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Couldn’t sleep last night and wound up rereading Jeremy Brecher’s “Strike!” (50th anniversary edition). Seemed fitting for today.

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social or #History #HistoryBlueSky are there any lists of other good history books on related subjects?
Cover of “Strike!” 50th edition
January 30, 2026 at 3:41 PM
elizabethkellygray.bsky.social
Glad to have the chance to speak with #TUMagazine about my new research project, focusing on #antebellum #Baltimore! #FrederickDouglass #EdgarAllanPoe #HistoryBluesky #BlueskyHistory
History in our own backyard
Professors Danny Mydlack and Kelly Gray took sabbaticals to learn more about local history and share it with the world.
www.towson.edu
December 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
han-okon.bsky.social
A slightly different #ReliefWednesday. These beautiful relief panels are dedicated to a #LlandaffCathedral architect for his restoration work (1949-75) following the war.
#HistoryBlueSky #archaeology #Cathedrals #Wales
September 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
han-okon.bsky.social
A collection for #HelmetThursday. Tiverton Castle is home to many #armour pieces, including a lovely range of helmets, some from the #Roundheads and #Cavaliers. The castle isn't open everyday, but is well priced and worth a visit for the armour (and gardens).
#HistoryBlueSky #archaeology #Tiverton
September 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
han-okon.bsky.social
The Wellington reredos for #ReliefWednesday. It likely stood behind the high altar of St. John's church and was richly coloured. They were defaced at the Reformation (1540s), and later, it was taken down and used as paving around the altar.
Somerset Museum
#HistoryBlueSky #Archaeology
September 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
365history.bsky.social
Sept 16, 1920: A horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite exploded on Wall Street.
38 dead. 140+ injured.
No arrests. No accountability.
Still one of the deadliest terror attacks in US history.
#365History #WallStreetBombing #OnThisDay #USHistory #Historybluesky
September 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
han-okon.bsky.social
A turban helmet with aventail for #HelmetThursday. The aventail is fixed with a lead seal stamped with the mark used in the #Ottoman arsenals, suggesting it passed into Turkish possession as booty.
📷Met Museum (50.87)
#HistoryBlueSky #armour #history #archaeology #metalwork
Turban helmet with aventail, late 15th-16th century, Turkish, in the style of Turkman armour. Met Museum Information: The aventail is fixed with a lead seal stamped with the mark used in the Ottoman arsenals, an indication that this example, like the other turban helmets also in the Museum's collection (acc. nos. 04.3.209, .210, .214, .457, .462; 36.25.109), passed into Turkish possession as booty with the Ottoman conquest of Iran and the Caucasus. At least one turban helmet decorated in a style comparable to this example bears the name of Farruhk-Siar (reigned 1464–1501), ruler of Shirvan in the Caucasus. Such evidence suggests that this helmet is also of Shirvan manufacture. This helmet was siezed by the Nazis from the collection of Baron Alphonse Mayer Rothschild (1878–1942) in Vienna in 1938 and restituted by the government of Austria to his heirs in 1949. Dimensions: H. including mail 22 in. (55.9 cm); H. excluding mail 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm); Diam. 10 in. (25.4 cm); Wt. including mail 7 lb. 6.2 oz. (3350.9 g); Wt. excluding mail 3 lb. 9 oz. (1616 g)
September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
han-okon.bsky.social
A Tibetan #HelmetThursday. An iron helmet with an iron bowl fitted with a gilded flattened finial and a supporting strap with pierced work designs. The front panel and attached viser features dragons and flaming jewels.
📷Liverpool Museums, World Museum (56.27.206)
#HistoryBlueSky #armour
17th-18th century iron helmet. Overall: 210 mm x 170 mm x 270 mm
August 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
pfarrelly2025.bsky.social
On This Day in History: July 16, 1377 – Richard II’s Coronation Launches a Turbulent Reign #onthisday #historybluesky
July 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
han-okon.bsky.social
An electrotype #HelmetThursday. Part of a suit of armour belonging to Ascanio Sforza Pallavicino. His device is on either side in a floral diaper. #Italian #16thcentury copy of a Milanese helmet from Elkington and Co.
📷V&A Museum (30.11.18)
#ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology #HistoryBlueSky #armour
Gallery label taken from V&A Museum website: Electrotype of Burgonet (helmet), 16th century Elkington & Co., 1884 High on the Museum’s list of collections identified for copying were the treasures of the Kremlin, Tsarskoye-Selo and the Hermitage in Russia. This copy of a Milanese helmet, bearing the crest of the Sforza-Pallavicino family, replicates one of 29 pieces of armour moulded in March 1881 by Alexander Sarti, Elkington’s chief mould-maker. The gilding on the copy differs slightly from the original, giving it a uniqueness of its own. Electroformed copper, partly electrogilt and oxydised London, England Museum no. Repro.1884-56 Dimensions: Height: 29.3cm; Width: 21cm; Depth: 33cm
July 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
han-okon.bsky.social
#HelmetThursday possibly Turkish from #Istanbul in the style of Turkman armour, ca. 1500-1525. One of the few conical helmets of the period to retain its original brim, nasal, cheeks, and nape defence.
📷Met Museum (36.25.126) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology #Turkey #HistoryBlueSky
Helmet possibly Turkish, style of Turkman armour. The brass trim is engraved with a zigzag motif, typical of the Mamluk and Ottoman helmets, around 1500. Made from steel, iron, gold, copper alloy. Dimensions: H. including cheek defense 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm); H. including nasal 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm); H. excluding cheek defense and nasal 10 in. (25.4 cm); W. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm); D. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 15.4 oz. (1797.4 g)
June 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
themathsbazaar.bsky.social
#HistoryBluesky it's good to know it's not just maths that is attempting to "game the system" (c) @ProfSmudge
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June 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
antiquity.ac.uk
📕 #BookReview 🏺 #HistoryBluesky

