‘More’s love was for the Church, “a mystical body ... be it never so sick”. His desperate fear was that the spread of heresy would tear that body apart. He did not seek martyrdom, and was in no hurry to embrace it.’ Lucy Wooding on the two Thomas Mores. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social. A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.

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...

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, a new world-class centre for the Arts and Humanities will open to the academic community on 13 October 2025 🏛️✨ A public cultural programme hosted by the Centre will begin in April 2026. 🧵 [1/6]

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

As I've been saying, it's clear that the UK has decided to concentrate university spending and R&D on a very small and geographically-concentrated elite. Now okay, that's a decision that will have positives and negatives, but it should at least be made explicit. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Going to keep repeating: employers and students know the #ValueOfHistory, it’s somehow the university senior managers and marketeers who don’t read up-to-date information or have any sense of the world outside their ideological idée fixe: files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

Excited to kick off our workshop today at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg: Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility: Theories, Methods, and Themes in Early Modern Mobilities History, organized with my colleague Dr Sarah Lentz from the University of Bremen #earlymodern #history #mobility #history 🗃️

Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)

I wrote about learning R as a humanities student—how intimidating it felt at first, how I got past the fear, and what these tools can actually do for our work. hallieknipp.net/2025/05/06/c... #DigitalHumanities #GradSchool #RStats #HumanitiesCoding #AcademicLife #DigitalHistory #dh

Hi everyone, I am currently scanning archives in the UK and Germany for my project on the German Hanse and the Steelyard in C16 London. Is anyone aware of anything to do with their correspondence and/or account books that may exist? I am hoping to network them; it's looking increasingly fragmented!

Hello! We're The London Archives, a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. We look after over 100km of manuscripts, books, drawings, engravings, photos and films spanning 1000 years of London's history! Give us a follow. #archives #history #LondonHistory

And then there is Palantir's £480m contract to run NHS data platform: www.bmj.com/content/383/...

'The Reformation of Salad: Eating and Drinking with Immigrants in Elizabethan London' Very pleased to have an article in the revamped Huguenot Society Journal (formerly Proceedings of the Huguenot Society), now published with Liverpool University Press. doi.org/10.3828/hugu...

Just heard about this excellent mentoring initiative from the Early Modern Scholars of Color Network, in partnership with The Society for Renaissance Studies - more info and sign up links here: www.emsoc.co.uk/mentorship

'Sector leaders expected more than 100 of the UK’s 140-odd universities to be making redundancies by the start of 2025, in what has been described as a “cataclysmic” situation where “everything is on the table”.'

Not sure those outside the university sector in the UK know how bad things have gotten and how much worse they promise to get. So far no indication from the government that they have any interest in halting the collapse.

Celebrated historian and broadcaster David Olusoga will deliver the inaugural National Humanities Lecture! The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging. Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Today's Higher Education redundancies are at Edinburgh University. It's every day now, and sometimes twice a day. There are now 79 universities cutting jobs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Deadline 6 December for Royal Historical Society postgraduate grants to undertake research (£500 or £1,000 per award). royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

Well, yesterday's marking was greatly enlivened by the kittens attempting to help the decorator who is in at the moment. He was an extremely good sport about it, taking many pictures and chatting to les filles. There was a bit of bribery involved when it came to him doing the woodwork

Lots of interesting archive finds for the team this week - we've been to look at some original seventeenth-century wills, held by our project partners The National Archives. We're looking forward to discussing some of these findings at our in-person workshops in a couple of weeks! #EarlyModern

Very glad to see @ihr.bsky.social developing this resource on the value of history, including the BA's & @srsrensoc.bsky.social's statement. The Humanities Summit on 26 June sounds like it will be a great occasion to pool expertise & resources. www.history.ac.uk/news/why-his... #skystorians 🗃️

If you're supervising an early modern MA student keen to undertake a fully-funded History PhD with an expert team, do bring this opportunity to their attention: Global Commodities in Early Modern Wills: A Leverhulme Trust funded PhD Studentship (Exeter University). Deadline 1 May.

