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/

I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice? 🧵

Join us on 30 October from 4-6.30pm for a screening of The Black Italian Renaissance followed by a Q&A with Angelica Pesarini (UoToronto). University of Leeds main campus - please see our EventBrite page for full details and to sign up for your free place www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-black-...

Ooh I'm excited that the programme for the University Zone of @lightnightleeds.bsky.social is out. Get 22 and 23 October in the diary for amazing installations and performances. I can't wait to see 'A Midnight Hop', inspired by the bunnies all around campus openup.leeds.ac.uk/event-groupi...

There's a great Researcher Developer role (0.6fte, grade 6) available at White Rose University Consortium, supporting ECRs and PGRs across Yorkshire and Humber whiterose.ac.uk/news/job-opp...

📢 New Seminar Series! We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Furniture history! Are you a postdoctoral researcher who'd like to explore and showcase an outstanding collection of 17th-20thC furniture history @universityofleeds.bsky.social by spending approx. 6 weeks (or longer part-time) in our Libraries? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/bedford-fell...

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

I really enjoyed discussing 'A Pamflyt compiled of cheese', a 400-year-old manuscript by a cheese enthusiast, with @neilbuttery.bsky.social on The British Food Podcast, available on all podcast apps including here (from 4 mins in) open.spotify.com/episode/1We5... @lulgalleries.bsky.social

Une liste de morts de la peste à Zurich en 1564. En plus des quatre mentions d'enfants d'un certain Erhard Trüb, une petite note en marge sur une noble morte à quelques kilomètres de Zurich : "la fuite n'a servi à rien".

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) memorients.com/events/cfp-b... #CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology

So, today's REF2029 Town Hall was on CKU (Contributions to Knowledge & Understanding, including Outputs and Disciplinary Level Statements or DLSs). The recording with slides will be posted on Resources (link below) soon. Here are some preliminary thoughts, starting with the good news. 1/10

Fascinating paper from @ellenwerner.bsky.social on the annotations of two Manchester apothecaries in a collection of books now in Chetham's Library and the ways in which they reflect engagement between reader and book and the impact of reading cultures on local communities #RenSoc25

Has anyone written on the auctioning of goods (especially of the dead) in London in the first half of the seventeenth century? Interested in the work of criers, how estates are sold off etc.

Are you a researcher interested in histories of collecting and 19thC Victorian decorative art? This wonderful short-term fellowship is an opportunity to research the Albert Dawson archive in Cultural Collections and Galleries at the University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy

A term-time Lectureship in Early Modern Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNG264/l...

My current role ends in October: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or as a freelance researcher please do drop me a line! I have over 10 years experience in teaching and a wide practical knowledge of working in archives in the UK and abroad.

Delighted to see this mock up of the front cover of my first book, due to be published later in the Summer with @cambridgeup.bsky.social . It's been several years in the making, and has had input and guidance from so many people - but it nearly exists!

Research Fellow in Global Health History x2- University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE369/r...

Impressed by this #earlymodern bill measuring 105 cm in length, which resembles an exceptionally lengthy supermarket receipt. Table linen merchant Hans van Velroeij supplied dozens of tablecloths and napkins for the wedding of Maria de Sweert and Jan Moretus II in July 1605. #Skystorians #Antwerp

ANNOUNCING 🔔 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - prev. winner of @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social A magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe, coming 1st July 💎 What happens when you see skin differently? @bristoluni.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

CFP: Cemeteries as Part of the Landscape Through the Centuries conference, Prague, 5-6 November 2025. Deadline 31 May. www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/hrbi...

More on what people in England thought about cheese 400 years ago here, drawing on the wonderful 'A pamflyt compiled of Cheese' held by @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...

Next week the Radio 4 Food Programme features the wonderful 'A pamflyt compiled of Cheese' from @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Tune in at 11am on Friday 18 April to find out more about how people assessed the health benefits and risks of cheese 400 years ago and today www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Come and do an MA in Medieval Studies at Leeds and register for free in the International Medieval Congress next year. Two £7000 scholarships available for low-income home students (full and part-time): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/dir-.... Deadline 9th June #medievalsky #scholarships

Whoa! Here's the link to the English version of the database: projects.tuni.fi/viabundus-fi... #MedievalSky

UKRI's budget for 2025-26 confirmed...finally 5 months after spending review, and 1 day before financial year starts As @resprofnews.bsky.social has been reporting, it's less than flat cash (£8.8bn), despite DSIT's R&D budget rising Via @annamckie.bsky.social More details to come

Uh oh! We're having intermittent issues with our collections website which might mean you're having trouble browsing our online catalogue, accessing our services, or booking visits. It also means our Research Centre team are unable to process enquiries at the moment.

