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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today I’m presenting my poster, “The Convicts’ Letters,” at the Digital History Conference in Salzburg: a planned digital edition and storytelling platform on forced migration aboard HMS Calcutta (1803), based on newly discovered letters. Thanks to @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de for the support.

Me standing in front of the poster. Poster with many texts and pictures – in blue/white, waves in the back.

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Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 @eugenpfister.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Und als Reiselektüre hab ich neben Colson Whitehead noch dieses schöne Interview mit @lhaasis.bsky.social in der @gamestar.de.web.brid.gy

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great HistoRAG workshop in Mainz – perfect timing to improve my own letter-analysis RAG project. Thanks to Noah Kim-Baumann, Aurel Daugs, Johanna Mauermann & Thorsten Wübbena for the inspiring, hands-on exchange on source sovereignty and historical method with LLMs. #history #AI #RAG

Group picture in the room, screen behind us, table in front of us, with computers on the table and water bottles (yeah, we should have removed them before the picture!), from left to right: Noah Kim-Baumann, Aurel Daugs, Johanna Mauermann, me and Prof. Thorsten Wübbena

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Briefe aus Gefangenschaft verbinden Menschen mit der Außenwelt und zeugen gleichzeitig von Gewalt, Überwachung, manchmal auch von Hoffnung. Interdisziplinärer Workshop am 25.09. im Haus der Wissenschaft Bremen zu Schriftzeugnissen vom 19. Jh. bis heute. Unterstützt von der @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

Briefe aus Gefangenschaft – Veranstaltungshinweis, weiße Schrift auf blauem Hintergrund mit Titel der Veranstaltung, Ort und Datum.

Briefe aus Gefangenschaft – Kurztext zu Veranstaltung, weiße Schrift auf blauem Hintergrund.

Briefe aus Gefangenschaft – Teilnehmende, weiße Schrift auf blauem Hintergrund.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@jakedyble.bsky.social's new card game, Fortuna, is launching on Kickstarter soon! I've played this game *many* times over the years – I can vouch that medieval/early modern, maritime and commercial historians (and others!) will have *lots* of fun with it. Sign up to be notified when it launches! 🗃️

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Coming soon: Fortuna

A light strategic card game set in the glittering world of maritime commerce. Trade. Bluff. Run Risks. Retire in Style! Launching 2027.

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

An International Workshop on the UK Prize Papers and the American War of Independence: Wartime Lives, Capture, and Transnational Exchange - for more information and the sign up links follow www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ich weiß nicht, ob Menschen, die zu jung für 9/11 sind, sich irgendwie vorstellen können wie tief die Zäsur ist. Wie rasend sich die Welt danach verändert hat. Die Welt davor ist komplett verloren.

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In Lisbon for the 8th International Conference on Public History, joining the roundtable “Integrating Holocaust Game-Making into the Classroom.” How can games support critical remembrance education for young people? Thanks to Clarissa Ceglio and to @daadworldwide.bsky.social

Conference Poster, with all important info (also mentioned in the text), black and white. The image shows a historic prison.

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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uopmaritime @uopmaritime.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Book your ticket for an exciting & interdisciplinary conference exploring marginalised maritime histories from 1500-present @ National Maritime Museum, 11-12 November 2026. Organised by the Royal Museums Greenwich & University of Portsmouth's @uopmaritime.bsky.social 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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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“I am conscious I have deserv’d all I suffer.” What did remorse, hope and survival mean aboard HMS Calcutta in 1803? Join me at the Migration & Mobility Seminar & @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, Senate House London/online, 6 Oct, on convict letters & Britain’s transportation system #earlymodern #history

Blue waves, dark sky, light from above. No one paints waves like him. Painting: Ivan Aivazovsky, “Among the Waves”, 1898, Feodosia National Art Gallery of I. K. Aivazovsky.

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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Sentenced to the Galleys: Manpower as a Challenge for the Ottoman Navy" in: Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 33/2. Online publication date: July 31, 2026. 👉https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/303/article/996937/pdf #maritimehistory #navy #galley #rowers

The first page of the article "Sentenced to the Galleys: Manpower as a Challenge for the Ottoman Navy"

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm just delighted to see that this book is now published! Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy The Art of Play by Kelli Wood 260 Pages 113 Color Illustrations www.routledge.com/Games-and-Sp... This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy.

