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Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is nothing like going to a museum exhibition that feels catered to you! That was my experience going to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library to go see the special exhibition, "Aere Perennius: The Classical Traditions of Homer, Cicero, Plutarch, and Apuleius," curated by Dr. Timothy Perry.

Exterior window display featuring large black-and-white illustrated portraits of classical figures and an exhibition poster reading “Aere Perennius: The Classical Traditions of Homer, Cicero, Plutarch, and Apuleius,” with dates and library information.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today in 1983 in Moscow, just past midnight, 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm decision that a satellite warning of the launch of 5 US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm—based on “a funny feeling in my gut”—may have averted a catastrophic nuclear war. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl...

An official color photograph of Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov posing in his uniform around the time of this incident.

A screenshot of the linked February 10, 1999, Washington Post article on page A19 headlined, “‘I Had A Funny Feeling In My Gut; Soviet Officer Faced Nuclear Armageddon.” The article also includes a large graphic title "A Crumbling Warning System," showing problems with Russia's early-warning satellites and ground-based radars. The continuation of a front page article headlined, "Dearth of Satellites Fogs Russian System," appears next to the article about Petrov.

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Society for the Medieval Mediterranean (SMM) @socmedimedit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Vassals & Lords' in Madrid, 26–28 October is partly funded by the SMM through the Simon Barton Prize awarded this year to Gonzalo Carrasco García and Marina Girona Berenguer (UNED). Check out the exciting programme and more info on their website extension.uned.es/actividad/50... #medievalsky

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First day, 2nd session of the @theconnectedpast.bsky.social 2026 conference yesterday on the theme Relational ecologies, landscapes, and archives. The 1st paper by Francisco Rivera looks at 3800+ documents related to mining in 20c Chile to reconstruct networks Indigenous migration and labour. #dh

Francisco Rivera presenting at the Connected Past Conference.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First day, first session of the @theconnectedpast.bsky.social 2026 conference yesterday on Texts, communication, and mobility in the ancient world. The first paper by Virginia Martos Armenteros looks at several thousand oracular tablets from Dodona to map mobility and movement in ancient Greece. #dh

Virginia Martos Armenteros presenting at the Connected Past 2026 Conference.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 22/09/2026

Three amazing things about this 16th century letter: 1. It is written in code. 2. It complains about pirates. 3. It is written by King Henry VIII!

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Irene Soto Marín @irenin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My book has a face! 🥹📚 So excited to finally share the cover of The Nile Flows with Gold. Forthcoming, Spring 2027 with Princeton University Press.

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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Proofs just arrived! Book chapter "Transottoman Imperial Courts in the Early Modern Period: Comparing Istanbul and Moscow/Saint Petersburg" written together with Alexander Bauer @sascha06.bsky.social (Mainz). - Stay tuned😊 #OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #EarlyModern

The image shows the first page of the Book chapter "Transottoman Imperial Courts in the Early Modern Period: Comparing Istanbul and Moscow/Saint Petersburg" written by Gül Şen and Alexander Bauer

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An overview of the impressive Princeton Geniza Project. #medievalsky

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Looking forward to discussion my paper (a chapter of my book manuscript) at the @oieahc.bsky.social colloquia February 11! Now I just have to finish writing the paper...

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Colloquia - OIEAHC

Apply by May 15 to present at next year's OI colloquium series.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This looks like a promising methodological and historiographical study on the Global Middle Ages #medievalsky

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It has recently come to my attention that not everyone knows about this? It is SUCH a balm, #SkyStorians, whether you're of the #earlymodern persuasion or not.

picture of the cover of Natalie Zemon Davis, A Passion for History: conversations with Denis Crouzet

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dear #medievalsky. I've been coming across tropes of well-poisoning (sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit) in early medieval hagiographies, but the secondary literature on this topic focuses on the twelfth century and beyond. Is anyone aware of articles on well-poisoning for the early Middle Ages?

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Harald Klinke @hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

A useful new resource for libraries and Digital Humanities: FineBooks releases a reproducible leaderboard for 14 open OCR models, a CC-BY ground-truth dataset and an evaluation harness. Results show which models are suitable for readable text-and why scholarly transcription still needs care […]

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Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We have been putting an In Memoriam in the Globe & Mail newspaper every year since 1966. Sixty years! #Medievalsky #RichardIII #skystorians

In Memoriam notice in the newspaper. It says “Richard Plantagenet. In memory of Richard III, king of England, who died 22 August 1485, defending his crown against the usurper, Henry Tudor.
Loyaulte me Lie.
Richard III Society of Canada
www.richardiii.ca
Info@richardiii.ca
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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’ve long taught this amazing novel as my doctoral research methods textbooks. It catches the love, the obsession, the disappointment, and the humility requisite to historical research. None of these human qualities are possessed or replicated by AI.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Imagine being such 'a badde neighboure' that 14 of your fellow villagers submit a petition calling you a ‘veary troublesome & contumelious persone’, known for ‘Raylinge, scowldinge and fightinge’. Raise a glass to Alice Due of Ash in 1604. #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️ Kent Archives QM/SB/520

Photo of a seventeenth-century manuscript petition with 14 signatures at the bottom.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This looks to be another promising series from Brill! #earlymodern

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When you read a book only a fraction of what you get from the experience is the information in the book. The vast majority of what comes from reading is a new experience of yourself that comes to exist in relation to the book’s unique patterns.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"...massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate."

