Jur
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Vlaanderens Vetste rockband Triggerfinger in Leiden. Wat een genoegen!
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Vlaanderens Vetste rockband Triggerfinger in Leiden. Wat een genoegen!
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"Say 'the Son is not of the same substance as the Father' one more time. I dare you. I double dare you."
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Say 'the Son is not of the same substance as the Father' one more time. I dare you. I double dare you."
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Recently digitised - near Ismailia in Egypt in October 1940 French Spahis (North African light cavalry) exercise their horses for British War Office cameraman Gerald Massy-Collier. #filmcataloguing #history #ww2
Full film: IWM AYY 59-1/ www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full film: IWM AYY 59-1/ www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Recently digitised - near Ismailia in Egypt in October 1940 French Spahis (North African light cavalry) exercise their horses for British War Office cameraman Gerald Massy-Collier. #filmcataloguing #history #ww2
Full film: IWM AYY 59-1/ www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Full film: IWM AYY 59-1/ www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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Dat NRC heeft gerectificeerd was onvermijdelijk: een misstap die de formatie heeft beïnvloed.
Maar ik vind het ook opmerkelijk dat zelfs in het meest recente stuk van de hoofdredactie nog geen reflectie is gekomen op de diepere redactionele afwegingen.
Hieronder mijn draadje van vorige week.
Maar ik vind het ook opmerkelijk dat zelfs in het meest recente stuk van de hoofdredactie nog geen reflectie is gekomen op de diepere redactionele afwegingen.
Hieronder mijn draadje van vorige week.
Ook van de ombudsman een te vergoelijkend stuk. Niet alleen omdat het negeert dat alle onvolkomenheden eenzelfde kant opgaan. Of omdat het onjuiste vergelijkingen herhaalt (privé-communicatie vergelijken met publieke uitlatingen).
Opmerkelijk vind ik hoe NRC al een week diepere vraagstukken negeert.
Opmerkelijk vind ik hoe NRC al een week diepere vraagstukken negeert.
Nog meer slappe hap. Ditmaal van de ombudsman zelf. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Dat NRC heeft gerectificeerd was onvermijdelijk: een misstap die de formatie heeft beïnvloed.
Maar ik vind het ook opmerkelijk dat zelfs in het meest recente stuk van de hoofdredactie nog geen reflectie is gekomen op de diepere redactionele afwegingen.
Hieronder mijn draadje van vorige week.
Maar ik vind het ook opmerkelijk dat zelfs in het meest recente stuk van de hoofdredactie nog geen reflectie is gekomen op de diepere redactionele afwegingen.
Hieronder mijn draadje van vorige week.
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It almost goes without saying at this point that these are *exactly* the same canards that were once used to try to deny entrance to the US of Ashkenazi Jews like Miller’s great grandparents.
His argument is “the antisemites were basically right, they just got the specific targeting off a bit.”
His argument is “the antisemites were basically right, they just got the specific targeting off a bit.”
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It almost goes without saying at this point that these are *exactly* the same canards that were once used to try to deny entrance to the US of Ashkenazi Jews like Miller’s great grandparents.
His argument is “the antisemites were basically right, they just got the specific targeting off a bit.”
His argument is “the antisemites were basically right, they just got the specific targeting off a bit.”
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The mining company Union Minière moved their registered headquarters from Congo to Belgium 13 days before Congolese independence so that the company's assets would out of reach of the new government.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The mining company Union Minière moved their registered headquarters from Congo to Belgium 13 days before Congolese independence so that the company's assets would out of reach of the new government.
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Maybe esp. Phil Deloria's NYer piece on "the Invention of Thanksgiving." I still send that around to a lot of folks this time of year. Hope you and yours are where you wish to be, in all ways, this week/end. 4// www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Maybe esp. Phil Deloria's NYer piece on "the Invention of Thanksgiving." I still send that around to a lot of folks this time of year. Hope you and yours are where you wish to be, in all ways, this week/end. 4// www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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So my Atlantic World lecture lined up with Thanksgiving and I got to debunk these claims. I even said "You are going to hear people of a certain political motive make these claims and now you know how they aren't true".
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So my Atlantic World lecture lined up with Thanksgiving and I got to debunk these claims. I even said "You are going to hear people of a certain political motive make these claims and now you know how they aren't true".
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Don’t ever work for someone who doesn’t believe in work-life balance if you can at all avoid it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Don’t ever work for someone who doesn’t believe in work-life balance if you can at all avoid it.
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Thank you Franz-Stefan Gady for your very generous review of my book:
"The Crusader States and Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187"
Published in "War, Conflict and the Military" (2025).
Link to review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"The Crusader States and Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187"
Published in "War, Conflict and the Military" (2025).
Link to review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@hoanssolo.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank you Franz-Stefan Gady for your very generous review of my book:
"The Crusader States and Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187"
Published in "War, Conflict and the Military" (2025).
Link to review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@hoanssolo.bsky.social
"The Crusader States and Their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099–1187"
Published in "War, Conflict and the Military" (2025).
