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@ijhs.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:42 PM

📍New article!

"Narrating the Awakening of Chinese Women: The Establishment and Dissemination of the Shanghai Women Chin Woo Athletic Association

by Hsienwei Kuo, Chinfang Kuo

Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@draftingthepast.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:02 PM

Obviously, when we learned that there was a book festival dedicated to history, Kate had to go check it out. The hardest part was choosing which panels to attend. Read her report here:
www.draftingthepast.com/wait-theres-... #booksky #skystorians 🗃️

@robertsmartino.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:37 PM

#Skystorians! Any particular reason someone called William Herris preaching in 1545 would be given the epithet Long Beard ('lingam barbam') apart from because of his physical description? Did it, e.g., signify a wandering friar or simply someone slightly unusual in that they weren't clean-shaven? TY

@royalhistsoc.org Oct 7, 2026, 2:24 PM

The Bibliography is an exceptional and hugely authoritative guide to historical publishing, and an invaluable tool for your research.

Fellows and Members @royalhistsoc.org can obtain personal access from £25 per person per year. Details of this in tomorrow's e-circular for RHS members #Skystorians

@dbellingradt.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:55 PM

In accordance with good tradition, I hereby have to highlight my regular topics posted to the blue skies: #bookhistory news, #skystorians stuff, and a few jokes about using AI from private companies that stole it all.

@mqassiti.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 12:46 PM

I think @dbellingradt.bsky.social's final diary entry post is the first from a #skystorians account to make it into the Bluesky trends.
He's probably thinking:
"What's going on here?"
AND:
"Why not my #bookhistory posts?"

@oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:23 AM

@kindkovacs.bsky.social is organising a fantastic lecture series exploring how Holocaust survivors were rehabilitated across Europe, @hait-tud.bsky.social. Something to check out, #skystorians in #histmed!

@mobhistory.substack.com Oct 7, 2026, 9:30 AM

#OTD (Oct 07)
Events in U.S. organized crime #history.

#NewCastlePA #EastHarlem #UticaNY #BuffaloNY #Brooklyn #Pittsburgh #YoungstownOH #Chicago #WilliamsvilleNY #NewJersey #FarmingdaleNY #NewYork #Mafia #MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians

On this date, Oct 07...
• in 1906, the deathbed statement of New Castle PA shooting victim Pietro Romeo implicates Calabrian racketeer Rocco Esposito.
• in 1915, East Harlem underworld leader Ippolito Greco is shot to death.
• in 1917, Salvatore LaFata, former Utica NY business partner of Joseph Aiello, is found murdered in Buffalo.
• in 1928, Brooklyn grocer Joseph Martorello is murdered.
• in 1931, Pittsburgh bootlegger Jack Palmere is fatally shot from behind. Rumrunners Bill Price and Skip Flanagan are found murdered in Brooklyn.
• in 1932, Angelo DiRenzo of Youngstown OH is sentenced to 25 years for the Pittsburgh assault and robbery of a postal clerk.
• in 1943, William Bioff testifies about a plot among Chicago Outfit leaders to extort the motion picture industry.
• in 1946, Venero Mangano of Manhattan is fined for bookmaking.
• in 1959, Gregory Scarpa is arrested for consorting with known criminals.
• in 1965, mobster Joseph DiCarlo is severely injured in a traffic accident in Williamsville NY.
• in 2008, human remains discovered in Farmingdale NY are identified by federal investigators as long-missing Colombo Crime Family leader William Cutolo Sr.
• in 2009, federal agents round up members and associates of the Bonanno Crime Family including reputed ruling council member Joseph Sammartino of New Jersey.
Image of William Cutolo Sr.

@glienkestephan.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 8:53 AM

Aus der Reihe:
Sehnsuchtsorte für Historiker

#skystorians #barch #archive #Geschichte #Bundesarchiv

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 8:29 AM

Minimalistic fresco decorations in a #Roman villa beneath the Basilica of San Sebastiano, c. 235 AD.

Join us on Exploring Art History: ideasroadshow.substack.com

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians 🏺 #medievalsky #archaeology

Minimalistic fresco decorations in a Roman villa beneath the Basilica of San Sebastiano, c. 235 AD.

Detail of Minimalistic fresco decorations in a Roman villa beneath the Basilica of San Sebastiano, c. 235 AD.

@royalhistsoc.org Oct 7, 2026, 7:36 AM

The day concludes with a Society guest lecture by Dr Meleisa Ono-George (Oxford) on 'Visualizing Difference: Amelia Newsham and the Art of Race-Making' bit.ly/4hGLz0z.

