This beauty just arrived in paperback #earlymodern #skystorians
March 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This beauty just arrived in paperback #earlymodern #skystorians
The Wreck of The Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, edited by @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi is now advertised from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-wre...
23 original essays & 150 illustrations
Available to preorder in January & out 30 March 2027
boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-wre...
23 original essays & 150 illustrations
Available to preorder in January & out 30 March 2027
September 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM
If anyone has reading they'd recommend on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mombasa, I'm all ears!
September 25, 2026 at 3:39 PM
We welcome book proposals to this new series of peer-reviewed books -
Early Modern Visual & Material Cultures
Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown Univ
Publisher: @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
brill.com/page/forthco...
Pls contact me with any q's - by DM or email (Erika.Gaffney@degruyterbrill.com)!
Early Modern Visual & Material Cultures
Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown Univ
Publisher: @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
brill.com/page/forthco...
Pls contact me with any q's - by DM or email (Erika.Gaffney@degruyterbrill.com)!
September 25, 2026 at 10:06 PM
GO SIMON! What a brilliant event, getting to hear about Piratical States and the way this fab book is shaping conversations in world history, Indian Ocean history, history of capitalism, & of empires.
You’re gonna want to read this. Get your (library’s) copy here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
You’re gonna want to read this. Get your (library’s) copy here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
September 25, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Just arrived in the post (had to queue up at the post office depot but it was worth it!)...a privilege to be part of this book which packs in so much information and examples of how you learn from materials and remaking. Congratulations, @sarahabendall.bsky.social and @serenadyer.bsky.social.
February 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
C17th cherub on pulpit within Necton,
All Saints, west Norfolk #churches #norfolk #17thcentury #earlymodern #heritage #history #cherub #woodcarving #materialculture #photography
All Saints, west Norfolk #churches #norfolk #17thcentury #earlymodern #heritage #history #cherub #woodcarving #materialculture #photography
February 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM
C17th cherub on pulpit within Necton,
All Saints, west Norfolk #churches #norfolk #17thcentury #earlymodern #heritage #history #cherub #woodcarving #materialculture #photography
All Saints, west Norfolk #churches #norfolk #17thcentury #earlymodern #heritage #history #cherub #woodcarving #materialculture #photography
The extraordinary tomb of Herman Wrangel, Swedish field marshall, d. 1643, at Skoklosters Slott, with tableau representing (I think) his victory over the Poles at Gorzno in 1629.
June 8, 2026 at 9:06 PM
#EarlyModern name of the year - Innocent just popped up in my sample
September 23, 2026 at 1:57 PM
#EarlyModern name of the year - Innocent just popped up in my sample
Just leaving this here for #earlymodern #skystorians
December 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just leaving this here for #earlymodern #skystorians
Happy Defenestration of Prague Day to all who observe.
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
May 23, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Happy Defenestration of Prague Day to all who observe.
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
Soldiers dressing as women to infiltrate a city. Welcome to #earlymodern warfare.
June 1625. Brandenburger colonel Wallraven von Gent, apparently employed by the Dutch Republic, takes the Westphalian town of Bielefeld from the Spanish by infiltrating the town gates with soldiers disguised as peasant women.
This was a common ruse during the Thirty Years War.
This was a common ruse during the Thirty Years War.
January 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Soldiers dressing as women to infiltrate a city. Welcome to #earlymodern warfare.
July 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
✍🏼💨👇🏼 #Medievalsky #EarlyModern 🗃️
That moment when someone started to talk much faster and the inquisitorial notary transcribing the oral testimony in 1542 had to shift into turbo mode.
June 15, 2026 at 10:40 AM
✍🏼💨👇🏼 #Medievalsky #EarlyModern 🗃️
I know the feeling, tbh #earlymodern #EarlyModern
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
I know the feeling, tbh #earlymodern #EarlyModern
Absorbed in a good book: Quintilia Fischieri of Bologna in 1600. Painted by Federico Barocci, whose day is today.
January 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#EarlyModern 📚🗃️
Aphra Behn first edition novel found on home bookshelf
Aphra Behn first edition novel found on home bookshelf
Just 13 first editions of Oroonoko were known to exist before the discovery.
www.bbc.com
July 14, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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Proper #EarlyModern name of the day: Argarol Turvil (née Hind), born Madingley, Cambridgeshire.
September 24, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Proper #EarlyModern name of the day: Argarol Turvil (née Hind), born Madingley, Cambridgeshire.
News in Antwerp 400 years ago: heroism under siege in Linz.
September 22, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Baltic Sea witnessed a series of epic struggles between powers seeking to dominate the region's waterways and those who wished to prise them open for free trade.
The early modern battle for Baltic supremacy | Peter Haldén
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-e...
The early modern battle for Baltic supremacy | Peter Haldén
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-e...
The early modern battle for Baltic supremacy
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Baltic Sea witnessed a series of epic struggles between powers seeking to dominate the region's waterways and those who wished to prise them open for free trad...
engelsbergideas.com
July 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Checking proofs today! #earlymodern 🗃️
January 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Checking proofs today! #earlymodern 🗃️
“The Beauty in the Machine: Symbolic Machines, Automata, and Precious Gears in the Early Modern Period”: online workshop, 9-10 January, organised by Cristiano Zanetti.
Full details, programme and Zoom link available at www.unive.it/data/33113/8...
Full details, programme and Zoom link available at www.unive.it/data/33113/8...
The Beauty in the Machine:Symbolic Machines, Automata, and Precious Gears in the Early Modern Period - Unive
seminario/lezione
www.unive.it
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