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Correction, this is on Thursday!

Lightning at sea in the 18th and 19th centuries Dr Sara Caputo's EGR Taylor lecture 2025 will discuss how lightning shaped the maritime world drawing on sources from Britain and western Europe.

Fascinating work of Dr. Sara Caputo will be discussed online next Weds evening (6:30pm London time)! My #posthumanistic research has been quite inspired by her views on the #tracks on the water and on #seacharts. www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
#HakluytSociety #maritimehistory

This rearly seen draft image of the #walrushunt scene by #JohnWebber (1778) received delightful discussion in #maritimebritain conference last week.

🦄 'Sea horse' was widely used to mean 'walrus' in the 17th and 18th C English; compare with Norwegian and Icelandic words like morse and rosmarus

I was trialing my #PhD arguments last week in the
@MaritimeBritain project´s conference in #Southampton. Thanks all delegates for allowing me to pick your brains about #counternarrative to #heroism using #animalhistory #captaincook

#incookcompany #maritimehistory #18thC

#faffe Kiinnostava tutkimus Suomessa parin vuosisadan aikana bongatuista lajeista tänään ulkona! Julkaisun yhteydessä luennoitiin digitutkimuksen teosta ja tulosten merkityksestä samalla teosta slaideilla selaillen - onpa kaunis kirja! Onnea!! @utu.fi #kulttuurihistoria #sanomalehtiarkisto

Screenshot of the front page of British Printed Images to 1700. Printed images border the screen on both sides, in the centre is the website title and various links: About, Search, Resources, Research.

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢

Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.

🗃️ #Skystorians

manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

Finished a draft chapter today for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel writing. The chapter is 'Earwitnessing and the authentication of experience' and it argues that travel writing was not just an eyewitness genre; that 'seeing' was a multisensory experience... (1/2)

Another fascinating #EarlyModern #Bookhistory conference to apply for, this time held at the National Library of Lithuania. Deadline: 30th of April!

💙📚📜 #rarebooks
#printhistory

Chronometers, charts, charisma: on histories of longitude - Science Museum Group Journal

Asian kulkua kun jatkuvasti pohditaan: tässä eräs tiiviisti esitetty kommentti pituuspiirin mittaamisesta 1700-luvulla #longitude #earlymodern #seacharts journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/chro...

Kun eurooppalaiset aina nimesi ‘uusia’ paikkoja kaveriensa tai tapahtumien mukaan, niin arvaa missä Cook sai reissun parhaan dinnerin? #inCookCompany #maphistory

This is such a good thread, and meshes with the reasons I don't use GenAI tools to even brainstorm, much less write first drafts of anything. Why would I want to steer my thinking away from my own unique ideas and toward some probabilistic algorithm trained on who knows what parts of the internet?

History of the Book | Bibliomania Bibliomania

Library of Congress launches History of the Book post series

blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/...

Note to employment agency, I am currently unemployed and in need of funding for this research! Maybe stating the obvious but These posts are a part of getting known and getting hired, not the actual work.

Painting of an early early modern looking kitchen with two women and a baby. One of the women sitting and seemingly plucking a chicken, the other is showing her something on a plate

Come and hear all about “Food history as history of knowledge: preservation technologies in the #EarlyModern #LowCountries” from the fab @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social

Friday 31 January, 17:30 (UK time), @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom. All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/events/food-...

Note that what is being tested here is not even what most academic historians would recognize as worth asking, but just basic ‘facts’ (compiled by a research team then cross compared to genAI multiple choice responses). It can’t pass school rote learning, it sure AF can’t do independent research 🗃️

Male otter exposing himself on the ice, with a little of Soda Butte Creak on the bottom left.

Paint me
Like one of your French girls

On the Agency of Environmental History Abstract. Twenty years ago, Walter Johnson warned historians not to rely on a concept that let both user and audience alike feel better without doing bette

And for the history nerds, I wrote about the idea of agency in environmental history, in a retrospective of Walter Johnson’s stunner On Agency

academic.oup.com/jsh/article-...

Monday! Book presentation of our new textbook Environmental History. Online and free, welcome #envhist @eseh.bsky.social

I study #human-walrus encounters as a part of my doctoral research, thus all the #walrus things in my feed. #animalhistory #animalagency

An Odobenocetops skull, with one massive backwards-facing tusk, on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, along with an illustration of the animal.

If you were to say that the main benefit of time-travel would be to go back 5-10 million years to see Odobenocetops - the #whale with one tusk like a #walrus - I would not argue.

Through the good graces of school.ai this morning, I had a chat with Anne Frank.

I had a helluva time trying to get her to say a bad word about Nazis.

Here's our conversation in this thread.

#history #skystorians #historysky #holocaust

📢 Seminar Announcement! 👉 "Spatial big data research for fair and sustainable societies: Celebrating 15 years of the Digital Geography Lab"

When: 7 Feb
Where: Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki (+ online!)

Program 👉 https://buff.ly/3Cek6ms
Register: 👉 https://buff.ly/4hjVYOc

A fellowship in #greenwichmaritimemuseum 🔥

After I read about what these keynote speakers have been writing on #earlymodern nature and agency, I think i need to travel here
#cfp

The Loneliness of Leadership | 27 | Royal Naval Officers in the Revolu This chapter concentrates on the loneliness of leadership experienced by active Royal Navy officers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, specifically

My chapter in this volume may be of interest to historians of #navalhistory:

'The Loneliness of Leadership
Royal Naval Officers in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars'
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Interesting group powered research.

Symposium | (Re)discovering Natural History A symposium with historians, archivists, curators & artists to discuss ways of finding and telling the best stories in special collections.

📢 Rediscover natural history!
The Linnean Society of London invites historians, archivists, curators, and artists to (re)visit natural history.
🗓️ Tuesday, February 11 · 9:30am - 7pm GMT - London
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-...
Supported by BSHS through a small events grant! 🌟

Science History Institute Fellowships The Institute is home to the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, medicine, and technology in the United States.

Applications are now open for 2025-26 fellowships at @scihistoryorg.bsky.social!

We offer postdoc, dissertation, distinguished & short-term fellowships for researchers from anywhere in any fields w/ projects that can make use of our collections.

Questions? Ask here!

📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize 2025 📢📢📢
Essays (6k-8k) are invited by ECRs on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society.
1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. * Enter by 1/3/25 *
www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...