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John Theibault
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jacquelinehylkema.bsky.social
And the Tiger is out of the bag: I will be joining Princeton University next year as a Shelby Cullom Davis Fellow and go in search of Truth in the Dutch Republic.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Princeton fellowship for LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema
Jacqueline Hylkema, a cultural historian at LUC, will be appointed at Princeton University from January to June 2026. There, she will conduct research on the concept of truth in Dutch political forger...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
jtheibault.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

1) White tailed deer (our backyard)
2) Turkey (our backyard)
3) Groundhog (our backyard)
4) Gray Squirrel (our backyard)
5) Red Bat (our backyard)

The most exotic things I've seen in our yard are a Luna Moth and a Black Widow Spider.
chrisbrooke.bsky.social Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
dubdobdee.bsky.social 🤯😇🤩 dub dob dee 🤩😇🤯 @dubdobdee.bsky.social · 1d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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nataliesmith.bsky.social
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: Marginal Militaries: Navigating Historical Boundaries, Differences, and Experiences at the Military Periphery

Conference date: 22-23 October, 2026
Location: @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social Stockholm, Sweden (hybrid participation tbc)
Cfp Deadline: 28 February, 2026
CfP: Marginal Militaries: Navigating Historical Boundaries, Differences and Experiences at the Military Periphery From enslaved soldiers in republican-era Rome to foreign mercenaries in the Thirty-Years War and commonwealth soldiers in the World Wars, militaries have never been monolithic organisations. they have served as key sites in the formation of state power and different kinds of collective belongings. Yet the boundaries that determine who may serve, under what conditions and on whose behalf have never been fixed as these boundaries have shifted in response to changing configurations of citizenship, empire, class, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, physical capacities and national identity. Militaries have functioned both as mechanism for producing social hierarchies, and as arenas in which such hierarchies are negotiated, contested and reconfigured. This conference explores how lines of inclusion and exclusion have been drawn, negotiated and experienced within military organisations across diverse historical periods and geographical contexts. The aim is to foster a nuanced conversation that broadens our understanding of military institutions by focusing on the experiences and narratives of those often marginalised within them. We welcome contributions which examine how distinctions such as the following have been historically constructed, negotiated and embodied/experienced within and/or in relation to military institutions, organisations and structures: Race, ethnicity and minority status: Gender, gender-identity/non-conformity and sexuality Nationality, migration and statelessness: Religion: Disability status: While the emphasis is on historical perspectives, proposals are invited from scholars working in adjacent fields (political science, cultural studies). It will be held 22-23 October, 2026 the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden. We are applying for funding to hold it fully in person, but depending on the outcome, it could be a hybrid event. Please submit a preliminary title of maximum 150 characters and an abstract of maximum 350 words to MarginalMilitaries@gmail.com by no later than February 28. If you have any questions, please get in touch! Regards, Natalie Smith & Daniel Stridh
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
jtheibault.bsky.social
Twenty-two years. Ah. I remember it well. Both the small kerfuffle over the form that is the format for the joke and the bigger kerfuffle over the stunt referred to in it.
www.eschatonblog.com/2025/11/we-a...
We Are Aware Of All Internet Traditions
Happy Turkee Day! Nothing like an impossible-to-explain-you-had-to-be-there joke being your major life's legacy.
www.eschatonblog.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
jtheibault.bsky.social
This comes up in my book.
vor400.bsky.social vor400 (1625) @vor400.bsky.social · 2d
27.11.1625
König von Dänemark liegt noch zu Teilen im Feld im Stift Verden, Teile in unterschiedlichen Städten.
Stadt Hannover mit 23 Fähnlein zu Fuß besetzt.
Obrist von Merode hat das Commando über Reiterei und Fußvolk im Nieder-Fürstentum Hessen, Hauptquartier Eschwege.
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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vor400.bsky.social
Hessen, 27. Nov 1625
Beide Armeen, Tilly und Fridland [Wallenstein], haben wir nun die Winterquartiere begeben ❄
Herzog von Sachsen-Lauenburg hat die Brücke bei Dessau über die Elbe eingenommen, mit seiner Reiterei und tausend Musketieren. ... 1/3
Dessau Elbebruecke, 1626 von Merian
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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vor400.bsky.social
27.11.1625
General Tilly Hauptquartier noch zu Callenberg.

