Miasma
Historian in the making studying early modern Britain. Reposting = commonplacing. Usually trying to read.
- Reposted by MiasmaAre you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
- Reposted by MiasmaFelices de compartir esta convocatoria. Happy for sharing this call for a fellowship!
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- Reposted by MiasmaApplications are open for the Addison Wheeler Fellowship at Durham's Institute of Advanced Studies, a 36-month postdoctoral position – please get in touch with a potential department mentor asap if you're interested! www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...
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- Reposted by MiasmaBREAKING: Streetsblog NYC just posted a great job for a law-enforcement reporter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by MiasmaNo excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images. world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
- Reposted by MiasmaTwo PhD studentships - University of Exeter 𝐏𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐡𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐬 Deadline: 26 March 2026 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨 (Arabic): N.Fancy2@exeter.ac.uk (Classics): r.flemming@exeter.ac.uk #CSMBR #PhDs
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- Reposted by Miasma"Plumes make me feel safer when traveling."
- Reposted by MiasmaThe Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"
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- Reposted by MiasmaContext: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by MiasmaThere are 3 fully-funded AHRC PhD studentships in Welsh History coming up at Swansea. Topics: play since 1945; anti-apartheid movement; Patagonia. All include placements with external bodies. Feel free to contact me if you're interested.
- Reposted by MiasmaTHIRD PRINTING ALERT: This is my first book and @wehere.bsky.social's first book. The response has been overwhelming (two small printing selling out in a matter of days), but also has meant a bit of lead time in-between. If you've read and enjoyed, please share this out so more folks can explore!
- now available — the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social (3rd printing) www.weherepress.org
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- Reposted by MiasmaUniversity is not a business, students are not customers, education is not a product, researchers are not salespeople.
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- Reposted by MiasmaSo that bit about democracy dying in darkness was a mission statement
- Reposted by MiasmaHad a dream last night about applying to do a PhD about rat speaking. Seemed like a genius idea at the time.
- Reposted by MiasmaI'm a huge fan of Claudio Saunt's project on land claims and treaties and cessions that is so revelatory in its scope-- pic 1 is 1776, pic 2 is 1876. Blue is Indian homelands, gray is unceded territory, red is reservations. usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
- The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
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- Reposted by MiasmaNext week: join us for our next online talk: Niamh Lawlor, 'How Early Twentieth-Century Modernity Gave Avebury Its Folklore'. Tuesday 10 February, 19:00-20:30 GMT on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-early-...
- Reposted by MiasmaIf you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
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- Reposted by MiasmaIt is not down in any map; true places never are.
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- Reposted by MiasmaLooking forward to speaking at this excellent workshop. I'll be speaking about my new work on sensory histories of wild swimming!
- I'm delighted to share details of the first of two workshops I'm hosting this year on The Senses and Medical Humanities. The first workshop will take place in Durham on 24 February. Spaces are limited, so reserve yours now. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...
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- Reposted by MiasmaNew at The Watch: I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution. They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
- Reposted by MiasmaWhat did you say? I am reading ...
- Reposted by MiasmaAuschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
- Reposted by MiasmaAnd over the next few months we've got four more sessions coming up: 'Written Worlds' with me et al; 'Material Culture of Wills' with @lsangha.bsky.social; and the postmortem caesarian section in early modern Italy with Erin Maglaque @erinmaglaque.bsky.social : www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Reposted by MiasmaDid everyone else know about researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/ already? Searches 7 million records at 1,400 archival institutions all in ONE PLACE
- Reposted by MiasmaIt was a surprising amount of fun making this Arte film about witch trials - I LOVE their animation! #hexenverfolgung #arte youtu.be/iLSSx5lm0So?...
- Reposted by MiasmaThe Internet Medieval Sourcebook has been and is an incredibly valuable resource.
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996. It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters. sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp
- Reposted by Miasmaas always I am shocked by the comparatively low population densities in Europe in the medieval/early modern periods. London, far and away the biggest city in 14th century Britain, was maybe 100,000 people. The British Isles had 5-6 million people circa 1300 (Rubin's estimate); it's ~75 million today
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- Reposted by MiasmaReposting, now with link for registration www.pennpress.org/events/revit... and alt-text 😉
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- Reposted by MiasmaKnowledge unified under the outstretched arms of Philosophy BL Add 30024; Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Tresor; 1260-1299 CE; France, S.; f.1v
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- A historian weighs in on current events… 🧵
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- Reposted by MiasmaSo... Yeah. Be careful out there folks. History writing just got a whole lot weirder, and finding good written history suddenly looks a whole lot harder.
