Very touched by Peter Marshall's review of This Little World in the latest @historytoday.com, his recognition of its 'bittersweet ironies' and what studying the past can tell us about belonging.

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

One more day before I talk about This Little World at the V&A with the brilliant @alexvont.bsky.social A fitting place to talk about immigrant painters at the Tudor court, cabinets of curiosities in Kensington, and the global origins of what later came to be imagined as 'English' culture.

One of the figures at the centre of This Little World is Levina Teerlinc, a painter from Bruges who spent decades at the Tudor court, quietly surviving Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I — which, when one considers the survival rates of Tudor courtiers, sounds like a superpower. (1/4)

Very grateful for the early responses to This Little World. John Guy in Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social: literaryreview.co.uk/concerning-s...

average online discussion tbh

UK-based friends, is anyone here based in or near Norwich who may be willing to snap a quick photo of a memorial stone for me? Please DM me if you can!

I don’t come on here very often anymore, but just wanted to say this: I spent the morning doing something that reminded me why I love this work — thinking through the generous, thoughtful comments on two chapters of the next book from two deeply kind and incredibly smart readers.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Dr Joanne Paul has a way with words in reminding us why history is important for today. A great read.

I'm late to this, but glad I saw this today. Very much looking forward to reading it.

1/3 This Times article exemplifies the way that right wing populist propaganda has established scapegoat lore. It gets repeated enough until it becomes evidence-free common sense. Yes the university funding model doesn’t work & there are systemic problems. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

A rather wonderful PhD opportunity with a fantastic supervisor: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔥🔥🔥

Delighted to have written this piece on REF2029 portability, and the risks of decoupling outputs from the researchers, with co-authors @mmdelgado.bsky.social and @milespadgett.bsky.social. wonkhe.com/blogs/portab...

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

We are hiring at St John's! We have an opening for an Early Career Librarian post, 3 year fixed term, salary £27,786, and as part of the role the College will pay the successful candidate's fees and give them day release to undertake a Masters' degree in Librarianship. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/vacancies

Anyone here planning to submit an article to Renaissance Studies ( @srsrensoc.bsky.social ) any time soon? Please get in touch if so! (Wiley have just switched the journal to their new submission system, and I need an author's perspective)

Super important analysis. Tl:dr — frontline academics and PS staff that directly support the work of frontline academics are universities’ productive units. Cut those and the university dies. In a crisis good businesses don’t cut their productive units. And yet here we are.

This, exactly!

Fantastic conference with a superb keynote!

I was interviewed by @mivanberk.bsky.social for @anandwrites.bsky.social's newsletter, The Ink. The interview and an excerpt from HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, out from @ucpress.bsky.social on Feb 4 was published today. 🧵 1/2 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury the.ink/p/are-you-a-...

Listen to this if only to enjoy @willdalrymple.bsky.social channeling his method acting to read extracts from Roe's journal.

Tonight! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This was one of the highlights of the year for me -- deeply delighted and honoured that #CourtingIndia received such an imaginative, timely creative response from Arko Datto.

‘Like the plants collected and grafted by the emperors in their gardens, Mughal art flourished and blossomed on fertile ground in 17th-century India’ – Nandini Das on the art of the Mughal Empire

Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu... Please repost!

I adore this cover! And can't wait to read the book.

In case you missed Radio 4's Free Thinking on Friday, I went down a turkey trail for my 5-min 'postcard' (I'm at 46:00). Contains: turkeys in early modern England, an Indigenous re-scripting of puritan narratives, & a Wampanoag artist's stunning turkey feather mantle. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Welcome to the Migration Museum, now on Bluesky. If you'd like to be part of their plans to create a permanent museum of migration stories (in the City of London, with regional pop-up hubs), do give them a follow. Or visit their 'All Our Stories' exhibition (& Migrant Makers' Market) in Lewisham.

Sharing details of the new annual OUP ECR First Book Prize, which opens for submissions in January 2025, awarding up to ten applicants with the opportunity to publish their original and innovative work fully open access. More details and information on how to apply: academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...

Can't wait to read this. And the cover image is magnificent.

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

I think it's time we had a very hard conversation about arts and humanities ... some early thoughts anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/i...

Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

On trees that travel: writing this piece for @apollomagazine.bsky.social allowed me to write about one of my favourite paintings.

Huge congratulations to Prof Kevin Killeen (Dept of English, Uni of York), who has been awarded the 2024 Bainton Prize, for his monograph, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable (Stanford University Press, 2023). #earlymodern #UoY

On trees that travel: writing this piece for @apollomagazine.bsky.social allowed me to write about one of my favourite paintings.

📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society Essay ECR Prize 2025 Essays (6k-8k) are invited on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society. 1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. Enter by 1/3/25 hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

Mary Burchell remains one of the most successful romance writers, ever. Over 110 Mills and Boon books to her name. Less well known is that much of her early writing was done for one purpose: Funding her efforts to get Jews out of Nazi Germany, with her sister. Mary is a Righteous Gentile. /1 🧵

One to follow, for anyone interested in early modern migration and transculturality.

Bluesky! Can you out-twitter twitter & do the thing that place used to be really good at: pool info about resources? Which funds are there to support individuals' conference participation & travel? We have this list of external funds, any to add/remove? rensoc.org.uk/features/ext... #skystorians

Is there anyone here I know who happens to be at the UK National Archives at the moment or planning to go there any time soon?

Watching Shogun gave me the excuse to talk about one of the figures I'm writing about in my next book -- William Adams, the Anjin of Miura. This evening on @BBCRadio3: [BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, New Generation Thinkers: Anjin, the Pilot](www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...)

Wonderful! On a day otherwise spent almost entirely on teaching timetabling, I am so looking forward to reading this from @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social

Hakluyt Society Essay ECR Prize 2025 Annual prizes of £1250 to winner & 2nd prize of £250 to essays on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Hakluyt Society⚓️🌊⛵️ - for details hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

If you're in London on Sunday 15 September, come see the real thing (as in 'creative reinterpretation') at the British Academy open house, 11:00-16:00, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH. Details here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/we-ar...