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Mikael Alm
@mikaelalm.bsky.social
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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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helengittos.bsky.social
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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metcostume.bsky.social
Pocket
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96582
Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; GIft of the Pierrepont Family, 1941
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
I totally agree
Illustration of Snoopy sitting cross-legged in a meditative pose wearing a blue patterned hoodie. The text beside him reads, “Inner peace begins with four words: not my fucking problem."
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
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...
Author holding copy of book Page with birds on left, text on right Double page spread with a photo of diorama Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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isabellemarie.bsky.social
The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study.
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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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jorisvdt.bsky.social
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
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migrationhistorian.bsky.social
Excited to see my book - WAITING ON EMPIRE (Indian ayahs in Britain) sharing space with @willdalrymple.bsky.social at Chester Beatty Museum 🥳🤗
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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wisdompedlars.bsky.social
GENTLEMANS MAGAZINE 1780 AMERICA WAR RIOT PHILADELPHIA WASHINGTON Plates IRELAND

#books #antiquarian #history #18thcentury #America #news #magazine #Philadelphia #Washington #riots #military #war #Britain #Jamaica #Ireland #Virginia #bookauction bit.ly/4nxtO4G
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 1787 WORLD DISCOVERY ENDEAVOUR PACIFIC AUSTRALIA VENUS

#books #antiquarian #history #voyages #ships #maritime #exploration #Endeavour #Pacific #Australia #NorthWestPassage #discovery #CaptainCook #bookauction
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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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barbarasplendor.bsky.social
Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social
Happy to say my new book, “Controlling Contagion”, comes out next month. 700 years of tackling pandemics. Not all bad news…

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Controlling Contagion
How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
press.princeton.edu
January 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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cecs-york.bsky.social
📢 Our next seminar is just a week away, with Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social, presenting a paper titled ‘Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives’
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall

www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Digital Remediations of Manuscript Archives - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, addresses close and distant reading, and the computational analysis of manuscript archives.
www.york.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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neleppp.bsky.social
Excited to be part of this! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #maritimehistory #skystorians
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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isabellemarie.bsky.social
Why we used to sleep in two segments – and how the modern shift changed our sense of time.
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Why we used to sleep in two segments – and how the modern shift changed our sense of time
There’s a reason you sometimes wake up in the middle of the night.
theconversation.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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ctcallisen.bsky.social
A fantastic presentation by Dirk van Miert, and what a pleasure to hear a Q&A discussion between him and @annegoldgar.bsky.social about the republic of letters! Not a bad way to spend a Friday evening 🤓

#EarlyModern #17thC #reformazing
annegoldgar.bsky.social Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 14d
Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
www.history.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
khrisnin.bsky.social KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 11d
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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courtstudies.bsky.social
📣 SCS annual conference - “Reconsidering Courtly Environments”, in Prague on 20-21 Nov w/ historickyustav.bsky.social akademievedcr.bsky.social Examines medieval & early modern European courts, natural environments & landscapes. Feat keynote by Luc Duerloo & papers on gardens, hunting & landscapes!
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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artinsociety.bsky.social
French actress/opera singer Louise Jacquet looks up at us engagingly from reading an admiring letter, in this exceptional pastel portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard (c 1750). Such a lively & natural expression! Check out the fine detailing on her clothes, too
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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mariajosephson.bsky.social
Och Uppsala! ❤️
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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uhihistory.bsky.social
Our Dr Juliette Desportes gave a talk at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social's Scottish History seminar in September, focusing on uncovering Highland estate tenants' attitudes towards agrarian 'improvement' in the mid-eighteenth century.
Collage of two photos, one showing a woman smiling at the camera, the other an image of handwritten signatures in the background, with the text 'Land reform 'from below'? Highland Tenants and the emergence of the 18th century estate landscape'. Below the text logos of UHI Centre for History and Scottish Historical Review Trust are shown.
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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johnraimo.bsky.social
Open-Access! Das 20. Jahrhundert in Grundbegriffen (Schwabe Online, @zfl-berlin.bsky.social; #skystorians): www.schwabeonline.ch/schwabe-xave...
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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metcostume.bsky.social
Court suit
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/101402
Gift of Henry Dazian, 1933
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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historybeagle.bsky.social
Can I tempt you for a little history snack? Come find out about George III and how food played a role in his construction of masculinity. Spoiler: his masculinity was about so much more than the meat we associate with modern manliness. (He loved spinach and eggs.)
historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 22d
📣Out now on #firstview!

Rachel Rich, Lisa Wynne Smith (@historybeagle.bsky.social), Sarah Fox (@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social) & Adam Crymble (@adamcrymble.bsky.social) on 'Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy'

#FoodHistory 18thc 🥧🥦🍞🗃️

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George III was a family man, a modest eater, and a thoughtful ruler who wrote about the big questions of the day, from royal sovereignty to the best methods of agriculture to feed a modern nation. His writings provide a glimpse of his version of monarchy, which placed him at the head of a national family, where he embodied the habits of self-regulation and temperance in keeping with the sensibilities of late eighteenth-century manhood. This article brings together George’s meals and his essays, considering the histories of food, masculinity, and self-fashioning, to argue that George was a monarch who embodied a new form of masculinity, as marked by his agricultural interests and insistence on a modest diet. His eating habits, along with his intellectual interests and public persona, bring us to the intersection between the private man and the public monarch. Drawing on newly digitized data, alongside contemporary caricatures and descriptions, and George’s own writing, we argue that moderation was central to George’s creation of an image that appealed to the emerging British nation of the late eighteenth century; food was central to this image, highlighting both his masculine self-control and his ability to be useful to the nation.
October 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM