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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Follow-up, I am not a fan of whatever kind of snake this is

Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not sure I'd call that the most appealing chapter title I've ever heard, honestly (Buzurg ibn Shahriyar, The Book of the Wonders of India, 10th c)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Obsessed with this c. 800 sketch of Charlemagne I found for lecture today

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Irish “sans-culottes” and transnational revolutionary aesthetics during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Whatmore, 2019)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Daniel Dessert? More like Daniel Four Course Meal! * spins chair around and sits on it backwards * Folks, Daniel Dessert’s 1984 prosopographical study of French finance during the reign of Louis XIV is no joke. First, it is very long, and moreover (1/217)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Book revisions or anyone holding French tontines c. 1770?? You decide

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Getting some quality writing done here

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Surprised to see the BNF taking such a strong anti-La Mettrie stance, honestly

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Before the rise of Saint-Domingue, Taiwan was the world’s foremost sugar producer (Ghachem, 2025)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Next reading project. Good so far!

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I make it a point to always give constructive feedback

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The Haitian God Save the King, as recorded by Juste Chanlatte, c. 1817-19

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Italian unification as international model (Clark, 2012)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Good to know that Quesnay's Tableau économique has been giving people fits since the beginning (Charles and Théré, 2019)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Maggie Smith's character in Gosford Park was based on Julian Fellowes' Aunt Isie (Grayzel, 2002)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Probably good they included the parentheses there (Grayzel, 2002)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Finally finished. Extraordinary! For as formally challenging as it is (and it is very challenging), Ulysses is also full of human experience and emotion. Exceeds its reputation. I’ll read it again some day

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Vera Brittain, taking a break from the grim duties of nursing in World War I by indulging in the oh-so-gentle, soothing pleasures of August Strindberg. Gotta admire the determination here

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Yeah, he's a fun one. There's a great statue of him at the Parmentier metro stop in Paris

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

What can I say, sometimes you just gotta revisit the classics

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The Maison du Roi, literally talking turkey in 1785

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Adventures in class prep, a continuing series

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Edmund Burke if he got kicked in the head by a horse From Isaac Chotiner's interview with Cass Sunstein (www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Some sections of the Ottoman army were so poorly equipped in World War I that they sometimes had to go barefoot (Leila Tarazi Fawaz, 2014)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Vaine pâture (a form of common grazing rights, more or less) only abolished in France beginning in 1889, according to Wallerstein (Wallerstein, 2011)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Sweden taking the “disposable razor” approach and just adding a fourth estate (Wallerstein, 2011)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Heathrow doesn't allow you to take catapults in your carry-on, but they don't say anything about trebuchets. Loophole!

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Dutch dominance over maritime commerce during the Golden Age was pretty bonkers (Wallerstein, 2011)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry firmament above me and the

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

“Anderson’s subsequent and somewhat detailed analysis.” Immanuel Wallerstein, you scamp (Wallerstein, 1980/2011)

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Real Brotherhood of the Wolf hours over here:

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Something really great about the phrase "non-cricket writing"

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

When the off licence has a big fuzzy orange cat that likes chin scritches

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Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

“Understand that we did not come from so far away to hear ourselves called citizens.” Local political imaginaries of the Counter-Revolution (Cobb, 1972)