aus:
brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...

mehr zu den Winterquartieren 1625/26:
dkblog.hypotheses.org/5970
9. November 1625: Verständigung über die Winterquartiere?
Im Herbst begannen üblicherweise die Planungen für die Unterbringung der Truppen in der Winterszeit. Wie man eine ohnehin schon schlecht versorgte Armee durch die von Mangel geprägten Monate bringen s...
dkblog.hypotheses.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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milleanick.bsky.social
Our next @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #maps blog by @stuartackland.bsky.social features the "false" map of #Oxford from 1644. Look at this and be prepared to be confused!
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/. When is north not north? And who was Anthony Wood? @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bbcoxford.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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scottbot.bsky.social
Reminder: deadline next Monday.

Apply! Apply! Apply!
scottbot.bsky.social scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · Oct 4
The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open.

Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars.

This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there!

hnr2026.sciencesconf.org
HNR2026: The Historical Network Research Conference 2026 (Turin, Italy) - Sciencesconf.org
Call for Papers – Historical Network Research Conference 2026
hnr2026.sciencesconf.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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dancohen.org
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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ahmuf.bsky.social
🎓 Colloque "Les chemins de Daniel Roche. Vies matérielles et vies de l’esprit".

🗓️ 27-29 novembre 2025

📍 IMI-UTC, 62 bd Sébastopol Paris 3e, salle Daniel Quarante (jeudi) / Univ. Paris-Cité, Halle aux farines, salles 278F (vendredi) et 478F (samedi).

🔎 Plus d'informations ➡️ tph.hypotheses.org/1828
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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emodir.bsky.social
CFP📢Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life
🌍Germany 📅21–23 May 2026
⏰Deadline : 1 December 2025
🔗Info: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Palgrave, a former haven of academic publishing and home of rather expensive books, now proudly features this small recycling advice: “if disposing of this product, please recycle the paper”.
From one of the Palgrave books nowadays: If disposing of this product, please recycle the paper.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!
ihrscb.bsky.social IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 5d
Our final event of term is happening this Thursday (27 November) Dr Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social on 'English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700'. ✨📚 This talk will be in-person only at the IHR. You can sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700
This talk introduces the UKRI-funded Future Leaders project, The Global Library project.
www.history.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
jtheibault.bsky.social
fyi Lisa
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
This is absolutely beautiful writing
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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christinekooi.bsky.social
The Habsburg Netherlandish project of a united Low Countries was an impressive political failure that collapsed within two generations.
#earlymodern
vincenzodm.bsky.social Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social · 6d
This is so cool: the ‘Pragmatic Sanction’ (1549) issued by Charles V who decided that the Habsburg Netherlands can only be ruled by one monarch and cannot be divided (well, that did not work out). Photo shared by @karldrabbe.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
jtheibault.bsky.social
I'm struck by how many news reports focus on which troops are taking winter quarters where. I don't remember that being as big a theme in previous years (though that may just be my memory playing tricks on me).
vor400.bsky.social vor400 (1625) @vor400.bsky.social · 7d
Weser, 22. Nov 1625
Graf von Anholt und Obrist Gallas [Kaiserliche] sind in Minden einquartiert.
Kriegsvolk Anholt fast mehrenteils aufm Land Braunschweig weg.
Fußvolk in der Grafschaft Schaumburg in den Städten einquartiert. ... 1/2
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
jtheibault.bsky.social
I was happy to see Forsythia get recognized in the recent Michelin unveiling for Philly. It's the only one of the starred/recommended restaurants we've been to more than once or twice. And the last time we were there it was only about half full, so I was getting a little nervous for them.
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
jtheibault.bsky.social
An interesting print series by Sandow Birk on the GWOT, inspired by Callot's Miseries and Calamities of War.
sandowbirk.com/the-depravit...
(You may need to scroll down a bit)
The Depravities of War — Sandow Birk
sandowbirk.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
jtheibault.bsky.social
Some interesting thoughts here on how to model limits on grand strategy in the early modern era for a video game.
Funny, I haven't tried the Europa Universalis series. I wonder if I would learn something from it?
bretdevereaux.bsky.social "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9d
Well, my EU5 Netherlands run (starting as Holland) continues to go fairly well. It is 1574 and I just took Lubeck (from Sweden, oddly enough). I've vassalized Cologne and marginalized the Brussels trade center with my own in Amsterdam, so I now control 3 of the top 10 markets. 💰
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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bramderidder.bsky.social
🤩 Go-time voor Oproer en Omwenteling! #O&O

