Miasma
@itsthemiasma.bsky.social
Historian in the making studying early modern Britain. Reposting = commonplacing. Leave miasma theory where it belongs: history.
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✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread
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I'm writing a textbook for the study of medieval manuscripts in the 21st century & am developing a framework that will be referenced throughout the book: ten touchpoints for medieval book history in Europe with six drivers of change. Here's how it will play out... (image: Codex Amiatinus) 🧵
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Social media is dying, from now on we meet at the moonlit bog at midnight instead
November 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Social media is dying, from now on we meet at the moonlit bog at midnight instead
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Disparu il y a quarante ans, Fernand Braudel a profondément marqué les sciences sociales en forgeant des concepts durables pour penser le capitalisme. Son œuvre continue d'éclairer les mutations de l'économie, ses rythmes, ses espaces et ses rapports de force.
L'économie d'après Braudel
Disparu il y a quarante ans, Fernand Braudel a profondément marqué les sciences sociales en forgeant des concepts durables pour penser le capitalisme. Son œuvre continue d'éclairer les mutations de l'économie, ses rythmes, ses espaces et ses rapports de force.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Disparu il y a quarante ans, Fernand Braudel a profondément marqué les sciences sociales en forgeant des concepts durables pour penser le capitalisme. Son œuvre continue d'éclairer les mutations de l'économie, ses rythmes, ses espaces et ses rapports de force.
This is key.
Financial precarity. Yes university students have always been living on their last 20 bucks, but the number of students I talk to now who have *multiple* jobs in addition to being fulltime students, some of whom are taking care of family members' survival needs as well as their own, is shocking. 5/
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is key.
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libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
With Stoppard's death it's worth mentioning that you can get the BBC radio versions of pretty much his entire body of work for a single audiobook credit (also available on Audible, but Libro.fm is far better)
With Stoppard's death it's worth mentioning that you can get the BBC radio versions of pretty much his entire body of work for a single audiobook credit (also available on Audible, but Libro.fm is far better)
Tom Stoppard: A BBC Radio Drama Collection Audiobook on Libro.fm
The collected BBC radio productions of the internationally renowned playwright Tom Stoppard One of the giants of British theatre, Sir Tom Stoppard has been writing for the stage and screen for over 50...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
With Stoppard's death it's worth mentioning that you can get the BBC radio versions of pretty much his entire body of work for a single audiobook credit (also available on Audible, but Libro.fm is far better)
With Stoppard's death it's worth mentioning that you can get the BBC radio versions of pretty much his entire body of work for a single audiobook credit (also available on Audible, but Libro.fm is far better)
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For USians, this @davidolusoga.bsky.social series is also available on PBS and is excellent. 👇
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
For USians, this @davidolusoga.bsky.social series is also available on PBS and is excellent. 👇
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Maybe esp. Phil Deloria's NYer piece on "the Invention of Thanksgiving." I still send that around to a lot of folks this time of year. Hope you and yours are where you wish to be, in all ways, this week/end. 4// www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Maybe esp. Phil Deloria's NYer piece on "the Invention of Thanksgiving." I still send that around to a lot of folks this time of year. Hope you and yours are where you wish to be, in all ways, this week/end. 4// www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
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Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
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First discovered by a boy seaman in the Grand Fleet:
"Dear Mam, I cannot tell you where I am. I don't know where I am. But where I am is miles and miles of bugger all. Love, Ted."
"Dear Mam, I cannot tell you where I am. I don't know where I am. But where I am is miles and miles of bugger all. Love, Ted."
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
First discovered by a boy seaman in the Grand Fleet:
"Dear Mam, I cannot tell you where I am. I don't know where I am. But where I am is miles and miles of bugger all. Love, Ted."
"Dear Mam, I cannot tell you where I am. I don't know where I am. But where I am is miles and miles of bugger all. Love, Ted."
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
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2/2 Here you get a better appreciation of the overall scene - large numbers of fragmented corvid flocks are spooked, with many birds still in the trees.
The Peregrine doesn't use a stooping strategy, but often just suddenly launches from a tree & accelerates at high speed, using a level attack.
The Peregrine doesn't use a stooping strategy, but often just suddenly launches from a tree & accelerates at high speed, using a level attack.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
2/2 Here you get a better appreciation of the overall scene - large numbers of fragmented corvid flocks are spooked, with many birds still in the trees.
The Peregrine doesn't use a stooping strategy, but often just suddenly launches from a tree & accelerates at high speed, using a level attack.
The Peregrine doesn't use a stooping strategy, but often just suddenly launches from a tree & accelerates at high speed, using a level attack.
Yesterday while discussing the execution of Charles I a kid asked, “how tall was Charles II?” We asked the internet. The AI thing at the top of the page provided three separate estimates ranging from 5’10 to 6’2, with linked sources; none of these sources mentioned his height at all. #nonsense
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Yesterday while discussing the execution of Charles I a kid asked, “how tall was Charles II?” We asked the internet. The AI thing at the top of the page provided three separate estimates ranging from 5’10 to 6’2, with linked sources; none of these sources mentioned his height at all. #nonsense
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This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
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November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
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SMH is pleased to offer the Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant. The winner receives an award of $1200.00 for doctoral dissertation research on a topic in any field of military history.
For details on applying:
www.smh-hq.org/millettnom.h...
For details on applying:
www.smh-hq.org/millettnom.h...
Applications | The Society for Military History
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November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
SMH is pleased to offer the Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant. The winner receives an award of $1200.00 for doctoral dissertation research on a topic in any field of military history.
For details on applying:
www.smh-hq.org/millettnom.h...
For details on applying:
www.smh-hq.org/millettnom.h...
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24 November 1582: John Dee, who has been in intense conversation with the angels the past few days, records a rather distressing night in his diary: 'I dremed that I was deade, and afterward my bowels wer taken out I walked and talked with diverse, and among other with the Lord .... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
24 November 1582: John Dee, who has been in intense conversation with the angels the past few days, records a rather distressing night in his diary: 'I dremed that I was deade, and afterward my bowels wer taken out I walked and talked with diverse, and among other with the Lord .... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
Befehle sind Befehle defense never withstands the test of time
Following illegal orders will get you arrested. Obedience is not a defence. They literally spelled that out at Nuremberg.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Befehle sind Befehle defense never withstands the test of time
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
I love how easy it is to do online research into secondary literature; the immediate gratification of downloading full text is so satisfying, HOWEVER, often the notes and the bibliography are not included, and I hate this like poison. #historyrant
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I love how easy it is to do online research into secondary literature; the immediate gratification of downloading full text is so satisfying, HOWEVER, often the notes and the bibliography are not included, and I hate this like poison. #historyrant
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The US FAA has issued a new security NOTAM warning operators of risks to civil aviation based on an increase in military drills and GNSS interference in Venezuela. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
US issues security NOTAM for Venezuelan airspace | Flightradar24 Blog
The US FAA issued a security notice for Venezuelan airspace, warning operators of civilian aircraft of potential dangers.
www.flightradar24.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The US FAA has issued a new security NOTAM warning operators of risks to civil aviation based on an increase in military drills and GNSS interference in Venezuela. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)