38 new #Manuscripts this week from the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more
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Includes an oration by Ubaldi, a part of an Atlantic Bible, some crazy heraldry, Cassian on Monks, Ethiopic, Classics and more
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Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 42 of 2025
In total thirty-eight manuscripts were digitized this week. The recent pattern has remained, Ott.lat was the largest fond with twenty manuscripts and Barb.lat was the next largest, with ten. The res...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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For our Nancy Week finale, here's Nancy the artist in action, painting a picture of her daughters.
Nancy got into art as a child, and practiced it throughout her life. In Washington, she and a friend opened an art school, eventually drawing classes over 100.
#skystorians #history #polisky
Nancy got into art as a child, and practiced it throughout her life. In Washington, she and a friend opened an art school, eventually drawing classes over 100.
#skystorians #history #polisky
October 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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For the #NoKings protest in Taylor, TX, I invoked abolitionist Frederick Douglass. #skystorians 🗃️ #AbolishICE
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This is just fantastic. Sara Ivry (@ivrysarajstordaily.bsky.social) interviews Earle Havens on the Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery ( #bookhistory, #skystorians): daily.jstor.org/enchanting-i...
Enchanting Imposters - JSTOR Daily
Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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As an historian of the French Revolution, I am not so sure about this, but understand the sentiment. No Kings Paris. #NoKings @indivisible.org #FrenchHistory #skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Do any of my #Skystorians circle of pals have any info on where I could find a map of the North American continent prior to westward expansion?
A friend has expressed interest in knowing more about #NativeAmerican history prior to the American Civil War and the Plains Indians Wars. #USHistory
A friend has expressed interest in knowing more about #NativeAmerican history prior to the American Civil War and the Plains Indians Wars. #USHistory
October 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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In the beatiful alpine Castel Trauttmansdorff in Merano we immersed in the world of early moderns inns, travels, and transmountain connections
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Check more about the project and the conference:
alpinnkonnect.univie.ac.at
#earlymodern #history #skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1983, Carl #Civella of #KansasCity surrenders to authorities a day late to begin a 75-year sentence for conspiracy to skim revenue of #LasVegas casinos.
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#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Just found why there was a little black boy living in a surgeon's household in 1773 Perth, Scotland. The surgeon was originally from Virginia in America and had only recently come over to Scotland from there. This story is definitely going into my nearly finished academic journal paper. #Skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1928, the Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal of a #bootlegging conviction from #Detroit gangster Chester #Lamare.
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#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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How do the everyday things we use connect us to unseen systems of labor and inequality?
Seth Rockman helps us explore that question through the material history of slavery.
🎧 Listen now: benfranklinsworld.com/422
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Seth Rockman helps us explore that question through the material history of slavery.
🎧 Listen now: benfranklinsworld.com/422
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Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy
Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1927, Angelo #Porrello (shown) is charged with the #Cleveland murders of Joseph and John #Lonardo.
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#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Excited to announce the first event of our New York Area Legal History Consortium — @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social in conversation on his new book, The Radical Fund! October 30 at NYU Law — register here:
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October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Charlotte Higgins on Sally Carson’s "Crooked Cross" (1934) for @theguardian.com; #skystorians: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A prophetic 1933 novel has found a surprising second life – it holds lessons for us all | Charlotte Higgins
Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross was written and set during the rise of nazism. It shows both how extremism takes hold, and the moral certainty needed to resist it, says the Guardian’s chief culture write...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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John Arbuthnot also wrote (sometimes misattributed to Jonathan Swift) this 1712 treatise on the art of political lying.
It turns out it is still widely read in 2025.
It turns out it is still widely read in 2025.
October 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1965, Englewood Country Club in #NewJersey takes measures to exclude mob boss Tommy #Eboli and other mafiosi from membership.
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#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1924, future #Pittsburgh #Mafia boss John #Bazzano and Dominic Cimino are released under bond of $5,000 each after being charged with stealing whiskey from a government warehouse.
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#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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17th October. Battle of Lemgo. Well some folk like a bit of poetry (and fall for it). Others like a bit of archival endeavour.
Where do you stand?
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On 17th October 1638, a combined Swedish- Palatinate- British army fought the Imperial army at the Battle of Lemgo ( Vlotho Bridge).
Generations of scholars bought into a self congratulatry account… ...
On 17th October 1638, a combined Swedish- Palatinate- British army fought the Imperial army at the Battle of Lemgo ( Vlotho Bridge).
Generations of scholars bought into a self congratulatry account o...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Flashback for October 18, 2025
28 points
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Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Oct. 18, 2025
Can you sort 8 historical events?
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October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1963, #Florida turns gambler Frank #Rosenthal over to officers of #NorthCarolina, where he is wanted on charges of fixing a college basketball game.
#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1930, #Brooklyn grape merchant Giovanni #Anselmo dies of gunshot wounds suffered a day earlier.
#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #NYC
#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #NYC
October 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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#OTD (Oct 18) in 1991, Venero #Mangano, Benedetto Aloi and Dennis DeLucia are convicted of skimming millions of dollars in #NewYork City window installation contracts. Five others, including Peter #Gotti (shown), are acquitted.
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#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #NYC
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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At #Chawleigh #market for the next hour (til noon), so pop in and say hello if you're in the area. Some lovely #gift ideas available, and locally made bread, preserves and #wine.
#local #Devon #MidDevon #WhatsOn #craft #books #folklore #BookSky🩵📚 #Skystorians #HistorySky #History
#local #Devon #MidDevon #WhatsOn #craft #books #folklore #BookSky🩵📚 #Skystorians #HistorySky #History
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Online today, Sat Oct 18; 9-11am ET (I'm on during the first half) / 2-4pm UK!
#skystorians #monsters #art #arthistory #histsci
#skystorians #monsters #art #arthistory #histsci
October 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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