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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 15h

Happy Spooky Season from the most horrifying ledger book I’ve ever come across 😱

Allie’s hand holding a book bound in disturbingly wrinkled parchment

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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 17h

So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse

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Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social · 9h

It is not all doom and gloom: from today you are allowed to request 4 pezzi in Archivio di Stato di Firenze! I

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Michael Scott's Shocked Reaction

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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 7h

I absolutely detest how we've gone from "do things" to "outsource things" to "do research and intellectual work so that we can humbly request that the outsourced vendor, who keeps raising costs on services that keep degrading, fix their costly jank".

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 8h

For colleagues who do research in Belgium: the new Flemish government austerity budget cuts 47 million Euros in support to cultural institutions like archives, libraries and museums. It sounds truly awful. 🗃️ www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2340...

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'Difficult measures needed': Flemish government presents €2 billion in cuts

The Flemish government has approved nearly €2 billion in spending cuts, rising to €3 billion by 2029, to balance the region’s budget over the next three years.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 18h

This is what it's like doing social media in heritage

A (sadly fake) Wikipedia page for 'Jester's Privilege', cropped to just show the first sentence: 'Jester's Privilege is the ability and right of a jester to talk and mock freely without being punished; for nothing he says seems to matter'.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 19h

Bamis! Tijd om die hamel en drie kippen jaerlycx naar de abdij te brengen als rente.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Abundant Banded Iron Formations is my Seattle indie band name.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fascinating! ‘Greece will hand over to Bulgaria the remains identified as those of Bulgarian ‌medieval ruler Tsar Samuel under an accord signed on Tuesday that also provides for the transfer of other historic and religious artefacts between the two Balkan neighbours.’

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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 30/09/2026

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― #Rumi Today is Rumi Day, marking the birthday of the great 13th-century Persian poet, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī. He is a best-selling poet in the US, and his work is beloved around the world.

An image of Rumi meeting Shams-i Tabrizi, from a 16th-century illuminated manuscript.

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rare Book School: Because life is better with Bibliographical Intelligence.* *𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦.

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🍂hollyzone🍂 @hollyzone.co.uk · 30/09/2026

The only reason the medieval period is being encroached on by early modernists is cos 17th centurists are being displaced by the ongoing attempts of long 18th centurists to make the c18th even longer. Mark my words, we will make the c18th so unbelievably long that the antiquers will soon fear us.

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Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ha the medievalists still think they can take territory from the early modernists, while we have basically conquered most of the fifteenth century. ⚔️

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God: I gave you flight, but I had to take away your hands Bird: was that necessary? *bat lands on table, chews a strawberry* God: it was, yeah *dragonfly lands nearby on all six legs* God: Bird: just be real with me

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dolly says, "Perhaps your timeline needs a dose of beautiful me!"

And mostly white-faced lady beagle posing for the camera with a little smile and a coy expression

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Poggio Bracciolini, famous for rediscovering Lucretius as he trekked across the Alps hunting for manuscripts while unemployed (his papal boss got de-poped) copied so many major manuscripts that his hand basically is what our era uses as standard newspaper script, as easy on the eye as it gets 3/?

Handwriting of Poggio Bracciolini. Beautifully crisp but flowing vertical rounded little letters, with very distinct shapes and easily differentiable tall and descending letters (y, p, b, g etc.) While a few of the Latin abbreviations and the f-shaped long-s may slow down the unfamiliar a bit, it isn't hard to make out the letters, and most modern people can easily read most of the words.

Detail from a 1524 German manuscript. Despite being a century closer to us in time, the letters are much harder to make out, with the Ds curving backwards, the ls short, the shapes of the s and r tricky, the Vs closed so they look almost like As, and many other details farther from modern typefaces which make it hard to read despite being, for the kind of manuscript it is, very clear.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 30/09/2026

Amplifying this bat signal—the Beef & Sheep Lab has skins for us we can use to make inking balls & we need help from folks who know how to work with animal skins

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Think I asked this a while back but it anyone has any reading on auctioning the goods of the dead in 16th- and 17th-century London, and/or the role of bellmen and criers around deaths and auctions, I'd be very grateful for recommendations!