The front cover of a book, with text in the bottom half and a detail from Caravaggio's "The Cardsharps" in the top half.

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Erinnern mit Games. Fortbildung zum Einsatz von Remembrance Games in Geschichtsunterricht und politischer Bildung. Game Days Osnabrück, 28.08. 12:30-16:00 @lagjugendundfilm.bsky.social #blueLZ #games #erinnerung #geradejetzt @akgwds.bsky.social Anmeldung: www.lag-jugend-und-film.de/projekte/gam...

Ankündigungstext Fortbildung: Erinnern mit Games – bei den Game Days Osnabrück 28.08. – im Hintergrund: Jugendliche spielt "Erinnern. Die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm" auf dem Tablett – dort zu sehen Zeitungsausschnitt. Farben in dezentem Gelb gehalten.

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Quietly funded high school band programs We lost an incredible person.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

an important and useful life rule: Never trust anything your brain tells you after 10pm.

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Richard Cole @richardcole.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I grew up playing games like Age of Empires. The Festival is our way of giving back, an exploration of what happens when you bring together game designers, heritage professionals, academic researchers and players to imagine better historical games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eof...

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Festival of History and Heritage in Games

YouTube video by University of Bristol

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Bijan Moini @bijanmoini.de · 15/08/2026

Ich halte Siegmund ebenfalls für den gefährlichsten Mann Deutschlands. Er bringt genau das in die rechtsextreme AfD, das ihr Weidel & Höcke nie geben konnten: Ein freundliches Antlitz, Spritzigkeit und Charme, Humor und TikTok-Skills. So könnte er Neonazis wie Tillschneider an die Macht bringen.

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LAG Jugend & Film Niedersachsen @lagjugendundfilm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Am 28.8. findet der „Game Days Fortbildungstag“ in #osnabrück statt: Pädagog*innen erhalten eine Einführung in die Welt der digitalen Spiele & können medienpraktische Ansätze erproben (u.A. mit @lhaasis.bsky.social zum Thema Erinnerungskultur). Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos, um Anmeldung wird gebeten!

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Game Days Osnabrück 2026

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy #internationalCatDay! To celebrate, gonna highlight the episode of Untitled History Podcast I did a while back on the complete history of ship's cats. Includes bonus discussion of ship's elephants...

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Episode 2: The History of Cats on Ships

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚

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Bijan Moini @bijanmoini.de · 01/08/2026

Die Behauptung, der deutsche Sozialstaat ziehe Migrant*innen an, ist nicht nur Humbug, sondern auch eine perverse Geringschätzung der hiesigen Verhältnisse. Menschen möchten nach Deutschland, weil hier Frieden und Freiheit herrschen, weil es Arbeit gibt und gute Schulen. Nicht für Almosen.

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Carolin Emcke @emcke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Auf gehts nach #Hamburg zum #CSD - das ist das, was sich jetzt richtig anfühlt. Zusammenkommen, auf der Straße, protestieren, sich umarmen, spüren, zuhören, reden, trauern und tanzen

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Piraten: Mythos und Wahrheit. Wie viel Geschichte steckt in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag? Danke für die Einladung in den Gamestar Talk an Lea Herfurtner @gamestar.bsky.social – mit David von #his2go und Andrej @geschichtsfenster.bsky.social #piraten @akgwds.bsky.social youtu.be/PJ6GhUmc6Ys?...

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Warum AC Black Flag die Geschichte verdreht | mit @Geschichtsfenster

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Welcome to my new followers! Before I was put at risk of redundancy last month I was working on a chapter on 16th-18th-century finger rings. 💍 My sample is around 10,000 rings mentioned in 30,000 English wills from 1540-1790. 1/

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/07/2026

A driver plowed a car through a park during Berlin’s biggest LGBTQ Pride event, killing at least one person and injuring 29 others, the authorities said. A manhunt was underway on Sunday as the police investigated the crime as a possible act of terrorism. Here’s what to know. trib.al/xhft9OZ

A photo of two people with arms wrapped around each other standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate. One person is wrapped in an LGBTQ Pride flag. Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images

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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Falls ihr euch angesichts des Anschlags auf den CSD ohnmächtig fühlt: Heute ist ein guter Tag, um queere Vereine und Initiativen zu unterstützen, beispielsweise durch Spenden.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Polly, seized in July 1776, looked like an ordinary merchant ship hauling oil, candles and flour. In truth, she carried a secret mission: passenger William Hodge held orders to buy muskets, gunpowder and warships for Congress—papers he threw overboard moments before capture #skystorians #history

Digital Copies of a letter from the owner of the ship Polly, Joshua Maddor Wallace, to the ship's captain, Philip Lacey, with the address on the folded letter in the top right corner. Credits: Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/424/26/SP2. Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.

