One month until our Dymond Lecture! We will be joined by Professors Craig Lambert and John McAleer, who will discuss English merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities. Find out more: ow.ly/UMlw50SE3Mi #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

If you're looking for a good and accessible introduction to the #GunpowderPlot, its background and consequences, there's a chapter by me and Alan Dures in our 'English Catholicism' Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology routledge.com/English-Cathol…

Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook* Send your research proposals and creative responses to Helen Smith and me by 13th Jan thinicepress.org/research/call-…

Oh Microsoft Word, you buggy piece of shit.

Did I call Microsoft Word buggy and a piece of shit? It's also buggy and a piece of excrement.

I'm leaving, like most people. Not deleting my account here, though, nor locking it unless necessary. You can find me in the other place, same handle. Oh, and I'm using the service plugged below to migrate my account. You might find it convenient too.

To help celebrate #AHA25, we’re offering free access to our most recently published history #Elements! cup.org/4ikdzqB In town and at the conference? Visit us in booth #1003 in the exhibit hall to browse our Elements and more!

GERMANY ATTACKS ACADEMIC FREEDOM This week the German Bundestag is due to vote on a controversial resolution aimed at silencing critical anti-Zionist voices under the fake pretext of antisemitism. 1/8

-- Otetaan eduskuntaan ja europarlamenttiin valitut "ulko- ja turvallisuuspolitiikan ammattilaiset" ensin. Yksikään heistä ei halunnut tajuta, millainen Trumpin presidenttikaden alku olisi, vaikka merkit olivat selvät. Toiveajattelua ja onttoja arvuutteluja kyllä piisasi.

-- Niin tosiaan, raha. Talouselämä. Lienette havainneet, ettei työllisyyspolitiikka tuota tulosta? Talouspolitiikka on räätälöity syventämään taantumaa, muttei sillä ole mitään väliä, koska kyse on jo pitkään ollut ihan vain silkasta uskonasiasta. Päätä hakataan seinään, lujaa.

Pointti: Iso peukku yleistajuistamiselle, siihen tarvitaan kuitenkin resursseja ja kannustimia. Arvostakaa tutkijoita, jotka sitä tekevät, älkää haukkuko, jos joku ei löydä aikaa tai ole erityisen hyvä yleistajuistamisessa. Se on vaativa taito! 10/10

Written in November 2024. So sad to see people falling for these tactics now. You still have a choice. You always have a choice in how you treat people. Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of-d…

It's the DOGE playbook. Plunder: take something that was carefully built up over generations and burn it to the ground, warming yourself in the pyre, leaving nothing behind but ash. It's what PE plunderers have been doing to the world's "advanced" economies since Reagan. 22/

But executive row is different: those *very wealthy* people *do* believe their job is to kill people to save money, and get richer. Those people are *personally* to blame for the systemic problem. They are the ones who design and operate the system. 47/

Oh blimey. There it is. Libel lawsuits for all. NYT vs Sullivan has protected US journalism from crippling defamation suits. Trump made it clear he wanted it gone. Now one of acolytes is trying to make that happen

The story of a 17th century record lost at sea in 1912 when SS Oceana sank. blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…

Tervetuloa kuulemaan uusinta tutkimusta uuden ajan alusta! Trivium en uudet varhaismodernin ajan dosentit esittelevät tutkimustaan kaikille avoimessa seminaarissa to 27.2. klo 14.00–18.00 Tampereen yliopistolla research.tuni.fi/trivium-fi/suo…

Our first seminar of the semester is today (6pm)! Join us (in person or online) to welcome Eva Johanna Holmberg (Uni of Helsinki) who presents a paper titled ‘The Torments and Travails of Jamestown: Early 17th century settler colonial body in pain’. 📍 The Treehouse, HRC York

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

Great opportunity for Canada and Mexico to expand their healthcare sectors to cater for 300m more people.