Wonderful chain and tribute to beutiful scholarly writing!

Huippuväitös alkamassa 🤓 #humanistinentdkHY

#minätutkin miksi ja miten humanisttutkijoista tuli julkkiksia 1800-luvun Britanniasss 🌟✨️🎓

Just added this to my reading list!

What a fun essay about photographs in middle-class parlours. I'm especially glad to know about Charlotte O'Conor Eccles and this piece in The Windsor Magazine about "the average hostess" babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md... #victorian #19th-c

An ode to all the clutter in Victorian middle-class homes and especially to photographs in and about these homes cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/p...

We've just opened our call for applications for fixed-term appointments starting in August 2026. We're seeking 10-15 Core Fellows and 1-2 Postdoctoral Researchers in the Arts. For more details, please visit our website: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

📣 Call for papers 📣 CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Apply by 31 August #skystorians acadsci.fi/en/news/even...

"I am sure that ‘we authors’ require ‘boundless leisure’ [...] the best of air, no care, a walk and a drive daily, and times in which to read and lie fallow." Benjamin Jowett, 1892. Time to switch off the work mode for a moment 🌞 cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below. They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models." The web is being murdered. So aggravating. digital.hagley.org

Great job opportunity for an emerging historian in global history of knowledge at the Lund University lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

A lot of things clicked into place for me once I realized that, for a lot of journalists, podcasters, and popular nonfiction writers, "research" means "reading books other people already wrote."

What can Charlotte Brontë and Britney Spears possibly have in common? As celebrities, a lot! More about women celebrities pushing the boundaries of appropriate domesticity here: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/s...

Kuka suomalaisartisti voisi olisi sopiva tekemään jotakin vastaavaa? Entä mitä biisi käsittelisi? Pähkinäsaaren rauhaa, Nuijasotaa, Turun akatemiaa, Porvoon valtiopäiviä, kieliasetusta, naiskagaalia, kieltolakia, peruskouluasetusta vai jotakin muuta 🤔 youtu.be/yoAeKvtY_dE?...

"...the records female students left behind at these early institutions created a genealogical window into women’s lives that had not previously existed. " 📜 College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/04/...

Join us in December 2025 at the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History for a conference on “In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History”. Paper submissions open until 17 April 2025. Spread the word: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us! 10 March: Leiden 11 March: Utrecht 13 March: Nijmegen 17 March: Amsterdam 18 March: Groningen 25 March: Twente 8 April: Rotterdam 10 April: Tilburg 14 April: Wageningen 15 April: Maastricht

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If you know anyone looking for a funded PhD, Uppsala Idéhistoria is recruiting two - in "history of ideas" and "history of science" (both *very* broadly defined). International applicants welcome! You can write in English or Swedish. 1/4 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

OBaMa - Osallistumisen esteiden yli -hankkeessamme on avoinna tutkijatohtorin tehtävä Turun yliopistossa. Tule tutkimaan kanssani eduskuntakeskusteluissa rakentuvia osallistumisen esteitä ja niiden purkamista. Hakuaikaa 8.5. asti #STN_OBaMa #STN_DEMOC #tutkijatohtori #rekry

On 8–10 October 2025, LUCK will organise the second international History of Knowledge Conference. Our Call for Papers/Panels has now been published and we encourage you to submit an abstract: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...

Business as usual in an early modern library 🫢

Awesome 👏

Vuoden eka podijakso ja samalla 120 jaksoa täynnä täyttä tavaraa historiasta!🥳 Jaksossa keskustelemme dosentti Stefan Nygårdin ja emeritusprofessori Kimmo Kasken kanssa suomalaisen tieteen tekemisen historiasta. Tärkeä ja varsin ajankohtainen aihe, kuuntele täältä: open.spotify.com/episode/33YR...

