If anyone has published a recent book in the broad field of religious history and would like to have it reviewed in the Journal of Religious History then do let me know. Also, if there is anybody who would like to review a title then also really pleased to hear - DM or email (link in profile)! 📚

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Critical win for the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill as MSPs vote to progress it to Stage 2 ⬇️ Congratulations and thanks to @monicalennon.bsky.social for her unrelenting work! We look forward to the next steps. Press release: www.ercs.scot/news/landmar...

Looking forward to this evening. A great venue to introduce my new project “Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World” and to share some of my thoughts on the role of shrines in this process

My book is now out! 🎉 Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court @edinburghup.bsky.social Very exciting to see it in the flesh ☺️ [Discount code: NEW30]

Excited to share that from October I’ll be working as a Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities at Durham University! I’ll be developing my project on ‘The Sensescapes of Cancer, 1700-1950’ and publishing my PhD research on sensory experiences of plague in early modern London. I can’t wait to start!

I'll be in Manchester regularly between May and July next year, so do let me know if you're planning on being in the city in any of those months!

Love’s Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people I’ve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. 🐅 Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world. #WorldEnvironmentDay #BookSky #HPS #Skystorians 🗃️

Rogue question of the day: does anyone happen to know of any references (primary or secondary) to feelings of disgust in relation to medical practice, past and/or present?

I am beyond proud of my bestie @joshuarushton8.bsky.social on securing Leverhulme funding for his amazing new project! Can’t wait to see what comes out of it.

I’m so thrilled by this news and extremely grateful to the many people who have supported me with this! Looking forward to starting the project “Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World” in 2026! 🎉

Congratulations to our very own @joshuarushton8.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World". Read all about it here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Call for Papers #HistSTM #EnvHist: Planetary Futures - Rethinking Extinction and Conservation in the Anthropocene. Manchester, 18-19 Sept 2025. Organisers: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @duncanwilson78.bsky.social blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

Don't forget to submit your abstract in for our June conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' - speaker expenses will be covered and we have two amazing keynotes in Marcy Norton & Sara Miglietti!

Congratulations to @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social who has received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for 'The Fats of Life, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine', which she will take up at UCL in autumn 2025. Read more about this fascinating project here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Congratulations to Joshua Rushton, whose article 'The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism' is now out in Cultural and Social History. Read more about this fascinating work here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Thank you for this @bemccollective.bsky.social !

And another on climate justice and the Anthropocene. Lots of others on the website, but these obviously resonate strongly with my own interests and expertise so sharing here. daily.jstor.org/climate-just...

Just come across this really useful list on the links between natural history and empire, featuring moi as ‘essential reading’. Perfect if you’re interested in museums or science more broadly too. Also ideal for passing to students as a starting point. daily.jstor.org/natural-hist...

This is long overdue. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I'm on the lookout for Wellcome Early Career Award applications that people might be willing to share with me. I've asked before on my other social media but not on here, so reaching out to see if I have any new connections willing to help. Please share!

CALL FOR PAPERS We are delighted to share the CFP for our second symposium, ‘The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies, and Futures’. Details on how to apply, including a link to our submission site, can be found via our website: hematopolitics.org/symposium/

I had a wonderful time at the launch of 'Blood: Ties & Tensions' last night! @hematopolitics.bsky.social have been working closely with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social to put together a brilliant display of objects, stories, and art pieces that bright to light the significance of our blood.

I'm looking to share some of my new research on the moral and medical dimensions of breastfeeding and breast cancer (1600-1900). If you know of any seminar series, conferences, or societies that might be interested in having me present, please let me know! I rarely see CFPs on here nowadays...

save the date: I'm giving a paper on my new research project, 'Gender, Identity, and the Senses in Early Modern Cancer Cases', at @crems-york.bsky.social on Feb 20 at 12:15pm!

For Bluesky thinking from our IHR Italy 1200-1700 seminar, check out our seminar programme: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨ In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇 academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Happy to see my review of Emily Michelson’s Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews out in Cultural and Social History! A brilliant book which puts minorities at the centre of the Counter-Reformation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to see my review of Emily Michelson’s Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews out in Cultural and Social History! A brilliant book which puts minorities at the centre of the Counter-Reformation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For anyone within commuting distance of Oxford with an interest in pilgrimage, there are still some places left on my course in the New Year! www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/sacr...

I'm also the postdoc fellow for @hematopolitics.bsky.social, a research project centred on the politics of blood donation and transfusion. I'd love to network with people interested in anything related to blood !!

By way of re-introduction - I'm a @srsrensoc.bsky.social postdoc fellow working on my new project on sensory experiences of cancer and the formation of identity in the early modern period. I'm particularly keen to connect with historians of medicine and cancer researchers more broadly!

Marvellous new article by @joshuarushton8.bsky.social in Cultural & Social History — essential reading for anyone interested in early modern Catholicism, shrines, miracles, emotions! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just published online and open access: my article on the seventeenth-century celebrity language teacher Claude Mauger (and his books, students, and readers) in Early Modern French Studies. I'm on the bus so let's have a 🧵! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to share my new article on emotions and shrines in early modern Catholicism is now out with Cultural and Social History! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The St Andrews Early Modern Workshop returns for a new semester this Monday!! Follow us on the other place, or email to sign up for our mailing list.

Delighted to share my new article on emotions and shrines in early modern Catholicism is now out with Cultural and Social History! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to see my first article out open access with Renaissance Studies! It focuses on miracle narratives and Catholic devotion in early modern Italy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

As the new teaching term starts, passing on one of the best teaching tips I’ve had. If you want to end a discussion say ‘anything else?’ If you want it to continue say ‘what else?’ From @josephinequinn.bsky.social

Really looking forward to this online Catholicism event co-organised with Giulia Zanon (Ca’ Foscari Venice) and Mattia Corso (Rome Tre). Online and free to all so do email for a link if interested!

**10 will transcriptions** More teaching resources: the @materialwills.bsky.social project team have been tagging all our blog posts which include a full transcription of an #EarlyModern will - 10 so far, more will follow! 🗃️ sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Now it’s all official I’m delighted to share that I’ll be joining the University of Manchester for the 2024/25 year as Lecturer in Early Modern History! 🥳 Looking forward to meeting new colleagues and students in the autumn!

#CfP: 'Interconnections' #RenSoc25, Bristol, 2-5 July 2025! Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables & seminars to reach the brilliant Bristol team by 27 Sept 2024: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11... #earlymodern #skystorians 🗃️

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

"An institution which commits to understanding society avoids shrinking the parameters of historical understanding that shape our conception of the present, the familiar, and the immediate." 1/n 🗃 #earlymodern #18thC @srsrensoc.bsky.social statement on the value of Renaissance and Premodern Studies.

Delighted to see my first article out open access with Renaissance Studies! It focuses on miracle narratives and Catholic devotion in early modern Italy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢EVENT: 20 May, MPhil WORK-IN-PROGRESS Cambridge Early Modernists (@emodcam.bsky.social), come and support our brilliant students! Join us at the Faculty of History (@camhistory.bsky.social), SR6, or online (5-6:30pm) to learn more about ongoing PG research. For the link: [email protected] 👇