A map of Europe with many points shown in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical way-stations

A map of Europe with lines in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical travel routes

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Geschichtsdidaktik Dresden @gedidd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Am 06.07 stach unsere Professur zusammen mit der Professur für die Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit sowie @lhaasis.bsky.social in See! Hier der Bericht zu unserem Fachtag zu Piraten und Prisen, der viele neue Erkenntnisse zu einem unglaublich spannenden Thema brachte!🏴‍☠️ tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ige...

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Piraten und Prisen! Ein Veranstaltungsbericht

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This week on the Untitled History Podcast, I sit down with @piratebeckalex.bsky.social to explore the myths and reality of the golden age of piracy, including how pirate attacks actually worked. Watch below or listen via your pod app of choice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtW... #history

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How Piracy Actually Worked | Untitled History Podcast Episode: 22

Ask most people to describe a pirate and their ship, and they’ll likely conjure up an image of an eye-patch-wearing man commanding a huge ship. An image that, in most cases, could not be farther from…

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Wie viel Geschichte steckt in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag? Morgen live auf Twitch: Einordnung des goldenen Zeitalters der Piraterie und seiner Darstellung im Spiel. Ab 13 Uhr @gamestar.bsky.social @akgwds.bsky.social www.youtube.com/post/UgkxpmZ...

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Morgen Live nach unserem Review Talk zu AC: Black Flag Resynced: Wie viel Geschichte steckt wirklich in Ubisofts Piraten-Hit? Morgen (Mittwoch) von 13:00 bis...

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Post from GameStar Talk - YouTube

Morgen Live nach unserem Review Talk zu AC: Black Flag Resynced: Wie viel Geschichte steckt wirklich in Ubisofts Piraten-Hit? Morgen (Mittwoch) von 13:00 bis...

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Cast off & roll the dice – games meet history in Dresden. Today at TU Dresden: “Pirates & Prizes!” I’m presenting two projects: a board game on prize court cases & Prize Papers in "Ahoy" (Capstan Games). Thanks for the invitation @gedidd.bsky.social #earlymodern #maritimehistory #games

Startfolie Veranstaltung "Piraten und Prisen! Historische Spiele als Grenzüberschreibung zwischen Fach, Unterricht und Alltag. Blauer Hintergrund, auf rechten Seite eine bunte Zeichnung eines Schiffes des 18. Jahrhunderts ("Gertruuide"). TNA, ref. HCA 30/872.

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

On 3-4 July 1776, as Philadelphia finalised the Declaration of Independence, four American merchant ships were seized off Cape Henlopen, Delaware by the British, and taken to New York Bay. Papers from the Adrian, Fidelity, and Peggy were likely lost. More soon on the Polly's secret mission

Text: Amanda Bevan and Nele Popp
Picture: Regina Schönecker, Seascape after Wigerus Vitringa, 1782-1785, Rosenwald Collection at the National Gallery of Art, https://www.nga.gov/artworks/34937-seascape.

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Rare find at the National Archives UK: earlier this year, the volunteer Michael Scurr at TNA discovered one of the earliest prints of the US Declaration of Independence in the Royal Navy Captains’ letters collection and can be linked to our collection as it travelled on the American privateer Dalton

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Finding a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence

In May 2026, a volunteer working on a cataloguing project at The National Archives made an astonishing discovery.

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

How do you write a book with 24 scholars about a figure you cannot turn into a hero? Giorgio Riello from @eui-history.bsky.social on a new volume that uses one merchant's account as a guide to the early modern world. #EUIResearch loom.ly/Hbg1uaU

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Prize Papers Project announces a new collaboration with Capstan Games. Together with the German Maritime Museum and the Gamelab Oldenburg, we explore the Age of Sail by linking archival research with historically grounded game development for the game Ahoy #maritimehistory #earlymodern #history

Screenshot Ahoy game: British ships on sea in full sail, logos of Ahoy and Prize Papers Project.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy after 250 years

Document revealed by National Archives ahead of its anniversary on Saturday

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Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.

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‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

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