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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 17h

Yes!!!!

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 17h

This looks good

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 17h

where did you find the France part? Everything I'm looking at indicates that the French read less than both the Americans and the Brits (which based on personal impression, feels true)

for example: worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Average Books Read Per Year by Country 2025

Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.

worldpopulationreview.com

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 17h

Will you be in Paris at some point before or after that?

Can I buy you a coffee and a slice of cake?

Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 17h

And the Lord said: Go down, Mosses

Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social · 23h

I know at least one person who would appreciate this as a gift!

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of the World: A Guide to Every Order
Joanna Wilbraham
August 2025. @princetonupress.bsky.social

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of the World

A magnificently illustrated guide to the bryophyte species found across the world

press.princeton.edu

Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 17h

I know it's revolutionary to say so but: colonization sucks.

New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 22h

11.🧵While the world’s attention is focused on Gaza, extremist Israeli settlers are, with their government’s complicity, violently annexing the West Bank. Nicolas Cortes tells the story of four villages in the South Hebron Hills for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...

While the World Watches Gaza, the West Bank Burns

Since Oct. 7, Jewish settlers have been waging a bloody, unchecked war of displacement, beatings and killings against defenseless Palestinian villagers

newlinesmag.com

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Alejandro Salamanca @desvelandooriente.com · 1d

¡Hemos impreso una nueva tirada de los fanzines! Con un sello especial tallado a mano a partir de un original del siglo XVIII

“Me dejaste como la flor en la escarcha: Selección de cartas de mujeres a sus maridos en América, 1740s”

5€ más gastos de envío. Escríbeme un privado si te interesa

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 1d

Good essay. Had not considered how sound itself can be policed by gender.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Soundscapes of the Silenced | Erin Maglaque

In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.

www.nybooks.com

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 1d

A World of Piety by Jeremy Phillip Brown examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile.

https://www.sup.org/books/religious-studies/world-piety

#ReadUP

Book cover of A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah by Jeremy Phillip Brown

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 17h

I hadn't realized the North Sea region had experienced so many catastrophic floods during the Middle Ages.

We're talking tens of thousands of victims.

I can't think of equivalents elsewhere en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_M...

www.datawrapper.de/blog/north-s...

Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

Someone is looking for Saqaliba experts and that's makes me happy

Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 2d

AotW: Daniel G. König, 903–906: The Raffelstetten Customs Regulation and the Export of Slavic Slaves to the Islamic Sphere, in: TMH 4.1 (2022), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*

#medievalists #medievalsky

Iron restraints 11th/12th cent., Neu Nieköhr, Zdenek Vana, przedmowa Jerzy Gąssowski - Świat dawnych Słowian, 1985, Artia, PA Interpress

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 19h

Tiens je collerais bien des étudiant-es à la réécriture de cet article tout mou de Wikipedia
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2...

Pâques véronaises — Wikipédia

fr.wikipedia.org

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

war was not on display in Lepanto. But the Western way of financing wars was.

Anyway... those were some thoughts on the great battle of Lepanto.

Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

the Ottoman never issue any debt to pay for their fleet. It's all the more remarkable that all the Christian powers from Spain to France and from the Papal States to Venice all bought their fleet using credit.

Unlike what Hanson tried to argue in his dismal Carnage and Culture the western way of

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

Two things come to mind here:

first, it's amazing how fast the Empire re-spawed a fleet with its tens of thousands of sailors and rowers.

second, as far as I can tell, it was all done without resorting to debt. The grand vizir collected money for the fleet sometimes in fairly unorthodox ways but

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

But as with any battle, the most important is what happened after.

The Ottoman fleet had been sunk, but the empire managed to rebuild it in a matter of months and by skillfully avoiding a second battle the following year, Eludj Ali bought his new fleet enough time to drill it correctly.

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

Williams shows how cruccial a well-trained and seasoned group of rowers could be.

New ciurme would get easily tired and be particularly vulnerable to diseases whereas old ones ("le ciurme vecchie") where an admiral's most crucial assets.

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

Williams' Empire and Holy War which brilliantly presents the Spanish strategy after 1560: shadow the Ottoman fleet so as to cancel the threat with as little risk and cost as possible. Obviously it only worked so far...

But the best part is his study of the human engine of the galleys: the ciurma.

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

For my money two books have recently profoundly changed my understanding of the battle.

Malcolm's Agents of Empire which brought 2 key insights:
- the state of flux the whole of the Balkans were in at the time
- the savagery of the fight (Spanish troops killed even slave rower on captured ships)

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 18h

October 7th...

While the date resonates differently today, it is an remains the day of Lepanto, the best known of the great galley battles of the period.

Love it or hate it, if you're into Mediterranean history, it's difficult to avoid it.

A quick 🧵:

Willem de Prater @willemdeprater.bsky.social · 1d

7 oktober 1571. De Slag bij Lepanto, een van de grootste zeeslagen uit de geschiedenis, vond plaats. Koning Filips II, een van de hoofdrolspelers uit de Tachtigjarige Oorlog, had niet alleen met protestanten te stellen, hij moest ook het hoofd bieden aan de expansiedrang van het Ottomaanse Rijk. 1/3

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 3d

The Captive of Malta

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EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales @ehess.fr · 5d

L'EHESS sera notamment mise à l'honneur lors des événements :

🤑 "Un monde (re)devenu colbertiste ?"
Conférence proposée par le Conseil scientifique avec Arnaud Orain directeur d’études à l’EHESS (@crh.ehess.fr)
👉 https://rdv-histoire.com/programme/un-monde-redevenu-colbertiste

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 4d

So, one thing I learned today is that theater loves a hunchback.

Take Pulcinella, of the commedia dell'arte genre. He's said to have antecedents from the Atellan farces, which had characters like Maccus, also hunchbacked. Plautus likely took the nickname Maccius from him...

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AHMUF @ahmuf.bsky.social · 4d

📖 Parution : Chrystel Bernat, "Une guerre sans épithète : les Troubles des Sevenes. Déchirures civiles et militances confessionnelles au Grand Siècle (v. 1685-v. 1710)", Honoré Champion (« Vie des huguenots, 98 »), 3 vol., septembre 2025.

🖱️Lien éditeur ➡️ www.honorechampion.com/fr/editions-...

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