Places almost completely filled for this! Let me know if you'd like a spot reserving before they run out.

Míle buíochas le Mary Claire agus lucht @raidiofailte.bsky.social as labhairt liom faoin siompóisiam a bheas ar siúl againn sa Chultúrlann ar Dé Máirt an 25 Samhain. Is féidir clárú anseo: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-... @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each. sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Memorandum attesting to the fact that Domingo Rodriguez 'is now, and has been for upwards of 17 years ... ' [Alan Carr voice] ' .... head Linguister' at Tellicherry (Thalassery) for the East India Company. #skystorians One of untold hundreds who did this translation work for the EIC.

So proud of my @leidenhumanities.bsky.social colleague Lotte Fikkers, whose Open Access Book, Early Modern Women’s Life Writing & English law is out w/ @edinburghup.bsky.social ! A stunning achievement from our @erc.europa.eu project #FEATHERS. Don’t miss it www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Any journalists interesting in covering/following can DM here or contact me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com. The most recent BBC and ITV coverage is here (CW: violence, femicide, suicide): www.bbc.com/news/article... www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...

I'm in Nairobi this week for the opening of the inquest into my sister Kate's death here, almost four years ago, which is still very much unsolved. The case has been beset by obstructions and evasions; it's taken us a long time to get this far and there may be more to come.

This Underwood typewriter, likely the first with Irish characters, was used by the Gaelic League around 1905. Now on display in the newly opened Changing Ireland Galleries in Collins Barracks, it’s a powerful symbol of everyday tools shaping Irish identity. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

I kept finding cló gaelach everywhere this weekend - a typewriter @nmireland.bsky.social , font on school signage, and blocks of type at the National Print Museum #gaeilge #clógaelach

I would put my hat in the ring for director general of the BBC except that I am disqualified by the unacceptable attribute of really liking the BBC.

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

Strongly feel that adults learning a new language should be treated like babies doing the same thing. Look, I'm going through a developmental leap this week, so I'm just going to be more cranky, hungrier, cry a lot at night etc.

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

Have to say fair play to Perlego for successfully selling to publishers and libraries everywhere a repository of academic ebooks which collapses entirely every time you try to check a footnote

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

The judges asked Thiess why he had become a werewolf – what benefits did it bring? Thiess recalled that he took on his new identity calmly, but ‘hadn’t thought it would involve so much evil’. @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on a Livonian werewolf, from 2022. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Comórtas Rapcheol ag #OnaS25 😎 Moltóirí: DJ Próvaí agus Móglaí Bap ó Kneecap 🙏 Comhghairdeas le Piaras Mac Dugláis ó Ghaelscoil Bharra, Baile Átha Claith 7, a fuair an chéad áit 🏆 📸 Clive Wasson @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social

I sometimes wonder if Randle Cotgrave was able to write dictionary definitions that weren't pure poetry. 'Canadelle: f. The smallest of rock-fishes, beautified with spots of sundry colours, and very good meat.'

An-bhródúil ar fad as mo nia Pearse a bhuaigh comórtas rapcheol ag Oireachtas na Samhna i mBéal Feirste inné -- le Móglaí Bap agus DJ Próvaí ina moltóirí! www.thejournal.ie/ba-moltoiri-...

#earlymodern news! Not brand new news, but barely yesterday for an early modernist. Congratulations, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social! #renaissance 🗃

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I'm always so grateful when an archive has digitised a manuscript I'm interested in but why must they always only be viewable image by image on a website viewer that's a tiny window within a window where every page takes an eternity to load. Let me have a PDF, please, I beg!

Great that the Viabundus map is gaining more visibility! It's a great tool for anyone interested in medieval and early modern travel, roads, and maps. Greetings from the Finnish team!

🗣️Speakers: 🗽Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor of History (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Bridget Bennett, Professor of American Literature and Culture (Leeds) 🗽Autumn Haag, Assistant Director, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (Rochester) 💂‍♂️Kate Dossett, Professor of American History (Leeds)

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

After a couple of days beating my head against the Amharic gerundive, allow me to formally retract all my pro-language learning content from over the years and say whatever, I don't care, let ChatGPT do it, get the Mark Zuckerberg pervert translation glasses, I'm out

Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

This week we're back at the IHR on Weds 15 October, where we welcome Maroula Perisanidi (Leeds), speaking on "Beyond Punishment: Speech Difference, Sin and Disability in Byzantine Thought, c. 1000-1200". All welcome, please sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

Melvyn ordered coffee!

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

In my very first early modern Dutch lesson I learnt the phrase "we beat them to death with sticks". Today I'm learning the gerundive in Amharic, and hoping not to have much use for the sample sentence አንቀው ገደሉት, "they killed him by strangling".

And an excellent article it is, too. Well done, John!

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

A lot of talk about emotion in the archive recently, and I get it. This morning I've been brought nearly to tears by trying to unpick the history of a Flemish family where the grandfather, father, and son all have exactly the same name.

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

So a book I need to see — Albert Schouteet, De klerken van de Vierschaar te Brugge met inventaris van hun protocollen (Brugge, 1973) — seems only to exist in a couple of libraries in Belgium and the Netherlands. If it's near you and you could take some pictures, I'll happily pay for your time!

Really is amazing how good the tech is getting these days.

The last time I worked on the footnotes for this essay about multilingual reading in @marshslibrary.bsky.social, it was over a summer evening post-library pint of Guinness in Fallon's. Hard not to think that was a pretty ideal way to do it.

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'The affected staff, in the schools of foreign languages, history, religion and music, have been warned the university cannot rule out compulsory redundancy.'

A delight to examine Dr Commons's superb PhD -- strongly recommend her Historical Research article and other forthcoming publications to anyone interested in histories of migration and law in the early modern period!

A Bohemian spotted in London, 1641 @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social

Does anyone happen to be sitting next to a copy of Tudor Royal Proclamations vol. 2? Archive dot org has the first and third volume and predictably the five (I think) proclamations I need to see are in neither...

Great news about Dr Atkinson's excellent thesis — now available to read open access!

Come listen to me talk about religious certificates next week! Featuring a fun mix of stranger churches’, recusant, and Church of England approaches to religious paperwork.

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company). All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

Some people argue that 'the British Isles' isn't political and we shouldn't be bothered by it, which is why they're invariably so open to my suggestion that we should switch to 'the Irish Isles' for the next few hundred years while we work out a solution.