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Reminder that applications for this workshop on Teaching the History of Guns in World Historical context are due on March 27th! #earlymodern #historyeducation #TeacherEducation @historyed.bsky.social #TeacherMentoring @catherinefletcher.info @pernilleblues.bsky.social @worldhistoryassn.bsky.social

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

History and Medicine - Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure - McMaster University This role is designed for an exceptional scholar whose work bridges humanities-based historical inquiry and contemporary infectious diseases scholarship, with particular emphasis on the history of pla...

Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!

History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University

Apply by March 31st

niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h...

#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

He is a first class tosser.

My book just got passed by the final reviewer!!! Look for ‘Mortality and Measurement’ this year! If anyone would like a sneak peak, let me know. Happy to travel or zoom to hang out and discuss race, statistics, medicine, and empire.

“The water would be supplied by Carvins Cove Reservoir, the primary drinking water source for Botetourt County and much of the Roanoke Valley” 👍

... touchinge a foreine invasion to be shortly accepted within this realme by notorious rebelles & others wherby the present estate of religion should be subverted’; he’s to be tried. I don’t know who this is and can’t find other records; perhaps it’s a pseudonym. 2/

the semiotics of this are fascinating. walter white, deadpool, and superman?

It’s musta been Slursday

Thanks for posting this! #earlymodern

Just learned that the son of renowned Puritan Praisegod Barebone was ... and I kid you not ... Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon.

What did he do for a living?

He was a property developer.

#earlymodern #skystorians

I miss paying $6 for that stuff in Ollies and TJ Maxx.

I was thinking about this poem yesterday

I used to work in an office where the guy who cleans up the kitchen put a picture of just his eyes (2 inch vertical cross-section of his face eyeline) on top of the coffee machine and people's behavior 100% improved. They refilled the pot and cleaned up after themselves.

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

A receipt

A fragment of a poem about vegetables

Today’s archival research has been weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable other than the random fragment of a poem about vegetables on the back of an 1819 receipt tendered to the Boston Board of Selectmen 🗃️

[Exit Murderer.]

I'm compiling a handout with paleography advice for my students. I'll post it as a thread below. What am I missing?

- Your goal is to transcribe what is written on the page as fully as possible.

I'd check out this: folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/me...

These studies were important and great but we continue to wait for first major studies of x and y type of books, bc they're NOT literature and so they have yet to actually be studied for themselves, rather than for what literature they point to.

Am I teaching one of these Rapid Response lectures on the manipulation of Ancient History in America today? Yes, I am. Am I proud of our history department? Absolutely. history.uiowa.edu/research/pub...

16th Century list of accounts

Not strictly a legal record, this Star Chamber diet book nevertheless informs us how the Privy Council sitting judicially in the Star Chamber ran the court. Or, at least, tells us the vast amount they ate and drank on a particular day [TNA E 407/55]

a man wearing a suit sitting at a desk outside. it's like a little muddy land area surrounded by water. on the desk is a laptop

i am Online

Jellyfish have survived all 5 mass extinctions which goes to show the best way to succeed in this world is to not have a brain or heart

The arc of the moral universe may be long, but when someone who was horrible to me is demonstrably incorrect in print, I am petty enough to believe that’s karma in action.

On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

A poster for the dressing up clothes rails at Orkney Library. It shows rails of costumes in a fairy-tale setting with flowers and toadstools.

Tomorrow is #WorldBookDay so don't forget that if you need any last minute dressing up clothes we have loads on our rails at Orkney Library! 🦸🧙‍♂️🧚🧌

It's all FREE and you don't need to bring anything to swap - just take what you need and return them whenever you want.

#LoveLibraries