Jane Webster's 'Materializing the Middle Passage' combines material culture and historical sources to "marry words and things" in the examination of the trafficking of enslaved Africans on British ships between AD 1680 and 1807. 1/2

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Cover of the book reviewed, with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.
May 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
empressofbyzantium.bsky.social
Plans to go to the library scuppered by the weather app claiming UV6 & 24 degrees…
In other news, I have my transfer of status this Friday & prep for that, as well as my other writing, is all-consuming!
But next week, #Sicily!
#Oxfordstudent #byzantium #classics #booksky #historian #historybluesky
April 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
emilydebenham.bsky.social
My non-fiction rec this month is First Principles by Thomas E. Ricks. I loved reading about the Classical education available in Colonial American and how that impacted Madison, Washington, Jefferson, and John Adams. #classicsbluesky #historybluesky
March 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
misssamperrin.bsky.social
These pictures are fabulous, what a find! #HistoryBluesky

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Rare Roman-Era Columbariums Discovered in Şanlıurfa | Ancientist
Rare Roman-Era Columbariums Discovered in Şanlıurfa. Şanlıurfa, located in southeastern Turkey, continues to host...
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March 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
empressofbyzantium.bsky.social
Currently preparing for a #podcast and getting to read some articles with really stunning titles including “Brothels, Baths and Babes: Prostitution in the #Byzantine Holy Land” (C Dauphine, 1996). #byzantinehistory #historybluesky 🧵 1/6
January 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
empressofbyzantium.bsky.social
I’ve finally bitten the bullet & started a #substack! I’ll write pieces related to Byzantine studies & history, reviews, tips+tricks, and art. This first essay is personal, outlining some feelings about Doing History. #historybluesky #byzantinebluesky
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Bad History
A short meditation on living the past.
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January 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
empressofbyzantium.bsky.social
All I can think about when I read about Porphyrios is the killer whales who go around sinking yachts. Seems that whale class solidarity is a surprisingly consistent historical trend?
Anyway excited to explore Porphyrios and more Byzantine animals in 2025! #byzantinebluesky #historybluesky
nameshiv.bsky.social Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jan 4
mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus
ellieboren.bsky.social Ellie, 2.0 @ellieboren.bsky.social · Jan 4
About once a week I think fondly of my personal icon, the elephant who trampled a woman and then came back later to trample her some more at her funeral.
January 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
empressofbyzantium.bsky.social
Last few Umbrian days before I head up to the mountains!
Cortona in the sunshine / frescos in a small church in town / the Abbazia (10th century foundation) / view from a window, early morning sun.
#italia #medievalbluesky #historybluesky #travel #umbria #tuscany
December 27, 2024 at 9:09 AM
empressofbyzantium.bsky.social
Buon Natale, Merry Christmas & please enjoy this wonderfully tacky Madonna & Child snow globe from Santa Maria Maggiore in Roma! #italia #christmas #historybluesky
December 25, 2024 at 1:45 PM
jrthorp.bsky.social
Mistletoe, with olive and an adorable snail, from the 'Tudor pattern book' produced in England sometime between 1520-30. Held in the Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1504.

A safe and healthy Christmas to all who celebrate.

#Christmas #medievalillustration #HistoryBlueSky #manuscripts #textualhistory
A manuscript from the 1500s, with mistletoe and olive drawn and coloured delicately, plus a small plant with pink flowers, a cheerful bird, a fly, and a snail who looks frankly lost.
December 25, 2024 at 7:48 AM
kinzercoins.bsky.social
Alexander the Great! Learn more about the incredible man, myth, and legend and how you can connect with him or any of the other great leaders of the past.

#ancient #ancientcoins #ancienthistory #collect #collection #collector #coindealer #coincollector #history #art #ancientart #historybluesky
December 13, 2024 at 11:47 PM