Met dank aan @ertsberg.bsky.social en @karldrabbe.bsky.social voor het geloof in het project; @vuurdistel.bsky.social voor de prachtig dramatische cover; en uiteraard aan co-auteur Joost Van Meerbeeck!
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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archival-exile.bsky.social
After a short posting hiatus, I'm very excited to share this CFP...

📢 Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire
📆 Conference dates: June 10–12, 2026
📝 Application deadline: December 19, 2025

Submissions very welcome from all #earlymodern disciplines — please do consider applying and sharing!
CALL FOR PAPERS ANNOUNCEMENT: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire June 10th–12th, 2026 Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland __________________ Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Thomas O’Connor Professor (History) Maynooth University Mayte Green-Mercado Associate Professor (History) Rutgers University-Newark Leonardo Velloso-Lyons Assistant Professor (Spanish and Portuguese) Emory University _________________ Exile, diaspora, displacement, multilingualism. Although recent events have brought current issues of migration into sharp relief, the existential dilemmas arising from globalisation, cultural homogenisation, and territorial expansion are anything but new. These dilemmas are deeply rooted in the imperial projects of the early modern period in many ways — and especially so for migrants caught in the ever-shifting dynamics of the Spanish empire as it expanded across the world. In the early 1600s, for example, the Spanish Crown welcomed thousands of Irish refugees who would use their newfound positions and language skills to aid fellow migrants in some cases (such as converso communities facing persecution in Mexico or their own kin facing often violent political subjugation in Ireland) even as they assisted in upholding the status quo in others (such as morisco communities facing expulsion in Iberia). This conference aims to spark innovative conversations on the way such crosscurrents contributed to emerging conceptions of identity and belonging at the time. What roles did migrants, whose movements were shaped by varying degrees of coercion and agency, play in sustaining, resisting, or remaking community structures in local as well as global contexts? And how did this complicate their representation amid power and precarity? [not all information will fit here, so please contact laura.francis@mu.ie for a full text document!] Proposals are thus encouraged, but not limited to, the following topics on the early modern Spanish empire: Migration & Community Migration & Naturalisation Migration & Solidarity Migration & Diplomacy Migration & Dissent Migration & Memory Migration & Multiculturalism Migration & Multilingualism Migration & Translation Migration & Book History Migration & Archives Migration & Materiality Migration & Racialization Migration & Religion Migration & Gender The conference also specifically aims to cultivate interdisciplinary debates and welcomes work from across fields, such as history, literature, philosophy, etc. Perspectives on understudied relations among multiple migrant communities and/or contact zones are especially desired. Application Information For consideration, those interested are invited submit a paper title (15 words max.), abstract (200 words max.), and brief biographical note (50 words max.) to this form by December 19th, 2025: https://forms.office.com/e/yzcmdrraee. Scholars at all career stages are highly encouraged to apply, and all applicants will be informed of acceptance by the end of January. [not all information will fit here, so please contact laura.francis@mu.ie for a full text document!]
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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lc-beguines.bsky.social
CFP: Yale graduate student conference "Ephemera & Place in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds," April 17, 2026.

This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social
How epidemic disease offers new perspectives on economic history—and vice versa. Honoured to blog for @camunicampop.bsky.social about my new book “Controlling Contagion”: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/11... ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬‬ @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @PrincetonUPress
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM