Promotional graphic for a new book from British Academy Publishing titled "The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tomb ibn al-Mukhtar of the Songhay Empire and the Tarikh al-fattash of the Caliphate of Hamdullahi," authored by Mauro Nobili, Zachary Wright, and A. Diakite. The image shows the book cover featuring an ancient manuscript page.
A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions.
https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm
28.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
14.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.
“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”
13.10.2025 12:49 — 👍 571 🔁 235 💬 6 📌 23
On Wednesday!
13.10.2025 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nouvel entretien sur le podcast Nota Bene à propos de l'histoire de la colonisation du Sahel en compagnie de Camille Lefebvre. Détail d'un dessin de 1885 issu d'un numéro du journal "L'Illustration". On y voit Otto von Bismarck, alors chancelier d'Allemagne, coupant un gâteau sur lequel est écrit « Afrique ». Il est posé sur une table autour de laquelle sont assis les représentants d'autres puissances européennes.
Dans le dernier entretien disponible sur le podcast, on revient sur une triste histoire avec Camille Lefebvre, celle de la colonisation du Sahel. Alors comment cela s'est-il passé ?
https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0303c8b3-c2a2-4aa0-9543-af3252c87fc3/nota-bene?refMarker=null
07.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 54 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person
Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.
📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
30.09.2025 11:45 — 👍 24 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 4
📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland"
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
23.09.2025 10:00 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Promotional image for a new book titled "Great Sogolon: Mandé Epic from the Bondo Birds of Fadama (Guinea)" from British Academy Publishing, featuring a cover image of a traditional mask.
New in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, ‘Great Sogolon’s House: The Epic of Manden According to the Condé of Fadama (Guinea)’. This epically narrated transcription and translation of the Sunjata epic is rich with detail and rooted in cultural memory.
Discover more ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4nm0IWh
15.09.2025 13:00 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
📻 Listen to Dr Vincent Hiribarren on BBC Focus on Africa discussing Emmanuel Macron's response to France's colonial era crimes in Cameroon ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
18.08.2025 10:46 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A qui appartient une pierre tombée du ciel? Le débat est relancé après la récente vente à New York de la plus grande météorite martienne jamais retrouvée, aujourd'hui revendiquée par le Niger. L'article : ➡️ u.afp.com/SQZ6
13.08.2025 11:50 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1
⚠️ Tout a basculé en 48h, avec une pression tout azimut sur Netanyahu contre la famine, pour le cessez-le-feu et pour la reconnaissance de l'État palestinien:
28.07.2025 21:28 — 👍 118 🔁 76 💬 8 📌 9
[on X @theKanemBorno made a great thread👇]
A Hidden Story in African Linguistics & History
In 1904, two scholars met at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo:
Al-Hajj Musa, a Kanuri scholar from Borno and Rudolf Prietze, a German linguist.
They collaborated for 10 years, producing hundreds of pages in Kanuri.
08.07.2025 08:18 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Very happy to see @abdulwando.bsky.social's research on #aid in #Borno published!
01.07.2025 13:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Home - ECAS 2025
'Digital Humanities #DH and #AI in #AfricanStudies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives'. Double panel today at #ECAS2025 organised with @fmadore.bsky.social www.ecasconference.org/2025/
26.06.2025 07:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Journal of Digital History
The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.
What can hacked websites tell us about the history of the web?
From online activism to digital vandalism, political web defacements were part of shaping the early internet. We just published a new article in the JDH diving into this fascinating and underexplored archive. journalofdigitalhist...
24.06.2025 09:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
• Défendre quoiqu’il en coûte le droit international, s’opposer à l’annexion (Ukraine), au nettoyage ethnique (Gaza) et aux guerres "préventives" (Iran) c’est sauvegarder la possibilité d’un monde habitable 🌏 mais c’est aussi sauver la possibilité d’un projet européen 🇪🇺.
18.06.2025 20:19 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Amazon Teases Next James Bond Will Face Off Against Threat Of Collective Bargaining
Amazon Teases Next James Bond Will Face Off Against Threat Of Collective Bargaining theonion.com/amazon-...
11.06.2025 15:07 — 👍 3079 🔁 435 💬 40 📌 21
Très heureux de pouvour participer à une autre conférence d'histoire à l'Université d'Antananarivo, sur le rôle des chiffres dans l'histoire/historiographie de Madagascar.
06.06.2025 07:51 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Offts
28.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
** JOB ALERT **
Research position (3 years) at Queen's University Belfast to conduct research on project “Governing Jihad in Africa”. This position is to do comparative fieldwork on the ideology of at least two jihadi groups in Africa. Details here: hr.apps.qub.ac.uk/jobs/job_des...
26.05.2025 08:56 — 👍 19 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 1
We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!
23.05.2025 09:58 — 👍 141 🔁 100 💬 6 📌 2
Croisons les humanités environnementales et numériques ! RDV le 16 juin 15h avec Alder Keleman Saxena et Maxime Le Calvé à PRODIG #EnvironmentalHumanities #DH
22.05.2025 10:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
[RAPPEL]
🌊 La rencontre entre @elsadevienne.bsky.social et Romain Grancher, sur l'histoire environnementale des milieux maritimes et l'exploitation des ressources des littoraux, aura lieu jeudi prochain (22/05) à 17h au 212 rue Saint-Jacques !
16.05.2025 10:20 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Nouvel entretien Nota Bene sur Twitch le 14 mai à 9h30 sur l'histoire de la colonisation du Sahel en compagnie de Camille Lefebvre. Détail d'un dessin de 1885 issu d'un numéro du journal "L'Illustration". On y voit Otto von Bismarck, alors chancelier d'Allemagne, coupant un gâteau sur lequel est écrit « Afrique ». Il est posé sur une table autour de laquelle sont assis les représentants d'autres puissances européennes.
La colonisation de l'Afrique, on en entend souvent parler dans l'actualité, sans pour autant forcément savoir comment ça s'est passé dans les faits.
Alors pour y voir un peu plus clair, RDV demain à 9h30 avec @camillelefebvre.bsky.social sur Twitch pour en discuter !
www.twitch.tv/notabenemovies
13.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 75 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 2
Historian
Empires, Global & Connected History
Diplomacy & International Relations
Europe, Germany, Indian Ocean
🔶 The Digital Futures Institute brings together expertise from across all disciplines at King’s to forge a better relationship between the individual and technology: kcl.ac.uk/digital-futures
Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
'Black British History: Concepts, Geographies, Debates' covers all aspects of Black British history from the ancient to the contemporary. @ihr.bsky.social
PhD researcher focusing on hydropolitics 💧 unpacking expert discourses, colonialities, and agency in West African water governance 🌍 while grappling with ethics, positionality, and reflexivity quandaries 💭 (views mine) he/him 🏳️🌈
#Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
prof d'histoire-géo, Monts du Forez.
ORCID: 0009-0002-6711-5649
MA Early Modern History student at The University of Sheffield, specialising in Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries. Views are my own. #SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on southern Africa, anthropology of life emerging, graphic anthropology. And comics.
Historian, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris. media history (esp. radio) and history & political economy of public transport infrastructure in Africa.
Oskar […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hcommons.social/@rheinze, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Modern historian, unexpected geek, wannabe naturalist, sauntering explorer, and more. A German from Vercelli. He/him. Born 332 ppm. I am a historian of the environment […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hcommons.social/@wilko, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol (UK). #envhums
https://environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/
Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Working on women, exile, gender, Huguenots, Francophonie, queer libertines ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
#bluehumanities, Shakespeare, swimming, eco-poetry. English prof at St. John's (NYC).
