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John Theibault
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Thirty Years War. Digital Humanities. Other Stuff.
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vor400.bsky.social
Dän. Lager bei Hannover, 10. Nov 1625
König vorgestern 2 Trompeter zu General Tilly geschickt, er solle sich aus dem Stift Hildesheim begeben - ansonsten würde er ihn vertreiben.
Antwort: er müsse sein Quartier dort suchen.
König Christian hat ihm darauf eine Feldschlacht angeboten ... 1/4
alte Karte mit Hannover, Hildesheim, Magdeburg, Halberstadt, Halle, etc Platziert die Embleme von Dänemarker, Tilly, Christian, Wallenstein, Mansfeld, s. Text
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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rebeccarideal.bsky.social
Have you been listening to UPRISING? Do you have any burning questions about the Civil Wars?

We’re doing a special bonus episode so please do post your queries below ⬇️
histfest.bsky.social HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 4h
It's war!

Episode 3 of our brand new podcast, UPRISING: THE CIVIL WARS, is out now!

Produced by HistFest Productions for the @historyextra.bsky.social podcast and hosted by historian @rebeccarideal.bsky.social.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts play.megaphone.fm/quvuyhkqs66t...
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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stephholtnh.bsky.social
I had no chance to post about Friday’s fantastic Curious Collections conference for @curioustravellers.bsky.social, but suffice to say these chairs were full as we welcomed nearly 60 guests to @nhm-london.bsky.social for a packed programme on Thomas Pennant and the work (and future🤞) of the project.
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
jtheibault.bsky.social
Uh oh. This is bad news to wake up to.
Glitch or canary in the coal mine?
edroso.bsky.social Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 9h
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Sarah Kendzior • 4m I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
Konf: The Strained Empire: Resources, Conflict, and Collapse in the Premodern Empire

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158622

Hannover, 15.04.2026-17.04.2026, Dr. Matthisa Berlandi, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026
www.hsozkult.de
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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heatherfro.bsky.social
This is a great essay and going to be a HUGE big deal game changer for the early modernists interested in genre, form, etc.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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vor400.bsky.social
Bremen, 8. Nov 1625
Fürst von Wallenstein hat die Stadt 4 Hall (4 Meilen von Leipzig) mit 600 Soldaten besetzt #Halle
Nach Magdeburg passiert / auch an selbige Stadt begehrt / gleichfalls Volk einzunemmen / sie aber abgeschlagen und die Vorstadt in Brand gesteckt #Magdeburg 1/3
alte Karte von Blaeu 1645 mit Fürstentümern Braunschweig, Halberstadt, Mageburg, Halle etc. - Minden markiert, Leipzig etc
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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stefanovil.bsky.social
Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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vor400.bsky.social
Prag, 8. Nov 1625
Am Tag Simonis und Judae haben sich 300 Bauern zu Marckersdorf (7 Meilen von hier) versammelt und ihre Herrn, Heinrich Otto von Wartenberg, welcher sie zu ungewöhnlichen Frondiensten beschwert und zum päpstl. Glauben zwingen wollte, erbärmlich ermordet ... 1/3
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
A cool thing that didn't really hit me until I moved here is Bangkok as a city is almost younger than the US (1782) and was largely populated by a massive wave of migration from southeast China contemporaneous and analogous to the wave of European migration that created modern New York City
A map of migration from southeast China to Southeast Asia, which a major concentration in south-central Thailand around Bangkok A graph showing Chinese migration to Southeast Asia and elsewhere, with a massive spike in migration to Southeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that dwarfs the rest of the world A graph of immigration to the US showing a major spike from Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
November 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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bratapfel.bsky.social
Ich habe ja schon an vielen Spielen mit historischen Themen gearbeitet und mache das auch immer wieder gerne. "Entdecke Altamira" ist mein erstes prähistorisches Spiel, wobei die Inspiration wieder aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte kommt, wo ein Mädchen so zentral an einer Entdeckung beteiligt war.
bratapfel.bsky.social BratApfel @bratapfel.bsky.social · 5d
Ich habe im Rahmen des Barcosa Postkarten Game Jam ein Spiel designt. In "Entdecke Altamira" geht es um Höhlenmalerei. In der ersten Phase des Spiels malt man sie, dann werden sie von modernen Figuren entdeckt und besprochen. Es ist ein One-Shot-Spiel, das auf eine Postkarte passt.

