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Rachel Midura

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Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.

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Very excited to announce this, nearly ten years after I first conceived of this project. I've picked up a job and even tenure along the way. The brief hiatus in question was occasioned by a very cute and very time-consuming baby boy 👶 #earlymodern #digitalhumanities 🗃️

Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)

After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.

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In some personal news, I've got a new project debuting in January 😁

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Sharing a great new video for our (funded!) History MA here at Virginia Tech. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions or info for students who may be interested: #academicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzZl...

Inside the Master of History Program at Virginia TechYouTube video by Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Scienceswww.youtube.com
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Had a lovely brief visit back in the Bay! Great fun discussing #17thcentury conspiracies with groups at Stanford and Berkeley 🕵️‍♀️

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Finally got to do the secret itinerary tour of the Palazzo Ducale! It was amazing. Friend described the vibe perfectly as “classy torture bureaucracy.” 🗃️

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1,425 photographs at the archive today, that might be a personal best. RIP my shoulders though ☠️

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Yay, just got word that the Historical Games in Research and Teaching roundtable has been accepted for #aha2026! Looking forward to talking about the pedagogy keeping me sane during AI-ification and all the rest. This hopefully means the linked panel and creative session will be appearing as well 🤞🗃️

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If anyone cares to weigh in, I'd be curious how realistic this sounds to #earlymodern or #medieval folks who know this particular journey well! I'll also be diving back into the postal materials, of course. 🗃️

Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)

As well as times based on mode of travel. Based on current ratios (still being tested against sources) this 398.48 km path from Rome to Bologna would take fast couriers at least 26 hours (~3 days), riders around 60 (~7 days), and pedestrians around 100 (~12 days).

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Finally warm enough to work on the porch with my favorite assistant 🐈‍⬛ #catsofacademia #academicats

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Job klaxon for Virginia Tech, please share! #intelligencehistory #militaryhistory #skystorians 🗃️ careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

Details | Instructor in Modern Military History | Careers | Division of Human Resources | Virginia Techcareers.pageuppeople.com
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enjoying in-my-bones certainty that I am working on the right project for my second book. I can't remember who to thank for this advice, so I'll pay it forward: think of the part you most enjoyed writing from the first project. That's the method and/or sources you want to spend more time with! 🗃️

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