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A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺

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A good day to tell everyone about one of my favorite websites: the Commercial Pattern Archive: copa.apps.uri.edu Vintage patterns all the way back to 1857, for personal research and reference.

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“The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.” One dollar. I had a dollar! craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

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I'm curating a collection of good reads on the horrors of AI that I can assign to students. So far I've got Teen Vogue on the environment, and the @guinz.bsky.social Substack piece. Any other recs? Needs to be short so that students will actually read it.

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Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access! Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians

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Amsterdam University Press is sending out letters today notifying series editors and authors that they have been taken over – or shall we say: annexed? – by Taylor & Francis. Not a good day. The evil empire of academic publishing is growing.

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Just got an email from Amsterdam uni press saying it (and thus my book) has been acquired by Taylor & Francis?? I’m confused, has it been acquired or is T&R just the distributor now? It seems like all the new editorial contacts are not AUP…

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side effect of AI-in-higher-ed: having to spend my ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE googling footnotes for articles that I can't believe I missed off my reading lists only to discover that they aren't, in fact, real articles

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Princeton University Press was the first of my clients to have a no AI policy for copyeditors as well as authors. I hope to see it become the norm.

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We are advertising a permanent position in Early Modern Irish History in Maynooth. I can safely say this is one of the friendliest and most collegial environments in which to work and the students are lovely. You'd be joining a great team. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

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Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires0- University of Cambridge - Department of History of Art #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND932/a...

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Lecturer in Medieval History of Art University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND415/l...

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🐳Elke maand plaatsen we een bijzonder archiefstuk uit onze collectie in de schijnwerpers. Deze keer: een verslag van de vondst van een walvisgeraamte bij Lutjewinkel in 1654. www.regionaalarchiefalkmaar.nl/over-ons/nie...

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Fancy spending a few hours on Monday 12th May listening to me reveal some experiences of the 18th century Bath ballroom? Tickets still on sale for in person and online attendance for Trials and Tribulations www.brlsi.org/whatson/tria... @cecs-york.bsky.social #Austenites #JaneAusten250 #Bridgerton

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I'm honored to at the University of Glasgow next Wednesday for the Center for Gender History's annual Global Gender History public lecture to talk about the 18th-century migration stories of "Charlotte from the nation of Senegal" and other enslaved and free black women from West Africa to Nantes.

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Fantastic to get my hands on the physical copies of the latest issue of "The Historian" @histassoc.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to work with my @openarc.bsky.social colleagues Dr Charlotte Brownhill & Dr Sara Wolfson on this special issue to mark the 400th anniversary of Charles I's accession.

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After months of posting about Whales! Whales! Whales! the exhibit is finally up! mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/...

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Besides the amazing @sarahabendall.bsky.social is there anyone else whose work touches on c17th India Women/India Shops? I have a suite of women - a Mrs. Ferguson, Taylor, Mary Whitehome, & Eliza Anderson supplying the Duchess of Lauderdale & neither time/space to dig deeper but I want... 🗃️

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#Palaeography folks please! What does it say between 'his' and 'most'? 'for his deare Sonne Jesus Christ his [?] most gratious Lord and Saviour my boddy I returne to the earth'

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New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

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Robert Craig sold 19.25 ells of 'noir de Flandres' to Mary of Guise on 5 November 1553. He had been an assistant to Thomas Arthur, a tailor who worked for James V (NLS)

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Our first EMC seminar for the year takes place on Tuesday 15 April with Dr Sarah Bendall (@sarahabendall.bsky.social) ✨ Sarah is presenting “Celebrity, Scandal and Friendship: The social and business networks of female milliners in late 17th century London” 👒 All Melbourne-based folks welcome!

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Looking forward to presenting some research from my forthcoming book in a couple of weeks! Melbourne people, please come along!

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PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international

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My department at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History. Read more about the position and the conditions here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Does anyone know what Bible story is being depicted here on this mid 17C needlework? Inclusion of camel in corner suggests Old Testament and sizes of figures and use of tent suggests a king and either a non-royal man or servant. The smaller man looks to have a sword or staff. Thanks for your help!

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Published an English-language book on French history this year? The AHA's Russell Major Book Prize is accepting submissions til May 15. 🗃️ More info here: www.historians.org/award-grant/...

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Two three year postdocs advertised at @camhistory.bsky.social, to work with the brilliant Niamh Gallagher on her UKRI project, Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire. Not just looking for historians btw... www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

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Why are students using “male” and “female” as nouns so much these days???!!!! “Males did this, females did that...” - where is this language coming from? Why can't they just say men and women???!! This is not a scientific study. Male and female should always be an adjective: “female workers” etc

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The Amsterdam Maritime Museum has just announced a round of fellowships for PhD holders, PhD candidates, and Master students to conduct research in their collections. It's a fantastic museum with very rich collections, and also Amsterdam... www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/collection/r...

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