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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The #EarlyModern Recipes Online Collective annual transcribathon, w/ @wellcomecollection.bsky.social & @rcpmuseum.bsky.social, is 13 Nov. Guest speakers on old age and domestic care are @emmamarshall.bsky.social and Lynn Botelho. Hope you can join us! Details here: emroc.hypotheses.org/5254 #HistMed
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2026 Transcribathon Schedule Announced
Recipes through the Ages Friday, November 13, 2026 Join EMROC, Wellcome Collection, and theRoyal College of Physicians for a day of transcribing, virtual chatting, and live talks.  This year we are ex...
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John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A nice series of posts from Anhalt’s diary about what it was like to visit Frederick and Elisabeth in exile in the Netherlands. (In Arnhem rather than their main hangout in The Hague.)
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Doctor Science ❌👑 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you want to learn more in an Ana-like way, poke around @monicamedhist.bsky.social 's plague bibliography (continuously updated): "The Mother of All Pandemics" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Mother of All Pandemics The State of Black Death Research in the Era of Covid-19 - Bibliography 05152020 - migrated 03032021.docx
This is a comprehensive bibliography on the science and history of the 2nd Plague Pandemic, focusing on scholarship of the past 20 years or so. It is regularly updated. An appendix covers the 1st Plag...
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Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Late Valois/wars of religion friends- anyone encounter this before - connection between death of Adm Coligny in the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre & the 1572 supernova? 1/ #earlymodern #reformazing #valois
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America” examines six renowned Japanese American artists whose work defined modern American art and design in the mid to late 20th century — all of whom were severely impacted by mass incarceration."
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The painful, complicated roots of American mid-century design trace back to Japanese American concentration camps
Nakashima, Noguchi, and Asawa are artists who changed the way Americans thought of design. A Barnes exhibit wants to showcase their art without forgetting their trauma.
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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet another @arthist-net.bsky.social post worthy of attention: Baths, Spas and Health Resorts between the 15th and the 18th Centuries Call for papers with deadline 15 November 2026. arthist.net/archive/54418 #earlymodern #architecture #CFP
Conference logo reading: "Baths, Spas and Health Resorts between the 15th and 18th Centuries" / Vicenza 26-27.052027

Image below shows the cross section of a Roman bath.
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Matthew Dennis @matthewdennis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A new substack post, on the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death, and the perils of making political "sense" of the senseless.
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Blood Will Out: On the Elusive Meaning of an Icon
In a Historical Vein: What should we make of the new Charlie Kirk statue, with its red patina?
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Regensburg, 24. Sept 1626 Es wird die Holsteinsche Niederlage bestätigt, als auch die Bayrische bei Riedt, von den Bauern geschlagen worden. Die Bauern zuerst gewichen, und die Bayern vermeint, sie hätten den Sieg in den Händen - darauf die Bauern wieder gewendet und solche niedergeschlagen ... 1/3
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leipzig, 25. Sept 1626 Zu Hall [Halle] sterben täglich 30-40 Personen. Letzte Woche hat man 2 Stunden am Tag weder Lebende noch Tote aus der Stadt gelassen. Man geb dann den Soldaten von jeder Leich ein halben Reichstaler (?) Wenn die Verhaffte, auch andere Bürger, nicht 50.000 Taler bezahlen, ...
Hall in Sachsen, von Merian 1653
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Thomas Schmid @thschmid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Neuer Atlas macht die Geschichte der Schweizer Namen sichtbar
Der neue «Familiennamenatlas der Deutschschweiz» zeigt, was Familiennamen über Dialekte, frühere Berufe, Wohnorte und Wanderungsbewegungen verraten. Das dreibändige Werk entstand im Rahmen eines vom S...
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Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás CCHS-CSIC @bibtntcsic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
La BNE publica una guía temática que explora la colección de exlibris, con más de 70.000 ejemplares www.bne.es/es/noticias/...
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La BNE publica una guía temática que explora la colección de exlibris, con más de 70.000 ejemplares
Esta guía pretende abrir una ventana que permita asomarse a la colección y al universo singular de estas obras de arte.
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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looking forward to this roundtable "From Sources to Data", tonight at "La nuit des données" organized by @normalesup.bsky.social nuit.ens.psl.eu/programme/6a...
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La nuit de l'ENS 2026 - Programme - Vue détaillée
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
und noch einer (Engelhartszell und Neukirchen erwähnt): bsky.app/profile/vor4...
alte Karte mit Passau, Engelhartszell, Neukirchn
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Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call for papers! “Reading Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Religion and Politics: Marginalia and Manuscripts” @rorymaclellan.bsky.social and I are putting together a panel for next year’s SRS conference in London. Deadline for 200 word abstracts is tomorrow Please get in touch and repost!
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Aus dem Ländlein(!) Ob der Ens, 22. Sept 1626 Die Bauern haben sich nach Hause begeben - außer im obern Viertel, wo 30.000 um Ried bis an die Donau liegen. Darauf den 9.9. Obrist Lindlo mit 6.000 in der Bauern Quartier eingefallen, die aber ihren Vorteil gesehen ... 1/5
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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: heroism under siege in Linz.