#pnpde
Entdecke Altamira by bratapfel
Ein Spiel über Höhlenmalerei, ihre Entdeckung und die Geschichten, die sie erzählt.
bratapfel.itch.io
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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evelyneverheggen.bsky.social
Multifunctionele voorstelling van een zuster in de 18e eeuw 💃
Isabella Clarisse (van Portugal?) #Ruusbroecgenootschap 👸
María de Jesús de Ágreda (†1665), Spaanse mystica en schrijfster, karmelitesse @kbrbe.bsky.social ✍️
Collage van gravure ✂️ , textiel en goudpapier ✨
#vrouwenkunst #devotieprenten
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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enwright.bsky.social
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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vor400.bsky.social
Petershagen, 7. Nov 1625
Mit Stolzenau wird man nunmehr etwas vornehmen, denn gestern noch 3 Komp. Reiter in selbigem Städtlein und 2 Reg. zu Fuß zu Schinne angelangt.
Heute Obrist Limbach und Lohausen zu Schlüsselberg angekommen.
+EIL+ gerade kommt Bericht, Stolzenau hat sich ergeben! #Stolzenau
alte Karte von 1774 mit Petershagen, Stolzenau, Schinna, Schlüsselburg - alle an der Weser
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Writing for The Conversation is great for many reasons - one of which is that you can see how many people have read your piece. Am amazed to see that my recent article about a 17th-century woman’s account of domestic abuse has had almost 30,000 reads! #earlymodern
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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heathertweed.bsky.social
What a fabulously curated and presented site this is. Clean & clear to navigate, lots of fascinating data & artifacts. And to hear newly recorded political songs from the era! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@philipwblood.bsky.social

ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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zenothankyou.bsky.social
The great thing about working on early modern academia is you never know if the archive will a) overturn everything we thought we knew about early modern philosophy or b) be nothing but complaints about low pay
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
jtheibault.bsky.social
It's been 40 years since I lived in Baltimore, but most of this seems true enough. (I last lived in Tourist Hellscape. There weren't so many bros down in Fells Point and Canton back then. I can't make out the bit just below Druid Hill Park.)
teddypasketti.bsky.social Teddypasketti @teddypasketti.bsky.social · 5d
I have a similar map in my house.

Then there’s this, the Judgmental Map of Baltimore Neighborhoods:
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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leoba.bsky.social
ICYMI TOMORROW my colleague Nick Herman will show off our new-to-us Flemish book of hours - Noon ET on Zoom, registration link is in the quoted skeet.
sims-mss.bsky.social Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 8d
For #CoffeeWithACodex on November 6 (12pm ET, Zoom), Lawrence J. Schoenberg Curator Nick Herman will bring out Ms. Codex 2324, a Flemish illuminated book of hours including 6 full-page arched miniatures and 15 historiated initials on gold grounds. #medievalsky

Register here: https://bit.ly/48JljzY
Coffee with a Codex: Flemish Book of Hours
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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helmer.bsky.social
When you ask Cornelis Drebbel to sign your friends book
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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prizepapers.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce this year's rendition of the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition - an online lecture series organised by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project! The first talk will be on November 10th, with Jane Ohlmeyer, Tom Truxes, and John Shovlin on the Amity Papers!
November 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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anakroniks.bsky.social
Je viens de recevoir ce livre, de Chrystel Bernat et Eloi Valat, intitulé Camisards. 1702 , la mort de l'abbé du Chaila.

www.bleu-autour.com/produit/cami...

Je l'ai simplement parcouru avant de le lire de manière plus approfondie : c'est absolument magnifique.

www.bleu-autour.com/wp-content/u...
Camisards | Bleu autour, éditeur
www.bleu-autour.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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fabribald.bsky.social
wrapping my presentation for this beautiful seminar at @bhmpi.bsky.social on Thursday morning (Rome time)🌿
#plantstudies #botany #premodernscience #histsci #arthistory 🌱

Do images have an epistemic role in botanical science?
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM