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Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23

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Disable Google AI Overviews on Search on Chrome and Edge To disable Google AI Overviews results in search, on Chrome and Edge create a custom search engine using "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" code.

See here: pureinfotech.com/disable-ai-o... However, one of the steps didn't work and I had to modify it. In Step 11, for the Edge browser, I had to add "https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s" rather than the recommended "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" in the URL setting. Works now.

07.10.2025 07:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Historische Zeitschrift Volume 321, Issue 2 - Volume 321, issue 2 of the journal Historische Zeitschrift was published in 2025.

In the latest issue Historische Zeitschrift, there is only 1 single review on early modern history. And that one's on Goethe. What happened to German historical "science"? www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

07.10.2025 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Disable Google AI Overviews on Search on Chrome and Edge To disable Google AI Overviews results in search, on Chrome and Edge create a custom search engine using "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" code.

See here: pureinfotech.com/disable-ai-o... However, one of the steps didn't work and I had to modify it. In Step 11, for the Edge browser, I had to add "https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s" rather than the recommended "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" in the URL setting. Works now.

07.10.2025 07:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Managed to switch off the AI answer box on my Google search -- happy days!

06.10.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians

03.10.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians

03.10.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Truth, trust and tricksters in the age of AI - Index on Censorship Join us for a panel discussion and launch of Indexโ€™s latest magazine issue on Wednesday 1 October at City St Georgeโ€™s, University of London.

Many thoughtful articles on Artificial Intelligence in the autumn issue of the @indexoncensorship.org Magazine - including a piece by King's very own @drkatedevlin.bsky.social www.indexoncensorship.org/events/truth...

03.10.2025 18:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Italy 1200-1700 Seminar

The IHR Italy 1200-1700 (London and online) seminar programme has been published: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

11.09.2025 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for โ€˜questionable,โ€™ possibly shady practices New algorithm could help scientists avoid publishing in shady titles

AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for โ€˜questionable,โ€™ possibly shady practices

#AcademicPublishing #Science #AcademicJournals #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.science.org/content/arti....

29.08.2025 03:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For those interested in news in Early Modern Europe, this has just landed on my desk from Penguin #skystorians #16thC #EarlyModern

07.05.2025 06:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Society for the Study of the Past A new history of the world...

The new Society for the Study of the Past now has socials! ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ‰

You can find us on Insta or here on Bluesky: @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social

Or check out the website here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

25.03.2025 08:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Congrats Reza and Sara!

13.05.2025 09:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

01.05.2025 10:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 793    ๐Ÿ” 538    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62
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Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

Reminder: submit to the Historical Materialism London Conference!

From 6-9th of November - with a Postgrad pre day on the 5th.

We're running a stream with Notes from Below on Workers and Capital!

Get in touch for more info and submit here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

06.05.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fill | KCL UCU Casework training and social Register for the casework training and social. The training will run 2-5pm on the 19th of May. The social will start afterwards. After registration, we will invite you to the outlook event withโ€ฆ

Would you like to become a KCL UCU caseworker? The branch is hosting a training session on casework on 19 May 2-5pm followed by a social event. Sign up here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... We are each otherโ€™s strength

12.05.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This morningโ€™s Gmail inbox counter was a monument to the endless tide of either empty or strictly functional words - or both.

12.05.2025 07:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As someone who's spent many years studying an Augustinian who wrote about the lives of the popes, Iโ€™m really happy to see an Augustinian become pope.

08.05.2025 20:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes I did

07.05.2025 07:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Waiting for the White Smoke A review of Mary Hollingsworth, 'Conclave 1559: Ippolito dโ€™Este and the Papal Election of 1559', Literary Review, November 2021, pp. 37-38

A propos of the conclave, here is a review I wrote a few years ago on a book about the 1559 conclave www.academia.edu/61052515/Wai... #conclave

07.05.2025 06:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For those interested in news in Early Modern Europe, this has just landed on my desk from Penguin #skystorians #16thC #EarlyModern

07.05.2025 06:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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*Branch anti-casualisation workshop*
Join us on Friday 2nd of May for a workshop on anti-casualisation (2-4pm)
โ”Open to all members on a precarious contract or an open ended contract who want to support the campaign.
๐Ÿ“ Register here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

25.04.2025 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle: Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of essays adds to a rich corpus of literature on Renaissanc...

You can now order ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ž๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜‰๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ž๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ in paperback ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿค“
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#EarlyModern #history #Renaissance #Machiavelli #GeorgCalixtus #ChristianThomasius #LeonardoBruni #RobertGraves #biography #translation #NaturalLaw #humanism #books

20.11.2024 09:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The journal "Annali d'Italianistica" has received a review copy of "L'Invenzione della storia papi" and are looking for a reviewer. Scholars interested in reviewing the book should contact them at annali@elon.edu www.academia.edu/128322571/Bo... #skystorians #16thC #EarlyModern #reformazing

16.04.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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At first, I thought how thoughtful of Waterstones to pair "Smart Thinking" with "History". Then it occurred to me - what if theyโ€™re actually contrasting the two?

14.04.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nice to be featured in King's Essentials today, though my light blue folder on the table is featured more prominently than my face

09.04.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Way to go Guardian, this catchphrase is just so mellifluous

09.04.2025 09:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ALCS comment on Meta and LibGen It was recently revealed by The Atlantic that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has used LibGen, a vast database of pirated material, to train its AI models.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has used LibGen, a vast database of illegally pirated material, to train its AI models. This includes most of our academic books. www.alcs.co.uk/news/alcs-co...

03.04.2025 07:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this event is now CANCELLED and will be rescheduled for next academic year

26.03.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Italy 1200-1700

On Thursday, 27 March, 6:00pm London time (2:00pm New York/7:00pm Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about โ€˜Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Cultureโ€™.
ONLINE ONLY ZOOM. Please share www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

22.03.2025 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Italy 1200-1700

On Thursday, 27 March, 6:00pm London time (2:00pm New York/7:00pm Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about โ€˜Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Cultureโ€™.
ONLINE ONLY ZOOM. Please share www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

22.03.2025 16:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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