Cover of Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica by Katharine Gerbner. Features an image of an old handwritten ledger or registry page with rows and columns filled with cursive names and annotations and what appears to be an ink smudge at the bottom. The title is overlaid in large black serif font with the subtitle below in smaller black text and the author's name is at the bottom. A vertical red stripe runs along the left edge of the cover.
The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
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01.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 78 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 2
YouTube video by CSMBR Pisa
THE BODY AND THE STARS IN THE VITALI ARCHIVE - S. Mambriani (Parma)
Happy to share the latest recorded lecture:
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞
Serena Mambriani
𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: youtu.be/s8UpmKMaVVA?...
#CSMBR #Astrology
30.10.2025 09:25 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Working Knowledge
Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working Knowledge is the first English-language collection of essays by Simon Schaffer, coautho...
Ooh, Simon Schaffer reader coming down the pike. I blogged through a good chunk of his oeuvre back in the day, which was really illuminating. Too bad they didn't include "The Show That Never Ends" (on perpetual motion), which is probably my favorite: doi.org/10.1017/S000... #HPS
29.10.2025 22:41 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
One week to go to my Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. Hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and maintaining a love of art throughout her life. 5th November 1-2pm Weston Library:
photooxford.org/events/const...
29.10.2025 09:15 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
At the University of Milan, lecture series on the “Annales school”, from November 2025 to March 2026, with great speakers such as Müller, Rubin, Calafat, Burke and Abulafia! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @historysorbonne.bsky.social
28.10.2025 18:53 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Have you seen Black Atlas yet?
Described as “powerful and thought-provoking,” this new exhibition by artist Edward George explores the Image of the Black archive — 30,000+ images documenting representations of people of African descent across history.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #ArtHistory
28.10.2025 11:28 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:
photooxford.org/events/const...
05.10.2025 09:37 — 👍 30 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2
Visual History of European Alchemy
This course opens a window onto the development of European visual culture and the history of science by tracing the evolution of alchemy and its artefacts.
Short course: Visual History of European Alchemy
15–19 Dec 2025 | 2–4pm (Online)
From medicinal alchemy in China to Jungian dream analysis, trace how alchemy shaped European art, science and symbolism.
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Alchemy #HistoryofScience #ArtHistory
25.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Awesome double-exposure ghost!
Anaglyph version for red/blue glasses.
Freeview vesion in the comments
24.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 54 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
24.10.2025 10:20 — 👍 14 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
You see screens from one of the "HistoryCity Apps"
Screenshot from the app "Hidden Hamburg".
We are celebrating 8.000 downloads of the app “Hidden Hamburg”, 2.000 downloads of the open access book about the app trail, and some more 250.000 clicks on the #AppleMaps “Time Jump” of Hamburg 1686.
A thread with updates, esp. for #earlymodern #skystorians.
#digitalhistory and #publichistory
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06.05.2024 09:14 — 👍 89 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 2
Le programme du séminaire « Archives normaliennes » est en ligne
➡️ ihmc.ens.psl.eu/-archives-no...
Il se tiendra le vendredi, de 10h à 12h, à @normalesup.bsky.social (s. IHMC), sauf pour la prochaine séance, qui sera la journée d'études « Marc Bloch, l'historien dans la cité », vendredi 14 novembre
20.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
"What distinguishes Suther’s Hegel is how embodied this most absolute of German Idealisms appears: rational and conceptual all the way down—yet thoroughly biological."
New in review, Christopher Gortmaker on Jensen Suther's True Materialism: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/christopher_...
17.10.2025 00:37 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover in with hot pink background, title reversed out of lavender block. At top center is an early modern botanical drawing of two bulb plants.
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
20.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
19.10.2025 10:25 — 👍 166 🔁 54 💬 7 📌 2
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...
15.10.2025 00:33 — 👍 52 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 1
Truth teller of Empire
'Naoroji believed that significant autonomy was the only remedy for poverty in his homeland.'
Dinyar Patel on Dadabhai Naoroji, the first Indian elected to the House of Commons
19.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Artist Open Call | Glasgow Women's Library
Glasgow Women’s Library is seeking expressions of interest from artists with intersectional and socially engaged practices.
GWL is commissioning new works for our #WeMakeMuseums project to be exhibited at Glasgow International 2026.
We’re seeking women artists with socially engaged, intersectional practices informed by environmental, class-aware, & anti-racist approaches.
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/24/a...
13.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.
Boo!
14.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 301 🔁 61 💬 5 📌 0
Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography
Join me and me and an amazing panel to discuss "Picturing Aura" at the Warburg Institute on 16/10, in person or streamed online. Register here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
12.10.2025 12:31 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200
Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 2
This week we're back at the IHR on Weds 15 October, where we welcome Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds), speaking on "Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200". All welcome, please sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
13.10.2025 08:52 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.
“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
12.10.2025 09:05 — 👍 396 🔁 173 💬 5 📌 5
Historian of early modern Europe | Author of Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (Chicago, 2024) | Co-editor of The Recipes Project | Asst Prof of History at TCU | Taco enthusiast
The Library of London History.
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*Devices of Enlightenment* (current)
*On Wonder* (Cambridge '25)
*The Experimental Imagination* (Stanford '18/'20)
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I am a socio-legal researcher working on reproductive justice, social movements, and history. Based at Bristol Law School. https://elenacaruso.co.uk
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The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Here to provide you with up-to-date information on Center news, events, and all the rest!
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Critical tech and AI. Cats, letterpress printing, tabletop gaming.
Distinguished University Professor at UMD; come January, Commonwealth Professor at UVA.
I am speaking only for myself and as a private citizen here. Being a dick will get you blocked.
The International Journal for the History of Cartography
Browse Issues: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rimu20
Optimistic Berliner • Professor for the Theory and History of Photography at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen • Chairman of the Essen Center for Photography
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The UK information profession's voice in #metadata #cataloguing and #discovery. Create, Share, Enrich, Maintain. #MetadataMatters
https://www.cilip.org.uk/mdg
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🧸Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth
🪁Our website: https://www.histchild.org/
admin: Bethan Catherine Watts
Home of the National Fairground and Circus Archive, the University Archives, Special Collections and the Heritage Collection.
Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Project website: invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org
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London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Director of the German Centre for Cosmological Lensing, RUB. #LongCovid (She/her)
