Just picked up Mortlake, a new novel by Adrian Lavelle — about the Renaissance occultist John Dee (who invented a language just to talk to angels?) The first chapter title made me laugh: "The Exorcism of Ann Frank". Should be good! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT44S11N #booksky #historysky #books

Mortlake

On #MothersDay, a sculpture depicting the Matres, or mother-goddesses. This was found near Hadrian's Wall; the figures are holding vessels and (possibly) fruit #historysky #archaeology @[email protected]

On this day in 2005, Roger Federer and Andre Agassi played a friendly match on a helipad 650 feet above sea level. #TennisSky 🎾 #historysky

Met a scientist today whom I have really admired since my PhD - someone who helped me understand #Russia from the perspective of #CentralAsia, someone incredibly successful and yet kind. Someone married to a gentle man (equally famous!) - it’s Jane Burbank (and Frederick Cooper)! #historysky

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Yesterday morning I meant to thank everyone for all their enjoyable and illuminating posts for #PhantomsFriday. So, belatedly: thanks very much for joining in! I look forward to seeing you (and hopefully others) next Friday. #ghost #ghosts #supernatural #folklore #BookChatWeekly #artsky #historysky

Properly spooky heading for an article in Harmondsworth Magazine in 1899. Maybe of interest to @chriswoodyard.bsky.social #Gothic #Victorian #murder #crime #reaper #London #LondonHistory #historysky

Demain à l'atelier d'histoire #internationale avant le colloque au @collegedefrance.bsky.social : @ayates.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social »L’État des obligataires. La finance française, #Haïti & les #dettes impayables« 11.06. | 16h | format hybride www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/... #historysky

Demain à l'atelier d'histoire #internationale avant le colloque au @collegedefrance.bsky.social : @ayates.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social »L’État des obligataires. La finance française, #Haïti & les #dettes impayables« 11.06. | 16h | format hybride www.dhi-paris.fr/fr/... #historysky

Informations détaillées

Nächste Woche im #Frühneuzeit-Seminar zu #Grenzüberschreitungen : Matthias Winkler (@leopoldina.org @humboldtuni.bsky.social), #Revolution and #Exile - French émigrés in the #Habsburg Monarchy 1789–1815. 20.05. | 16:00 | vor Ort & hybrid www.dhi-paris.fr/de/... @ifra-shs.bsky.social #historysky