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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Working on a book, article, or dissertation on #18thc British world? The Lewis Walpole Library offers 4-week visiting fellowships and 2-week travel grants for scholars. The deadline for applications is November 2. 🗃️ More info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
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Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants | Lewis Walpole Library
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ECHOES @echoes-she.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The cfp for next year's Society for the History of Emotions conference in Vienna closes in 2 weeks. See you there? societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...
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SHE Conference 2027 – Society for the History of Emotions
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Jason M. Kelly Ph.D. FSA FRHistS (he/him) @jasonmkelly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here's an introduction that @ianmilligan1.bsky.social and I put together to teach students how to use Git with Github. We hope you find it useful. jasonmkelly.com/jason-m-kell... #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalhistory
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Introduction to Git and Github — Jason M. Kelly
This guide introduces how to use Git on your computer and how to sync repositories with GitHub. It covers installation, basic configuration, common commands, creating and cloning repositories, committ...
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Anno 1626 den 19 September bin ich als Furstl. Holsteinischer Leutnant von denen rebellischen Bawren im Land ob der Ens in Neinkirchen tödlichen und mit zerbrochenen Arm und verwundtem Kopf bei Wesen Ufer in Kleidem durch die Donaw geschwimmet."
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
19.9.1626 Bei Zaschlaw Bauern auch rebellisch geworden, haben den Geistlichen erschlagen, eine Stadt geplündert und sich verschanzt. Man schickt auch dahin Kriegsvolk. aus: brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I made some more choropleth maps of #earlyModern datasets: 16th c Court of Requests, Star Chamber; long 17th c Apprentice petitions, Wills; 18th c Pauper and Vagrant removals. Fun and even a bit thought provoking. inhermindseye.github.io/mindseye/posts…
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More Early Modern Choropleths – In Her Mind’s Eye
County maps for six early modern England & Wales datasets
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John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Back at the bad old place I used to note the passing of the great postwar generation of modern German historians. Jarausch was another major figure. RIP. (Wikipedia tells me his long time colleague Gerhard Weinberg still lives.)
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Lisa Rosner @burkeandhare.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The first trace of a future Burke and Hare victim in the Edinburgh archives: Sex, Edinburgh Style, or, Life in -- and out of --the Asylum burkeandhare.substack.com/p/sex-edinbu...
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Sex, Edinburgh Style, or, Life in -- and out of --the Asylum
Caledonian Mercury, 15 January 1825; Jowita Thor, "Mary Magdalene and the "Fallen" Sisters" in Kloes and Mair, Social Christianity and Beyond, 1800-2000 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), pp. 115-132
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a fantastic, engaging article. I'm so glad I made the time this morning to read it. Jane Humphries "Microhistory and Women's Time Use," advanced open access in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
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Microhistory and Women’s Time Use*
Abstract. Gender historians have pioneered attention to ‘doing words’ to identify otherwise invisible women’s work. Searches in court records for verbs wit
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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
October 15-16 in Paris to discuss #oeconomianaturalis #oeconomy - with an amazing group of scholars, and very happy to share my thoughts on Descartes's proto-ecology, Cartesian scholars, and some 17th-century naturalists discussing plants #Descartes #ecology #histsci #environmentalhistory #envhist
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fr ♀ 8.⁄18. Sept. 1626 #Anhalt400 Jn die kirche. Wir haben heütte erfahren, dass es an der pest allhier stirbet. Gott bewahre vns vor vnglück vndt alle die seynigen. Undt sonderlich vor solchem Unheyl, wie es vor 2 iahren leider Vetter Fürst Ludwig wiederfahren, ...
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
hinter die Meldung vom 17. Sept 1626 hat die Zeitung Ordinari-Dienstags-Journal noch eine ganze handschriftliche Seite gepackt - "Zusammenfassung ... 38 ..." ich kann leider kaum etwas davon entziffern. brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...
eine volle Seite alter handschriftlicher Text von 1626
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Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If only I had 35,000 euro's ... an interesting and beautiful hand-couloured album amicorum for sale #bookhistory www.forumrarebooks.com/item/_album_...
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Beautifully illustrated hand-coloured and highlighted in gold album amicorum in an elaborately gold- and blind-tooled binding dated 1590
Late 16th and early 17thcentury album amicorumBRNorthwestern Europe specifically the vicinity of Brussels 15851615 4to With 45 handcoloured and highlighted in gold engraved plates of horses and their ...
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John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FYI Lisa
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16/09/2026
We are sorry to hear of the deaths of two historians with links to the Society: William C. Lubenow, who wrote about the RHS in 'Only Connect: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain'; and Frances Stonor Saunders whose 'Who Paid the Piper?' won the Society's 1999 book prize bit.ly/4Ahb5SA
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Frances Stonor Saunders obituary
Author and documentary-maker best known for her 1999 book about CIA-funded cultural espionage Who Paid the Piper?
