Finally received my own copy of this classic banger — just in time for the weekend 📚

Just out! www.routledge.com/Girlhood-in-...

Project manager @mikaelalm.bsky.social presents the project as an exemple of a research infrastructure project at "Things That Matter: Material & Culture in/for the Digital Age" at Bern University. What work goes into the creation of a digitised collection?

Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria! Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt. Sök senast den 17 augusti! www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

Kungliga biblioteket återskapar biblioteksmiljön från herrgården Säbylund, med 4000 böcker och unika föremål. Samlingen, som har anor från 1700-talet, får nytt liv på Roggebiblioteket i Strängnäs. svenskhistoria.se/biblioteksmi... #svhist

Master's workshop continues! Thesis on two case studies on claims of compensation against Lübeck in the 16th century (chaired by @mouseemperor.bsky.social), and I just learned that OpenAI's online ChatGTP function recognises Middle Low German elements in Early New German texts.

Thrilled to share that the anthology "Från handskrift till digitalt kulturarv: Perspektiv på specialsamlingar", that I’ve co-edited with @sjokvist.bsky.social has been published. It's available both in #openaccess and in print: www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.... #bookhistory #specialcollections

Preparations for next week's 'Early Modern Christmas' at @uu.se: the Department of History's annual Master's Workshop, with six theses (by second-year students) and seven thesis proposals (by first-year students) from the Early Modern Master's Programme. Fabulous!

Ny publikation med kapitel av projektets @mikaelalm.bsky.social & @johansjoberg70.bsky.social

Projektets bokbindare, Adam Larsson, mottog idag medalj för nit och redlighet efter 30 år i statlig tjänst 👏👏👏

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Want to see what you can find? 📜 Head over to our @zooniverse.bsky.social site to explore our sixteenth-century wills: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... #history #earlymodern #skystorians #citizenscience #crowdsourcing @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social 2/2 🧵

I have a book! It is actually real!

Our dear cooperation partners Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith have published their opus magnum on letterlocking: 'Letterlocking. The Hidden History of the Letter' by Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group (MIT Press). Congratulations!

Våren är här!🌞 Dags att fira dess ankomst med ett gediget möte 24 April kl.17:00 på Humanistiska Teatern i Uppsala. Rebecka Lennartsson & Mats Hayen föreläser om projektet "Stadens ansikten" - du vill inte missa det. Vi ses där!🌹

Excellent lecture today by @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social and Rebekah Ahrendt on the Brienne collection and 'Dirty Metadata and Clean Cataloguing'. This was the last lecture organised by the project. It couldn't have had a better ending!

Our lecture series continues! Welcome to Carolina Rediviva for an exciting talk by @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social & Rebekah Ahrendt.

We're off! #esshc2025

The @uu.se history students' association invited me as a guest lecturer tonight. Not only were they the sweetest, most engaged audience I've ever had, they also *gave me flowers*. I think I've peaked now, job-wise.

#ONT, March 16 in 1792, Swedish king Gustav III (1746–1792) was shot and mortally wounded at a masquerade at the Opera in Stockholm.

The EMMRN hosts a peer-to-peer research tool designed to connect people who need photographs of pieces of marginalia with people who can take those photographs. The site also hosts a blog about marginalia and facilitates a network of researchers who use marginalia in their research.

It has come to my knowledge that the pre-info (incl. table of contents) of Academic Households in #EarlyModern Northern Europe is now available, the actual book will come out after summer! www.routledge.com/Academic-Hou...

My University has left X and joined Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/uu.se

We are so excited to team up with @insuhi.bsky.social, @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social, HTC & @thinkuhi.bsky.social Literature, & be part of the new MLitt programme, Early Modern European Studies (EMES)! Enrolments for Sept 2025 and Jan 2026 will open shortly, so visit bit.ly/3EUjymB for more info!

Our HTR coordinator, Kristoffer, bravely participated in the Vasa ski race today. He did not win. We are looking into suspected sabotage and, maybe, corruption.

