Isabella Bird was born #OTD in 1831. She died in Edinburgh in 1904 at the age of 72...with her trunks packed for yet another expedition to China.

If you like #traveling, a good #adventure story, or living vicariously through the travels of others...I highly recommend her work. #BookSky #HistSky

How the German Social Democrats resorted to anti-Black racism to mock Hitler in early 1933 (swastika on the armband redacted by me): From the Cutting Room Floor, no. 6
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#Indian spies disguised as pilgrims, illegal border mapping, and #Qing maps reused for #British intelligence: Western #Tibetology wasn't just born of curiosity—it was built on imperial espionage.

#HistSky #Tibet #TibetanHistory

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Universitat Wien (@univie.ac.at) is hiring:
Postdoc in Greek History and Epigraphy

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Universitat Wien (@univie.ac.at) is hiring:
University Assistant Postdoctoral in Greek History and Epigraphy

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Universidad de Burgos is hiring:
Researcher Position in History Associated with the Project “Biocultural Roots of Diversity and Inequality in Mexico: 500 Years of Mestizo Stories”

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🌟 Save the Date🌟

Join author & historian Irene Allen for "BELRA to LEPRA: A century at the forefront of leprosy care."

📆 21 Oct 2026, 4pm
📍 Colchester Library

Free & open to all. Part of the New Face for Leprosy exhibition.
https://ow.ly/s9gI50ZL9jL

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📷 Tom Bradley Photography

University of North Carolina is hiring:
Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology

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University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk) is hiring:
Assistant Professor in Modern Chinese History

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British nurse Edith Cavell was a #WWI resistance leader.

She ran escape lines from German-occupied Belgium saving ~200 Allied soldiers. Betrayed by a collaborator, she was arrested, tried, and shot by a German firing squad #OTD in 1915.

Quote from the eve of her execution. #WomenInHistory #HistSky

Harvard University (@harvard.edu) is hiring:
Postdoctoral Fellow in History

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Leibniz Gemeinschaft (@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de) is hiring:
Research Associate in European Religious History (16th-20th centuries)

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Brown University is hiring:
Assistant Professor in the History of Early Modern East Asia (c. 1400-1850)

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Brown University is hiring:
Assistant Professor in LGBTQIA+ History

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Brown University is hiring:
John Carter Brown Library Short Term Fellowship, 2027-2028

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Brown University is hiring:
John Carter Brown Long Term Fellowship, 2027-28

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Harvard University (@harvard.edu) is hiring:
Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship

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No. 2 of my “From the Cutting Room Floor.” It looks relatively benign, but the context makes it utterly racist and lays bare the Antisemitic dimension of how Blackness in interwar Germany was often framed (more on that in the book).

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Harvard University (@harvard.edu) is hiring:
Tenure-Track Professor in Modern Korean History

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Monash University is hiring:
Research Fellow in Australian History

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