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I think there’s still prior questions.

“What, exactly, is command?”

And “why does war demand it?”

Luckily this is what I’m working on for my diss.

From the article: “Stop clinging to the silence,” she says. “Stop clinging to a false narrative and say, ‘OK, this, what we claim as history, could be true – but you were there with us, the black people were there too. So let’s add the black history in there, and be brave enough to hear it.’"

A copy of Jake Dyble's "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany"

Delighted to get my hands on a physical copy of @jakedyble.bsky.social's "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe"! This is an indispensable read for historians of the early modern maritime economy – the nuts and bolts of maritime practices matter so much, as Jake demonstrates

Academics about their conference paper: I worked on it for years yesterday

I'm not qualified to write it, but I would love to read / watch an examination of morality & lawfulness in RPG protagonists across different cultures.

Many American RPGs tend to make "good" feel like being a cop, it's weird...

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

Alice Thornton project getting coverage in the press:

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Project site: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Bsky: @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social

#History 🗃️

A young man with a large afro hairstyle and sunglasses, dressed in a denim jacket, jeans, and brown boots, posing with one hand on his hip and the other on a yellow and black motorcycle in a grassy rural field with trees and buildings in the background.

When you wear denim jeans with a denim jacket, you create a very unique look. Sometimes you can even include a denim shirt.
This look is known as The Canadian Tuxedo....but why?
It all began in the 1950s in Vancouver. This is the story.

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‘Great initiative by Wiley!’ Not a sentence that typically trips off one’s fingers, but credit where credit is due….

I could not agree more!

I wish I had known about the liberal arts as I pursued my degrees in biology. A liberal arts education generates well-rounded, creative, and knowledgeable scientists (and doctors, politicians, etc). It's also why I love my job: I learn so much from my colleagues & students.

Reposting this because I got such great responses and others might be interested in doing a similar assignment.

#teaching #pedagogy #skystorians

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Textile artist featuring three small black and white birds with long forked tails in flight, flying right against a swirling blue green sky

'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt

A photo taken through the window of a train. The name of the station "Newton for Hyde" can be seen on a sign. Inside the train a piece of paper is held up to the window with a sketch of a bewigged gentleman holding up a sign saying "Leibnitz for Jekyll"

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

Harewood House reveals portrait of unique Jane Austen character Sanditon's Miss Lambe is the only Austen character 'explicitly of African descent'.

Thrilled that the story of Lela Harris’s stunning portrait of Miss Lambe from #Sanditon has made it to the BBC news. You can read more about her incredible work and how my research on the Lady’s Magazine, fashion plates and Austen intersect with it here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

The Clothworkers’ team is cataloguing beautiful new pieces like this Palestinian thobe Malaka (royal dress) from Bethlehem. It features Tahriri, a couching technique that is unique to the region. The design is called kuwwar meaning ‘flowerpot’, thought to be a variation of the tree of life motif.

I'm thrilled to share that I've received a £1,000 grant from the V&A/Bunnett-Muir Musical Theatre Archive Trust to write a new article: ‘From Fo’c’sle to Footlights: Maritime Imaginaries in British Musical Theatre’. Can’t wait to dive into the archives! ⚓ #VandA #TheatreStudies #CulturalHistory

Job spotlight of the week: Lecturer in Historic Environment at the IHR, Senate House, London. Fixed-term for 12 months, 17.5 hours per week, £45K pro-rata.

📢 Calling all recent graduates! If you're looking for an entry-level position in publishing we're hiring an Assistant Production Editor which will have full training provided. Closing date 1 August. Find out more 👉 buff.ly/93dqb6h

Research Fellow - School of History and Cultures - 105992 - Grade 7 To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within the Leverhulme Trust funded research project "The Ascent Of Paper Currency In Britain, 1690s...

Job spotlight of the week:
Research Fellow in Economic History at the University of Birmingham, working on the Leverhulme Trust funded project "The Ascent Of Paper Currency In Britain, 1690s–1920s".
Full time, £37k, fixed term to September 2027.

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Grad students working on labor 👀 Check out this call for submissions for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf Prize. The recipient will receive a $250 and an invitation to develop the paper for publication in AWR @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-wol...

THIS.

The regatta is spread on the bay .... how the white sails sparkle!

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.

tomlehrersongs.com

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

😢 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

in one of my favorite books of all time - JUNO & JULIET, an Irish romcom by Julian Gough - one character explains to another that constantly pretending to be an asshole as a joke is meaningfully indistinguishable from actually being an asshole, and I've thought about that every day for 24 years

While everybody hates the 'let's define our terms' part of discourse I am really really grateful for having been trained to expect it as it's extremely useful for figuring out when a challenging counterpoint is being raised vs. an argument based on a different understanding of a word, like 'cooking'

Queer History: Polar Exploration - South Street Seaport Museum Learn all about queer maritime and polar history in this evening of free talks in this mini-symposium presented by the South Street Seaport Museum and the polar social club, Terror and Erebus Society.

🗣️ UPCOMING NYC EVENT 🗣️

On July 31st, we’ll be back at the South Street Seaport Museum for another FREE evening of polar & maritime talks, this time with a Queer History theme 🌈✨

❄️ MORE INFO & RSVP HERE: southstreetseaportmuseum.org/queer-polar-...

surely there must be some good examples out there of utopian academic conference organizing.

i mean ‘what would a genuinely utopian conference look like?’ not ‘conferences about utopianism’.

hmu with your manifestos etc

Awesome new tenure-track position posted at Middlebury: early modern Mediterranean art history plus digital art history/digital humanities/data #dh #dah #earlymodern

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