Two deep thoughts...
That means the rest of the world doesn't get a pi-day at all, since there are only 30 days in April.
And the most complete pi-day would have been a fiasco because it was in the midst of the Gregorian/Julian calendar fight.
But it is on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1593
RIP Jürgen Habermas.
Undoubtedly one of the most important post-WWII German thinkers.
I was never sure if the bluesky feed jurgenhabermas.bksy.social was actually him or not, but he was certainly active on social media.
On 18th March IMH will host a seminar by Dr Filip Hren on Croats in the #ThirtyYearsWar at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
Details of time and location in the link below
#WhatsHistory #EarlyModern #17thCentury 🗃️
www.linkedin.com/posts/instit...
So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409
🎉🎉🎉
To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...
Gee. How widespread was the "Papists gnaw on hearts" theme in Britain?
Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
🆕PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates!
For example, in 1871 external causes of death (accidents, violence and suicide) among young adults was highest in industrial and fishing areas www.populationspast.org/vio1544/1871...
THIS FRIDAY! Excited to hear some truly thorough socio-economic from the beating heart of that that approach, the @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social and the wonderful Sam Geens.
Come and hear all about marriage patterns & economic growth
Fri, 13 March, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom #SkyStorians
Fulda, 13. März 1626
Regiment Nassau nach Eisfeld / Regimenter Schönberg, Herbestsdorf und Blaurer aus Hessen ins Lager passiert.
Sonst liegen der von Weimar und Obrist Fuchs bei der Dessauer Brücke, selbige sehr befestigen.
Kur-Sachsen hat die Brücken zu Wittenberg und Torgau abwerfen lassen.
David van der Linden - Remembering the Wars of Religion
Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France
À paraître en juin aux Oxford UP
We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
Bei unserer Arbeit mit historischen Dokumenten stoßen wir immer wieder auf wunderschöne, aber auch skurrile Wasserzeichen. Unsere Doktorandin Chiara Daab hat einige ihrer Favoriten für euch herausgesucht.
Welches ist euer Lieblingswasserzeichen?
Quellennachweis ISG FFM H.12.04 240, 244, 292, 376
And my semi-namesake Wayne Thiebaud also started college there, though he graduated elsewhere.
Full bibliography for the talk is now posted: doi.org/10.17613/xex...
I see that Gertrud von le Fort's Magdeburg Wedding is available in English: ignatius.com/the-wedding-... (though why they chose the less euphonious Wedding of Magdeburg escapes me)
I think it's a very fine novel (in German). It's striking it came out the same year as C.V. Wedgwood's 30 Years War.
Berlin, 9. März 1626
Landtag heute seinen Anfang genommen, "Gott gebe dass er zu des Landes Nutzen ausschlagen möchte"!
Kurfürst noch nicht hier, wird aber bald anlangen. Landgraf Moritz hier angekommen.
aus:
brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...
Is the "Little House" book series popular in Europe?
It was ubiquitous for US children even before the TV series. (Not usually assigned, but something kids read in their free time.)
And I only saw one person (invoking J.K. Galbreath!) suggesting factory work was preferable to the farm.
New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
Come hear Sheilagh Ogilvie speak on the history of epidemics and institutions. In person at the Institute of Historical Research and online on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Monday 9 March at 5:30 pm.
For International Women's Day, here is Katharina Schütz Zell of Strasbourg (1497-1562), the first known female Protestant reformer. She wrote a number of evangelical pamphlets calling for the reform of the church, despite the disapproval of her male colleagues, with whom she occasionally clashed.
I keep meaning to post that 2026 marks the 400th anniversary of my guy, Jacob Kühnle's "Album Amicitiae," though the first dated entry won't be for another year.
Reposting this. I have two scholars for this panel so far and need a third. If you're doing work work on the 1570s and want to be in Chicago next October, please send me a DM.
#reformazing
HEADS UP this is REALLY USEFUL for, well, anyone who uses Google for search (or would rather use something else). I knew some of these but several were new to me and maybe will be to you too! cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
I would just humbly like to say this is why we started Nursing Clio and why I think it's still around.
Stuart's site is simply a mine of treasures. He generously shares so much openly and is a truly deep scholar. His books - particularly on Foucault - are always must-reads for me.
Dutch Atlanticists, the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, PA, is offering a two-week reading course on German handwriting (June 1 – 12, 2026) Participants will learn to read German manuscripts dating from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries. More info: www.moravianchurcharchives.org/events/#tabs-3
Leipzig, 6. März 1626
Herzog von Weimer und Obrist Fuchs mit 20.000 Mann / 3.000 Reiter bei der Stadt Zerbst und Dessauer Brücke - verschanzen sich stark, um Wallenstein den Pass zu verlegen, damit er Mansfeld nicht nachsetzen kann. ... 1/3
Yes. Just from the link I sent to Will, I see you, Timothy Burke, and Jon Dresner who are all active here, mentioned in the awards. But Will had not heard of them and Laura had her memory jogged.
