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Margaret Schotte
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Early modern history @ YorkU. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ She/her 🌈
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I wrote the book I wish I’d had when I was a student. Someone 👀 who wanted to assign it for a semester starting in January 2025 could do it. #history#AcademicWritingwww.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-craft-...

The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish|Paperback
The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish|Paperback

Complete with practical advice and helpful guidance, this book is an approachable manual perfect for budding historians at all levels. Its worksheets, which focus on framing realistic goals and headin...

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Happening in 90 minutes! #earlymodern#18thC#histsci#skyhistorians

DSdrsurekhadavies.bsky.social

Historian-writer Blueskies! @leahredmondchang.bsky.social and I are offering an online workshop, "Creative and Narrative Nonfiction: What, How, and Why," via the Renaissance Society of America on Weds Oct 2, 12 noon-1pm ET! 🗃 #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #authors Links in thread. 1/n

Book cover for Humans: A Monstrous History. An oval mirror decorated with literary, TV, film and mythical monsters along the border. The two halves of the mirror are roughly symmetrical. The words are in three curved rowse: above mirror, just inside top, and just inside bottom.
Book cover for Leah Redmond Chang’s Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power. Three portrait miniatures of queens in a vertical row along the left; text along the right.
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Join us to celebrate William Nelson's fantastic new book, _Enlightenment Biopolitics_ (@uchicagopress, 2024). Oct. 25, 4-6pm, Munk School 108N @uoft.bsky.social#frhistory#18C 🗃 🇫🇷

image of a book cover: In bold red capitals 'Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens' by William Max Nelson. On the right, a figure that is half skeleton, half bewigged dandy with a sword.
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To give you a taste of the rest of the year, we get to welcome @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social#LowCountries remain too cool

Spring Term 31 January Marieke Hendriksen (Huygens), ‘Food history as history of knowledge: preservation technologies in the early modern Low Countries’ • Wolfson Room 2 and online 14 February Jazmine Contreras (independent) and Nicolaas Barr (Washington): ‘Proprietary Victims: Holocaust Commemoration and Right-Wing Consolidation in the Netherlands’ • Online only 28 February Heleen Wyffels (STCV), ‘Women, gender and social status in the early modern printing house’ • Wolfson Room 2 and online 28 March John Gallagher (Leeds), ‘The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?’ • Wolfson Room 2 and online Summer Term 23 May Jeroen Puttevils (Antwerp), ‘Back to the Future: what can we learn about future thinking in the past from late medieval and early modern merchant correspondences from the Low Countries’ • Wolfson Room 2 and online 6 June Danny Noorlander (Oneonta), ‘The Dutch Garrison on the Gold Coast in the 17th Centur
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We have a ✨PROGRAMME!✨ We're being very visual, spatial, and #MaterialCulture#LowCountries@ihr.bsky.socialhistory.ac.uk/seminars/low...#skystorians#earlymodern#earlymodernevents

Programme of the Low Countries Seminar 18 October: Weixuan Li: Decoding Painters' Playbooks in 17th-Century Amsterdam: A Spatial and Digital Approach 1 November: Marsely Kehoe: Visualizing Textiles across the Dutch Empire 15 November: Lorenzo Gatta: Space, Ritual, and Community: the Confessionals in the Jesuit Church of Mechelen (1683) 13 December: Henrietta Ward: Agnes Block's collection of flower drawings and her male-dominated botanical network
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How does it start the sea has endless beginnings. And I’m weeping my way through them all, weeping my own sea, like Alice.
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Call for Papers for conference ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges.’ University of Exeter 2-4 June 2025. Deadline Nov 29th 2024. #histSTM#skystorians

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DVhpsvanessa.bsky.social

new publication! I am really pleased with this chapter, a lot of work, although I wonder how much it will be read given the astronomical price of the 6 vol edition? :/ Unrelatedly, do remember that if you email academics they will nearly always share a copy of their work with you ;) #histSTM 🗃️

hand holdin a white book with a black and white photo of a husky dog in snow listening to a gramophone. The title is "A cultural history of exploration in the modern age" edited by Martin Thomas
screen shot of a pdf chapter, text reads "CHAPTER ONE:Technologies of Exploration VANESSA HEGGIE The overarching story of exploration technology in the twentieth century is one of domestication. The elite, expensive, and often unreliable technology of the early century becomes routine and ubiquitous by the turn of the twentyfirst. In part this process reflects the changing demographics of exploration, as almost every iconic space of exploration in the first half of the century became a site of tourism by the second half. Although extraterrestrial space did not get tourists until the early twenty-first century, the trajectory is clear and universal, and is in part due to the continuing industrialization of technology: the massproduced, standardized material culture that circulates through international webs of science and commerce. So flight stops being a moment of exploration itself and turns into the way in which you commute to a site of exploration; the Global Positioning System..."
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What a wonderful topic!

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LConslies.bsky.social

PROGRAMME!!!!! Make your Monday evenings #earlymodern@ihr.bsky.socialwww.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur...#skystorians 🗃️ Mondays, 5:30 (UK time)

autumn term programme for the IHR Early Modern Europe semnar 7 October: Colin Jones on Robespierre, List-Maker 21 October: Toby Green on Cacheu: A microhistorical approach for West African History in the 17th century 11 November: Lila O'Leary Chambers on Insurgent Spirits: Property, Authority, and the Politics of Alcohol in the Leeward Islands Plantation Complex 25 November: Erin Maglaque on Mortality and Memory: Foundlings in Early Modern Catholic Europe
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Margaret Schotte
@schottemargaret.bsky.social
Early modern history @ YorkU. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ She/her 🌈
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