Some historians can resist juicy anecdotes in gossipy primary sources.
I am not one of those historians.
@ollibackstrom.bsky.social
Researcher of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 and Seventeenth Century Europe. Docent (General History) associated with the University of Eastern Finland. Author Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War: https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-21/
Some historians can resist juicy anecdotes in gossipy primary sources.
I am not one of those historians.
Aika viileä kansikuva.
04.12.2025 14:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Arvio 30-vuotiseen sotaan sijoittuvasta romaanista Suomen Kuvalehdessä.
(Name drop.)
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The true meaning of Christmas!
04.12.2025 13:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bloginosto vuoden takaa: arvioni Rachel Chrastilin kirjasta Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe (2024):
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"What Clarendon said of Hampden also applies to him: when he drew his sword, he threw away the scabbard."
Aladár Ballagi (1884) on the Croat cavalry commander Johann Isolani (1586-1640).
[Portrait of Johann Isolani. Anonymous, c. 1750.]
Of course he says.
04.12.2025 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"Laissez-faire, laissez-passer, le monde va de lui-même", lauletaan edelleen kokoomuksen iltamissa silmät kyyneleistä kimaltaen.
No mikäs siinä, jos Adam Smithin näkymätön käsi rakentaa itsekseen jäänmurtajat ja puolustaa maata sodan uhatessa.
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On tonight's episode of Hillary Clinton Explains A Thing.
03.12.2025 21:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or Jacques Lacan on LSD. It's just word salad.
But still JB thought to himself that wow, this is brilliant stuff, fellow military historians will be mightily impressed after reading it.
Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million
03.12.2025 09:55 — 👍 440 🔁 136 💬 4 📌 2Couple of years ago I was forwarded his call for articles in cavalry history. Feel free to make sense of his gibberish if you can; I couldn't. (Needless to say I didn't contribute.)
03.12.2025 20:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Kind of astonished that Jeremy Black hasn’t written a one-volume history of American military history. What on earth is he doing with his time?
03.12.2025 20:33 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 9 📌 0Order of battle at Lepanto, with an allegory of the three powers of the Holy League. Fresco in Sala Regia by Giorgio Vasari, 1572.
03.12.2025 17:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"War, the begetter of all things, the creature of all things, the river with a thousand sources, the sea without a shore: begetter of all things except peace, so ardently longed for, so rarely attained."
Braudel, The Mediterranean.
Vai että NATO vahvempi nyt kuin koskaan aiemmin koko järjestön pitkässä historiassa? Siis silloinkin, kun USA vielä oli sen de facto jäsen?
No, pakkohan se on uskoa, kun vallan Suomen ulkoministeri meille niin kertoo.
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Totta kai he saavat.
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Linnan juhlien sijasta kansanedustajille pitäisi järjestää itsenäisyyspäivänä ulkoilmatilaisuus Kansalaistorilla, missä heille tarjottaisiin kylmää Atrian maksalaatikkoa ja tölkki Pirkan keskiolutta. Parempaa he eivät ansaitse.
03.12.2025 10:49 — 👍 43 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 3Porträt Tilly, Text Johann T'Serclaes, Graf von Tilly
Christian IV., König von Dänemark und Norwegen, der "Dänemarker", Regent Kreis Niedersachsen
Hessen, 2. Dec 1625
Tilly Lager meldet: Kurfürst von Sachsen hat wohl einen 14-tägigen Waffenstillstand zw. Kaiserlichen und Dänischen verhandelt.
Man verhofft, in Kürze "einen guten Frieden zu haben" - zumal Dänemark erklärt hat, diesen zu befördern. ... 1/3
The virgin hegseth: has to hide his drinking. Makes cringe videos where he lifrs a tire. Murders 2 guys at sea.
the chad thirty years war Scandinavian generals: has never hid anything about his drinking. Has never done a pushup in his life. Murders thousands
Valmistautukaa unohtamaan, että tämmöisiä juttuja on ollut:
yle.fi/a/74-20177459
Suomalaisten on valmistauduttava unohtamaan iso osa TP Stubbin puheista.
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When Trump extends the term of his administration with an executive order, the military and the FBI will have his back.
03.12.2025 04:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Smart of Trump to make military accomplices in his crimes. This will ensure their loalty to him not the constitution as entire chains of command would face prison without the president's continued patronage and protection.
03.12.2025 04:38 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Hans-Adam II is Europe’s richest monarch despite ruling one of its tiniest states.
The prince of Liechtenstein flaunts his contempt for democracy, blending feudalism and financial capitalism to supply a model for the Right in much bigger countries.
Allow me to derail #Falklands discourse with this picture of the armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst, sunk by battle cruiser HMS Invincible in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914.
02.12.2025 19:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0