Prussian-Stepping Goose
@pauldlockhart.bsky.social
Professor of History. War & religion in EM Europe; Denmark. Author of FIREPOWER (Basic, 2021); DENMARK, 1513-1660 (Oxford UP, 2007). Current project - Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Doer of several things.
Doer of several things.
I just ripped a stupid pompom off of your stupid throw blanket and I’ve also composed a song about it. Allow me to demonstrate.
#academiccats #catsofbluesky
#academiccats #catsofbluesky
February 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I just ripped a stupid pompom off of your stupid throw blanket and I’ve also composed a song about it. Allow me to demonstrate.
#academiccats #catsofbluesky
#academiccats #catsofbluesky
Ominous message from my university.
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Ominous message from my university.
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all's well that ends well here @profmurdoch.bsky.social #earlymodern 🙃
#OnThisDay in 1613 Elizabeth Stuart married Frederick V, Elector Palatine.
Elizabeth Stuart - The Winter Queen - History of Royal Women
In 1596, Elizabeth Stuart, the eldest daughter of King James VI Scotland and Anne of Denmark, was born. In 1603, the old Queen Elizabeth I of England passed away without leaving an heir. The throne pa...
www.historyofroyalwomen.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:20 PM
all's well that ends well here @profmurdoch.bsky.social #earlymodern 🙃
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Dayton, Ohio’s single worthwhile contribution to civilization: the Cheez-It. You’re welcome.
[ok, the Cheez-It and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ain’t goin’ no further than that]
#skystorians #cheezit
[ok, the Cheez-It and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ain’t goin’ no further than that]
#skystorians #cheezit
February 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Dayton, Ohio’s single worthwhile contribution to civilization: the Cheez-It. You’re welcome.
[ok, the Cheez-It and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ain’t goin’ no further than that]
#skystorians #cheezit
[ok, the Cheez-It and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Ain’t goin’ no further than that]
#skystorians #cheezit
I'll have to admit that I still get all misty-eyed whenever I see a Bucquoi reference
A tiny man shooting a word nearby, within a printed text of the European past. Welcome to another #rebus broadside of the later so-called #ThirtyYearsWar. A shootin' short 🧵 for #skystorians
February 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I'll have to admit that I still get all misty-eyed whenever I see a Bucquoi reference
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Delighted to announce that Jason Peacey (UCL) will deliver the keynote speech at the Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference (11-12 June 2026).
Details of our #CfP are below, deadline: 27 February 2026. Please do share! #Earlymodern #History
Details of our #CfP are below, deadline: 27 February 2026. Please do share! #Earlymodern #History
February 12, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Delighted to announce that Jason Peacey (UCL) will deliver the keynote speech at the Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference (11-12 June 2026).
Details of our #CfP are below, deadline: 27 February 2026. Please do share! #Earlymodern #History
Details of our #CfP are below, deadline: 27 February 2026. Please do share! #Earlymodern #History
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This is a really good piece. What does walking do for our research?
"Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? Sounds a bit like saying if you immerse yourself in historical documents, they ‘speak for themselves’."
"Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? Sounds a bit like saying if you immerse yourself in historical documents, they ‘speak for themselves’."
'I would set off, with some sense of what I might be looking for, and see what I stumbled across...'
Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start?
Some thoughts in my latest blog post:
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...
Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start?
Some thoughts in my latest blog post:
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...
Is Walking Research? A Methodological Ramble
Mark HailwoodI needed to try something to get me writing again. Blessed with a period of research leave to resume work on my book – Everyday Life in the Seventeenth Century English Village &#…
manyheadedmonster.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 AM
This is a really good piece. What does walking do for our research?
"Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? Sounds a bit like saying if you immerse yourself in historical documents, they ‘speak for themselves’."
"Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? Sounds a bit like saying if you immerse yourself in historical documents, they ‘speak for themselves’."
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This needs closer attention. This is ghastly and echoes a horrible history one thought would never again happen.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:53 PM
This needs closer attention. This is ghastly and echoes a horrible history one thought would never again happen.
