I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting. Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

Happy publication day to 'Hilary Mantel', published by @livunipress.bsky.social Thrilled to have been able to undertake this project with the support of the excellent LUP team. It's currently 20% off on the LUP website too! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Immense congratulations to Dr Lucy Arnold (@spectres-of.bsky.social) on the publication tomorrow of HILARY MANTEL in Liverpool UP's Writers And Their Work series! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

Really struggle to understand even floating this when you can look directly across the Irish Sea and see how this approach has been disastrous in every single place it's been tried.

Meanwhile, at Labour HQ:

Genuinely shocked to read about proposals at Galway (an amazing university with world-class humanities departments) to axe the broad-based arts degree. Really grim reading. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Does anyone happen to have access to Brill's Italian Reformation Online resource? They've digitised this manuscript (the libro di memorie of Vincenzo Burlamachi) and I'd love to see it! primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/itali...

Join us next week for the 4th annual Nicholas Canny Lecture. Prof. Alison Games will be speaking on "Making the Indian Ocean English? Trading, Enclaves, Women, and the Origins of the East India Company, 1600-1650” on Wednesday, 4th March at 4 pm in Room THB-G010. All very welcome.

'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England' Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Not very pleased with the Pope, who has made it more difficult for me to argue that students and colleagues shouldn't be using CoPilot to translate sources when he's happy to let it have a go at saying Mass.

I can't help but wonder how early modern Jesuit missionaries would have responded to this. Translating religious texts is always challenging and often contentious, and yet here are in the year of our Lord 2026 with the Catholic Church entrusting live translation to an LLM

How did I not know that there are multiple dioceses in Ireland which don't allow eulogies to be delivered at funerals? I'd riot!

Here's a graph showing the primary script used in early modern English letters plotted over time. This graph is based on 3,489 letters, 22% by women, with decent social coverage although lower ranks are underrepresented.

There’s still time to book for ‘Jewish Worlds and Words in Medieval England’! On Mon Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and I will be at the British Library, talking about the Jews of Medieval England, Christian knowledge of Hebrew and the world of medieval Anglo-Jewry. Do join us events.bl.uk/events/jewis...

Brilliant turnout for my workshop on “The Senses and Medical Humanities” yesterday with @durhamimh.bsky.social. I’ll be hosting an online workshop in May and a further in-person showcase on 10 July at Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds. Message me for further info!

Job! A 21-month postdoc at Birmingham on French-language print publications in England to 1685 led by the marvellous team of Peter Auger and Suzanne Jones. International applicants are welcome and Birmingham can support a visa application where required. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

‘The routes established by Europe’s postmasters and postmistresses were the sinews of the Enlightenment state.’ John Gallagher (@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social) on early modern news. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Press will no longer disburse Authour Coppies, nor is the sticker-price lowe enough for any Purchase but that by an Institucion. I knowe it is the way wt Academick publishing but yow wld not wish to see my Menciouns at the Moment

‘The visual world of the Tudor period is also largely vanished, swept away in those “great alterations”, or for more mundane reasons: eaten by mice; burned in accidental fires; discarded due to wear or changes in fashion.’ Kate Heard on Tudor art. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It will never stop baffling me that there are people — mortal, like the rest of us, marked for death after a cruelly short span — who willingly watch televised awards shows. When I moved to England and saw people talking about watching the BAFTAs I genuinely thought they were joking!

Proofs just in for A Golden World, featuring our glorious cover artwork ✨ A glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social, A Golden World is out 18 June and available to pre-order now. linktr.ee/agoldenworld

Great new article by Pádraig Ó Liatháin on an Irish-language family commonplace book begun in 18th-century Donegal, brought to New York in the 19th century, and now in the Burns Library at Boston College. Am I biased because it's about the Gallaghers? How dare you. muse.jhu.edu/pub/41/artic...

My wife is away and the kids are, miraculously, asleep by eight. This may be my opportunity for a classic JG night in — a bit of tidying with the audiobook of The Secret History followed by curling up with the new series of my favourite TV programme, 71 Degrees North: Norway's Toughest Celebrities

Mohamed Quassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social forscht zum arabisch-lateinischen #Wissenstransfer. In seinem Gastbeitrag erzählt er die Geschichte von Constantinus Africanus, der als nordafrikanischer Migrant die Medizin des Mittelalters revolutionierte: t1p.de/unun8 #Migration #Digitalisierung #Kulturerbe

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Essential that everyone understand that the problem with the monarchy is this one guy and not that there is a monarchy at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘The story of news is not the story of the newspaper. Print was a medium for news long before the newspaper, as pamphlets announced strange and wondrous happenings from natural disasters to sea monster sightings.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on early modern news. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

🚨Job klaxon 🚨 Come and be my colleague at York! We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Modern British History and Public History. Two year post - apply by 19 March. 🗃️ More details here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO971/a...

🎶News! News! News news news news news! Has a, has a, has a, has a kind of mystery...

‘News has a much more capacious definition across early modern Europe. It’s news if there washes up in Denmark a giant fish that looks like a bishop – that’s news, in just the same way as a recent battle.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The realities of sixteenth-century diplomacy. Some days you get to mastermind devilish deeds of espionage and deceit, and some days you have to write to your boss about the cow painting.

A volume of essays I edited some years ago on news in #earlymodern Europe is now available open access 📖 Featuring chapters by @lenaliapi.bsky.social, @emmawhipday.bsky.social, among others! brill.com/edcollbook-o...

Library Catalogues and / as Research Data: the hidden voices of early printed books in the John Rylands Free and online via Teams. Booking essential via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/john-rylands-research-institute-and-library-17289731815

A Norfolk man has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. You're watching BANGED UP: THE BROADS

Very pleasing to talk early modern news, information, and communication (and two excellent books by Rachel Midura & Joad Raymond Wren) with @moonjets.bsky.social on this week's LRB podcast. @lrb.co.uk

oh! hayyyyy! Spa in the news! May I offer some further academic writing on this topic? My 2022 @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social article: academic.oup.com/past/article... -- fascinating town which bracketed out the tensions of the rest of the world for the season to enable healthcare.

Visited the Cairo Geniza collection in the Cambridge UL for the first time today. Almost lost for words at the amount and diversity of materials, languages and scripts. Herewith my photo of a Hebrew primer used in 10th century Egypt to teach kids to write

On the podcast: @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to explore how information (and disinformation) circulated in early modern Europe, and whether our predecessors were any better than we are at sifting fake news from fact. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I'm not sure if ppl outside academia realise that if you quit a permanent post in this job market you will amost certainly never get another one, esp in arts & hums. All that post graduate training, the years of precarity, not being able to choose where you or your family live. Pffft. For nothing.

3 weeks to decide, 9 months salary to choose to leave - almost certainly forever - the industry you've dedicated most of your adult life to.

The Worth Library's Research Fellowships for 2026 have just been advertised. Find out more at edwardworthlibrary.ie/research-fel... Please repost! @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @cerl-community.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @harvard.edu

A fabulous review of two books that I am very excited to read. Thanks @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social !!

'it is the great Exchange of all discourse.’ Brilliant @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on early modern news. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New in Transactions: 'Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources', by @ruthahnert.bsky.social, Katherine McDonough & @danielwilson.bsky.social: bit.ly/460nrkM As the ecosystem of historical research data expands, how do we keep control of source materials, esp digital? #Skystorians 1/2

‘The infrastructure of posts and couriers that served states and merchants laid the foundations for a revolution in communications.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on early modern news. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k) www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...