident in the US; in Germany the AfD leads polls. 17) Democracy collapses much more quickly than most people think, because it doesn't actually have to collapse for it to become non-functional.

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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I love Puffins.

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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

#CfP📢 CISSR 11th Annual Meeting on Christian Origins: "Discourses and Practices around Jesus in the Early Modern and Modern Period" 📆1-3 October 2026 | 🌍Bertinoro (Italy) ⏰31 May 2026 🔗 cissr.net/call-for-pap... #Christianity #EarlyModern

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Programme Units

For general information about the CISSR Annual Meeting on Christian Origins, see “Annual Meetings”. For registration and application procedures, see “Come partecipare” (in Italian) or “How to …

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Brepols @brepols.net · 22/05/2026

SPECIAL OFFER Renaissance & #EarlyModern Studies 50 TITLES at up to 50% OFF Go to: bit.ly/42OVESm #Renaissance #EarlyModernSky #Rensa #EarlyModernStudies #Baroque #RenaissanceSky

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Audio Obscura @audioobscura.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you only read one thing today, make it this: The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse by Toby Buckle "our sudden reversal on trans rights is a massive red flag for our political and social system".

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We're delighted to be launching Prof. Jonathan Sheehan's latest book - On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular. Join us on 10th June at 17:30. Full details below. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/on-th...

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On the Altar by Prof. Jonathan Sheehan: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s latest book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular .

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Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

We had a blast at Prague/Wroclaw. Travelling by European Sleeper train was a wonderful throwback to the 90's. Delighted sleeper trains are making a comeback! #EuropeanSleeper

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Are you interested in exploring the resources of the Institute of Reformation History’s collection in Geneva as part of your research, with financial support for your stay provided? Then the ‘Regard’ Scholarship may be of interest to you: tinyurl.com/392w9cfd

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REFORC @reforc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Gearing up for #REFORC2026! Registration opens Tuesday May 19, 11:00 at the Historical Institute, Szewska Street 49, Wrocław. Opening of the conference: May 19, 13:00 Aula Leopoldina University of Wrocław, Plac Uniwersytecki 1. Will we see you there?

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