Finally received my own copy of this classic banger — just in time for the weekend 📚
Project manager @mikaelalm.bsky.social presents the project as an exemple of a research infrastructure project at "Things That Matter: Material & Culture in/for the Digital Age" at Bern University. What work goes into the creation of a digitised collection?
Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria!
Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.
Sök senast den 17 augusti!
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
Kungliga biblioteket återskapar biblioteksmiljön från herrgården Säbylund, med 4000 böcker och unika föremål. Samlingen, som har anor från 1700-talet, får nytt liv på Roggebiblioteket i Strängnäs. svenskhistoria.se/biblioteksmi... #svhist
Master's workshop continues! Thesis on two case studies on claims of compensation against Lübeck in the 16th century (chaired by @mouseemperor.bsky.social), and I just learned that OpenAI's online ChatGTP function recognises Middle Low German elements in Early New German texts.
Thrilled to share that the anthology "Från handskrift till digitalt kulturarv: Perspektiv på specialsamlingar", that I’ve co-edited with @sjokvist.bsky.social has been published.
It's available both in #openaccess and in print: www.diva-portal.org/smash/record....
#bookhistory #specialcollections
Preparations for next week's 'Early Modern Christmas' at @uu.se: the Department of History's annual Master's Workshop, with six theses (by second-year students) and seven thesis proposals (by first-year students) from the Early Modern Master's Programme. Fabulous!
Ny publikation med kapitel av projektets @mikaelalm.bsky.social & @johansjoberg70.bsky.social
Projektets bokbindare, Adam Larsson, mottog idag medalj för nit och redlighet efter 30 år i statlig tjänst 👏👏👏
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Want to see what you can find? 📜
Head over to our @zooniverse.bsky.social site to explore our sixteenth-century wills: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
#history #earlymodern #skystorians #citizenscience #crowdsourcing @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social
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I have a book! It is actually real!
Our dear cooperation partners Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith have published their opus magnum on letterlocking: 'Letterlocking. The Hidden History of the Letter' by Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group (MIT Press). Congratulations!
Våren är här!🌞 Dags att fira dess ankomst med ett gediget möte 24 April kl.17:00 på Humanistiska Teatern i Uppsala. Rebecka Lennartsson & Mats Hayen föreläser om projektet "Stadens ansikten" - du vill inte missa det. Vi ses där!🌹
Excellent lecture today by @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social and Rebekah Ahrendt on the Brienne collection and 'Dirty Metadata and Clean Cataloguing'. This was the last lecture organised by the project. It couldn't have had a better ending!
Our lecture series continues! Welcome to Carolina Rediviva for an exciting talk by @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social & Rebekah Ahrendt.
We're off! #esshc2025
The @uu.se history students' association invited me as a guest lecturer tonight. Not only were they the sweetest, most engaged audience I've ever had, they also *gave me flowers*. I think I've peaked now, job-wise.
#ONT, March 16 in 1792, Swedish king Gustav III (1746–1792) was shot and mortally wounded at a masquerade at the Opera in Stockholm.
The EMMRN hosts a peer-to-peer research tool designed to connect people who need photographs of pieces of marginalia with people who can take those photographs. The site also hosts a blog about marginalia and facilitates a network of researchers who use marginalia in their research.
It has come to my knowledge that the pre-info (incl. table of contents) of Academic Households in #EarlyModern Northern Europe is now available, the actual book will come out after summer!
www.routledge.com/Academic-Hou...
My University has left X and joined Bluesky.
bsky.app/profile/uu.se
We are so excited to team up with @insuhi.bsky.social, @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social, HTC & @thinkuhi.bsky.social Literature, & be part of the new MLitt programme, Early Modern European Studies (EMES)!
Enrolments for Sept 2025 and Jan 2026 will open shortly, so visit bit.ly/3EUjymB for more info!
Our HTR coordinator, Kristoffer, bravely participated in the Vasa ski race today. He did not win. We are looking into suspected sabotage and, maybe, corruption.
Selected Depositions from the Court of the Bishop of Hereford 1597-1601. New online set of church court depositions with images, transcription and translation. Great introduction to these fantastic records which provide such great social history insight. 🗃️ depositions.drc.usask.ca/node/1
Looking forward to giving a talk with Rebekah Ahrendt in Uppsala this April, on metadata madness and historical correspondence.
Our lectures continue! Welcome (no registration, no cost)!
libcal.ub.uu.se/event/4355432
Lehrkräfte aufgepasst – neue Fortbildungsreihe zu Games im Unterricht startet – ab nächster Woche: jeden Montag, 16-18 Uhr, online über Zoom und offen für alle – veranstaltet von der Evangelischen Schulstiftung in Mitteldeutschland.
#blueLZ #games
Anmeldung: www.schulstiftung-ekm.de/stiftung/fba...
