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Steve Murdoch

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Professor of History, Swedish Defence University Research & Teaching: - The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) - British Civil Wars (1639-1660) - Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713) - History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD #Dyslexic in several languages. .. more

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Steve Murdoch is an academic and writer. He is author on the history of Scotland and the Wider World in general and of Scotland and Scandinavia in particular. His monographs include Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (2000/2003); Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (2006) and the book The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (2010). In 2014 he published the co-authored book Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. He has edited several volumes including Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2000) and with Alexia Grosjean Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005). This same pairing created the Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE). .. more

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 11h

More famous than Culloden? Or even Flodden?

#Justasking

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 13h

"Lost"....he was never in it ya #numptie

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 17h

Ha! I'll get you those beers back @ollibackstrom.bsky.social 🍻

Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 18h

Went to the National Library in Helsinki and ended up reorganizing @profmurdoch.bsky.social books, because they had not been shelved correctly. (Having a drink coz it's thirsty work being Steve's librarian.)

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Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social · 18h

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 2d

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

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SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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ljoeckel.bsky.social @ljoeckel.bsky.social · 3d

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 11d

Kzickermann.bsky.social FYI!

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Institute for Military History (IMH) @mhafhs.bsky.social · 14d

On 1 October, We host Dr Nicola Martin from @uhihistory.bsky.social who will discuss:

“The British Army and interpretations of the Laws of War in the eighteenth century”

Details here:
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#Skystorians #EarlyModern #17thC #MilHist #LAW
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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 15d

Tag: @emwjournal.bsky.social
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
#HerBook

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 15d

Also, ask Ismini
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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 15d

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Bereft of all Human Help: Scottish Widows during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

This article traces the plight of the widows of Scottish soldiers who participated in the Thirty Years' War. Contrasting a number of strategies the women used in two main contrasting legal systems...

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 15d

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‘Mary Haynes and Frances Drummond: Two Abandoned Wives of Scottish Soldiers during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)

Steve Murdoch, ‘Mary Haynes and Frances Drummond: Two Abandoned Wives of Scottish Soldiers during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)’ in Northern Studies 53 (December 2022)

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 15d

So utterly sick of the religion of 'Digital '. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

BBC news page simultaneously reporting UK Gov plan for compulsory digital IDs and a nursery hack that stole the photos and addresses of hundreds of small children.

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michelhenrion.bsky.social @michelhenrion.bsky.social · 22d

Cartoon de Marian Kamensky (Autriche)

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 25d

Clearly reading the "wrong" merchants 😉

Get into the Andrew Russell papers in the Dutch Republic. There lies a world of intrigue, espionage, revolutionaries.... the link beween tha VOC, WIC, the EIC..... boring Scottish coastal commerce, banking, privateering, the Baltic dilema....

oh, and trade.

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Institute for Military History (IMH) @mhafhs.bsky.social · 27d

Baltic Military History Conf: baltmilhist.eu

Steve Murdoch (IMH) "The Codification of the Laws of War in Early Modern Northern Europe"

David Turns (International & Operational Law) "Military war crimes trials in historical & comparative perspective"

#Skystorians #MilHist #EarlyModern #17thC

Baltic Military History Conference

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 27d

See you there Iain.

Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · 27d

1980 Wembly Arena

That is all 😉

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28d

Fox News' solution
for the homeless...

"Just kill them."

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Institute for Military History (IMH) @mhafhs.bsky.social · 28d

Welcome to our next IMH research seminar on 17 September.

Ody Dwicahyo, PhD student (University of Leiden), will discuss "Rationalizing War in Early Modern Indonesia: Insights from the Javanese Court of Mataram, 1680s–1708

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#Skystorians #EarlyModern

Dear friends, We look forward to welcoming you our next IMH International Military History Seminar! Our guest speaker this week is Ody Dwicahyo (Ph.D. Student, University of Leiden University, The… ...

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Institute for Military History (IMH) @mhafhs.bsky.social · Sep 10

We’re delighted to welcome DMF postdoctoral scholar Dr Daniel Strid to the department. Dr Stridh will be working on a project on the system of—and exceptions to—military recruitment in Swedish Sápmi in the first half of the 19thC. Read more about his work here: www.linkedin.com/posts/instit...

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

We just all have to be a bit more visibly "August Landmesser" in such crowds....

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

*published, naturally. As if #dyslexia was not bad enough, #diplopia is ruining me 😉

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 7

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social I have published 8x books with you in 5x series. These are oublished in Leiden AND Boston. What are you doing to assert my, and other Brill authors' copyright?

Antropic/Meta etc

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 6

@battlefieldswede.bsky.social @nursinghistory.bsky.social FYI

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 6

Next they'll be telling us vaccines don't work ......

Oh, hold on🤔

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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tssk. You experts and your pesky evidence-based interpretations! What's wrong with believing every spittle-coated lump of bile that drops from the various orifices of a hypocritical grifter with the intellect of a gnat? After all, he only has mankind's best interests at heart ...

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Sep 6

Correct me if I am wrong, but #Farage has no higher university education, let alone in the discipline of #history.

He is thus in no position to judge interpretations of history

Sure, there is seldom a single orthodox historical truth, but it is for qualified Historians to debate.

#Skystorians 🗃

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 6

'Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference.' 1/3

Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage

Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham

www.timeshighereducation.com

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