Ilaria Scaglia
@ilariascaglia.bsky.social
History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024).
Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions.
Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions.
Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
Loved representing @astonunarchives.bsky.social at the @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social Black Country History Day; loved also the Rubery Owen glass slides featuring @astonuniversity.bsky.social Main Building!
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Loved representing @astonunarchives.bsky.social at the @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social Black Country History Day; loved also the Rubery Owen glass slides featuring @astonuniversity.bsky.social Main Building!
Honoured to be featured on the blog of the United Nations Archives in Geneva, on re-reading my book after a pandemic and great change indeed.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Honoured to be featured on the blog of the United Nations Archives in Geneva, on re-reading my book after a pandemic and great change indeed.
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This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
September 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
Truly looking forward to this event! Will be showcasing @astonunarchives.bsky.social while connecting with many interested in Black Country and much beyond!
It is a shame I cannot make it, but the Black Country Society's
Black Country History Day is on 8 November 2025, 1000 to 1630. It is titled "After Agenoria; Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country".
More info here:
#Railway200
www.blackcountrysociety.com/events/black...
Black Country History Day is on 8 November 2025, 1000 to 1630. It is titled "After Agenoria; Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country".
More info here:
#Railway200
www.blackcountrysociety.com/events/black...
Black Country History Day 2025 | black-country-soc
Black Country History Day 2025 After Agenoria; Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country
www.blackcountrysociety.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Truly looking forward to this event! Will be showcasing @astonunarchives.bsky.social while connecting with many interested in Black Country and much beyond!
Just out in paperback! global.oup.com/academic/pro... So happy to see it gaining new life!
global.oup.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Just out in paperback! global.oup.com/academic/pro... So happy to see it gaining new life!
Historians of emotions, you will be thrilled to see that Barbara Rosenwein is now on bluesky! Just rejoiced in clicking "follow" myself!
Hello. I'm new to Bluesky. I want to alert all who might be interested that I have a new book, "Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age" (Reaktion, 2015) Why WINTER Dreams? For an answer see my short video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjn.... Enjoy!
Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age
YouTube video by BHR
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August 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Historians of emotions, you will be thrilled to see that Barbara Rosenwein is now on bluesky! Just rejoiced in clicking "follow" myself!
Honoured to receive the prestigious Waldo Gifford Leland Award from @saa-official.bsky.social! t.co/DhF0eJfJ03 Best partner in crime, Valeria Vanesio, inspiring contributors and support @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Glasses up for further conversations @astonunarchives.bsky.social and beyond!
https://tinyurl.com/552vsy3f
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July 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Honoured to receive the prestigious Waldo Gifford Leland Award from @saa-official.bsky.social! t.co/DhF0eJfJ03 Best partner in crime, Valeria Vanesio, inspiring contributors and support @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Glasses up for further conversations @astonunarchives.bsky.social and beyond!
This! Astonished by how many reasonable people, even environmentalist ones, are mechanically using AI as a toy without questioning its impact as they would with a flight or any other activity that negatively impacts the environment.
If you use generative AI because you can’t be bothered - or don’t know how - to think and write for yourself, this is on you
July 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This! Astonished by how many reasonable people, even environmentalist ones, are mechanically using AI as a toy without questioning its impact as they would with a flight or any other activity that negatively impacts the environment.
Just back from #SHAFR2025. As always, left so impressed and energized: on to turning that unwieldy manuscript into one of them volumes at the book exhibit! If only I could have ½ day every week of that magic SHAFR tonic!
June 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Just back from #SHAFR2025. As always, left so impressed and energized: on to turning that unwieldy manuscript into one of them volumes at the book exhibit! If only I could have ½ day every week of that magic SHAFR tonic!
Looking forward to it!
Coming up next week - June 26-28, 2025, the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (#SHAFR) @shafrhistorians.bsky.social in Arlington, VA, check out this amazing program, honored to a part @oah.org @h-diplo.bsky.social 🗃️ www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...
June 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Looking forward to it!
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It's always a good day to revisit this one.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
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June 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It's always a good day to revisit this one.
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Have a look at our spiffed up webpage, complete with (rudimentary) inventory and intriguing "stories from the archives" by History students @astonuniversity.bsky.social! www.aston.ac.uk/about/histor...
Aston University Archives
www.aston.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Have a look at our spiffed up webpage, complete with (rudimentary) inventory and intriguing "stories from the archives" by History students @astonuniversity.bsky.social! www.aston.ac.uk/about/histor...
And that is why people should be taught since nursery school to defend the integrity of the processes through which documents are preserved and accessed. May this alert all (everywhere!) about the importance of education in what archives/archivists/historians are and do.
May 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
And that is why people should be taught since nursery school to defend the integrity of the processes through which documents are preserved and accessed. May this alert all (everywhere!) about the importance of education in what archives/archivists/historians are and do.