Booking for in-person attendance remains open and all are welcome in Glasgow for the lecture and reception to follow #Skystorians

@onslies.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:32 AM

ah, this is going to be SO GOOD! And we're luring Aditya Chakrabortty to Mile End!

Do join if you've got even just a passing interest in #SocialHistory, #BritishHistory, #UrbanHistory, history of photography, or a bunch of cool brains in one room. #SkyStorians

How do we write histories of small towns in the post-1945 period? Towns such as Halifax in the Calder Valley feature little in an otherwise thriving historiography of contemporary Britain. Yet for an earlier generation of social historian, most notably E. P. Thompson, who wrote The Making of the English Working Class while living there, such towns were crucial to understanding the processes of industrialisation and capitalist modernity. How can we include such places in more purposeful narratives of the more recent past? How do we write inclusive histories of belonging for the residents of these towns that do not consign them to being ‘left behind’, as though their histories are only considered to explain their ‘unmaking’ and marginalisation: towards an overdetermined present of post-Brexit Britain, flags and Reform?

@royalhistsoc.org Oct 7, 2026, 7:29 AM

Today, the Society's President and members of Council are in Glasgow for a visit to historians at the University of Strathclyde and region.

We'll be discussing teaching, research, interdisciplinary working, AI and history, and advocacy. We look forward to meeting all those attending #Skystorians

Image of building with logos for the Royal Historical Society and University of Strathclyde with text: 'Royal Historical Society Visit to the Department of the Humanities at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 7 October 2026.'

@ideasroadshow.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:34 AM

🐉 Two Monks Looking up at a Dragon in a Tower, anonymous Tuscan artist, 15th century. I guess that was a normal thing to do at the time?

🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians #art #italy #dragon

Sketch of Two Monks Looking up at a Dragon in a Tower.

@footnotesinhistory.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 4:22 AM

#OTD in 1944, Pvt. Masao Kuroki and Eugenie Sperling tried to obtain a marriage license in Seattle. The two met in Minnesota while Kuroki trained at Camp Savage. Sperling's mother disapproved saying, "I told her not to, but she did it, anyway. A white man-yes. But not a Jap."
🗃 #skystorians

"Spokane Girl, Jap-American Soldier Try To Wed Here"
A Japanese-American soldier in the United States Army and a 19-vear-old white girl applied yesterday for a license to marry here and today the girl's mother told The Times her daughter had defied her mother's wishes to come to Seattle from Spokane for the ceremony. The girl is Eugenie Sperling of Spokane. Her husband-to-be is Pvt. Masao Kuroki, 24, of Idaho, who met and wooed her while he was training in a Minnesota Army camp and she was living in Minneapolis. A cleark of the marriage-license bureau said the couple applied for a waiver of the statutory three-day waiting period before receiving a license, but that Presiding Judge Clay Allen, after talking to them about 20 minutes, refused to grant it.
The Seattle Times, October 6, 1944

"Believed to Be in City"
The couple were believed to be in Seattle today. The girl's mother, Mrs. Anna Sperling, a forewoman in a Spokane laundry, said the couple have no friends or relatives in Seattle, so far as she knows. Mrs. Sperling said she has never met Kurochi. "I don't approve at all," Mrs. Sperling said of the projected marriage. "I don't want to have anything to do with it.
"My daughter met this man in Minneapolis–I came out to Spokane from there a year ago and didn't know anything about it. My daughter came to Spokane about three months ago.
"Then the other day Eugenie got a telegram from his, asking her to go to the West Coast to get married.
"'I Told Her Not To'"
"I told her not to, but she did it, anyway. A white man-yes But not a Jap. I won't gave anything to do with it." Mrs. Sperling said she believed her daughter's fiance expects to be sent overseas soon, The Spokane woman said she has five daughters, and two sons and that one of her sons is in the Navy. The other lives in Spokane. Her husband, William, she said is an old-age pensioner in Minneapolis where he formerly worked in a foundry. Eugenie attended high school in Minneapolis, Mrs. Sperling said."
The Seattle Times, October 6, 1944

@kefauver4prez.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:41 AM

A winner's handshake!

Gordon Browning and Estes Kefauver congratulate each other on their wins in the 1948 Tennessee Democratic primary. Browning defeated incumbent Jim McCord to win the nomination for Governor, while Kefauver captured the nomination for Senator.

#skystorians #history #polisky