Happy birthday Lord B 🥳 Celebrating the brilliant benefactor of the Brotherton Library today! Our building behind Parkinson Tower was funded by local industrialist and philanthropist, Lord Brotherton of Wakefield. @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social [1/3]

We're delighted to announce that the LUCAS-LAHRI Virtual Visiting Research Fellowships are open for application. Our theme is 'Africa's Entanglements in a Global World'. Full details can be found on our webpage. Deadline for applications is 20 May at 12 noon UK time lahri.leeds.ac.uk/lucas-lahri-...

📢Useful resource klaxon!📢 Just stumbled on the English Broadside Ballad Archive costume book by Megan Palmer, useful for dating ballads (or at least suggesting 'not earlier than) and as a general guide to dress from different periods ebba.english.ucsb.edu/page/early-m... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Would you like to join @universityofleeds.bsky.social as Head of Cultural Collections Research Development? Cultural Collections has incredible staff and very rich and diverse holdings from art to coins to medieval manuscripts to feminist zines. Do share and apply! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.

Anyway, as a distraction: calling #Skystorians especially #HistFashion or pottery/art experts to help me identify this fragment of #SeaPottery The stick, ?river, ?bridge feels almost Venetian but the cap is wrong. Puffed sleeve jacket feels 16th 17thC?? Any ideas, interpretations, hints or clues??

The preliminary program for the 2025 #IIIF Annual Conference is now live! Take a peek at the lightning talks, presentations, workshops, and more: iiif.io/event/2025/l... Register here: www.conftool.org/iiif2025/

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

DEADLINE!!! Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal for #EAHMH25 in Berlin by March 10. It's going to be a fantastic conference with keynotes @historyelaine.bsky.social , Projit Mukharji and Birgit Nemec. More information and link to submission site at eahmh25.org #histmed #histSTM

Wonderful opportunity to undertake a 4-year fully funded PhD at UoAmsterdam for a project on Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy working with the fantastic @maartjevg.bsky.social werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

I'm involved in this programme with a project on 'Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars', which is recruiting a Career Development Fellow and funding a PhD candidate in early modern European history – please share widely! I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying #earlymodern

In three weeks we're delighted to be hosting the distinguished Professor of Byzantine Studies, Claudia Rapp, for the annual British Academy Public Lecture. To find out more and register for your free ticket see ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

A beautiful and thoughtful exhibition Blood: Ties and Tensions @thackraymuseum.bsky.social, explores connection, infection and much more. I learned about the US-dominated global plasma trade and The Blood Bag Project - set up by the Leeds-based textile artist Leigh Bowser to encourage blood donation

#earlymodern Job opportunity at the Warburg warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/job-opp...

New exhibition opens today. It's about Blood. 🩸 Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Our partners at @universityofleeds.bsky.social: @hematopolitics.bsky.social. Art by Gemma Wood. Design by Émilie Chen.

NEWS!!! A CFP for our capstone conference, "Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World", King's College London, 15-17 May. A *stellar* roster of confirmed speakers. All expenses paid. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 🗃️ #EarlyModern

Fantastic short radio programme about the Somali village in Bradford's Lister Park in 1904 (Bradford's earliest known Muslim community!), featuring my brilliant Leeds colleague Dr Fozia Bora: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A week ago, I had dinner with a key author of the AI consultation. Not just dinner: I berated them for about 7 hours. In return, they gave me a horrid cough. Which is a fair revenge. Anyway, here's a thread about what I took away from the conversation. These are my inferences, not quotes.

Gorgeous Venetian Book of Hours (Giunta, 1505) on my desk today. A 16thC MS recipe at the back ‘contra peste’ (against the plague) suggests ‘bollo armeno’ (an iron-heavy clay), ‘coralli rossi’ (red coral) & the herbaceous perennial ‘tormentilla’. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Norton.d.183. #Venice