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Craig Fehrman @craigfehrman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Drafting the Past, a terrific podcast that talks to historians as writers, is expanding into a website that reviews nonfiction. You can follow them at @draftingthepast.bsky.social or check out the site: www.draftingthepast.com

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Drafting the Past

Reviews, craft essays, news and more for readers and writers of history.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Brilliant cover, looking forward already to reading it!

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Basis gelegd, boekje uit. Nu eens lezen hoe rijk een deel van het familiebedrijf is geworden... 🙄😐

Omslag van De Nassaus van Van der Steen.

De vier Nederlandstalige delen over de koloniale geschiedenis van Oranje-Nassau bovenop het boek De Nassaus.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The shadow is (always?) spookier than the original... 🫠🙄

Cloth bird hanging on a thread from the body on a lamp, with the shadow of the same bird projected on the wall in a way that suggest another way of hanging...

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Check out the program for a series of webinars on Archaeology x STEM! I can fully understand when your agenda on Thursday afternoon Jan 21 2027 is already filled... but you would miss a potentially cool talk about Assyrian irrigation. I wonder who would present, next to Dr. Daniele Morandi... 🫠🙄

Cover page for a webinar series on archaeology and STEM.

Overview and reasoning page for a webinar series on archaeology and STEM.

Program page with QR Code for a webinar series on archaeology and STEM.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A visitor on the frontdoor stairs.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The venue today for the Holland-Utrecht day. Somehow I am reminded of cutting potatoes into fries... 🫠

Stairs in meeting room at Museum Catharijneconvent, with a raster like a potato cutter.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few extra bottles for all the trouble? 🙄😈

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our single tree in the German Eifel tries to show the same spirit! 😃

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, TU Delft was as foggy as my brain. At least, TU Delft is more visible now...😉

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some reading coming up. With the English book in the series still expected later.

Five books on how the Dutch royal family made its money, in the colonies and as a family business.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And one is never certain how they may arrive.

Cat doing calculations. Image labelled "Schroedinger's cat".

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brilliant day, let's do some reading outside.

View on a garden landscape, with a cat named Mollie and a book cover of "The Soapman" in the image.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are back in real time at TU Delft!

Clock on a building, with the correct time!

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@tudelftceg.bsky.social has an interesting floor plan. Can you spot the mistakes?

List of room numbers on the CEG floor plan. It has room 1.96 twice on the list. Room 1.98 is supposed to be on groundlevel, which goes against the logic. Trust me, it is not there...

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delft Uni of Tech has found its time again. Even when the clock setting may still be somewhat off.

Person working on connecting clock dials to a clock on a building.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I could do the math, but I have too many emails to go through... 🙄😉🤔

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well, for me @profaliceroberts.bsky.social wrote the more convincing of these two books. Obviously, very different books, both on christianity in the world in specific ways. Still, I know which one I prefer, in terms of line of and consistency in reasoning.

Covers of Domination by Roberts and De Ongelooflijke Geschiedenis by Boogerd et al.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, I work on water infra, so happy to follow up on advice of a fellow PhilOfTech conference participant to check this game! 😃😃🫠🫠

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Presenting my own water stuff in a session surrounded by AI-related papers with a shared Q&A: most questions focus on dry items. 🫠🙄 But it was good fun. I could stress one observation that helps me in my own work: through infra one meets the designer(s) and their ideas. This also holds for AI. 😉

Program of day 2 of the PHTR2026 conference, Philosophy of Technology.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Looking forward to three days of philosophy of technology. Guess where (close to).

Stroom, Karel Appel “Frog with umbrella” in The Hague.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"God heeft ... broederschap." Vast wel. Ligt het aan mij of is dit gewoon een eigenaardige zin in een historisch werk? Als we deze entiteit dan toch als historische actor opvoeren, hoort de naam wellicht in het personen- of zakenregister opgenomen te worden? 🙄

Passage uit De Ongelooflijke Geschiedenis van Boogerd et al, p82.

Deel van de G van het personenregister van Boogerd et al De Ongelooflijke Geschiedenis.

De G van het zakenregister van Boogerd et al De Ongelooflijke Geschiedenis.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Interesting that what Roberts discusses as less useful (seeing christianity as essentially new and different, and almost as not involved in the material - my terminology) is what I think I see happening in the Boogerd et al book. I mean, take caring for others, which has a slightly longer history.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some comparative reading coming up.

Covers of "Domination" by Roberts and "De Ongelooflijke Geschiedenis" by Boogerd et al, next to each other.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We try to engage historical thinking when designing water systems with our students. It turns out to be very useful to consider design choices knowing systems over time will not work as designed! I am not sure it is critical (what does that even mean?), but it does make engineering students think.

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Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Submitting two proposal texts (before the deadline!), and finalizing a few non-prop things early (and one very late...) this week. Wow. I feel productive! Probably for five minutes...

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Sylvester The Cat Shivering with Towels

Alt: Sylvester The Cat Shivering with Towels

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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The next World Congress is now announced! We hope to see you all in Toronto, Canada, in 2030. The venue will be at York University, Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University and McMaster University will also be a part of the planning, which is headed by Jennifer Bonnell. Read more below! #envhist