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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖

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Tudor History Nerd. I love good music, books, and history. Owner of Adventures of a Tudor Nerd. www.adventuresofatudornerd.com

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · Oct 23

If you would like to follow my history adventures, you can follow me at
My blog: adventuresofatudornerd.com
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17h

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

www.thecrimson.com

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 20h

As you should

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20h

Stopped into the bookstore today and saved $1.75 by only getting a medium coffee abd then I spent that extra $97.42 on books instead

Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 20h

It was Carmen San Diego

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 20h

It's already a rough week for history lovers. First the Louvre heist and now the destruction of the White House, which is a historical landmark

Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

Guest Post: “Ines de Castro” by Catherine Mathis adventuresofatudornerd.com/2025/10/21/g...

Guest Post: “Ines de Castro” by Catherine Mathis

Today, I am pleased to welcome Catherine Mathis to my blog to discuss Ines de Castro, the main protagonist of her novel, “Ines,” the first book in her Queens of Portugal trilogy. I would like to th…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Feel great for Toronto fans while being heartbroken for Mariners ones. That Springer home run was an all time electric playoff moment. So much emotion.

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arlenetrebbefowler.bsky.social @arlenetrebbefowler.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t it historically protected? A landmark protection? How can he order this on his own whim?

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Mike Reiss @mikereisswriter.bsky.social · 3d

Ivan the Terrible suddenly becomes nice guy after No Czars march.

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Alexi Chantziantoniou @alexichantz.bsky.social · 1d

IT’S ALIVE! today i received my advance copies of 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 ahead of publication next month.

it just dawned on me last week that people might actually buy and read this book. which is mildly terrifying. yay?

my hand holding a hardcover book, entitled 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦, edited by Paula Fredriksen, Stephen L. Young, and an unknown, insignificant scholar who happens the have the exact same long greek name as mine.

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

Replace etymologies with sports and books

Dr. Valerie @drvalerieisin.bsky.social · 1d

Current mood:

Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

I'm rooting for the underdog

Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

Colby is ready for cozy season

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

hate it when you think you're being aided in your holy war by the distant Christian king Prester John but it's Actually Just Mongol Invaders Coming to Subjugate You Again On Those Awful Little Horses

Prester John as Ethiopian emperor from a French publication in 1684, Prester John in the Queen Mary Atlas of 1558, and Prester John in a 1400s edition of Marco Polo's journeys.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

How every state in the US teaches about feudalism. A New post from me and @profgabriele.com, along with access to a slideshow and spreadsheet with more info.

24 states REQUIRE feudalism.
8 suggest feudalism.

Feudalism, ICYMI, is not a real thing. Click, read, share, subscribe (it's free!).

Revisiting the Medieval "F-Word" (Feudalism)

How Every State Teaches (or doesn't) about Feudalism

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 1d

I still love this signature of Anne of Cleves’ during her brief stint as Henry VIII’s wife in 1540: ‘Anne the Quenen’ #anneofcleves #annaofcleves #henryviii #tudor #tudors

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

Say what now

Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social · 1d

How did no one tell me this book existed -

“Past Master is a science fiction novel by American writer R. A. Lafferty, first published in 1968. The novel follows the attempt of a future Utopian society in preventing its decline, by bringing Sir Thomas More to the year 2535.”

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 1d

There was a robust trade in live eels in pre-modern England, & I know you're wondering: "How do I ship live eels?"

Not in barrels of water. They'll use up the oxygen & die. Nope. You pack them in layers of damp moss or hay, & off you go. They don't need to be in water.

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Meme. Medieval image showing a cooper making a barrel. He is leaning over the barrel with a wooden wedge in one hand, and a wooden mallet raised high in the other. He's about to strike, like a cobra (if the cobra were holding a wooden mallet).

The man has massively muscled forearms, and a sharply receding hairline. He's going bald, and will arm wrestle you into submission if you bring it up. He is wearing a yellow apron with tools hanging from his belt, a light blue shirt, and a dark cowl. His grey hair speaks to his experience, and his calm look says that he hasn't noticed yet that he's in a meme.

On the wall behind his is a coil of rope, and something that might be a hat or a hood. It is, though, more fun to imagine that it is a fedora and a coiled whip, and that this man is actually Indiana Jones, taking a break from questionable archeology and bad pedagogy to make a few barrels.

Meme text reads:
"Lock, stock, and two
slithering
barrels of eels"

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 1d

He couldn’t even give his daughter one day without making it about himself

Daily Dot @dailydot.com · 1d

“Crossing boundaries at my wedding”: Bride’s father wears MAGA hat during wedding speech against her wishes bit.ly/4qhvJNu

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 1d

It was an absolute pleasure to chat to @iaindale.bsky.social about my new book, Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy for his show on @lbc.co.uk The interview should be broadcast one day this week at around 7.45pm #womenwhoruledtheworld

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

Students don’t want this. Students want to learn things.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary

"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum

The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.

www.ndsmcobserver.com

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

Personally, when it comes to novels about Jane Boleyn, I prefer The Raven's Widow by Adrienne Dillard.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Tfw a book you thought was so bad you shoved it in a public bin because you couldn't face having it in the house is shortlisted for a book prize 🙄

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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 1d

Ada's book is wonderful. Funny and fascinating and sharp. Plus...it's got a killer diagram at the front showing the relationships between Renaissance Italian families. Ask me how I know!
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Nah...you don't have to ask. I'll tell you. I drew it!

History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 💀 Think the Renaissance was a time of health and progress? Think again. In Florence, life expectancy plunged to just 18 years. 😱
@adapalmer.bsky.social joins #HistoryRage to reveal the brutal truth behind the "Golden Age".

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/3401b1
#AdaPalmer #Renaissance

Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 1d

I have heard of it, but when I saw that she was going to portray Lady Jane Rocheford more of a villainess, I passed on reading it.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

hang this in the louvre (there's room now)

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