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First was the fragment of a spine found somewhere... next thing you know, turns out we have the whole series of this journal in great condition!
May 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
First was the fragment of a spine found somewhere... next thing you know, turns out we have the whole series of this journal in great condition!
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Good, insightful blog by @davidevampa.bsky.social on the lessons we can learn about the expansion of Reform UK's success to Scotland from the territorial expansion of Italy's Lega (Nord), a party widely despised in the south transformed to one with a national populist platform and Italy-wide appeal.
New blog!
What Italy Can Teach about Reform UK’s Rise in Scotland.
As Reform UK moves beyond its English heartlands and gains ground in Scotland @davidevampa.bsky.social draws lessons from Italy’s populist radical right to understand what this shift might mean: edin.ac/3FnWXQ4
What Italy Can Teach about Reform UK’s Rise in Scotland.
As Reform UK moves beyond its English heartlands and gains ground in Scotland @davidevampa.bsky.social draws lessons from Italy’s populist radical right to understand what this shift might mean: edin.ac/3FnWXQ4
What Italy Can Teach about Reform UK’s Rise in Scotland
As Reform UK moves beyond its English heartlands and gains ground in Scotland, Davide Vampa draws lessons from Italy’s populist radical right to understand what this shift might mean. He shows how suc...
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May 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Good, insightful blog by @davidevampa.bsky.social on the lessons we can learn about the expansion of Reform UK's success to Scotland from the territorial expansion of Italy's Lega (Nord), a party widely despised in the south transformed to one with a national populist platform and Italy-wide appeal.
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This is absolutely terrible for researchers. And a sign of how fragile digital "preservation" is.
With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐
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Guides: Electronic legal deposit: Introduction
Access electronic legal deposit at partner libraries
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May 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is absolutely terrible for researchers. And a sign of how fragile digital "preservation" is.
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The Midland History journal welcomes article submissions from professional and independent historians, and research students, working on any aspect of the history of the Midlands from Roman times to the 21st century. Visit our submissions site here:
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Midland History
Midland History publishes on the history of the English Midlands region and historical comparisons with other areas.
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May 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”
May 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”
Indeed. At stake, really, is the lot (together with basic respect for past, present, and future international students and people).
For your weekend listening pleasure, Fight fiercely Harvard! youtu.be/3J04FRsesBQ?...
Tom Lehrer - Fight fiercely Harvard
YouTube video by FreddeTl
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May 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Indeed. At stake, really, is the lot (together with basic respect for past, present, and future international students and people).
Absolutely loved doing this @railway200.bsky.social at @astonuniversity.bsky.social event with @railwayhistorian.bsky.social! Looking forward to more in this series to come!
An excellent @railway200.bsky.social at @astonuniversity.bsky.social event yesterday, run by the history team.
@ilariascaglia.bsky.social discussed rlys and international unity, and their role in partition
Stefan Manz shared a VR film "Empire Soldiers:A Caribbean Story" that featured rail travel
@ilariascaglia.bsky.social discussed rlys and international unity, and their role in partition
Stefan Manz shared a VR film "Empire Soldiers:A Caribbean Story" that featured rail travel
May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Absolutely loved doing this @railway200.bsky.social at @astonuniversity.bsky.social event with @railwayhistorian.bsky.social! Looking forward to more in this series to come!
Wonderful initiative to honor an outstanding historian, colleague, and friend who left us all too soon. Please help to spread the word!
🌟 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🌟 Are you ready to make your mark and be recognized for your incredible achievements? The Sandra Dawson Award is now open for applications! Don’t miss your chance to shine! @nimishabarton.bsky.social @pliley.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wonderful initiative to honor an outstanding historian, colleague, and friend who left us all too soon. Please help to spread the word!
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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Call to all, esp. #Birmingham area: we have old SONY U-matic S SP video cassettes, which we believe may contain valuable material relating to the history of the university. Do you have, or do you know who might have, a machine that can play them?
April 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Call to all, esp. #Birmingham area: we have old SONY U-matic S SP video cassettes, which we believe may contain valuable material relating to the history of the university. Do you have, or do you know who might have, a machine that can play them?
Final deadline is tomorrow (April 1). Don't miss it!
Don't miss this opportunity! Previous participants, including myself, found it a game-changer!
Deadline for the 2nd book workshop extended to April 1!! Get your applications in.
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March 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Final deadline is tomorrow (April 1). Don't miss it!
Please welcome and follow the newly established European Chapter for the History of Emotions @echoes-she.bsky.social led by @boddice.bsky.social! A wonderful new home for all of us into #emotions.
March 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Please welcome and follow the newly established European Chapter for the History of Emotions @echoes-she.bsky.social led by @boddice.bsky.social! A wonderful new home for all of us into #emotions.