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Mikael Alm
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Professor of History, Uppsala University. Eighteenth century/Age of Revolutions | Royal image making & political culture | Sartorial practices & social order | Court society & social interaction | Digitising Gustav III's private archive | Milanista 🔴⚫️
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November 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Queen Victoria's mourning dress.
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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WE HAVE A FRONT COVER!! 📖📚📘
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...

#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting

uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
The King’s Dinner
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a large, open dataset of two royal household kitchen ledgers, the authors study the role and inf...
uclpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The fellowship application I was writing while this went down just got accepted.

Next year, I will be working as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum in Munich for several months, researching the "Arts of Early Modern Screwmaking."

On the merits of my project! 💪
I just had my work publicly ridiculed by a tenured prof. To all senior scholars who need to hear this: Please don't do this to students (or anyone else for that matter). You have no idea how painful it is. Yes, my topic is unusual & you may not get it, but that doesn't mean it should be made fun of.
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.

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November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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An amazing night @ihr.bsky.social making toy theatres as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 2025! Led by @pdwebster.bsky.social, we explored toy theatres as heritage reconstruction - and staged the shows of our dreams! So much joyful creativity in the room & lots of first-time visitors to the IHR.
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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👋 Hi Bluesky!

The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate.

Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/
School of Advanced Study
Uniting research institutes and centres at the University of London to form the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of academic research in the humanities.
sas.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Welcome to Bluesky @sas-news.bsky.social!
👋 Hi Bluesky!

The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate.

Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/
School of Advanced Study
Uniting research institutes and centres at the University of London to form the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of academic research in the humanities.
sas.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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In November 1749, John London walked from his home to vote in the Westminster constituency parliamentary by-election.

As Dr Gillian Williamson explores, this provides the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election:
John London: Britain's First Black Voter? - The History of Parliament
this election could serve as the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election - John London
historyofparliament.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Londoners! I'm doing a free lunchtime talk about my book at the V&A on Thursday
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
Lunchtime Lectures: Shoes and the Georgian Man - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A
This talk is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture programme. No booking is required.
www.vam.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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NÄMEN! 🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️

www.svd.se/a/rP0dqm/rec...
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Lunch at the @helsinki.fi

Saara Hilpinen defences her dissertation on honour, reputation, and masculinities in the 18th and 19th century Finland

urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978...
November 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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#OpenAccess! ENCOUNTERING THE GLOBAL IN EARLY MODERN GERMANY: Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging, edited by Brauner, Dürr (@duerrbortolotti.bsky.social), Hahn (@philiphahn.bsky.social), Overkamp, and Siemianowski has now published.

Read more here: buff.ly/4hWFBaD

#History
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Publication day today! With grateful thanks to @yalebooks.bsky.social for all the hard work that went in to making it such a handsome product.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Workshop CFP: Feelings of Safety and Security in the Early Modern World #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Many will be awaking this morning after an evening of fireworks and festivities.

However, as Dr Robin Eagles has explored, on the centenery of the Glorious Revolution, the 4th and 5th November were eyed for a different lasting memorial:

historyofparliament.com/2025/11/06/c...
‘Confirmation of the People’s Rights’: commemorating the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 - The History of Parliament
For many, the beginning of November means the advent of longer nights as the year winds down to Christmas. Some may still enjoy attending firework displays
historyofparliament.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Congratulations to Linda Zionkowski, Mimi Hart, and all contributors to "Women and Music in the Age of Austen," winner of the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding essay collection of exceptional scholarly merit.

For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I totally agree
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study.
theconversation.com/the-roman-em...
The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study
A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The book is now available to download! doi.org/10.54195/QEX...

We also made a summary for a broader audience (with more pictures) that is available for free at libraries in Nijmegen.
March 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM