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Oh look what has arrived today! Thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social and everyone involved in getting this out! Worlds of the ring is a rich cultural history that explores the circus from a transnational angle

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Two roosters from the late-thirteenth-century Percy Psalter.

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A very exact garden thief in 1764: they stole "a watering can, a hoe, 62 head of lettuce, and that many onions" during the night.

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We just launched the website of our ERC project CATTLEFRONTIERS. Have a look at www.cattlefrontiers.eu With 5 historians at different career levels and supporting staff, we will be studying the transformations of cattle production in (post)colonial Africa until well into 2028...

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To celebrate and conclude five years of research by the Moving Animals project, @rafdebont.bsky.social and I have organized the conference “Moving Animals: Wanderings in the Anthropocene” on Jan 31 in Maastricht. #envhist #animalhist Program at: moving-animals.nl/upcoming-mov...

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#ECR / #PhD candidates who do #provenance research on #zoological #collections, please join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social for a workshop in March. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁 #HistNatHist Please share & let us know about your work even if you cannot make it to the workshop.

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Doing their best to keep me from getting back to work after the holidays.

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Dutch Archaeological "living museum" Archeon now uses AI visuals. In the Mesolithic we meet a bunch of corpulent half-naked Obelix-characters. White. No women. We can debate Mesolithic people's skin colour (likely dark); they did not live life half-naked and there definitely were women.

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Someone at CUP's been working overtime to get all my stuff out before the new year, so hey here's my @historicaljnl.bsky.social article on water infrastructure and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia! Open Access! 🗃️ doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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Did you know that Oliver Cromwell banned work emails at Christmas, claiming they were a hangover from paganism? They were only brought back at the Restoration in 1660.

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A thread of just some of the interesting bequests that users have recently discovered in the wills 📜 on our @zooniverse.bsky.social site: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... #history #skystorians #citizenscience #earlymodern 1/ 'One Hollande Cheese' 🧀

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Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!

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Every 19th century German academic: after Abitur at the age of 16 they defended their thesis (17 pages, 3 footnotes) on Hegel at 23 in Tübingen, followed by a habilitation on Roman History at 25 in Marburg. Then held the chair of medicine at the Karl-Justus-Heinrich-Wilhelm-Universität for 55 years.

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As book review editor, I was not involved at all, but very exciting that our new journal has published its first article in agricultural history! Its also great that it is a non-Anglosphere perspective on the development of intensive confinement agriculture. online.ucpress.edu/ah/article/d...

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2025 is the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants War. I would like to organize some panels for SCS 2025 on the PW, Gender, and Sexual Violence. Please touch base if interested in starting a conversation on this topic. #earlymodern @16csociety.bsky.social #skyhistorians

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We have an Open CfP for a Special Issue in Business History: „Business History and Imperialism“ We Are Looking for empirical studies, historiographical Artikels and papers on theoretical Development. We are happy to answer any questions in advance! think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Anyway. An archaeology break with a thread ! I want you to look at this lovely photo which belongs to the National Museums Northern Ireland. It's a turf travois up in 19th c Glendun. Now zoom on the harness ( welcome to my life ). Notice anything ? It's all straw

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just told Bubbles her breakfast will be delayed by 5 minutes

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Toll: Frühneuzeitliche Waldweide bei Ulm. Hinten rechts sagen sich Fuchs & Hase Gute Nacht. Die Kühe sehen fast aus wie Wasserbüffel, das kann aber nicht sein. Jedenfalls war dieser Wald voller Schmetterlinge & Bienen. Dank an @jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/bild_z...

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Don't think I have ever seen this many storks on single roofs, but then again, they 'should' have flown off several months ago.

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Here's a full view of the cover, which I think came out rather nicely.

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Slogging through some 1570s probate records and came across a will that named some of the animals given to relatives, something I don't usually see, with names like Lockwood, Primrose (Prymrosse), and Motherlike.

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Our special issue of Nuncius is out! brill.com/view/journal... @whitmerkelly.bsky.social & I are grateful to our collaborators Christiana Bers, @hannahod.bsky.social, Jenny Beckman, Michael Markert, Margarete Vöhringer & Anna Kotomina. #collections #pedagogy #universities #C18 #C19 #C20

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two shot of the step sisters

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In 1402, King David II of Solomonic Ethiopia sent an ambassadorial gift of 4 live leopards from the Horn of Africa to the Republic of Venice. The Venetians were pleased, but also slightly panicked, when confronted with the reality of transporting the animals around in Italy.

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Omg @butserancientfarm.co.uk is here!! My Soay sheep all trace their ancestry back to animals that were originally brought from the island of Soay to Butser Farm for experimental archaeology.

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Mein Vortrag über Woermann, den Baakenhafen in Hamburg und den Genozid an den Herero und Nama ist jetzt online bei DLF Nova: www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/here...

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1) The term “Judeo-Christian” first appeared in the 19th century, in the context of trying to convert Jews to Christianity. 2) It’s Islamaphobic 3) most Jewish advances (Talmud, law, etc) developed under not-Christian rule, that’s usually sucked for us 4) the Crusaders mass-murdered Jews. 1/x

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Historians! I'm drawing up a bibliography of work from any region and any period that reflects on what history looks like from the sides, from the middles-of-nowhere, from the peripheries; and work that examines how those places come to be defined that way. I'd love some recommendations.

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