Loved this long read on the Leeds beer scene and the dominance of Kirkstall brewery. One of the great things about Leeds was the variety in its beer scene - it would be great to see more support for other local brewers like Horsforth, Amity, and Piglove. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/4/...

This is a really great list of resources for teaching and learning Medieval Latin compiled by Brigid Ehrmantraut #medievalsky www.medievalists.net/2026/06/lear...

The History of Writing in African Languages: From Arabic to Vernacular. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-histor...

*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...

At my office getting up the time that I have of late lost by not following my business, but I hope now to settle my mind again very well to my business.

This feels like absolute vandalism as so many books are not e-resources so not available any other way and are absolutely essential for arts and humanities research in particular.

Exactly. I've never - not once -- heard a student complain about there being too much flexibility and too many options for modules. This is a fabricated issue put out there by people who know nothing about HE.

Very excited to read This Little World!

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)

This looks so great! I won't be in London but hope there'll be a publication or something similar coming out of it!

Very few sign-ups for the in-person document sessions on 16 and 17 June. Please circulate with PhD students etc who use legal records in their research (or I won't be able to run the sessions this year). I can promise witchcraft, treason, and all that good stuff (if it runs). Details via the thread.

Colleagues might consider signing this petition against the downgrading of AHSS research by Research Ireland openletter.earth/concern-abou...

A promotional post for cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/en, a platform for searching and visualising data across PLRE, Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, Plantin sales and provincial booksellers' inventories, c. 1500–1640. So, ownership, sales, and translations of books in #earlyModern England. #bookHistory

My belief that I'm not like the other dads who buy clothes in M&S taking an absolute battering from seeing the other dads around me buying clothes in M&S

Sweltering in the UK heatwave?? Why not visit your Local Archival Repository! Low temperatures and humidity GUARANTEED* And we throw in the history for free😍 *by regulatory standard BS4971:2017 Archives - Where the records are cool and so are you.

With the plans to retract and close swathes of departments across UKHE, we reaffirm the value of the humanities and other subject areas under threat. A broad and capacious knowledge base is vital for a thriving democracy. rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

First few hot days of 2026 seem to be bearing this sad prediction out. The world we could have had!

brief introduction to Venetic here from @viewsproject.bsky.social with links to some further posts by @katherinemcdon.bsky.social

Archaeologists carrying out excavations ahead of the construction of a new road at Ponso, near Este in the Veneto region of Italy, have uncovered an ancient Venetic and Roman temple site, including numerous inscriptions in the Venetic language (all photos: SABAP Padova Treviso Belluno)🏺

I'm in the new issue of @historytoday.com with a review of Penny Roberts's latest, an honest to god archival detective story which reconstructs sixteenth-century Huguenot networks from a bag of letters seized at the port of Dieppe. www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

I just hope the constable doesn’t drop by again

It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️

Bedwell’s album amicorum has been digitized here: hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:...

“God’s will is my will”: an entry in Arabic, Syriac, and Danish by a traveler from Denmark, Lauge Christensen, in the friendship album of the English Arabist William Bedwell (c. 1563-1632). Leiden, ms BPL 2753

I'm old enough to remember a time when if you wanted lies whispered into your ear you had to hire a grand vizier

Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640 This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers. spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk

Henceforth answering only to this.

I'm in the new issue of @historytoday.com with a review of Penny Roberts's latest, an honest to god archival detective story which reconstructs sixteenth-century Huguenot networks from a bag of letters seized at the port of Dieppe. www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Got an email this morning to say a piece I co-authored with Christophe Gillain is one of the most viewed articles published by Renaissance Studies. It feels hard being an ECR right now but news like this is a real boost to morale ✨. It’s open access - link below

Like this post and I will assign you a Roman name based on my current corpus (people with aliases/nicknames).

📢 Job Opportunity at @durham.ac.uk Bridging Fellow in Early Modern Italian Studies: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... IMEMS seeks to appoint a Bridging Fellow with research interests in the field of early modern Italian studies to the Inventing Futures research programme @languagesdurham.bsky.social

If you couldn’t sleep for wondering about the Garamantes, the perfect solution airs in five minutes on Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Global Medieval History University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Much higher ABV than I'd normally trifle with but saw a beer from Norfolk named for the sixteenth-century 'strangers' I'm writing a book about and I felt like I was obliged to sample a third. Rich, intriguing, and likely to cause a sensation — but enough about the book etc etc

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

And it just gets worse: it looks like there will be no modern language provision at all. No music, no languages. Can a silent university call itself a university at all? Help us resist! Please contribute to @uonucu.bsky.social hardship fund if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Lovely morning with the kids learning about space at the Cambridge Science Park. Hoping to bring them to the Cambridge Arts & Humanities Park next week but nobody I asked seemed to know where it is.

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

Fascinating interview, not least on the long and multilingual manuscript tradition of the Ethiopian city of Harar. I was there in January and it was such a thrill to see early modern and modern manuscripts on so many topics in Arabic, Harari, Amharic and others.

Muna Abubeker is our new guest professor for ‘African Manuscript Cultures’. In our interview, the specialist in Ethiopian Arabic and Ajami manuscripts talks about her unconventional path into academia and her plans to raise the international profile of her research field

Very excited for the 2027 Society for Renaissance Studies conference, to be held in the city many are calling the Leeds of the south.

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

A true and perfect relation of a monstrous and prodigous whale

Very disappointing that there are no fluent Gaelic speakers in the new Scottish Parliament. There were 3 in the last one. But framing it as 'despite' recent funding is ridiculous - it's a consequence of language shift and lack of support and status over centuries www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

Someone should really do a Frances Yates biography one of these days.

Remarkable drawing by Frances Yates from 1952, as she was studying Giordano Bruno's art of memory. This is the lead image for Relics, a new student-curated exhibition at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Much looking forward to seeing this up close.... mailchi.mp/sas/news-fro....

Our new exhibition is a must-see.