Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions* Abstract. Transparency, or publicity as it was then called, became a fundamental value linked to popular sovereignty in the late eighteenth century. Those

New on advance access: "Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions"

by Katlyn Marie Carter (‪@notredame.bsky.social‬)

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Join us for today's Environment & Society Research Seminar presentation by Daniel Margocsy on "Deforestation in Indonesia, 1678", with a commentary by Tristan Mostert, at midday in E1.01D at the Bushuis @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries

'The Crown’s Silence, a book published this week, details how monarchs from Queen Elizabeth I to George IV used the trade in enslaved people to boost crown revenues and defend the British empire.'

‘Unjust and inhuman’: how royal family ignored a Black abolitionist’s plea to end the slave trade In this adapted extract from The Crown’s Silence, which examines the royal family’s links with slavery from Elizabeth I to the present, Ottobah Cugoano directly appeals to the monarchy – but is met wi...

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Join us for today's Environment & Society Research Seminar presentation by Daniel Margocsy on "Deforestation in Indonesia, 1678", with a commentary by Tristan Mostert, at midday in E1.01D at the Bushuis @uvahumanities.bsky.social

IHR Low Countries programme 30 January David Hopkin: Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion 13 February Jeroen Puttevils: Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries 27 February Feike Dietz: Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) 13 March Sam Geens: Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries 22 May Valika Smeulders: The Rijksmuseum: New Horizons

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries!

Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic* Abstract. Historical scholarship has long highlighted the extensive landscape interventions initiated by state agents, early capitalists and experts in the

From the current issue: “Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic”

by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)

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As much of the US gets ready for a weekend of brutal cold and snow, we recommend brightening your wintry day with this gallery of beautiful images from GEMS AND THE NEW SCIENCE by Michael Bycroft, the first book-length history of gems in early modern science. Bask in the glow: buff.ly/zZGBXy3

Have an unpublished essay on science, medicine, technology, or natural knowledge before 1800, from anywhere in the world?

Consider submitting it to the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize by 15 February. Full details here: brill.com/view/journal...

Have an unpublished essay on science, medicine, technology, or natural knowledge before 1800, from anywhere in the world?

Consider submitting it to the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize by 15 February. Full details here: brill.com/view/journal...

spreading the news about the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize 2026 Competition! Early Science and Medicine and the Early Sciences Forum of the History of Science Society's prize competition for the best essay...

Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

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Thank you!

Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian? — audio A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...

Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @contingent-mag.bsky.social, and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me!

The audio version:
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Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

Becca Good, the wife of Renee Good, has released her first public statement since the shooting

“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”

first few paragraphs of "SUPER PLANTS Bigger, disease-free crops may be created in the lab" by Wallace Immen The Globe and Mail (Canada) June 15, 1981 Monday

continuation of same with this passage highlighted: "The institute has had success fusing tomato cells with tobacco plant cells to create tomato plants whose leaves are high in protein and can be used for animal feed, Dr. Apple said. "We haven't tried smoking them yet."

wait, is this the origin of tomacco from The Simpsons?

from a 1981 article in the Globe and Mail. could anyone send me a copy of the original? and does anyone know if this claim is serious? the entrepreneur quoted was known for exaggeration, so I'm not sure IPRI actually tried making tomacco.

The Coup In Venezuela Is An Assault on the Whole World Donald Trump's overthrow of Nicolás Maduro sets a terrible precedent that severely erodes international sovereignty. Can other countries depose any leader they accuse of a crime?

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Antislavery and the Original ‘Scramble for Africa’, 1807-1879 Keynote Lecture for 140 Years Beyond the Berlin Conference, Africa Centre and SOAS Friday 12 December and Saturday 13 December 2025   Alan Lester Most British imperial historians have tended t…

In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain.

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“Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order…”

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Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’

The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela.

This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources.

It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

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Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic* Abstract. Historical scholarship has long highlighted the extensive landscape interventions initiated by state agents, early capitalists and experts in the

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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik ‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Brilliant as ever from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Thanks to a phone update, my alarm went off an hour late on the morning of my 1st-year geology exam. I unknowingly arrived 30 mins late, wasn't allowed to take/resit it, and my college suggested i switch to the history and philosophy of science instead :)

Thank you so much!