Fuming. At the Teutonic Knights' fortress at Malbork and they have statues of four Grand Masters but forgot Flash – the greatest Grand Master of them all.

The Castle museum in Malbork is very expensive, but if you're on a budget there's another one a couple towns to the south. You'll be

Nothing to make you feel like a real historian quite like spending the day in front of a microfilm reader made in the DDR.

People often make mistakes with my name (I've been called Gold-French more times than I can remember), but never has a mistake made my name as cool as the National Archive in Gdańsk: Morgan Wolf-French

Yes I want a historically accurate remake of Homer's Odyssey.

Get someone who looks at you the way this person dressed as a 10th century Baltic peasant looks at a huge lump of amber

I'll be in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Promptlogikenkompetenz als ein Wort.

Oh hey look cool! You can get 30% off my book with the code AUFLY30 at the the OUP online store (global.oup.com/academic/pro...)

I am in Gdańsk for a month-long research fellowship. Most of my time will be spent in the archives but I would love any tips for (vegetarian) food and cool stuff to do in the evenings/weekends. (I've spent only a few days in Poland before but always had a great time, so I'm very excited!)

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image.

The earliest of the recent batch I've found is this, which is annoying but not especially egregious in itself (too dismissive of European food, but Mexican is ofc sublime), but is predictably followed by a string of comments from USians specifically saying European food sucks

Just had a mooch around the local English-language bookshop with a friend and this is the stack she came away with. I thought @regretteruane.bsky.social might appreciate! (I'm living out of an over-full suitcase for the next few months so held back.)

Arriving in Lille today I was surprised to see a sign for Boulevard de Leeds in the train station. I then noticed a Rue de Cologne and Boulevard de Turin. It seems that, as the 4th largest metropolitan area in France, they named a handful of streets after the 4th largest cities of other countries.

Trying to explain which Neurosis albums to start with and why The Eye of Every Storm is actually the best

This is literally the opposite of a mosh pit. When you fall over in the pit people don't run over and start kicking you, it literally becomws everyone's mission to immediately get you back on your feet

My author copies have arrived! To celebrate, I'm offering a free copy sent directly to your front door. This is your chance to bag what will surely be the beach read of the summer! Just share this post and in two weeks (28 May) I'll choose a name from a hat and pop it in the mail.

Shabana Mahmood figured it out. Shabana Mahmood!?

Richard Dawkins, famous for recognizing subtlety, sensitivity, and intelligence

Very ...interesting wording from the museum at Miramare, Trieste, re/ the catastrophic attempt to make Maximilian Habsburg emperor of Mexico. (Please excuse the terrible photo; the translucent information board was not terribly photogenic.

Went in the pit at a hardcore gig for c. 30 minutes tonight and have never felt this image so much

There's no Zug on the Zug to Zug but the Zug to Zug is protecting me from the Zug in Zug outsize the Zug.

Delighted to announce that I am on a Zug to Zug.

My congratulations to B. A. Baracus for successfully defending his dissertation!

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳 Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work. In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the... academic.oup.com/book/62547

On Saturday I paid an extra euro for a bag of Sicilian blood oranges and now each one I open is just a normal orange orange. I can't very well go back to LIDL and say "hey these oranges are too orange, I want my euro back" but also, these oranges are too orange, I want my euro back.

Don't blame me, I voted for

My last couple posts have gotten way more traction than usual, so I guess now's the time to say my first book is coming out with OUP in April (ebook) and May (hardback)! You can pre-order (or ask your library to pre-order) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...