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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 10h

Tomorrow! We’ll journey from South Asia to the Caribbean to explore the colorful world of the textile trade by Connecting Threads with @deepthimurali.bsky.social. Register to join us!

Deepthi Murali @deepthimurali.bsky.social · 12h

Speaking at @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Coffeehouse series tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct 14, 12pm EST) about my project Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in the Caribbean. I am talking about 18th-19th century Indian textiles & Caribbean dress/identity. Sign-up: omohundro.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/o...

OI DH Coffeehouse—Fall 2025

Online brownbag sessions to explore DH projects

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 11h

Time travel! Pre order a copy of our @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social book, coming with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2026! www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/

The Global Age of Revolutions

Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of RevolutionsIn 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched AgeofRevolutions.com

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚

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Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social · 16h

So grateful to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social for their time and care and for giving me space to have a verrrrrrry "thinking out loud" piece.

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A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

The Edinburgh Journal of Botany now has its entire archives freely accessible online (if you go back far enough, you can read Beatrix Potter’s papers…)

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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - Journals

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 3d

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

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Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 4d

Our book launch is happening, at IASH in Edinburgh, October 29. It was there that @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I first met, and had an idea that we might do some work together. That was in 2012! If you'll be in Edinburgh then, please come to our launch. Details below.

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 4d

Book launch: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale UP)

Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks

Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.

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Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: Book Launch and Discussion

Join authors Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett to celebrate "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820".

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 5d

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 6d

From today, we will release the documents related to the Fort de Nantes, a French ship chartered by Francisco Sánchez de Madrid, a merchant from Cádiz, to travel to Veracruz and Havana. It was captured by two ships of the British Navy on January 5 1747, on its journey back and taken to Plymouth.

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastic news, @maryhicks.bsky.social. Congratulations and very well deserved!

Mary Hicks @maryhicks.bsky.social · 6d

I'm really honored to have Captive Cosmopolitans join the long line of fantastic books which have won the Warren Dean Memorial prize. Thanks so much to the committee members, who have authored many books that I've been inspired by, for this recognition:

CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Mary Hicks (@maryhicks.bsky.social) for winning the Warren Dean Prize for her book, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery (@oieahc.bsky.social & @uncpress.bsky.social).

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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 6d

We have an AMA today with @davidgreenberg.bsky.social on his book John Lewis: A Life. Come check it out!

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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 7d

The very definition of Hell itself

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 7d

In all seriousness: deadline for submissions is November 15th, I have two papers, I'd love a third, but if we get more I'm happy to submit two panels. Email me!

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 10d

Hey #vastearlyamerica folks, I'm thinking about putting together a panel for @cndhistassoc.bsky.social 's conference next summer, looking at religion and violence in the colonial wars between New France and New England/the mid-Atlantic (or just France & England in Canada). Anyone interested?

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 7d

Join us for the Digital Projects Coffeehouse for fascinating digital initiatives in #vastearlyamerica, and be sure to apply for Prof. Sarah Finley's “Oceanic Perspectives on Vast Early America” or Kristin Gallas “Whose History, Whose Voice? The Future of Interpreting Enslavement at Historic Sites”

OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute) @oieahc.bsky.social · 10d

We are diving back in to another season of OI Coffeehouses, Vast Early America! Come check them out - two have application deadlines of midnight, October 12, so apply now! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

OI Coffeehouse - OIEAHC

Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable online gathering place for many in the early A...

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 8d

Why do we play music so loudly in coffee shops in these United States?

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 8d

Historians who write books, please a) set up your own author website, independent of your university profile and b) get some professional headshots taken. Love, your friendly neighborhood podcaster.

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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 10d

And we have our cover! @cindyermus.bsky.social

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 9d

Who wants a free copy?
#graphichistory

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent episode of Love Scotland podcast on the creation of the National Trust for Scotland’s archive and the challenges of born digital records. Plus remarkable stories from the NTS archive about the Glencoe Massacre and the Titanic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Inside the archives

Podcast Episode · Love Scotland: Stories of Scotland's History and Nature · 10/03/2025 · 32m

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 9d

Trust, but verify.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 10d

Hey #vastearlyamerica folks, I'm thinking about putting together a panel for @cndhistassoc.bsky.social 's conference next summer, looking at religion and violence in the colonial wars between New France and New England/the mid-Atlantic (or just France & England in Canada). Anyone interested?

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 10d

While you were driving, too, right?

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 10d

Here's the line up!

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 10d

The @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse Series returns October 14th!

We're kicking things off with @deepthimurali.bsky.social, co-director of Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean

Sign up now to join the conversation.

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OI Digital Projects Coffeehouse - OIEAHC

Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable online gathering place for many in the early A...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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