Jordan S. Sly
@jordanssly.bsky.social
Historian of Seventeenth Century Europe and the Global Atlantic. My specialisations are the intellectual, religious, and cultural histories of Stuart Britain and the Interregnum with a primary focus on the 1650s.
Very interesting paper from the Past Meets Futures workshop #ASIS&T "Mapping the Latent Past: Assessing Large Language Models as Digital Tools through Source Criticism" Hutchinson, esp the section evaluating LLMs as historical sources journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/J...
Journal of Digital History
The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Very interesting paper from the Past Meets Futures workshop #ASIS&T "Mapping the Latent Past: Assessing Large Language Models as Digital Tools through Source Criticism" Hutchinson, esp the section evaluating LLMs as historical sources journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/J...
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✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
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February 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Absolutely wonderful opening to the season!
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Absolutely wonderful opening to the season!
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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Gerrit van Honthorst Musical Group on a Balcony, 1622 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
The artist was b. #otd 4 Nov 1592, d. 27 Apr 1656
The artist was b. #otd 4 Nov 1592, d. 27 Apr 1656
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Gerrit van Honthorst Musical Group on a Balcony, 1622 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
The artist was b. #otd 4 Nov 1592, d. 27 Apr 1656
The artist was b. #otd 4 Nov 1592, d. 27 Apr 1656
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Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
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Joachim von Sandrart, The Month of November (Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim), 1643
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Joachim von Sandrart, The Month of November (Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim), 1643
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'Dear dreams of years departed,
Kind ghosts of vanished days,
Slipped in then to the firelight,
Stretched their hands to the blaze,
Lost voices whispered nigh me,
Loved footsteps lingered by me
Ere they went their ways.'
From 'All Hallows' by Cicely Fox Smith
Four sons, 1490, Ditchingham, Norfolk.
Kind ghosts of vanished days,
Slipped in then to the firelight,
Stretched their hands to the blaze,
Lost voices whispered nigh me,
Loved footsteps lingered by me
Ere they went their ways.'
From 'All Hallows' by Cicely Fox Smith
Four sons, 1490, Ditchingham, Norfolk.
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
'Dear dreams of years departed,
Kind ghosts of vanished days,
Slipped in then to the firelight,
Stretched their hands to the blaze,
Lost voices whispered nigh me,
Loved footsteps lingered by me
Ere they went their ways.'
From 'All Hallows' by Cicely Fox Smith
Four sons, 1490, Ditchingham, Norfolk.
Kind ghosts of vanished days,
Slipped in then to the firelight,
Stretched their hands to the blaze,
Lost voices whispered nigh me,
Loved footsteps lingered by me
Ere they went their ways.'
From 'All Hallows' by Cicely Fox Smith
Four sons, 1490, Ditchingham, Norfolk.
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King Charles III prayed with Pope Leo XIV in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, marking the first time in modern history that the leaders of the Anglican and Catholic churches prayed together. Read more: nyti.ms/4o5fFwI
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
King Charles III prayed with Pope Leo XIV in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, marking the first time in modern history that the leaders of the Anglican and Catholic churches prayed together. Read more: nyti.ms/4o5fFwI
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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Reading a book about the period after the English civil war. The Isle Of Man’s official rent receiver, William Christian, was dismissed for mishandling funds, which caused Lord Fairfax to say “Receiver Christian hath proved himself a deceiver Christian”.
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Reading a book about the period after the English civil war. The Isle Of Man’s official rent receiver, William Christian, was dismissed for mishandling funds, which caused Lord Fairfax to say “Receiver Christian hath proved himself a deceiver Christian”.
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Celebrating at The British Academy after In Our Time wins The Presidents Medal for services to the humanities and social sciences. This wonderful photo (c)Captivate Imagery shows many of the teams behind the scenes since 1998 alongside Melvyn.
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Celebrating at The British Academy after In Our Time wins The Presidents Medal for services to the humanities and social sciences. This wonderful photo (c)Captivate Imagery shows many of the teams behind the scenes since 1998 alongside Melvyn.
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Pastry person (British Museum: Habit de paticier)
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Pastry person (British Museum: Habit de paticier)
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This goes so hard
Horace Vernet, The Ballad of Lenore, or The Dead Travel Fast, 1839, Oil on canvas, 61 x 55 cm, Nantes, Musée d'Arts (Thanks @pjeromack.bsky.social!)
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This goes so hard
Trying to read Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769, but I am struggling with the no periods thing More than I thought I would. Does the urge to edit go away?
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Trying to read Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769, but I am struggling with the no periods thing More than I thought I would. Does the urge to edit go away?
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In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
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"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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