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Heather Dalton Historian
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Historian of medieval & early modern world. Merchant networks, with a sideline in cockatoos. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/where-did-that-cockatoo-come-from
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Heather Dalton Historian @drhg.bsky.social · Mar 18
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Free download of my 2024 publication “The Ledger of Thomas Howell, 1522-1528: Draper of London and Merchant of Bristol and Seville”. Download the entire volume from the Bristol Record Society address above, thanks to The Drapers’ providing digital sponsorship.
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newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d
“It was human error ... they’re going to have some meetings with their supervisors internally and be like, ‘Hey, guys, we gotta keep our thumb on this, this is silly,’” a spokesperson said.

Nearly deporting a woman—with more right to be in this country than most—is more than silly. trib.al/hPqChv0
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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bryonycoombs.bsky.social
👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m
Artwork that hung for centuries at St John’s Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing
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November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
A translation of 2 rival accounts of an expedition that deteriorated into friction and feuding. The French Conquest of the Canary Islands translated by Craig Taylor and Jane H M Taylor is out now. buff.ly/Ko959Sj #medievalsky
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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roperlou.bsky.social
stuartsymposium.bsky.social Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social · 28d
We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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devawo.bsky.social
Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
October 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.
Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi shot dead in Gaza City clashes
Sources say the 28-year-old was killed by members of Israel-linked 'militia' fighting Hamas in the Sabra neighbourhood.
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October 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed: 1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks 2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens 3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens 4: India: Cottons Cowries 5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns 6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance 7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products 8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain 9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco 10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo 11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses 12: Brazil: Coffee 13: Brazil: Gold 14: Mexico / Peru: Silver 15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America. A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map. Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled: Yellow: Books with gold covers Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell) Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book) The Office (where hazel makes tea) Bathroom Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out) The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece) Taboo The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase) Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens) A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs. Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean. Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge". The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."
October 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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hsmurphy.bsky.social
First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.
michaelroche.bsky.social Michael Roche @michaelroche.bsky.social · Oct 3
ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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pinkoscare.bsky.social
I live on the west side and I am very shook up right now. There's been a helicopter hovering all day. ICE throwing tear gas at a busy intersection with a grocery store! and a SCHOOL!!! People kidnapped from the Home Depot. It's like the stuff you read in history books, right there on your block.
October 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I am just so fucking proud of her.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.
Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Part time research assistant position in Melbourne working with the incomparable Jordy Silverstein on statelessness, migration, and intergenerational memory! unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
Research Associate
Role type: Part-Time (0.2 FTE) Fixed-Term for 3 years Faculty: Melbourne Law School Salary: Level A $85,555.00 - $116,094.00 p.a. plus 17% super  Provide vital research support to an ARC Future Fellow...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Historians, archivists, librarians and historians working in the field of labour history. A starter pack to get you going…
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September 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
To potentially oversimplify this, but the number of people arrested at the Palestine Action protests exceeds the entire number of people, on average, attending the anti-asylum hotels protests, yet they are called "fringe" and those outside hotels are called the "voice of the people".
September 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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humanitiesau.bsky.social
Great article. Employers say they need graduates with the skills in which the humanities are uniquely talented—critical thinking, problem-solving, communication.

Yet students who want to build these skills are slugged with almost double the debt under JRG. bit.ly/47I3Xml
Drop the ‘job-ready’ mantra, leading dean tells business
Expectations that universities produce graduates who understand work culture from day one are misguided, says the head of Melbourne Business School.
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August 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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abenewman.bsky.social
I remember studying Nazi “degenerate art” removal and thinking how unthinkable such a policy was…How long until Trump holds the degenerate art exhibit of 2025 to shame those that resist.

www.moma.org/calendar/exh...
August 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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First They Came for Black History hyperallergic.com/1035834/firs...
First They Came for Black History
The erasure of African Americans from museum galleries is also a warning sign that any community's stories can be next.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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brionyneilson.bsky.social
Two Sydney Uni staff members are being sued in Australia's Federal Court by complainants who claim that statements opposing genocide and Zionist oppression of Palestinians are racist hate speech. Please give what you can to help @nickriemer.bsky.social & @professorjkeane.bsky.social's legal defence
Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack!
Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane are academics at the University of Sydney and long-time advocates of freedom and justice for Palestinians. Since October 7, in articles, on social media and at ...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
A "decolonially trained AI" is about as real as safe-to-swim-in acid.
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · Aug 16
Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots
August 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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kbneal.bsky.social
Love to watch the infrastructure of knowledge collapsing in real time
jstpwalsh.bsky.social Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · Aug 16
Chapman has announced its own AI platform which provides subscriber access to all the various big algorithms. To see what students will be dealing with, I tested it on my own bibliography. Folks, it doesn't just make up citations, it provides real DOIs for them that link to unrelated publications.
Screenshot of three fake citations of articles I supposedly co-authored. Two have DOI links. The result of clicking on the first link, supposedly leading to my (non-existent) article "sampling the ISS archaeologically: first results from the crew culture project". The actual article: "simulated microgravity promotes oxidative stress-induced appoptosis in ARPE-19 cells associated with NRF2 signaling pathway"
August 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM