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Probably the most unlikely #ThirtyYearsWar article I've ever written. Written for my great friend @leosmuller.bsky.social it follows #Bohemian exiles into the Transoceanic world of the Dutch VOC, WIC, colonial America. First 2x DMs gets a hard copy of the book. www.academia.edu/resource/wor...

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Very demure, very mindful:

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I have to admit that my first thought wasn’t “hand to hand combat” when I saw those illustrations 😂 I’m blaming my small phone screen 😇

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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

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Vandaag was de opening van de tentoonstelling 'De wereld van Johan de Witt' in het Dordrechts Museum en de lancering van het gelijknamige boek. Beide aan te bevelen! @inekehuysman.bsky.social @jmvtol.bsky.social En als je dan toch naar Dordrecht gaat, doe dit dan op 8 mei en kom naar mijn lezing.

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Hannah Arendt repeatedly stated that everything the Nazis did, including the concentration camps, was 100% legal. Giorgio Agamben warned that international law has never been changed and thus still allows for it. We can’t say we haven’t been warned.

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Vanaf morgen opent een prachtige tentoonstelling in het Dordrechts Museum: De Wereld van Johan de Witt. Luc Panhuysen, Ineke Huysman, Marianne Eekhout en ik schreven een bijbehorend boek, waarin nieuwe inzichten worden gedeeld. Vanaf vandaag te koop wbooks.com/winkel/kunst...

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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Waarom is niet in de kieswet opgenomen dat alleen politieke partijen (met statuten, leden, en democratische besluitvorming middels ledenraadpleging) mee mogen doen aan verkiezingen? Ik vrees dat het nu te laat is, en ik zal nooit begrijpen waarom dit gewoon kan. Het is zo’n no brainer…

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It finally arrived! 💪 @manchesterup.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @saesfrance.org @bsecs.bsky.social @sfeds-bs.bsky.social #Jacobite #Lorraine #History #Travel

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Happy World Penguin Day to all penguins, but especially Nils, who didn’t let living in Edinburgh (or being a penguin) stop him from becoming The Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. He’s also been knighted. His official title is Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III and here he is looking regal af

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First post ever on Bluesky... Seems like a great opportunity to announce the publication of a new article I wrote with Lidewij Nissen on 'Women and Political Agency in the Early Modern Low Countries' ☺️ Check it out! emlc-journal.org/article/view... @emlcjournal.bsky.social

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Vanaf vandaag is de documentaire 'Riefenstahl' te zien in de bioscoop. Leni Riefenstahl is een pionier in de filmgeschiedenis, en de bekendste regisseur van nazi-Duitsland. Berucht om propagandafilms en om haar weigering historische schuld te bekennen. @annettebirschel.bsky.social bekeek de film:

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Pete Hegseth installed a make-up station at the Pentagon. JD Vance loves a smoky dark eyeliner. Trump cakes on orange base till he resembles an Oompa Loompa. And these guys say LGBTQs are threatening gender norms?

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Ik heb de Shoah serie van Claude Lanzmann op DVD, daarin komen ook getuigenissen over Sobibor voorbij. Heel indrukwekkend. Dit boek ga ik zeker lezen!

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Brilliant business idea! Learn to make your own VD-medicine! Course with Geo. Wilson Chymist! ⚗️🧪 #17thC #earlymodern

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Ik heb nog maar drie standaard (21,5 x 16,5 cm) kabinetjes op voorraad en ga voorlopig geen nieuwe maken. (Tenzij ik een gericht opdracht krijg, dat kan in DM) dus mocht je er nog eentje willen: deze heb ik nog! Nu €465,- ipv €490,- op is op. DM bij interesse, repost is lief.

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Belgians muttering swear words under their breath I’m reading a book by Dutch historian Andriessen, who blames France for WWI (and coercing Belgium in order to keep the war off French soil in order to drag Britain in). They succeeded & Germany got the blame. This quote cynically proves his point.

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Top tier marketing:

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Ter ere van het 400ste geboortejaar van Johan de Witt stelde het Dordrechts Museum de tentoonstelling 'De Wereld van Johan de Witt' samen, met collega @inekehuysman.bsky.social als adviseur! De tentoonstelling wordt morgen feestelijk geopend en loopt t/m 26 oktober 2025. Meer info 👇

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Vanaf de verjaardag van koning Willem-Alexander (!) is er een werkelijk adembenemende tentoonstelling van 17e eeuwse meesterwerken in het Dordrechts Museum: De Wereld van De Witt. De komende dagen wordt er in de media aandacht aan besteed. Er is ook een gelijknamig boek: wbooks.com/winkel/kunst...

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We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June

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#cfp I have received some fabulous news about an upcoming conference on the history of publishing, organised by the Universitat de Barcelona. The deadline for paper abstracts is 30 May 2025. Do consider submitting one! #publishinghistory #internationalnetworks

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#BookHistory If your name is Natasha and you emailed me about participating in the upcoming SHARP bibliography, could you please email me again? I was cleaning out the spam bibliographer email and accidentally permanently deleted your email!

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Sounds interesting!

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Portrait of a Lady, Said to be Mary Stuart, Wife of William II, n.d., attr. to #LouiseHollandine, Princess of the Palatine (German, 1622-1709), who was born #otd, Apr 18. Private collection; source, Female Artists in History, facebook.com/female.artis... #womenartists #artherstory

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