Straight-talking wisdom from Professor Mary Beard about the culture wars and the role of the National Trust. #history #marybeard #nationaltrust #culturewars

Up on the leads of Wollaton Hall this morning! The MA project is coming to life! @sarakbarker.bsky.social

The recording of this event from @ihr.bsky.social and Curtis Brown Books is now available online - a real must for anyone thinking of #trade #history #publishing. www.history.ac.uk/whats/ihr-ev...

If you didn't catch our first project newsletter, you can catch up here with our first 'Project Progress' blog. Find out what we’ve been up to since November 2023, and we also look ahead to some exciting activities happening over the next few months: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Essential reading on how to visit an archive: #History 🗃️

Council crisis deepens: "There are currently 35 libraries in the city, plus the flagship Library of Birmingham located in Centenary Square. Under the proposals, 25 would close, with the remaining 11 becoming joint library and neighbourhood advice hubs."

We're looking forward to introducing the Wills project in some talks this month: 📍Plymouth (in-person), 13 Feb, 7pm - tomorrow! 📍@ReadingEMRC (online), 26 Feb 📍@CEMSExeter (in person & online), 28 Feb #EarlyModern #History 📇 Details: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for summer term 2024. Stipend of £100 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! 🗃️ societycultureandbelief.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/o...

Thirteen full time roles to go and the employment of specialist curators to end in a major restructuring as Northampton Museum pays the price for the local authority facing a projected £3.5m overspend. Staff are currently involved in a 30 day consultation regarding the proposals.

A reminder that our very first project blog post is now live: find out about what #EarlyModern wills were like, and how can they be used to examine what objects meant to be people (also features cows!) sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Delighted to announce the upcoming publication of this long awaited edited collection feat. Dries Raeymaekers, Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Ellie Woodacre, myself & more. Will be open access thanks to the Centre for Privacy Studies. Stay tuned for book launch details! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

📢Do you enjoy reading #EarlyModern documents like this? If so you could contribute directly to our project by becoming an Expert Volunteer & transcribing 25 pages of wills to co-create our 'ground truth' data. 📇 Details: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

major new early modern art history resource: <<BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art), a new, open-access online database of representations of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 and 1600 CE>> #earlymodern

London's medieval customs accounts are incredibly rich sources - so rich that even though Stuart Jenks has transcribed them, they're still overwhelming to use! Dr Stephen Gadd and I have been piloting a project @chppc.bsky.social to make them much more easily searchable:

#OTD 1559, Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England. The Tudor monarch would rule for 45 years. But what did the Elizabethan House of Lords looks like? This is the question Dr Paul Hunneyball from our Lords 1558-1603 project asked in this blog: ow.ly/es6b50HnJ6g.

*Early Modern European Diplomacy. A Handbook* exists! An invaluable 800+ page reference book for all those interested in early modern international relations, edited by Lena Oetzel and Dorothée Goetze. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

2023 was a busy year for #HistParl - we wrote over 100 blogs! But what were our most read blogs of 2023? Find out below as we count down our most popular blogs👇 ow.ly/73xZ50QkylU

Still thinking about Nina Wardleworth's amazing inaugural lecture last night, where she talked about how academic precarity has shaped her career, and gave over a section of the time for her UG students to talk about their projects. A good reminder that there's no one "right" way to be an academic.

Long live the 'amateurs'! "Lost Tudor palace found in garden by amateur archeologists" www.theguardian.com/science/2023... #History #Archaeology

Friday 8 December, I am talking about Dutch credit and the Barbados sugar boom at the @ihr.bsky.social Economic and Social History Seminar of the Early Modern World. #Register through the link below to join in person or online!

On Tuesday, Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith will give their @ihr_history Parliaments, Politics and People seminar paper about the women who once operated behind the scenes at the House of Lords... Find out how to attend this hybrid seminar👇 ow.ly/L7bB50Q9nCL

New blog for the Revolutionary Stuart Parliaments 📣 Guest blogger William Poulter discusses how the death of Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (1643) was memorialised decades later during the Restoration of the monarchy👇 ow.ly/Y8si50Q9O7R.

Really great to see this online! This is the product of my research at Oxford under Professor Sarah Mortimer and Dr David Scott. It was brilliant to get stuck into the Civil War again, and to work on Falkland in particular.