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Screenshot of the first page of Violent Waters book.

Cover of 'Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England' by Elly Robson Dezateux

*Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England*

An important new book from @ellydezateux.bsky.social shows 'how environments were politically constructed and contested, and how environmental concerns inflected politics'. 🗃️

Cambridge UP: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

Save the Date: the New Netherland Institute's 2026 Annual Conference, New Netherland and the World, will be in Albany, New York at the New York State Museum on November 7-8, 2026.

We'll have a Call for Papers out in the next couple of weeks! Travel funding will be available for presenters.

Op de prent van Amsterdamse prentkunstenaar Pieter van Voorde uit de jaren 1660 zien we duidelijk een zwarte Balthasar, zoals we die ook kennen van de schilderijen vanaf de late Middeleeuwen. Het zou kunnen dat een van de koningen gespeeld werd door een Zwarte Amsterdammer.

Koop die krant!

📢📝 Call for Papers for the Lent Term

The Cambridge Gender & Sexuality History Workshop is accepting abstract submissions until the 4th of January, 2026!!

For further information, please visit www.hist.cam.ac.uk/gender-and-s...

Portrait of Adriana van Heusden bargaining at Amsterdam fish market, 1662. Teaching her daughter, there in the corner, about domestic economy. By Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.

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Mexican artist Miguel de Herrera, “Portrait of Doña María de la Luz Anna Margarita Marcota” (1778) • This girl with frizzed and powdered hair is probably around 12 years old. She appears to be in mourning, as suggested by her black dress, black choker necklace, and the miniature portrait she wears on her wrist—which may be a picture of her recently deceased mother. • The black spot on her left temple is known as a chiqueador. These fake beauty spots were made from fabric or tortoiseshell, and originally contained herbs that were believed to alleviate migraine headaches, like a compress. Over several centuries, they evolved into "beauty marks" for upper class women in Mexico. • This girl's expensive jewelry, incredible lace collar, and confident attitude suggest that she comes from a family of high social standing.

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis

Just hanging out at the wonderful San Antonio Museum of Art, wondering about this exquisite portrait of a young girl in 1778

• Why is there a big black spot on her temple?
• And why is she showing me her (not an Apple) wristband?

See more in the ALT...

Peed on Rhodes.s Grave in Zimbabwe

Dat blaauw

In 1758, during the Seven Years' War, English privateers captured the Bremen merchant ship Concordia. The subsequent legal battle preserved something remarkable: the ship's complete archive. ⛵️
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The Concordia: A Global Microhistory of a Bremen Ship  ‘To the seventh interrogatory this deponent saith that . . . the said ship or vessell Concordia was bound to Cork in Ireland and from thence to Saint Eustatius aforesaid in the West Indies and from thence to Amsterdam in Holland and to no other port or places in her voyage and that . . . she carried from Bremen a … Continue reading The Concordia: A Global Microhistory of a Bremen Ship 

Read his blog post to find out more about this fascinating case study:

ghil.hypotheses.org/...

#MaritimeHistory #EarlyModernHistory #Microhistory #PrizePapers

📷 Playing cards from the Concordia: Photo: Prize Papers Project. The National Archives, ref. HCA 32/176, photo by Maria Cardamone.
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This collection includes everything from official records to the cook's shopping lists and sealed letters still in their mailbags. During his GHIL scholarship, Lucas Haasis (@lhaasis.bsky.social‬, Senior Researcher at Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum) studied these 'Prize Papers'
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“Mother Seacole” ran a battlefield hotel, treated cholera, and funded her own way to the Crimean War when turned down by the establishment. A healer, a businesswoman, a force. Lost to history—until now.🗃️

Read the full article here: https://tinyurl.com/2ep22stc

Hot Tennessee Sun - Commonplace Silence is never something I manage very well.

How do scholar's grapple with their family histories? Lisa Roney explores this question in a new Commonplace (@commonplacejrnl.bsky.social) piece featuring poetry and poetic research about insanity, slavery, Confederacy, and her 19th century Tennessee relatives. 🗃️

commonplace.online/article/hot-...

Recognize

I have so many books at home and at work, and I've rearranged my shelves so many times, that often I struggle to find a volume I know I have and find it easier to just go to the library than track it down. All of which is to say, I think I need a librarian. Or fewer books. 🗃️

📣 Call for Papers
Join us at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies for a workshop on the Global History of the Plantation (Nov 2025)!

🌍 Open to PhD & early-career researchers
🗓️ Submit abstract by August 15, 2025

More info:https://ow.ly/iU2u50WpR1n

@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their…

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May)

Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. 1 per day for 20 days, in no particular order, but please use #AltText! 🙏🏾

This illustration of pink hibiscuses from queer nonbinary Nigerian immigrant artist, Chi Nwosu (chinwosu.com), states, "The seeds of liberation are sown in solidarity."

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Today, exactly 350 years later, I walked with Felipe Ferreira Marques, Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of Brazil, across newly named 'Seraphina do Brazil Bridge' (on the picture), via the Zuiderkerk and Waterlooplein, to the Turfsteeg.

June 12, 1675 the Afro-Brazilian couple Luis Fernandes and Gracia Abrahams walked from their home in the Turfsteeg in Amsterdam to the Zuiderkerk to have their first child baptized. They named her Liesbeth. #OTD

Weet je welke kaart dat is?

The Account Keeper
by Nicolas Maes, 1657
Oil on canvas
66 cm x 53,6 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum

Het grafmonument doet denken aan het “Monumento dei Quattro mori” (1626) in de haven van Livorno bsky.app/profile/voet...

My favorite work activity: showing 17th archives to an interested crowd. This morning Phd students from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social at #Stadsarchief

Vind vergelijking mank gaan

Reis naar het 'Pompeï van Suriname': de verzonken resten van plantage Esthersrust Aan de kust van Suriname is een voormalige katoenplantage boven water gekomen. De resten zijn voer voor archeologen die speuren naar de geschiedenis van het land. Alleen via rivieren en kreken dwars d...

'Reis naar het 'Pompeï van Suriname': de verzonken resten van plantage Esthersrust', mooie reportage van @ninaj13.bsky.social met archeoloog Santosh Singh nos.nl/video/257299...

Politieke wil ontbreekt. Te veel belangen