*probably Crycke. But hey that's not the primary thing really.
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*probably Crycke. But hey that's not the primary thing really.
Ah you might well be right. Though other Ps in the text are similar.
A screenshot of a handwritten record of a list of names, in which the name 'Jeremy' is highlighted from 'Jeremy Prycke'.
Look, I have a lot of time for OCR in modern digital databases, but I cannot help but enjoy having searched for 'Sodomy' in East India Company records and gotten ...
'Jeremy Prycke' as a hit.
#skystorians
It's as though ChatGPT created the distilled image of exactly what a ChatGPT hype-guy would look like.
Time to reinvest that profit in the institutions that provide their content, I'd say ...
'Elsevier made £1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent company’s latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2
Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
Of course you're right here but it's also just obscuring a long history if This Sort of Thing.
When 'the whole written history' apparently doesn't include the early modern period.
Sadly, European and Asian powers blowing each other up in the Strait of Hormuz is not a new thing, nor a thing likely to end any time soon.
#skystorians
Project Name Written Worlds funded by Leverhulme Trust at Birkbeck
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Written Worlds 17C Non-elite Writing 2 x Postdocs 0.5. Please consider applying.
Deeply unfair. Also Wiley and Springer.
Historian?
No, you're being rebranded.
You're now a 'Retrospective Content Creator'.
Attacks leave dead vs killed
Having a Middle East war global recession while also having a capricious tariff global recession while also having an AI bubble global recession is not going to be a good time.
I can very capably blame both.
Everyone thinks this is some new low but this is basically 75% of the content Luther published.
This is a feeble excuse. Pixar films prompt much harder conversations about death, grief, anxiety, environmental disaster, betrayal, jealousy, friendships, class, animal rights, etc, etc
Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”
Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?”
Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power”
#bbclaurak
Amazed by the Samurai exhibition @britishmuseum.bsky.social. Beautiful exploration of their changing roles and mythologies while setting everything amid just jaw-droppingly gorgeous artwork.
Go see it while you can.
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What a horrendous age when 'human-rights obsessed' is understood by some as a sort of insult rather than the standard by which we should seek to operate ...
Can honestly say this was up there among the most positive experiences of my career so far. A rare, invaluable time to sit down and discuss with wonderful, interested colleagues a book that will be so much better for it.
Cannot recommend it enough.
Apply to be supported in what matters most. It's an investment in the discipline and its practitioners. Compared to much 'science' it's cheap as chips. It matters. Just do it.
It was intimidating on many levels but so deeply rewarding.
And so many thanks to Philip Carter @royalhistsoc.org for all his hard work supporting the event.
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social , @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social , @rentravailer.bsky.social , @edmond-smith.bsky.social , James Daybell and Phil Stern for their wonderful insights and generosity throughout.
So yes, if you're thinking of applying for this scheme: do it.
Can honestly say this was up there among the most positive experiences of my career so far. A rare, invaluable time to sit down and discuss with wonderful, interested colleagues a book that will be so much better for it.
Cannot recommend it enough.
Very pleased to promote this forthcoming event - on 'Second Projects for Historians' - organised and hosted by History UK.
Now booking for Tuesday 16 March at 2pm bit.ly/47saS26 #Skystorians
