Anthony Grafton
@scaliger
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Grandfather, teacher of history, historian of scholarship and reading
Princeton
Joined January 2009
RT @jjponcevazquez: This is probably true also for colonial Latin American jobs like mine. And also true for most early modernists. And if….
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Great piece by Richard Ovenden on the attack on the BL, ongoing efforts to restore services and the abject failure of government to provide necessary support.
standard.co.uk
It is a national outrage that the British Library has been unable to fulfil its function over the past three months following a savage cyberattack – and that its functioning is likely to be severely...
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Not to mention your terrific piece in tje Chronicle on Omer Bartov.
Julia! This is so unbelievably, extraordinarily generous, I don't know what to say. Thank you!.
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The eternal Hyde Park question.
Is there anywhere in/neat Hyde Park Chicago that does normal New York type pizza? Neither deep dish nor thin & crispy?.
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Thank you so much, David. This is really helpful.
James Sweet has started a pretty predictable Twitterstorm with his critique of “presentism,” and of “read[ing] the past through the prism of contemporary social justice issues—race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, capitalism.” But what is presentism? /1.
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They always ask me for ID, despite my grey locks and beard. But the beer in my case contains alcohol.
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The poetry of NJ in summer.
@profrhodrilewis Our front yard is the same. Just came in with the dogs, dazzled. Gnight.
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So sorry about the COVID. Feel better soon.
Back in Austin! I marked the end of the semester with a mostly wonderful trip to Germany & London (unfortunately I did encounter the dreaded covid at the end—apologies to those I owe emails). Getting back on my feet and looking forward to seeing folks in ATX before long.
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