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Hey, Bluesky history nerds! Who are your favorite pre-modern historians on here?
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Hey, Bluesky history nerds! Who are your favorite pre-modern historians on here?
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Michaelina Wautier: Painter is on at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna through February 22. The show then moves to London’s Royal Academy of Arts, where it will run as "Michaelina Wautier" from March 27 to June 21, 2026
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/m...
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/m...
Michaelina Wautier | Royal Academy of Arts
A 17th-century trailblazer rediscovered.
www.royalacademy.org.uk
February 10, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Michaelina Wautier: Painter is on at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna through February 22. The show then moves to London’s Royal Academy of Arts, where it will run as "Michaelina Wautier" from March 27 to June 21, 2026
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/m...
www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/m...
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“The brutality of USAID’s closure and the disregard for the human toll betrayed a vision of a crueler, meaner, more insular world, one in which America aspires not to any pretense of moral leadership but simply to naked power, dominance and extractive self-interest.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
Opinion | What We Lost When We Lost U.S.A.I.D.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
“The brutality of USAID’s closure and the disregard for the human toll betrayed a vision of a crueler, meaner, more insular world, one in which America aspires not to any pretense of moral leadership but simply to naked power, dominance and extractive self-interest.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
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More on revolutions and food: Two venison recipes from the #18thcentury with #medieval roots, and a story of poaching as social banditry in Bavaria.
www.culina-vetus.de/2026/02/08/f...
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #socialbanditry #eattherich
www.culina-vetus.de/2026/02/08/f...
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #socialbanditry #eattherich
February 8, 2026 at 8:34 PM
More on revolutions and food: Two venison recipes from the #18thcentury with #medieval roots, and a story of poaching as social banditry in Bavaria.
www.culina-vetus.de/2026/02/08/f...
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #socialbanditry #eattherich
www.culina-vetus.de/2026/02/08/f...
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #earlymodern #socialbanditry #eattherich
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The Luther Random Insult Generator was, as ever, a hit in my Reformation class this morning.
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
February 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
The Luther Random Insult Generator was, as ever, a hit in my Reformation class this morning.
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
ergofabulous.org/luther/?
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“I didn’t make a mistake… no message to anyone offended…”
So much for the “it was a staffer” lie 😕
(H/T @acynig )
So much for the “it was a staffer” lie 😕
(H/T @acynig )
February 7, 2026 at 3:15 AM
“I didn’t make a mistake… no message to anyone offended…”
So much for the “it was a staffer” lie 😕
(H/T @acynig )
So much for the “it was a staffer” lie 😕
(H/T @acynig )
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i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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"I never would have endorsed the guy who built his political career off rejecting the citizenship of the first Black president, if I knew he was a racist!"
Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had this to say:
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
"I never would have endorsed the guy who built his political career off rejecting the citizenship of the first Black president, if I knew he was a racist!"
Not only did Dayton, Ohio have a workhouse in 1917... the workhouse also had a piggery!
TBH I appreciated confirmation that "piggery" is indeed a word. #skystorians
TBH I appreciated confirmation that "piggery" is indeed a word. #skystorians
February 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Not only did Dayton, Ohio have a workhouse in 1917... the workhouse also had a piggery!
TBH I appreciated confirmation that "piggery" is indeed a word. #skystorians
TBH I appreciated confirmation that "piggery" is indeed a word. #skystorians
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I am speechless.
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I am speechless.
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
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Excited to share a new volume that examines #diplomacy through art, literature, and performance from the #earlymodern to the modern era, highlighting #negotiation as an aesthetic practice and how narratives and artistic forms shape the work of #diplomats. doi.org/10.1515/9783...
February 4, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Excited to share a new volume that examines #diplomacy through art, literature, and performance from the #earlymodern to the modern era, highlighting #negotiation as an aesthetic practice and how narratives and artistic forms shape the work of #diplomats. doi.org/10.1515/9783...