Link to review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@hoanssolo.bsky.social
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Het is vandaag de Internationale Dag voor de Uitbanning van Geweld tegen Vrouwen - geweldtegenvrouwenmelden.nl/data-en-cijf... #orangetheworld #25november
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Het is vandaag de Internationale Dag voor de Uitbanning van Geweld tegen Vrouwen - geweldtegenvrouwenmelden.nl/data-en-cijf... #orangetheworld #25november
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De Russische ambassade stelde vandaag dat de Russen Amsterdam en Nederland in 1813 bevrijd hebben, maar de historische waarheid is zoals verwacht enorm rijkgeschakeerd. Een kleine reconstructie van het Russische handelen in het woelige jaar 1813
De niet-Russische bevrijding van Nederland
Gelukkig echter is dit niet nodig geweest. Een detachement kozakken, op dringend verzoek hierheen gezonden en gecommandeerd door een uitermate beschaafde aanvoerder, heeft dit alles tot een einde g…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
De Russische ambassade stelde vandaag dat de Russen Amsterdam en Nederland in 1813 bevrijd hebben, maar de historische waarheid is zoals verwacht enorm rijkgeschakeerd. Een kleine reconstructie van het Russische handelen in het woelige jaar 1813
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Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
BOOK RAFFLE: ENTANGLED ALLIANCES
Ronaldo Angelo Johnson, Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). In conjunction with Ronaldo Johnson and Corne…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Enter for your chance to win a copy of Ronaldo Angelo Johnson's Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2025). The raffle ends this Friday (11/28) at 11:59pm EDT. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/11/24/b...
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Howard Pyle’s 1906 painting, “The Battle of Nashville,” depicts the attack of two Federal brigades against rebel positions near Shy’s Hill. Many of the troops involved were Minnesotans. Pyle’s painting created a stir among veterans, some of whom felt slighted by the artist’s depiction of events.
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Howard Pyle’s 1906 painting, “The Battle of Nashville,” depicts the attack of two Federal brigades against rebel positions near Shy’s Hill. Many of the troops involved were Minnesotans. Pyle’s painting created a stir among veterans, some of whom felt slighted by the artist’s depiction of events.
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Also, I had no idea that this made a minor note in some national news sites yesterday & that my name was mentioned. In all those mentions one journalist, just *one*, bothered to reach out to me to ask permission to use the photos and get a quote.
That's the state of journalism in this country.
That's the state of journalism in this country.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Also, I had no idea that this made a minor note in some national news sites yesterday & that my name was mentioned. In all those mentions one journalist, just *one*, bothered to reach out to me to ask permission to use the photos and get a quote.
That's the state of journalism in this country.
That's the state of journalism in this country.
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Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/
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Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
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Tonight on Ken Burns's American Revolution, Rick Atkinson is going is going to tell you:
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Tonight on Ken Burns's American Revolution, Rick Atkinson is going is going to tell you:
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
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Since people seem to have appreciated this, a closer look at this painting.
IWM ART LD 1514 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
IWM ART LD 1514 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Since people seem to have appreciated this, a closer look at this painting.
IWM ART LD 1514 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
IWM ART LD 1514 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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Looking forward ward to travelling to London tomorrow to present some tentative research from the COLVET project on how veterans in the interwar French Empire shifting the contours of citizenship. Come one, come all. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-v...
Colonial Veterans and Citizenship in the French Empire
Presenting research from the project, Ex-Soldiers of Empire; Towards a Comparative History of Colonial Veterancy in the Interwar Period.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Looking forward ward to travelling to London tomorrow to present some tentative research from the COLVET project on how veterans in the interwar French Empire shifting the contours of citizenship. Come one, come all. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-v...
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Dit bewijst dat er een groot publiek is dat behoefte heeft aan onze verhalen uit 't verleden, geschreven in wervelend proza op basis van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Ik zal het tot in den treurnis herhalen: dit is tevens een oproep naar collega's om de hand uit de reiken naar de rest der samenleving.
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Dit bewijst dat er een groot publiek is dat behoefte heeft aan onze verhalen uit 't verleden, geschreven in wervelend proza op basis van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Ik zal het tot in den treurnis herhalen: dit is tevens een oproep naar collega's om de hand uit de reiken naar de rest der samenleving.
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It’s publication day for Law, Society and Political Culture in Late Medieval and Reformation Germany! At last, the key sources from the Holy Roman Empire - laws, treaties, and polemics - are available in English translation. #medievalsky #earlymodern
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It’s publication day for Law, Society and Political Culture in Late Medieval and Reformation Germany! At last, the key sources from the Holy Roman Empire - laws, treaties, and polemics - are available in English translation. #medievalsky #earlymodern
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165893/
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Speaking of revolutionary era maps, see many of them for yourself at argomaps.org #HATM
Home - American Revolutionary Geographies Online
American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) is a portal containing thousands of maps from dozens of institutions that bring to life the history and geography of the American Revolutionary War era...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Speaking of revolutionary era maps, see many of them for yourself at argomaps.org #HATM