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Fully funded 3-year PhD-position in Intellectual History available at the University of Oslo. Come work with us! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Jos sinulla on jonkinlainen suhde Otaniemeen, auta meikä-kulttuuriperinnöntutkijaa mäessä (...tai siis kivikasassa) ja vastaa pieneen kyselyyni! Postdoc-tutkimukseni käsittelee arkeologisten kohteiden uusia merkityksiä, mm. tämän röykkiön 🪨🪨 Linkki kyselyyn: link.webropolsurveys.com/S/E552861009...

Historians have had many good reasons to learn foreign languages. Gaining access to archives is one of them: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/m...

Four wonderful and super productive weeks in Archivo General de Simancas. I am grateful for the kindness and helpfulness of the archive staff as they hauled dozens and dozens of boxes for me to explore! #archivefever

The University of Helsinki decided to use online competency assessment tests developed by a private company in the application process for salaried PhD positions. I'm the PI of a project on pseudoscience in work life. We wrote this. tint-helsinki.fi/2024/10/21/c...

This is very useful: a full list of all the newspapers that the British Newspaper Archive allows free access to: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a... #History 🗃️

Victorian readers loved fictional characters of delightfully eccentric, recluse, and effeminate historians and antiquaries. One of them was Professor Morgan with a broken heart: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/p...

Two days of thought provoking and inspirig papers on history of expertise 🤓 And lovely collegial conviviality 😊 Big thanks for everyone who made this such a great event 👏

In 1771, historian Catherine Macaulay burned herself out so badly writing the fifth volume of her recent history of England that she spent four months eating ice cream and bathing in the sea to recuperate. Writers, I present to you your role model.

Are we entering a period of digital retrenchment? Me on a digital database tool that went offline recently and some pessimistic thoughts about broader patterns 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/a...

This is (unfortunately) so true 😞

What have hat pegs, wine, and 2 feet 1 inch high stools to do with 19th-c. archives and archive practices? Some answers here 👉 cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/w...

Has anyone done this yet? I, uhhh, thought there were more? I will add any you can suggest! 🗃️ bsky.app/profile/did:...

Impressive scholarship and empathetic writing! Mary L. Shannon makes margins dancing as she unravels histories of blackness, disability, print culture, and popular culture in Regency London. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Groningenissa (mainio kaupunki Alankomaiden pohjoisosassa eli amsterdamilaisten mielestä "kaukana pohjoisessa", olin siellä tutkijavaihdossa 2002-2003): "PhD position Social-historical Analysis of Regional Depopulation and Community Welfare in Finland " www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Takehiro Okabe, MA will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Taming Greater Finland - Pan-Finnism, the Soviet-Finnish Kalevala Controversy, and the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Republic, 1940-1956" on 5 April 2024 at 13:15 helsinginyliopisto.etapahtuma.fi/events/publi...

My modest contribution to the recent heated discussion about photoshopped celebrity portraits cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/l...

Whiskers, sideburns, beards 💈🪒 Facial hair consciousness ran high in Victorian Britain: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/f...

Thrilled to announce that the Call for Papers of "The Making of the Humanities XI" conference in Lund (9-11 October 2024) is open! Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2024 Organized by the Board of Events of the Society for the History of the Humanities. historyofhumanities.org/upcoming-mee...

Tärkeä osa nuoruuteni äänimaisemaa on poissa 😢 yle.fi/a/74-20072852

How much archival sources a historian needs for being content? Sometimes less can be more, but heroic archive narratives prefer stories about thrilling discoveries of heaps of archival treasures📜 cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/w...

Suomen Oppihistoriallinen Seura on perustanut matka-apurahan nuorille tutkijoille 🤩 Se on nyt haettavissa. DL 29.2. Tarkemmat tiedot täältä: www.oppihistoriallinenseura.fi/apuraha/

My week in two pictures 🤓 #archivefever in the Hague

What qualities make a good scientist, according to scientists? In our latest paper in @historyofscience.bsky.social (with Kim Hajek and Herman Paul), we explore how postwar American historians, psychologists, and physicists responded to this question. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Every year on Boxing Day my grandmother used to say how she already noticed the day getting longer. I might not share her optimism but nonetheless the thought of days not getting any shorter is consoling. On that note it is good to switch on the holiday mood 🎄