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  1. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  2. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  3. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  4. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  5. That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

  6. I love how images attached to Humans: A Monstrous History trip various automated alarms. This image is a detail from Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel!
    #ancient #medieval #skystorians

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpzyqnlzsrfjhoj6rs7mtdvq/post/3mvp7nmnwrs2y

  7. I love how images attached to Humans: A Monstrous History trip various automated alarms. This image is a detail from Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel!
    #ancient #medieval #skystorians

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpzyqnlzsrfjhoj6rs7mtdvq/post/3mvp7nmnwrs2y

  8. I love how images attached to Humans: A Monstrous History trip various automated alarms. This image is a detail from Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel!
    #ancient #medieval #skystorians

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpzyqnlzsrfjhoj6rs7mtdvq/post/3mvp7nmnwrs2y

  9. This would have been a bestselling early modern broadside with a cool image: the Pope and a Massive Green Orb! #skystorians

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:okyh44yy5ngtrhwhegfjyx34/post/3mvr7g6yb7c2o

  10. The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

  11. The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

  12. The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

  13. The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

  14. Hot new episode of the AskHistorians #Podcast is live #Skystorians! @[email protected] talks with Robert E. C. Davis about his book, Lieutenants and Light: Mapping the US Army Heliograph Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Arizona and New Mexico!
    askhistorians.libsyn.com/askhistorian...

    The AskHistorians Podcast: Ask...

  15. #skystorians knew that lethargy, weakness, or refusing to eat were red flags of the past when dealing with a sick house dragon.

  16. The time has come #Skystorians, for the greatest #AMA of all time. This is your chance to sit down with the entire moderating team of AskHistorians, and ask us anything!
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    We are the moderators of r/Ask...

  17. Suppose I clear my nearest Costco's stock of common spices (cinnamon, pepper etc.) & then time travel back to 14th century medieval England. . . how exactly do I go about selling this stuff? Don't worry #Skystorians, /u/EverythingIsOverrate has some advice to keep the spice flowing!
    buff.ly/BXJkfSy

    Suppose I clear my nearest Cos...

  18. Suppose I clear my nearest Costco's stock of common spices (cinnamon, pepper etc.) & then time travel back to 14th century medieval England. . . how exactly do I go about selling this stuff? Don't worry #Skystorians, /u/EverythingIsOverrate has some advice to keep the spice flowing!
    buff.ly/BXJkfSy

    Suppose I clear my nearest Cos...

  19. We have a special #AMA coming this Saturday, on August 29th. #Skystorians will have a chance to engage with the AskHistorians mod team themselves, and ask all their questions about running one of the largest (and best) history forums on the internet! Do we have a secret volcano lair? Find out...

  20. Humans were writing, monkeys were proof reading. Those were the days... #skystorians

  21. Humans were writing, monkeys were proof reading. Those were the days... #skystorians

  22. Humans were writing, monkeys were proof reading. Those were the days... #skystorians

  23. Humans were writing, monkeys were proof reading. Those were the days... #skystorians

  24. And how did the Reformation, with its diverse dynamics, affect contemporary understandings of participation? ⛪

    Submit your proposal (in German or English) by 15 September 2026.

    For more information: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...

    #reformation #earlymodern #religioushistory #skystorians
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  25. How much faith should one have in older scholarship to be accurate when casually reading them for entertainment? /u/BarbariansProf offers up some thoughts on obsoletion, framing history and useful questions to keep in mind when reading scholarship! #Skystorians
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    How much faith should one have...

  26. Questions of "canon" are always tricky in any fandom, but the fantastic @[email protected] sets out on a journey to explore the different influential versions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey! #Skystorians
    buff.ly/8IHoMdr

    What actually counts as “canon...

  27. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  28. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  29. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  30. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  31. So the satire pamphlet came up with a different reading of this Latin message, and it suggests the reading of VICI MALUM as
    "Vici Maximilianum" (see the image). And this means "I have conquered Maximilian". Take this Habsburg Europe, be warned! #earlymodern #skystorians

  32. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  33. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  34. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  35. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  36. Well, if it isn't a Dürer drawn Fortuna, the goddess of luck and misfortune, here named as “Affrictio” (for Afflictio 'misfortune'), beating a heart held in tongs by the goddess of Envy at an altar inscribed “tristitia” ('sorrow') while the goddess of Consolation points heavenwards. #skystorians

  37. Don't miss today's awesome #AMA! We're joined by David Benac, author of Rainforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing, and #Skystorians are welcome to come ask all kinds of questions on this fascinating topic!
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    From the AskHistorians communi...

  38. I demand free well structured large historical datasets for all! #skystorians

  39. And one more! What are their holding to protect their eyes? Was it a printed paper sheet, and if so, do we still have them somewhere in an ephemera box in a dark archive? #skystorians

  40. Our elders still remember how to send an #email in the past. By holding your paper letter towards a nearby cloud, and wait for the internet-based email service provider to pick it up and deliver it miraculously. #skystorians

  41. Our elders still remember how to send an #email in the past. By holding your paper letter towards a nearby cloud, and wait for the internet-based email service provider to pick it up and deliver it miraculously. #skystorians

  42. Our elders still remember how to send an #email in the past. By holding your paper letter towards a nearby cloud, and wait for the internet-based email service provider to pick it up and deliver it miraculously. #skystorians

  43. Our elders still remember how to send an #email in the past. By holding your paper letter towards a nearby cloud, and wait for the internet-based email service provider to pick it up and deliver it miraculously. #skystorians

  44. well as strategies of resistance and subversion.

    Thank you to all the participants and the organisers!

    The workshop was organised with support from the @[email protected] and the @[email protected].

    #capitalism #colonialism #livestock #commodities #empire #skystorians
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  45. Sure #earlymodern #alchemy is cool, but have you spend a thought on how superb the kilns of alchemist looked like? They look like factories or houses, don't they? #skystorians

  46. Today I stumbled across a portal of doom in a book published in 1609 by alchemist Henrico Khunrath 😵‍💫
    Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae
    (Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom)

    This post courtesy of a v special 2hrs volunteering in our Crawford Library of ancient 🔭astro books.
    #skystorians #histsci