ICYMI last week, Harry Smith & Emily Vine have written a must read article for any historian working with online research resources (so ... all of us). Great thread with more below 👇 🗃️ #EarlyModern

If you're a #skystorian#EarlyModern@bhamhistory.bsky.social@emilymayvine.bsky.social#OpenAccesswww.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Can anyone explain to me 'multiple neuritis' as a secondary cause of death in 1912? It seems strange. Primary cause was heart failure.

🔴 Lucy Letby: The Thirlwall Inquiry and the Truth About the Countess of Chester Neonatal Deaths Scandal The inquiry has dismissed the increasing body of concern around the legitimacy of the verdicts as “noise”. It is anything but, says John Ashton bylinetimes.com/2024/09/24/l...

Lucy Letby: The Thirlwall Inquiry and the Truth About the Countess of Chester Neonatal Deaths Scandal

The inquiry has dismissed the increasing body of concern around the legitimacy of the verdicts as "noise". It is anything but

Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? 📚🕳️ Discover how lost stories hold the key to cultural memory, creativity & knowledge in a new post from author & editor Brad Bigelow of Neglected Books. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/16/v...#VanishingCulture

Our big news is that our site has been officially approved as a Zooniverse project! We will be launching our call for volunteer transcribers in the near future, so expect lots more on that quite soon ... 2/ #EarlyModern 🗃️

🔴 ‘Scrap Callous Photo ID Scheme’ Campaigners Demand as Report Reveals Scale of Voter Suppression Three quarters of a million people didn’t vote because of the “continued failure of the voter ID regime” bylinetimes.com/2024/09/10/s...

'Scrap Callous Photo ID Scheme' Campaigners Demand as Report Reveals Scale of Voter Suppression

Three quarters of a million people didn't vote because of the “continued failure of the voter ID regime”

In 1771, historian Catherine Macaulay burned herself out so badly writing the fifth volume of her recent history of England that she spent four months eating ice cream and bathing in the sea to recuperate. Writers, I present to you your role model.

Looking for a perfect long-read for the weekend? This may be it.

How a mind-boggling device changed economic history

In 1949, a little-known engineer astonished the academic world with the first ever computer model of a national economy — made of Perspex and water