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The "shears" watermark on paper used by Genoese notary Tommaso Duracino... from papermaking firms in Fabriano, according to Sylvia Rodgers Albro in her insightful "Fabriano: City of Medieval and Renaissance Papermaking" (2016). #medievalsky #earlymodern

A closeup of a watermark from a fifteenth-century notarial contract.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Let's take a moment to contemplate one of the great unsung inventions of the twentieth century... #bialetti

A well used stovetop Bialetti espresso maker with some delicious coffee coming through the spout.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

55 years ago today, President Richard Nixon ended the fixed exchange rate between the dollar and gold, thereby enacting the “postmodern turn“ in finance whereby the “signifier” (fiat currency) literally floated free from the “signified” of gold.

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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As you prep syllabi, consider Postal Intelligence! It's available Open Access and I also love to visit classes. Perfect for #earlymodern, history of information/communication, #renaissance, #reformazing etc. 🗃️https://cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779923/postal-intelligence/

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Postal Intelligence by Rachel Midura | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Postal Intelligence connects and situates histories of the post and government intelligence alongside print technology and state power in the wider context of the early modern communications revolutio...

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The next post in my series of overlooked medieval historians. This is the medieval economic historian Gino Luzzatto. He published extensively on Mediterranean commerce with an emphasis on Venice during the Late Middle Ages and . #medievalsky

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's International Cat Day and my daughters wed telling me the story of F. D. C. Willard, the famous cat who "co-authored" some important physics papers in the 1970s. I'd never heard of this cat until today (but somehow my kid knew!). Here is his story. slate.com/human-intere...

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It as been a very tense and anxious day as my daughter's scheduled 2hr surgery required nearly 4hrs. We are pleased to report that it was successful. Thanks to all the staff at Mt Sinai hospital where she will be recuperating for the next 5 days. I can't imagine undergoing this when I was 17.

Several hours after surgery... the recovery begins.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Statutes of Sassari, a new source for the legal history of the medieval Mediterranean. I'm intrigued by the parallel Sardinian and Latin versions! #medievalsky #legalhist

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The house of Stefan Zweig, Kapuzinerberg 5, Salzburg, circa 1933, a few months before he fled and left everything behind, in the face of increasing nationalism and Nazi persecution... [source: www.flickr.com/photos/cam37...

The house of Stefan Zweig, from the view of the front courtyard.

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Arches Project @archesproject.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Highlights from the @maeasamproject.bsky.social team’s workshop "Constructing Heritage Databases" at ASAPA 2026 in Mpumalanga, South Africa last month, which included an overview of the Arches platform.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Congratulations Gregory! I'm looking forward to its publication.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Congratulations Ramona! I'm looking forward to reading this upon publication. #earlymodern

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My latest paper "Commercial Networks, Colonialism, and Acculturation: The Genoese Lomellini Family in Lisbon, Madeira and the Canary Islands, 1420s–1550s" was published earlier this year in "Atlantic Italies: Economic Entanglements between the Americas, Africa, and the Mediterranean" #earlymodern

The first page of the article titled "Commercial Networks, Colonialism, and Acculturation: The Genoese Lomellini Family in Lisbon, Madeira and the Canary Islands, 1420s–1550s"

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Third and final day at the Third World Congress of Business History at the University of Toronto (conclusion). My second session was titled "Legally Speaking: Implications of Regulations and Contracts." chaired by Grietjie Verhoef (University of Johannesburg)

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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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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today on my last new @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses before I take my usual August break till Labour Day, we go pop via jazz interpretations of rock standards: featured artists include Deborah Silver, Blair Crimmins, Karen Souza, Sarah Menescal, Olivia Keast, and Al Di Meola.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Wealth and income are two different stories now. Don’t worry about data saying how much tax the top 1% of income earners are paying now compared to a few decades ago. Relative tax paid by net wealth would be interesting but is of course hard to come by.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Third and final day at the Third World Congress of Business History at @utoronto.ca (Part I). My first session was titled "Knowledge: Knowledge Flows, Production, and Commerce".

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My second day at the Third World Congress of Business History at the University of Toronto (Part II). Session 4 was a workshop on "Rethinking Business History and Archives for Small Business".

Program entry for the workshop on "Rethinking Business History and Archives for Small Business" at the Third World Congress of Business History at the University of Toronto.

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's the start of the long weekend so we're preparing the re-watch the film version of The Odyssey for the fourth time.

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