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Lou Roper
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Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · Aug 17
Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/
Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
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thiagokrause.bsky.social
Come on, this is insane.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Among other travesties in this statement, National Guard soldiers are not "law enforcement"
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
REPORTER: There are people upset with the president, believing the National Guard members shouldn't have been there

PIRRO: I don't even wanna talk about whether they should've been there. We ought to kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
railways don't build themselves, after all @davidveevers.bsky.social 🙄
alanlester.bsky.social Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 21h
3. Berate the presenter for sticking to historical realities rather than myths Britain had not introduced democracy anywhere before the end of empire and there was no thought of developing colonies until 1929, even then based on loans with interest.
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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actualkatherine.bsky.social
Hey casual reminder that this resource ⬇️ exists, and lists good places to donate & get involved if you're in the Baltimore area and want to support local Indigenous folks
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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journalmaritime.bsky.social
The November Issue of the IJMH 2025 has now been published.

Members can access the Journal online and will receive their copy of the printed edition shortly - journals.sagepub.com/toc/IJH/curr...

Select publications in this issue are Open Access so why not check them out?

#maritimehistory
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
#earlymodern @memorients.bsky.social
rozsro.bsky.social Roz @rozsro.bsky.social · 15h
I'm thrilled to have received the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from @sfhs.bsky.social for my paper on Tamil consumers, caste, and mechanical timepieces in 18C Pondicherry. NZD is such an inspiration to early modernists and it's a huge honor to receive this award!
Natalie Zemon Davis Award for Best Graduate Student Paper (Paris 2025) Winner: Rosalind Rothwell, Duke University “Bringing ‘happiness to astrologers who wish to know the time’: Caste, clocks, and sovereignty in eighteenth-century French India”
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
If you don't have access to the Boston Globe, here's another story about the horrible and illegal deportatuon of a college student who has been in the US since she was 8.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
so no endorsement from Dr G** drawing on these 'observations'? 😑 www.chronicle.com/article/univ...
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Publishing in February from @sunypress.bsky.social , a co-edited volume with the wonderful Lisa DiBartolomeo. It contains 25 chapters from an outstanding group of authors, and each one is a certified banger. 🙂✊

(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
@memorients.bsky.social
audreytruschke.bsky.social Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 15h
That time, ~400 years ago, when Jesuits dragged a new world turkey nearly 2,000 kilometers from Goa to northern India.

Fun, but also reflective of premodern India's integration in global networks of trade and travel.

#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Important essay here.
Also: there's a difference between *not for profit* university publishers and large, for-profit, vampiric, commercial academic publishers - the ones that skim off a huge profit from taxpayer-funded research. Open Access demands that enable this are not in the public interest. 🗃
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
Arise, Sir Ke*r 😑 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9eu...
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
@randybrowne.bsky.social @csschmitt.bsky.social et al (w @pennpress.bsky.social sale ongoing) @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @gauthamrao.bsky.social @brookenewman.bsky.social
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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amandajsummers.bsky.social
Everything is in process right now but I do have Chapter 2 in this excellent edited volume out:

www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
27 Nov 1582: The marriage license for William #Shakespeare & Anne Hathaway is issued #otd (Beinecke/TomReedy)
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
while not laughing at the misery of others, if I may add
unlawfulentries.bsky.social Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 16h
Thoughts and prayers...
alternet.org alternet.org @alternet.org · 1d
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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davidandress.bsky.social
If this guy had studied the liberal arts, he might understand what a false premise is.
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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annalujz.bsky.social
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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newrepublic.com
Bannon was a vocal proponent earlier this year for the release of the federal government’s Epstein files—before the extent of his relationship with Epstein became public knowledge. trib.al/YEvF2pe
“You Lied to Us”: Steve Bannon’s Fans Turn on Him Over Epstein Ties
Jeffrey Epstein advised Bannon on Donald Trump’s first term.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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jakobburnham.bsky.social
Where I work, grad student enrollment in Engineering and Business is down 70% and 40%, respectively.

Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
texasobserver.org Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 4d
Enrollment by international students from China dropped by 3 percent, from India by 4 percent, and enrollment from students from Mexico has flatlined. Here are the likely consequences for Texas' education and economy:
The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas
The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.
www.texasobserver.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
In Which the C*hn-Drumpf Approach to the Law Prevails Again 😑
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d
Round-up of comments:

"It was incredibly unlikely it was going to go forward anyway, because the amount of financial resources and man hours necessary to take on this case didn't seem to be within the scope of what Peter Skandalakis had," said Anthony Michael Kreis.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Georgia prosecutor drops 2020 election interference case against Trump
The state charges were part of the last remaining criminal case against the US president stemming from the 2020 election.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
#earlymodern assistance, again, please: July 1648, 'Revolted Fleet' captured _Guinea_ in the Downs, took it to Holland, and gold, &c it was carrying dissipated to predictable Guinea Company fury. Aging brain, though, has lost the particulars/references of this. Many thanks, as always, for assistance
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social
Yes, Nigel Farage is and always was racist. I hadn't realised that people needed more evidence fo this conclusion from a man whose policy platform is basically the ethnic cleansing of Britain
snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Oct 1
Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.
From Chloe Denkin 01-734 1717 and 1778 E3 ALBANY PICCADILLY WIV ORH 4th June 1981 Dear Master, I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple. You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt, At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly. But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences. First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened. You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate. As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind. A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule against these deep considerations. It is not so. I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so. In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room. Yours very sincerely, David Emms, Esq., MA, The Master of Dulwich College.
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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drharmony.net
Big Tech’s Back-Door Bailout

Congressional Republicans are quietly trying to jam a secret amendment into the 2026 defense bill that would stop states from regulating AI
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
roperlou.bsky.social
XI for PSV: 1 Mamardashvili (AB not in team) 2 Dom S (why?) 3 Kerkez 4 VVD 5 RG 6 Konate (sort yourself out) 7 Mo 8 Gakpo 9 Ekitke 10 AMA 11 Jones (2 changes from Sunday's dismal effort) 🙄 @gauthamrao.bsky.social @tracelarkhall.bsky.social @provatlantic.bsky.social @mbarcia24.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM