Interesting conference feat. @katrinkleemann.bsky.social, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and many brilliant minds

Crisp sunny mornings and crunchy golden leaves are here, so we’re celebrating with this wonderfully seasonal woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige.

🍁 Maple Trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine, and Linked Bridge, 1857, by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858). EAX.4362

Sunday morning - Doodle in the margins of this 12th century manuscript, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College - 101, fol. 97v

Historia ei opeta. Mut menneisyyden ymmärryksessä olennaista on, että fasismi on kestämätön ideologia ja yhteiskuntajärjestys. Samoin kommunismi. Molemmat ovat autoritäärisen, ihmisoikeuksien kaappaamiseen perustuvan vallanhalun ilmiöitä.

Molemmat yrittävät hallita historiankirjoitusta juuri siksi.

“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control.”
— Stephen King

Leuke lezing van Dick Harrison over de Hanze. Een geboren verteller die man

Thanks to @urbanhistory.bsky.social! The article is about brewing in England, c. 1600, showing that breweries in Shakespeare's London operated at scales that looked impressive even by mid-18th century standards. An example of the gradual, long Industrial Revolution, from the 16th century onwards.

I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women.

- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

Konf: Revisiting European Maritime Exploration in the Pacific Ocean (c. 1750–1850)

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157947

Tallinn, 05.11.2025-07.11.2025, Estonian Maritime Museum

Die hiesige Landesgeschichte hat derart einen Narren an Heinrich Rantzau gefressen, dass man den nur wenig älteren Herzog Adolf I. fast ignoriert hat - dabei ist er der wohl spannendste Fürst des Landes.

Im Januar naht sein 500. Geburtstag. Zeit also, sich ihm nun einmal zu widmen! 💅

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

Spannender Ansatz: "Sicherheit erzeugen als Legitimierungsstrategie des Avignoneser Papsttums (1309 – 1377)"

#OTD the Battle of Lepanto (1571) took place, one of the most decisive and symbolic naval battles in European history. It was fought between the Holy League (a coalition of Christian states) and the Ottoman Empire, and it involved an extraordinary cast of historical figures.

One of the most painful and interesting things about writing is just how much you need to read, see and consider, that you will not include in the end. But you cannot write what you are writing unless you have thought about it.

Die Göttinger #Landesgeschichte sucht Verstärkung! Wir arbeiten gemeinsam mit den Kulturinstitutionen in den kommenden 5 Jahren am Aufbau der niedersächsischen Kulturdateninfrastruktur Culture Cloud und bringen die geschichtswissenschaftliche Perspektive ein: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Uncovering Medieval North Frisia: New Research Unit Explores Human Impact on the Wadden Sea www.medievalists.net/2025/10/unco... #Frisia #archaeology

Saint Catherine prays, an angel w a sword appears, the wheel bursts into flames, and landscape is beautiful. Because it was painted in 1515 by Joachim Patinir, master of landscape, who died OTD in 1524.

October 5: Apologies for the bad news, but today is one of the 3 unluckiest days of the year in the Roman calendar. Definitely let people know that the underworld opens up to the living today (mundus patet) and so you just can’t leave your house, especially to sail (also on August 24 & November 8).

!Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Theuthidodrilus samae R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Teaser: whose distant city?

Full program for 2025-6 for the IHR Low Countries Seminar. All meetings both in person and online. To register for any session, go to www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

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