Alex Rodriguez asked a question. Reggie Jackson answered it. (Shouts to the producer and rest of the desk for staying out of Reggie’s way and just letting him talk. I doubt they expected this answer. But it’s a great few minutes of television.)

Cataloguing the Harley Manuscripts - our current project aims to update descriptions for post-1600 manuscripts. blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…

Today on the blog, in a meticulously argued post, Joe Black discusses two books almost certainly owned by Aphra Behn, the second of which has hardly ever been noted in scholarship buff.ly/4dp08CK #HerBook @tarallyons Mark Empey @whitemicheline Sarah Lindenbaum

Today the Brazilian bossa nova and jazz legend Sérgio Mendes has passed at 83… Mendes played with Antônio Carlos Jobim (regarded as a mentor) and many U.S. jazz musicians who toured Brazil. In this video Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 are performing “Mas Que Nada”

The rest of us can take the day off: the day's best post has dropped.

'Given what we know of Milton’s radical politics, his decision to write (and later publish) his sonnet becomes all the more astonishing when we recall the reality of life in London in those weeks of crisis.' Jonathan Sawday on John Milton and the Defen... the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

New Festschrift for the late lamented scholar of early modern radicalism and religion, Justin Champion

Its Miscellany Tuesday! Here's Butler, "Could Priests claim Sanctuary in Medieval England?" (2019). legalhistorymiscellany.com/2019/05/16/cou…

Remarkable epilogue to Bob Woodward's WAR, out today: He says "many of the news-making scenes in my prior books are stories of failures, mismanagement, dishonesty and the corruption of executive power," but in the Biden White House he found "steady and purposeful leadership."

We hope to see you over at our Zooniverse site! zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi… 🧵4/4.

in the spirit of Mariah Carey’s long-lost grunge album, we proudly present: title cards from informational films by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), as unreleased album covers (this one feels like Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene to us) 🧵

Today, on the 1,000 day of the war, I addressed the Ukrainian Parliament and emphasized, that we do not trade our sovereignty, security, or future. Ukraine will not abandon its rights to its territory, nor will we allow our nation to be exploited in anyone’s political battles.

New #OpenAccess article in #PER proposing an innovative approach to the study of early modern representative assemblies #ParliamentaryCulture: 'Towards a history of parliamentary culture in the early modern world: concept, geopolitical scope, and method' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

If we extrapolate the current war against Ukraine to World War II (as we often do), at this point, Hitler has invaded Poland but suffered defeats near Warsaw and Krakow, lost Poznan and has been locked in grueling battles for almost three years over completely devastated border

NEW: Liz Cheney issued a statement in response to Donald Trump’s threat on Meet the Press to jail her over her role in the January 6th committee: “This morning, President-elect Trump again lied about the January 6th Select Committee, and said members of the Committee 'should go

"Jolani now finds himself inheriting a country of rubble and ruin that needs rebuilding, an entirely stalled economy, a devalued currency, and hollowed-out public institutions," says Co-Director Shiraz Maher in his latest piece for Engelsberg Ideas engelsbergideas.com/essays/syrias-…

The world’s richest man Elon Musk is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin. (In collaboration with Zentrum für Politische Schönheit)

1/ Trump has been conned by Putin. Russia isn’t a global superpower—its GDP (~$2 trillion) is smaller than Italy’s and about 1/15 the size of the US. 🧵