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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 31/07/2026

"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

Opening page of the Transactions article 'On Detail in Historical Writing' by Joe Moran.

Full abstract: "This Comment considers the role of detail in historical writing, inflected through my own experience of writing ‘trade’ books for a general rather than specialist readership. I argue for the value of the detail that is slightly recalcitrant, that is more than just flesh on the bones of an argument or evidence marshalled to make a point. Detail is itself a kind of argument and thus, since beauty and elegance in writing derive from economy, a way of making a point without belabouring it. The gratuitous fact can be seductive, suggesting that the world has a randomness and overabundance that can't easily be rounded up into a dataset. Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience. They correct our tendency to fixate on one story, to focus on the eventful at the expense of the marginal, and to invent a false unity of experience that erases social differences. With their obdurate specificity, they can shatter our presumptions about the past. I explore these ideas with reference to modern literature (Flaubert, Chekhov), the Mass-Observation archive and examples from my own work in contemporary cultural history and family history."

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026

“We are close to creating a genie” The level of hucksterism is nearly unfathomable. Real S tier shit.

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Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

1. World History to 1500 2. World History since 1500 3. US History I 4. World War II 5. History of Africa 6. History of Science 7. Historical Geography 8. World Regional Geography Not all in one semester (lol) but courses I have taught at Cumberland University since 2022.

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Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Ten scholars revisit Jon Butler’s 2004 Journal of American History article, “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History,” evaluating how it inspired historians to embed religion in “mainstream” modern U.S. history, and its legacy amidst historiographical trends.

Front of the Brandenburg Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 215 Broadway in Brandenburg, Kentucky, United States. Wikimedia Commons

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 25/02/2026

Looking for fresh ideas for your history classroom? The AHA’s Teaching & Learning Video Resources feature filmed workshops for K–12 educators on westward expansion, the Civil Rights movement, WWI, teaching with primary sources, using technology in the classroom, & more. Explore the playlist. 🗃️

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Video Resources for K-12 History Teachers – AHA

AHA video resources for K–12 history teachers include filmed workshops on teaching subjects such as westward expansion, the Civil Rights movement, and World War I.

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Richard Carter, FCD @friendsofdarwin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

24-Feb: On this day in 1871, the first edition of Charles Darwin’s ‘The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex’ was published. Here’s my retrospective review… #HistSci

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Book review: ‘The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex’ by Charles Darwin

Darwin finally sets out to enlighten us on our origins.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 28/12/2025

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

a blobby grey tuxedo cat, ear pricked up, eyes goofily wide, in a watercolor album leaf by Ren Bonian 任伯年 (1840–1896). Met Museum collection.

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray! www.bl.uk/stories/news...

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Restoring our services – November 2025 update

In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Far right activists descending on my area to demonise people seeking asylum is a far greater threat to locals than single men being housed in a barracks because the same far right activists don’t want them in hotels. Your Questions: Asylum plans in Crowborough www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Plans to house asylum seekers in Crowborough army camp explained

The latest Home Office figures state that 540 men will be housed at the army camp in Crowborough.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

A fantastic and potentially very teachable book, asking what do people who resist eat, Mastrogiovanni writes moving chronicles departing from recipes by people fighting violence and extractivism, alongside with personal recipes tied to his personal memories. recommended for the food studies peeps.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A relatively small number of people in certain jobs say that ChatGPT and other LLMs have made them more productive at work. But in the overall economy, it does not look like net productivity is up. Most of the supposed value is in sci-fi speculation. “Imagine a machine that cures cancer.”

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

On one hand, there are the white supremacists who feel threatened by highlighting Black achievement - that their self-worth depends on believing Black people are lesser. Then, apparently, there are the white supremacists whose self-worth is threatened by Black gravediggers.

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Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I can that this week is the first of the semester where I don’t feel absolutely harried by work. I was able to do some gardening, spend time with my partner, and read. Things will pick up again this week, but I’m at least grateful for the respite 🙂 #academia 🗃️

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Routledge are having a Black Friday sale so use the code ‘BF2025S’ to get 25% off my books! www.routledge.com/Histories-of... www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Yesterday I presented my paper at the MWCBS conference at @elmhurstbluejays.bsky.social It went really well! 🙂 I was especially appreciative of the comments and recommended readings to further develop my work on the use of pedagogical violence in British-led exploratory missions to Africa

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📢Book Event📢 📗Invoking Empire with Darren Reid 📅Sep 18 Join us to hear more about Darren Reid’s latest book, Invoking Empire: Imperial citizenship and Indigenous rights across the British World, 1860-1900. @alanlester.bsky.social will moderate the event RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

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Invoking Empire with Darren Reid | NACBS

Join NACBS to hear more about Darren Reid’s latest publication, Invoking Empire: Imperial citizenship and Indigenous rights across the British World, 1860-1900. Alan Lester will moderate the event. In...

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

In the current climate, we have gone back to basic science is good and science is objective kind of public discourses. How do we continue to write critical histories of science and medicine in this situation? How do we keep developing the sophistication of our critique over the last 50 years?

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A new reason for not being a member of the AHA, which I long have felt does not represent historians at small, public, primarily teaching colleges in the slightest. This strikes me as lazy committee think from an organization that has failed to anticipate any of our problems as a profession.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

1/3 It’s a strange thing to say that anyone is a prisoner of geography. People are imprisoned by other people. Prisons are not natural, geographical features. We have to ask who created them and why. www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

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Palestinians are prisoners of geography, but statehood is possible

France, Canada and the UK will recognise Palestine. But it is unclear if this will revive the stalled two-state solution

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Post from "The Rundown"

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DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online.
The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery.
While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material.
Source: TechCrunch

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Anyway I came on here to BEG academics to stop using AI in their journal submissions. Yes, that includes for proofing, arranging reference lists etc. I am currently staring at a perfectly decent article, written by a human being, with a useless AI-generated bibliography full of errors.

