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Eliot Higgins

@eliothiggins.bsky.social

We can’t fact-check our way out of this crisis. Disordered discourse isn’t just about false claims - it reshapes power, identity, and how people engage with reality itself. There’s no single fix, but one crucial pillar of the response is education.

March 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Laura Morreale

@lauramorreale.bsky.social

More Sweet 16 coverage! Thanks to Washington and Lee University:
columns.wlu.edu/florence-as-...

Florence As It Was Chosen for National Competition

The Florence As It Was project, an eight-year research project at W&L that is reconstructing 15th-century Florence, Italy’s architectural layers with a 3D interactive map, has been selected to …

columns.wlu.edu

December 12, 2024 at 7:19 PM

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James A. Palmer

@jamespqr77.bsky.social

This is not a TT job, but what looks like a good three-year gig at a very good institution. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt.

H-Net Job Guide

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December 10, 2024 at 6:22 PM

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Rachel Midura

@rmidura.bsky.social

As you start to think (however hesitantly) about spring courses, my book comes out in March, and I'm available to visit by Zoom! Thanks @cornellupress.bsky.social for setting up a great guest lecture program, complete with 40% coupon for attendees (plus Open Access Ebook) #earlymodern #skystorians 🗃️

A screenshot of the Cornell University Press guest lecture program listing for Rachel Midura including a link to the book Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe and the text "I focus on the history of intelligence and diplomacy in early modern Europe, especially the advent of information and communication technologies such postal systems, print and manuscript culture, and state archives. I can also speak to the role of digital and transnational archival research in bringing forth parallels between past and contemporary information wars."

December 4, 2024 at 4:50 PM

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John Gallagher

@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social

Just re-upping this old post seeing as there are more early modernists knocking around here these days. Your recommendations for articles & books on multilingual cities in the early modern world (15th-18th centuries, mostly) would be most welcome!

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Oct 21

Historiography request: recently I've been trying to read as broadly as possible about multilingual cities in the early modern world. It's a huge topic and while I've found work on sites from Nagasaki to Vilnius to Cuzco I'll still be very grateful for any suggestions of reading people can offer!

December 5, 2024 at 12:27 PM

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Sophie Michell

@sophiemhistory.bsky.social

This is the most AMAZING digital resource for place-based studies. I only found it today, but it ought to be on EVERYONE'S RADAR

www.populationspast.org/imr/1861/#6/...

Populations Past atlas

www.populationspast.org

September 16, 2024 at 12:25 PM

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Federica Signoriello

@0fed0.bsky.social

In Florence, pass by the Riccardiana library to see: Commodities and Environments: Florence and the Indo-Atlantic World, 1500-1800, curated by the CAPASIA project at the European University Institute 19/11/24 - 10/1/25

www.capasia.eu/commodities-...

blogs.eui.eu/library/book...
#earlymodern

Commodities and Environments: Florence and the Indo-Atlantic World, 1500-1800

Dates: 19 November 2024 - 10 January 2025 Venue: Biblioteca Riccardiana, Via de' Ginori, 50123 Florence View exhibition catalog This exhibition explores the knowledge that Europeans gained from the ...

www.capasia.eu

November 27, 2024 at 10:26 AM

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Catherine Fletcher

@cathfletcher.bsky.social

Pleased to announce an online workshop for early career researchers on the History of War and the Military, 14 March 2025, a joint event of the Society for the History of War and our German counterpart the AKM. CFP deadline 10 Jan.

Call for Papers: New Research in the History of War and the Military

A networking event for early career historians hosted by the
Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte and the Society for the History of War

Friday 14 March 2025, online | 1300-1700 GMT / 1400-1800 CET

Working language: English

Deadline for proposals: Friday 10 January 2025, 1700 GMT / 1800 CET

This online workshop is an opportunity for early career historians of war and the military to share and discuss ideas and approaches from their current projects. The aim is to support current and recent PhDs in this field to make international links, with a view to expanding their future opportunities for collaboration and mobility. We especially want to hear from those with limited international networking experience.

We invite applications from researchers at all stages of PhD and postdoctoral projects. Applicants are free to choose from one of the following formats, as appropriate to the material presented. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers or 10-minute lightning talks that illustrate new questions, methods, or approaches in this field. Lightning talks will generally focus on a single historical source or historiographical/methodological question. We understand the terms ‘war’ and ‘military’ in their broadest senses and will prioritise contributions that can demonstrate their interest to the field beyond a specific place/period of history.

Suitable themes might include (but are not restricted to): logistics, technologies, soldiers’ experiences, gender and sexuality, imperial and colonial contexts, military institutions, pre- and post-conflict environments. Historiographical and methodological proposals are also welcome.

November 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM

Peter Sposato

@psposato.bsky.social

Happy to be working with such a fine group of scholars: www.rsa.org/news/684643/...

RSA Members Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities HCRR and Richard Lounsbery Grants - Renaissance Society of America

Independent digital humanities projects seek to build a freely available online platform for collecting and sharing data and research on the cultural history of late medieval and Renaissance Florence.

www.rsa.org

November 22, 2024 at 1:12 AM

Peter Sposato

@psposato.bsky.social

just in case you are looking for a stocking stuffer, coaster, or doorstop: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Forged in the Shadow of Mars by Peter W. Sposato | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

In Forged in the Shadow of Mars, Peter W. Sposato traces chivalry's powerful influence on the mentalitè and behavior of a sizeable segment of the elite in late medieval Florence. He finds that the...

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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM

Peter Sposato

@psposato.bsky.social

very happy to be part of this project: humanities.uchicago.edu/articles/202...

Florence Illuminated project to receive generous NEH grant | Division of the Humanities

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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM

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Jessica Minieri

@jessicaminieri.bsky.social

Join us over on @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social and our @h-net-humanities.bsky.social page (linked below). We'd love to have more scholars of southern Italian history and broader cultural interactions between southern Italy and the Mediterranean/Atlantic/Pacific worlds!

H-Sicily on H-Net @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social · Nov 8

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves here on Bluesky! We're H-Sicily, a interdisciplinary group of premodernists working on southern Italy history between late antiquity and the end of the Spanish period.

Join us over on our H-Net network here: networks.h-net.org/h-sicily

H-Sicily | H-Net

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November 8, 2024 at 6:38 PM

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Anne Leader

@leaderannephd.bsky.social

Thrilled to be part of the #DigitalHumanities project Florence Illuminated at #UChicago and grateful for #NEH support. Read all about it at:
humanities.uchicago.edu/articles/202...

July 18, 2024 at 12:28 PM

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digital Sepoltuario

@sepoltuario.bsky.social

One #tomb just wasn't enough for some #Florentines. Check out the story of Giovanni di Tedice Manovelli -- convicted for election fraud in 1361 and memorialized in both his parish church and with the Dominicans at Santa Maria Novella.

sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/individuals/...

May 14, 2024 at 4:06 PM

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digital Sepoltuario

@sepoltuario.bsky.social

Have you checked out our historical overview of Florentine tomb culture? You can do it here:

sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu/home/overview

May 9, 2024 at 11:25 PM

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Anne Leader

@leaderannephd.bsky.social

So thrilled that @sepoltuario.bsky.social is part of the Florence Illuminated Consortium, recently Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant! columns.wlu.edu/project-cons...