Ewelina Sikora
@drsikora.bsky.social
PhD from @historicalstudies.bsky.social
Food, drink, and diplomacy. Especially early modern and Central European.
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Food, drink, and diplomacy. Especially early modern and Central European.
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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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You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.
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Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy
www.cambridge.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New blog post 📢
Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder'
politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2025/10/06/d...
#earlymodern #historyofgrain
Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder'
politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2025/10/06/d...
#earlymodern #historyofgrain
Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder
The city of Gdańsk has a historical centre with several striking buildings which can make any historian’s heart beat faster, even with the knowledge that they were partly rebuilt after the destruct…
politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
New blog post 📢
Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder'
politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2025/10/06/d...
#earlymodern #historyofgrain
Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder'
politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2025/10/06/d...
#earlymodern #historyofgrain
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piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660
Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660
October 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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#CfA Tandem #Scholarships in Entangled East Central European History
📌offered by GHI Warsaw and Research Centre Ukraine | 1–4 month stays in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, or Czech Republic | for early-career, non-tenured scholars (doctoral & postdoctoral level)
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
📌offered by GHI Warsaw and Research Centre Ukraine | 1–4 month stays in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, or Czech Republic | for early-career, non-tenured scholars (doctoral & postdoctoral level)
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
September 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#CfA Tandem #Scholarships in Entangled East Central European History
📌offered by GHI Warsaw and Research Centre Ukraine | 1–4 month stays in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, or Czech Republic | for early-career, non-tenured scholars (doctoral & postdoctoral level)
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
📌offered by GHI Warsaw and Research Centre Ukraine | 1–4 month stays in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, or Czech Republic | for early-career, non-tenured scholars (doctoral & postdoctoral level)
🔗www.maxweberstiftung...
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I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
earlymodernweb.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
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Un #colloque international, sur le thème "Rebelles en diplomatie. Des expériences politiques singulières sur la scène internationale (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)" est organisé à Nantes, du 10 au 12 juin 2026.
Un appel à communications a été lancé : calenda.org/1270070
Un appel à communications a été lancé : calenda.org/1270070
Rebelles en diplomatie. Des expériences politiques singulières sur ...
Notre rencontre scientifique a pour but d’observer les mobilisations diplomatiques rebelles. L’attention portera principalement sur les questions suivantes qui ont toutes pour but de mettre en lumi...
calenda.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Un #colloque international, sur le thème "Rebelles en diplomatie. Des expériences politiques singulières sur la scène internationale (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)" est organisé à Nantes, du 10 au 12 juin 2026.
Un appel à communications a été lancé : calenda.org/1270070
Un appel à communications a été lancé : calenda.org/1270070
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Folger Library offer free online-only subscription which gets you access to JSTOR and a load of other stuff!
August 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Folger Library offer free online-only subscription which gets you access to JSTOR and a load of other stuff!
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A thread on transcription and AI. One reason I don't use AI to transcribe (besides the fact that AI is hugely detrimental to the environment & is coming for our jobs) is that it can't tell the difference between original documents & new notes added by staff members to whom documents were sent. 🗃️ 1/?
August 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A thread on transcription and AI. One reason I don't use AI to transcribe (besides the fact that AI is hugely detrimental to the environment & is coming for our jobs) is that it can't tell the difference between original documents & new notes added by staff members to whom documents were sent. 🗃️ 1/?
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🍻 Karczmy jako dawny Facebook?
W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Muzeum Historii Polski niespiesznie opowiadam:
- w czym karczmy były podobne do social mediów
- o niskim standardzie lokali i zorganizowanej przestępczości
- rozprawiam się z tytułowym mitem rozpitego chłopa
Linki ⬇️
W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Muzeum Historii Polski niespiesznie opowiadam:
- w czym karczmy były podobne do social mediów
- o niskim standardzie lokali i zorganizowanej przestępczości
- rozprawiam się z tytułowym mitem rozpitego chłopa
Linki ⬇️
July 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🍻 Karczmy jako dawny Facebook?