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Dr Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste @achatenetc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
VENDREDI PROCHAIN ! A Rennes 2 ou en visio 16h-18h #18thc The Politics of the ‘Sociable Self: Theories and Practices (1650-1850) gis-sociabilites.org/gis-interdis...
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GIS Interdisciplinary Seminar: 'The Gendered Self' | gissociabilite
GIS Sociabilités seminar 'The Politics of the ‘Sociable Self: Theories and Practices (1650-1850)' - Tenth thematic session on 'The Gendered Self', 18 September 2026 at Université Rennes 2, with Catrio...
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The disruption of centuries-old ideas and institutions, abetted by new media and exploited by opportunistic ruling groups. I always tell students that they should study the sixteenth century if they want to understand their own. #reformazing
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#CfP 📢 Conference: “Sacred Conversations: The Exchange of Objects between Monastic and Secular Courts in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe”, Institute of Art History (@czechacademy.bsky.social) 📆 7–8 May 2027 | 🌍 Ottobeuren (Ger) ⏰ 21 Sept 2026 🔗 www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/sacr... #EarlyModern
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“Sacred Conversations” The Exchange of Objects between Monastic and Secular Courts in Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe | Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i.
Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i.
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ANTHONY GRAFTON IN THE HOUSE!!! #earlymodern #skystorians In person in the Warburg but with nice online access!
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 14/09/2026
In the library this morning working on an article about interpersonal violence and I've found that rare thing (at least for my period) - threatening letters from the perpetrator.
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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
La correspondance Carlo Ginzburg / Perry Anderson à découvrir dans la dernière livraison de la NLR newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...
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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: More about the Battle of Lutter, with editorial commentary on how the war is going.
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RJ1611 @rfj1611.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is from the parish register for Kineton, Warwickshire, on the 1642 burials page. Horse doodles might seem odd, until you realise that Kineton was AKA Edgehill, the first major conflict of the English Civil Wars. There would have been a LOT of horses.🐴 #earlymodern #EnglishCivilWars
A doodle from the 1642 burials page of the Kineton, Warwickshire, parish register. It shows crude, child-like stick sketches of 4 horses, one with a rider.
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John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
FYI Lisa
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Christine Johnson @christinkallama.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The "Familienbuch" of Hieronymus Koeler and the letters of Philipp von Hutten are fascinating texts and, as I argue, very revealing of how conquest colonialism mattered for European masculinity (and how it didn't). #EarlyModern #Skystorians (if you would like a copy, let me know!)
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Die Nachrichtenströme bringen gute Nachricht aus der Nachrichtenbuchschreibstube: es ist in Bälde soweit.
Das Cover meines demnächst erscheinenden Buches: Nachrichten in der Frühen Neuzeit. Verlag: UTB.
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John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sorry to hear about Yayoi Kusama. Glad we got to experience her infinity rooms last year.
Four twisting octopus-like tubes with yellow polka dots on a black ground. Mirrors in the upper left corner reflect the tubes.
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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Book Review: Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600 by A. Tunç Şen (2025) and Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe by Robert G. Morrison (2025). #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/t...
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The astral sciences in the Ottoman Empire
Popular perception of history are almost always constructed out of half remembered facts, myths and legends and very often have no real relation to what actually took place. In the western world th…
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John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Speaking of Michael Kaiser and the #30yearswar, this recent post is tailor-made for me specifically: dkblog.hypotheses.org/6760#more-6760 It's fascinating how Tilly tried to preserve and expand his local prerogatives, even against Maximilian, who bestowed them.
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7. August 1626: Der Blutbann für Breitenegg?
Auch wenn Tilly im Niedersächsischen Reichskreis die Truppen der Liga kommandierte, kümmerte er sich weiterhin um seinen eigenen Besitz. Vor mehr als zwei Jahren hatte Maximilian von Bayern seinem Fel...
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John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Michael Kaiser on Luttertag: dkblog.hypotheses.org/6832 #30yearswar
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27. August 1626: Flugschriften zur Schlacht bei Lutter am Barenberge
Im Sommer 1626 rückte die Armee der Liga weiter vor. Nachdem Tilly am 11. August Göttingen eingenommen hatte, wandte er sich gegen Nordheim, als ihn die Nachricht erreichte, daß die Armee Christians I...
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The prince-bishopric of Liège is one of the more understudied regions of the sixteenth-century Low Countries, so this colloquium is welcome news.
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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Eißfeld, 25. Aug 1626 Dänemarker lagert im Amt Gibelhausen, nicht weit von Duderstatt / zu dem haben sich verderbte Braunschweiger Bauern begeben / Tillysche liegen um Heiligenstadt, die auf dem Eisfeld Mann für Mann aufgeboten (weil ihnen der König zu stark ist) ... 1/2
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A notice to scientists doing paleosciences: please #TalkToALibrarian about the bibliographic traditions in History. Science databases are virtually worthless for finding scholarship in history. You cannot cite a book review you found in a science journal in lieu of actually reading the history BOOK.
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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.
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