Selected Depositions from the Court of the Bishop of Hereford 1597-1601. New online set of church court depositions with images, transcription and translation. Great introduction to these fantastic records which provide such great social history insight. 🗃️ depositions.drc.usask.ca/node/1

Looking forward to giving a talk with Rebekah Ahrendt in Uppsala this April, on metadata madness and historical correspondence.

Our lectures continue! Welcome (no registration, no cost)! libcal.ub.uu.se/event/4355432

Lehrkräfte aufgepasst – neue Fortbildungsreihe zu Games im Unterricht startet – ab nächster Woche: jeden Montag, 16-18 Uhr, online über Zoom und offen für alle – veranstaltet von der Evangelischen Schulstiftung in Mitteldeutschland. #blueLZ #games Anmeldung: www.schulstiftung-ekm.de/stiftung/fba...

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Our fifth hackathon is on, with manual correction of machine-read texts by Gustav III from the war with Russia, 1788–1790.

Two PhD positions in history at Uppsala university. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

What research opportunities do the Prize Papers offer? Tune in to the 3rd episode of the podcast series on the Prize Papers stored at The National Archives, UK: "Echoes of Empire" featuring my friend @mouseemperor.bsky.social & myself hosted by Chloe Lee, produced by @auntnellproduction.bsky.social

Just some lovely tickets to 18th-century masquerade balls 😍🎭 www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #18c

Can't get enough MMoR & @kingshistory.bsky.social conferences?? We're thrilled to be associated with "Caribbean Connections", organised by Michael Bennett and @drmishaewen.bsky.social and taking place 25-26 June at King's. See the CfP here.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Margaret Hunt's great paper on 'Seventeenth-century Swedish sailors and their personal letters: evidence from the Prize Papers' is now available online - www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/sev... @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @prizepapers.bsky.social

Fascinerande presentation av Margaret Hunt om svenska sjömäns brev hem till sina kära, skrivna i hamnen i Plymouth 1695. Väl värt att lyssna på! www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/sev...

Bli agrarhistoriker! Vi har just lyst ut en doktorandtjänst i ett VR-projekt om ekonomisk ojämlikhet i Sverige under 1500- och 1600-talen. Studien bygger på maskinläsning ("AI") av listor över hushållens förmögenhet: silver, kor, mässing, risbitare, osv...

Finally, a moment to prepare for ESSHC 2025 in Leiden, and the session "The Urban Stage: Ordering the Social in Early Modern Towns". Hope to see you there, come March!

It was an absolute pleasure to talk about my work with the @prizepapers.bsky.social together with my good friend & long-standing partner in mischief @lhaasis.bsky.social. Many thanks to Drew Ellery, Chloe Lee and the whole @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy "On The Record" team!

Inheriting the Family: Object, Identities and Emotions. Now available open access as a free PDF (though much easier to access from the OAPEN website than from Bloomsbury's, ahem): library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Samedi 1er février de 9h30 à 16h se tiendra à Lyon, au centre Berthelot (salle Marc Bloch) la table ronde de #RHR "Vêtir l'homme à la #Renaissance. Imaginaires, histoires, usages." Venez nombreux! #ESR #VeilleESR #SeizièmeSiècle #Vêtement rhr16.hypotheses.org/897

The job is done & the project is nearing its end. Today, project manager @mikaelalm.bsky.social & project archivist @johansjoberg70.bsky.social thanked two of our conservators for their excellent work, saving the collection for future use & making possible the high-quality digitisation of it.

When regret kicks in. An errata leaf from a collection of poetry of William Wycherley from 1704.

We're hiring! The Bodleian are looking for a Public Engagement Officer. This is an exciting role based in the Weston Library, with the opportunity to make a real impact on visitors and the community, working with the Bodleian’s historic collections. For more information: tinyurl.com/48uuw625.

🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌 Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...