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is anyone is Oxford available to take a photo of a ms for me?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a little gasp at the Sasanian (?) silk lining the back board of the Fulda Gospel-- Universitat Wurzeburg M.p.th.f.66

the end board of a medieval manuscript, lined in bright yellow silk, with a woven pattern of two facing doves

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Early Modern Low Countries is celebrating its 10th anniversary. #earlymodern

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really pleased to see Rosamund Oates's new 'Silent Histories' out. For a taster, Rosamund is giving a talk on the work at at the IHR (hybrid) on Oct. 1, as well as a talk at the Chelsea History Festival on Oct. 2 (links with details below). #earlymodern

Image of book cover for 'Silent Histories: Defness in Early Modern England' by Rosamund Oates, showing two hands as depicted in an early modern sign language manual.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In Dutch, Sint-Michielszomer is a (mostly forgotten) synonym for Indian summer. Today is Michaelmas, and it's nearly 30°C.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My neighbour told me archivists keep accessioning his documents so I asked how many documents he has and he said he just goes to the shelf and gets a new document afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding documents to archivists and then his librarian started crying.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Universities are particularly ill-suited to dealing with sexual assault cases for a number of reasons.

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Bart Hollevoet @barthollevoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

De mooi vormgegeven, degelijk gemaakte, smaakvol verpakte, piekfijn afgewerkte, spelplezier garanderende, prima betaalbare en historisch aan alle kanten waterdicht getimmerde spellen van sunkentower.be zijn het ideale Halloween-, Thanksgiving- en eindejaarsgeschenk voor iedereen van 9 tot 109 jaar.👇

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Home Nederlands | Sunken Tower Games

Sunken Tower Games, experts in historisch game design. Hier vind je 'Canon van Vlaanderen: het kaartspel'; het middeleeuwse spel 'Anjou', het Japanse spel 'Koshodo' en het bakkerijspel 'Patakon'.

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Middeleeuwen Podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deze week betreden we met dr. Cécile de Morrée (@morree.bsky.social) de wereld van het Antwerps Liedboek: bijzonder populair in de 16de eeuw, met 'oude' en 'nieuwe' liedjes! Wat maakte dit boekje zo populair? ➡️ Deze aflevering is nu overal te beluisteren 🎧. Links via linktr.ee/middeleeuwen

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“Totten vrolijcken sanger: saluyt!” - Het Antwerps Liedboek | Middeleeuwen

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Analysis of 200,000 films released between 1994 and 2023 found that on average, films written and directed by women make higher profits, even though their male counterparts are routinely awarded bigger production budgets www.thetimes.com/article/64f9...

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Show me the money? Films directed by women make the most profit

But research also finds every movie of the past 30 years with the biggest production budget was directed by a man, leading to renewed allegations of misogyny

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"and I said, I said- hey, these days? what ISN'T an archive?" - cocktail party erupts into clapping and laughter

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

once while I was on a walk through the neighborhood I spotted a boy with a trombone standing in the middle of the lawn, honking away my first thought was "wtf" until I remembered it was MOTHER'S DAY in my heart I know some exhausted woman uttered the words "your gift can be PRACTICING OUTSIDE"

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICYMI: If you are an environmental historian, please consider submitting a proposal for a paper or a panel. NiCHE would like to organize a series of linked panels on environmental history at CHA 2027. niche-canada.org/2026/09/25/c... #envhist #cdnhist @cndhistassoc.bsky.social

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Call for Environmental History Proposals at the Canadian Historical Association Meeting in Winnipeg

Call for papers: Submit environmental history paper and panel proposals for CHA 2027 in Winnipeg by October 16. Sponsored panel opportunities with NiCHE.

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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Abstracts are due this week! October 1. We take a broad view of "publishing" and are very interested in non-traditional forms of publishing and accessibility. Please get in touch if you have questions or want to float an idea before submitting an abstract.

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Koen Van Dijck @koekoeksjong68.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Men zou de CEO, van het bedrijf dat zijn werknemers onderhandelingen laat voeren tot fysieke uitputting, moeten ontslaan... Gat achterlijke macho's. Die moeten dus nadenken over ons welzijn... Ze zouden het nog niet herkennen als het voor hun neus een polka zou dansen.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FEEST! @emlcjournal.bsky.social bestaat tien jaar en dat verdient taart! Als ook een panelgesprek over de toekomst van onderzoek naar de vroegmoderne Nederlanden, en een museumbezoek met flitspresentaties door auteurs van ons jubileumnummer. Gratis registratie: www.eventbrite.com/e/tienjarig-...

invite for the 10 year anniversary of the Early Modern Low Countries journal at the Hof van Busleyden (in Mechelen) on 4 December between 13:00 and 17:00

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