Florian Wieser

I'm teaching Louis XIV and Versailles soon, and I will make very clear to students how relevant early modern European court culture is.

Is there a hybrid option? Would love to hear this.

The Dr Williams’s Trust Library Bursaries for Mid-Career Researchers The Dr Williams’s Trust has generously provided funds to support the work of mid-career historians researching the British Protestant dissenting traditions.

Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

"BARBARIC SAVAGES" (Hegseth).

We've been served up this line before. It's got a history. Dehumanisation in the service of destruction.

We need to understand that history (1/3)

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

This is heartbreaking.

Join our "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800" series Monday 9 March, 1pm CET, for a book presentation by @csschmitt.bsky.social (Cornell): "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean". Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #History

I'm trying to write a little something about that right now. I'll let you know when it's ready. 🙂

This is a topic I don’t tend to speak on, but we all know that it’s problematic/colonising/racist to insist that individuals and groups can only be Indigenous if they’re ‘officially’ recognised by the settler-colonial state, right?

Voices in Slavery’s Archive: New project to map enslaved people’s testimony across Guyana - Stabroek News By Estherine Adams, Randy Browne, Juanita Cox, Philippa Hellawell, Linsey McMillan, Diana Paton and Kimberley Thomas. The authors are members of the

"Voices in Slavery’s Archive: New project to map enslaved people’s testimony across Guyana."

I could not be more grateful for the opportunity to do this project w/ colleagues I deeply respect in Guyana and the UK.

www.stabroeknews.com/2026/03/03/f...

In the current world political and economic situation, what the UK desperately needs is DEFINITELY fewer people with European and Chinese language skills 🙄 Solidarity with staff and students at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social affected by this.

Do you like Caribbean pirates? Everyone does (myself included), but most people don't really know why. Why have we come to love characterizations of individuals who were so violent and brutal?

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#earlymodern

Embroidered binding for 'The Book of Common Prayer' and bookmark, possibly by Broderers Company, embroidered in London, ca. 1634

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

You misspelled January there, Daniel 😂

Solidarity with my friends and former colleagues at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

Augusta Savage | Audacious Art Activist and Trailblazer Sandy Rattley presents an illustrated overview of the contributions of sculptor Augusta Savage to American art and culture.

Read about the artist on the #ArtHerstory blog

Reflections on the Audacious Art Activist and Trailblazer #AugustaSavage
by Sandy Rattley, Audacious Women Productions
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The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

Inspiring win by Indigenous land defenders, who stopped plans to privatize the Amazonian Tapajós river and expand it into a megacanal to facilitate the export of soy products by Cargill
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you want to stand up against fascism, then you have to defend trans rights. It’s nonnegotiable. We all lose otherwise.

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

A point also made in my recent blog post, how much of the immigration debate is about rhetoric and framing rather than facts, now supported by new statistical data. Looking back across the centuries, there have been many positive framings of immigration, too
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One of the worst things about AI, for me, is that it takes away from people the sheer joy of writing. Schools don’t often make this point, but writing should be fun. Putting words together, finding ways to express yourself, the pure pleasure of a well-crafted sentence. 1/5

The previous norms:

Just finished the first draft for a new journal article.

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl.

If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The New Historia invites submissions centering historical Black women - including Phillis Wheatley & Coretta Scott King - whose intellectual, cultural, & political contributions continue to shape our world.
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Inquiries & proposals: lena@thenewhistoria.org

Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

All pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by ICE are being sent to a shelter in Texas where Texas’s total abortion ban has led to denials and delays in care, with deadly consequences. They are as young as 13 and more than half are pregnant due to rape.
www.tpr.org/news/2026-02...

Contested Legacy of the Conquistadors

Hernán Cortés left Cuba for Mexico #OnThisDay in 1519.

If we are to better understand the actions of the #conquistadors we must place them in the context of a #medieval worldview that predated the nation-state.

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Image combining the cover of the new book, 'Teaching Slavery New approaches to Britain’s colonial past', co-authored by Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, and Nicholas Draper.Plus logo of the 'Teaching Slavery in Scotland' web resource. Full abstract: "In this post we hear from historians involved in the creation of two new resources, launched in late 2025, to support the teaching of slavery in schools. In the opening section, Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud and Robin Whitburn introduce their new co-authored book, ‘Teaching Slavery. New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past’, which brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the classroom. In part two, Jesús Sanjurjo-Ramos and Joseph Smith highlight ‘Teaching Slavery in Scotland’, a new online resource, in which teachers, academics, writers and creative professionals explore new ways to learn about the trade in enslaved African people. Central to both projects is close, long-term collaborative working between academic historians and history teachers in schools."

Today on the blog: making connections between new research on histories of slavery and teaching this subject in UK schools bit.ly/4rnVNXu.

Introducing the new web resource, 'Teaching Slavery in Scotland', and the co-authored OA book, 'Teaching Slavery. New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past'.