Héctor Linares traces the advance of a Black man from slavery to knighthood, and Teresa Soley describes the impact of contact with Africa on Portuguese sculpture in the latest RQ emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/s...

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Many more headlines thus am breezing past historical scholarship of decades — and Hemings family history — to trumpet a new DNA study that simply confirms what we knew. My bar is low but even I’m depressed by how science always has to be “news” and journalism has so much trouble reporting history.

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v. honored to learn that Society for Renaissance Studies awarded the Biennial 2026 Book Prize to *Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic.* Very grateful to the judges for their work, & congratulations to fellow shortlisted authors. More here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

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If you're not supposed to eat Jesus then why did they make him Fun Size? [Hans Burgkmair the Elder, St. Jerome, c. 1510, 41.4 x 29.3 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich]

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I personally will not be happy until the British have ranked all their invasions in order of goodness. Is the "Glorious Revolution" still our favourite? Does anybody remember Fishguard? (Cofiwch Fishguard) Did the Beaker People come in peace, and were the beakers worth it?

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