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"...adopting a critical approach to settler family histories helps challenge the myth of Canadian benevolence, solidifies our understanding of the foundational violence of settler colonialism, and exemplifies the truth–telling that needs to come with settler reconciliation to Indigenous Peoples..."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/07/2025

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This is why I bang on, whenever I can, about the value of having a browseable archive catalogue, and, you know, browsing through it: rather than thinking you can just zap into a specific target.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine. Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it. All royalties donated to Gaza. Onwards comrades. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...

A copy of the The SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory on a desk. Photo credit and permission from Dr Diana Val.

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Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Prepping for my trip to London & Brussels in a couple of days! 🇬🇧 🇧🇪 To be back in the archives! And to escape this Tennessean heat! 😆

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Today @nichecanada.bsky.social I introduce *A Cold Colonialism* — its origin story, its main characters and arguments, and its potential to shift how we think about exploration, the North, and colonialism’s relationships with both. Enjoy! #cdnhist #envhist #Arctic niche-canada.org/2025/06/03/n...

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New Book – A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

Framing exploration as an epistemic enterprise, or one concerned with the production of knowledge about environments, reveals it to be a more diverse and capacious activity than often believed.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I wrote a book -- during lockdown and maternity leave -- about imperial culture in contemporary Britain, exploring how the empire shaped British society, politics and ordinary people's lives -- from the stuttering run up to the Second World War, to the televised end of the second Elizabethan age.

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Imperial Island

Imperial Island shows how empire, its disintegration and its ever-present aftermath have profoundly shaped the British people, their culture, society and politics, throughout the last seventy years. ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2025

this obsession with a handful of high status universities is also low key an indication of elite disdain for the institutions that educate most americans who attend colleges and universities

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 01/06/2025

Jesus fucking Christ. Having been in the Humanities for the last 20 years what the fuck? The ONLY ONLY ONLY path forward is solidarity I sure as shit didn’t feel it from a lot of colleagues during the last generational assault on my disciplines but I fucking am going to demonstrate it

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Join us for a free public lecture by @metmuseum.org conservator Mindell Dubansky, on “A Parallel History of Books and Blooks” at 5:30 p.m. ET on 2 June in UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330 or via Zoom livestream. Details at rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures/. @uvalibrary.bsky.social

A vertically oriented rectangular graphic shows a photo of a shelf of “books.” One “book” is pulled out to show that it is actually a recipe card storage drawer. Below this, on a white background, is information about Rare Book School’s 2025 Summer Lecture Series and details about Mindell Dubansky’s lecture, “A Parallel History of Books and Blooks,” on 2 June 2025 at 5:30 p.m. ET in UVA’s Edgar Shannon Library, Room 330, or via Zoom livestream at tinyurl.com/RBS-Dubansky. The graphic is edged with dark red bars at the top and bottom.

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ACLU of Texas @aclutx.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

BREAKING: Texas lawmakers passed S.B. 37, which dramatically increases state control of public universities. Allowing politically appointed bureaucrats to police curricula and override faculty expertise is a direct threat to academic freedom in Texas.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians & all academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs), tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky (pls boost to any relevant feeds

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Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Very nice graduation ceremony today! Literally had a front row seat 😁

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Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In honor of May Day 🚩, we've scoured our archives to bring to you some of the best pieces that explore the history of labor struggles in the US. We've also linked to timeless advice pieces about how to find balance and joy in our work as academics. Give us a follow if you like what you see. 🗃️

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Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Finished the multiple choice portion of three exams. Now to read 100+ essays 😪😓

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 25/03/2025

So this is technically not a polonaise! It has the fitted back and pointed waist seam of an Italian nightgown; a polonaise was made with no waist seam, especially in back. 🗃️🪡

A gown and petticoat made of a gold fabric printed with flowers, the skirt of the gown pulled up into swags.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is horrifying! Family members of some of the people sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison by Trump confirm their loved ones weren't members of a gang. One woman said her brother got a tattoo of a rose in Dallas, and because of that they accused him of being a gang member.

Anyelo had told his sister on Friday night that he would be deported to Venezuela, she said in a phone interview with Reuters from Texas.
Solanyer said her brother had been detained on January 31 after an appointment at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. He had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally with Solanyer and another sister in November 2023 and had been released to pursue a claim for asylum.
Solanyer said an ICE officer told her that her brother was detained because of a tattoo that linked him to Tren de Aragua, a violent gang with Venezuelan prison origins that has spread through the Americas. She said the tattoo depicted a rose and that he had gotten it in a tattoo parlor in Dallas.

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Digital historians! I know some of you are doing amazing work with GIS, and I was wondering: could you share your favorite guides, courses, and tools for this work? And for data generation, management, and use in general? #skystorians #academicsky

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Our inaugural issue Volume 1, Number 1 is FREE! online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Friends & colleagues! I'm giving my first book talk about *A Cold Colonialism* on Thursday, February 27th, 1 pm PT / 4 pm ET, in my department's public speaker series. The talk is hybrid, so if you would like the Zoom link, please DM or email me. [ The book: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon... ]

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A Cold Colonialism

A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

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