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Internet Archive @archive.org · 19h

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain.

Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

Page from March 1997 Scientific American featuring Brewster Kahle’s article 'Preserving the Internet.' Text describes the Internet Archive’s mission to save digital information. Includes a photo of a Smithsonian exhibit with 1996 U.S. election web memorabilia.

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 18h

New Medieval Books: The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons (aka The Mercian Chronicles) www.medievalists.net/2025/10/new-... #books #EnglishHistory #MedievalEngland

New Medieval Books: The Birth of the Anglo-Saxons - Medievalists.net

This book explores the rise of the Kingdom of Mercia, focusing on the reigns of Æthelbald (716–757) and Offa (757–796). It shows how Mercia became a dominant power in early medieval Britain, laying…

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire.

www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 2d

This fragment from book 3 of Aristotle's Metaphysica in the Latin translation by Michael Scot is one of the new items in version 6.7 of my Supplementa tertia to Aristoteles Latinus Codices that was released today! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1258)
www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 8d

Hi, Yoda says.

The same detail from the incunable page showing the initial.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 11d

Time for a snack

BnF MS Latin 14267; Petrus Lombardus , in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.6r
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RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social · 16d

It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 26d

"Domine exaudi orationem meam
Et clamor meus ad te veniat." Psalm 101

BL Add MS 36929; The 'Psalter of Cormac'; 2nd half of the 12th century; Ireland; f.122r

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Aug 8

When AI people dream of PhD level performances, this is what they have in mind: a heavenly connected, winged writing hand.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Aug 7

A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!

A detail from a Schreibmeister book of c17 Germany. The emblematic print shows a hand with wings and a quill writing a book. In the left of the framing ornament is an ink pot, and on the right is a pounce pot. On the top of the frame is a Chewie like head holding a quill in its teeth. Source: Kunstrichtige Schreibart Allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] Der Teütschen, Lateinischen und Italianischen Schrifften : aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der Edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen (1655).

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Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde @isgv.bsky.social · 28d

PirnaTV hat dem Sächsischen Klosterbuch, das wir morgen, 19 Uhr, im StadtMuseum Pirna vorstellen werden, einen Beitrag gewidmet, in dem auch die Herausgeber zu Wort kommen:

www.pirna-tv.de/2025/09/10/s...

Sächsisches Klosterbuch blickt tief in Pirnas Geschichte | PIRNA TV

Pirna TV - Lokalfernsehen in Pirna. Videos aus Politik, Kultur, Sport und Gesellschaft.

www.pirna-tv.de

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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183)

Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...

Opening of a 10th-century manuscript that is now in the Parker Library as CCCC MS 183. Opening shows a full page portrait of King Aethelstan (d. 939) presenting a book to St Cuthbert, or rather the community of St Cuthbert, then already in exile from Lindisfarne. The full page image has a floral border in red, king under an arch on the left and St Cuthbert in front of a brick structure topped with a cross.
Right of the image contains the beginning of Life of St Cuthbert, written in Latin. First three lines in red (rubric) is followed by two lines of monumental script in multiple colours, after which the text itself continues in usual brown ink.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Sep 7

Helen's new book, 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, 1489-1541', is currently available free to read in full via the CUP website, until 30 September: bit.ly/3JJsCgH.

For more on the Society's Camden Series of primary editions, please see: bit.ly/469UEJw #Skystorians

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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · Sep 3

Publication – Robert A.H. Evans, « God and History in the Early Medieval West. The Theology of Carolingian Historians »

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Publication – Robert A.H. Evans, « God and History in the Early Medieval West. The Theology of Carolingian Historians »

While virtually all early medieval historians wrote about God, they did not do so in the same way. Rather than taking their comments about God at face value then, as has been the case in much work …

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History of the Germans Podcast @hotgpod.bsky.social · Sep 4

On July 9th, 1386 in a field near the Sempach the armies of archduke Leopold of Austria line up against the forces of the city of Lucerne and the men of Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden….and the rest is some very interesting history - even without Tell & Winkelried

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Lamb surrounded by the symbols of the Evangelists, and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel

Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Bibl.1; 'Alcuin-Bible'; circa 834 CE-843 CE; Marmoutier near Tours; f.339v

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Sep 1

Initial E(xpletis)

Bodleian Library, MS Bodleian 717; Commentary on Isaiah, Jerome; 11th century; France (Normandy); fol. vi verso @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Aug 31

Why a Benefice Did Not Make a Vassal in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net/2025/08/bene... #medieval #feudalism

Why a Benefice Did Not Make a Vassal in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

David Bachrach on why holding a benefice did not make someone a vassal in the Middle Ages, challenging long-held assumptions about feudalism and medieval society.

www.medievalists.net

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Patricia Lovett MBE @patricialovett.bsky.social · Aug 31

I love this image and it’s one that’s often chosen on my 3-day traditional mss techniques, tools and materials courses I teach every May. The flames are so busy and joyful! The dark background is replaced by gesso and gold to learnt those skills and it looks even more magnificent!!

Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Aug 30

The rebirth of the phoenix

BL Harley 4751; Bestiary; 13th century; England, S.; f.45r

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Jürgen Sarnowsky @caoursin.bsky.social · Aug 17

Memory in stone: Tomb monument of Isabelle de Bourbon (+ 1465), second wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, today in Our Lady's Church in Antwerp, originally in St Michael's Abbey. The monument from marble was commissioned by her daughter Mary of Burgundy in 1475.

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Jürgen Sarnowsky @caoursin.bsky.social · Aug 15

Memory on stone: Dated decoration at the ceiling of the aisle of Our Lady's Church at Antwerp, dated 1475, during the construction of the nave.

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Jürgen Sarnowsky @caoursin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Memory on wood: the earliest surviving image of a group of 17 guardsmen (including the painter on the upper right) of a militia from Amsterdam from 1529 by Dirck Jacobsz (c. 1497-1567). Oil on panel, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.

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Jürgen Sarnowsky @caoursin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Memory on wood: the Lords of Montfoort, collective memory for four members of the De Rover Family of Montfoort, with their coats of arms and their patron saint of St. George, the first of the three died 1345 in the battle of Warns. Oil on panel c. 1400, Amsterdam Rijksmuseum

Jürgen Sarnowsky @caoursin.bsky.social · Aug 8

Forthcoming conference in Würzburg: Sources and editions for the history of the military orders, 17-18th September 2025.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Aug 6

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS

The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

The Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: new Camden volume published - RHS

The Society is very pleased to announced publication of its latest Camden series volume: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This vol...

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · Aug 3

The year moves slowly forward, the crops are grown and it's time to thresh! One of the labors of the month is threshing wheat. To illustrate, here are August pages from calendars from a variety of books of hours from Philadelphia (and one non-book of hours...). The Zodiac is Virgo, the virgin.

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