W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Muzeum Historii Polski niespiesznie opowiadam:
- w czym karczmy były podobne do social mediów
- o niskim standardzie lokali i zorganizowanej przestępczości
- rozprawiam się z tytułowym mitem rozpitego chłopa
Linki ⬇️
W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Muzeum Historii Polski niespiesznie opowiadam:
- w czym karczmy były podobne do social mediów
- o niskim standardzie lokali i zorganizowanej przestępczości
- rozprawiam się z tytułowym mitem rozpitego chłopa
Linki ⬇️
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1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
July 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
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In 1758, during the Seven Years' War, English privateers captured the Bremen merchant ship Concordia. The subsequent legal battle preserved something remarkable: the ship's complete archive. ⛵️
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July 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In 1758, during the Seven Years' War, English privateers captured the Bremen merchant ship Concordia. The subsequent legal battle preserved something remarkable: the ship's complete archive. ⛵️
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💬 "Le mot diplomatie n’apparaît dans son sens moderne qu’à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Il est sans doute alors un peu péjoratif !"
🖋️ Découvrez les explications de Lucien Bély 👇
ehne.fr/fr/encyclope...
🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
🖋️ Découvrez les explications de Lucien Bély 👇
ehne.fr/fr/encyclope...
🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
Diplomatie moderne en Europe (16e - 18e siècle) (La)
ehne.fr
July 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
💬 "Le mot diplomatie n’apparaît dans son sens moderne qu’à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Il est sans doute alors un peu péjoratif !"
🖋️ Découvrez les explications de Lucien Bély 👇
ehne.fr/fr/encyclope...
🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
🖋️ Découvrez les explications de Lucien Bély 👇
ehne.fr/fr/encyclope...
🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social
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📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
July 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
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Finally, we have a forum by Jan Hennings, Carina L. Johnson, Macabe Keliher, Kaya Şahin, and Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Finally, we have a forum by Jan Hennings, Carina L. Johnson, Macabe Keliher, Kaya Şahin, and Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger brill.com/view/journal...
The best part of Egger's "Nosferatu" is when Thomas signs the contract, and he does that in Kurrentschrift.
March 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The best part of Egger's "Nosferatu" is when Thomas signs the contract, and he does that in Kurrentschrift.
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Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew!
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...
www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...
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Reminder! Our online seminar series on historical food preservation kicks off tomorrow with a session on fermentation.
📅 Tuesday, February 25
🕒 15:30–17:00 (CET) / 09:30–11:00 (EST)
Speakers: Justin Linds & Carmen Schmechel
Register here: www.nybg.org/event/histor...
Hope to see you there!
📅 Tuesday, February 25
🕒 15:30–17:00 (CET) / 09:30–11:00 (EST)
Speakers: Justin Linds & Carmen Schmechel
Register here: www.nybg.org/event/histor...
Hope to see you there!
Save the dates and spread the word! In collaboration with the New York Botanical Garden’s Humanities Institute (@nybg.bsky.social), we’re launching an online seminar series. Check out the program below 👇
Stay tuned for registration details. We hope to see you there!
Stay tuned for registration details. We hope to see you there!
February 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reminder! Our online seminar series on historical food preservation kicks off tomorrow with a session on fermentation.
📅 Tuesday, February 25
🕒 15:30–17:00 (CET) / 09:30–11:00 (EST)
Speakers: Justin Linds & Carmen Schmechel
Register here: www.nybg.org/event/histor...
Hope to see you there!
📅 Tuesday, February 25
🕒 15:30–17:00 (CET) / 09:30–11:00 (EST)
Speakers: Justin Linds & Carmen Schmechel
Register here: www.nybg.org/event/histor...
Hope to see you there!
Well, this one is timely.
Commiserations. My colleague wrote a great paper about grieving academic grant rejections: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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February 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Well, this one is timely.
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Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.
February 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.
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We are delighted to be collaborating with the Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies, Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: “Fantasy in the Midst of War: Perspectives from Ukraine”, an online event, on Wednesday 26th Feb, 6pm
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We are delighted to be collaborating with the Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies, Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: “Fantasy in the Midst of War: Perspectives from Ukraine”, an online event, on Wednesday 26th Feb, 6pm
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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do