Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative. The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... Please share widely

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

Calling all early modern Anglo-Iberianists and folks working on race/coloniality. Please consider enrolling in our SAA ‘26 seminar in Denver. It’s going to be a fascinating convo. To enroll visit shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

The seeds of plantations’ easy transition from “house of horrors” to luxury spas & sites for celebration of white reproduction were planted from the beginning through a phenomenon I call “plantation aesthetics” boingboing.net/2025/05/21/a...

Monstrous fish in Suffolk! "A most true and marvelous strange wonder" (1568) described by Timothy Granger. archive.org/details/bim_...

16th-century paintings rediscovered in the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in the tiny Mexican town of Santa María Huiramangaro, Michoacán news.artnet.com/art-world/la... #earlymodern

The exhibit hall at NYPL is 🔥

Hello historians! I would like to mention that I have this initiative called the Iberian Colonial Repository, where I am gathering primary sources from archives that are not available online. If you have sources about colonial LatAm from previous projects collecting digital dust, please DM me

Not quite sure why I’ve had a surge of followers on here today, but thank you. ☺️ May be time to remind people that Epistolary Courtiership is now available (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistol...) Use the code NEW30 for 30% discount. @EdinburghUP

📢 Job Alert 📢 Join my Department of History at #UCLA! We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Early Modern European History. ⏰ Next review date: Nov 1, 2024, 11:59 PM. Apply by this date for full consideration. Final date: Jan 1, 2025, 11:59 PM. Apply here 👇 : recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09743

Collections of accessible #EarlyModern primary sources for dissertations and other research🗃️ ... - @sharonhoward.bsky.social's Early Modern Resources: earlymodernweb.org/resources/in... - @onslies.bsky.social's Early Modern Source Editions: liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/e... 🧵1/2

If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.

Just advertised: another 3-year postdoc on STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475-1700. I'm looking for a digital humanities researcher with strong skills in computational text analysis and/or stylometry. Deadline: 1 May. Please share with suitably qualified ECRs!

#onmydesktoday: a study into #earlymodern geography, European rivalries around 1600, and #globalhistory. For #bookhistory: A book about a book, namely Richard Hakluyt’s 2000 pages compilation of geographic and mercantile documents, full of maps, textual entanglements, and voyages. A 600 pages story!

Can anyone recommend a good biography of Miguel de Cervantes? I'm looking for his life story, not an analysis of his writings. #earlymodern

It's that time of year again! We're collecting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters published in 2023 by historians working off the tenure track. Lists will be published the week after US Thanksgiving. Use the form to submit your work--or that of a friend! 🗃️

SHAFR historians, check your email! The Council on Foreign Relations has pledged to contribute $5,000 to SHAFR's grad student travel fund if 30% of SHAFR members complete the CFR's survey on historic foreign policy decisions. Just takes a few minutes!

Salem State is hiring an OER librarian! I was a founder of the Viking OER and Textbook Affordability Initiative and our cost savings were millions. This is a great opportunity and it makes a huge difference in students’ lives. careers-salemstate.icims.com/jobs/2953/op...

JOBS: Come work with us at University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries! Director, Science & Engineering Libraries and Research Initiatives Job Opening ID 247980 bit.ly/3EDsDNa Lead Collections Manager, Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation Job Opening ID 247965 bit.ly/44QvixN

Hi all! Happy to be here. In case you don’t know me I write about early modern England and Spain, empire and colonialism in literature and drama.

I'm so pleased to be able to share a cover for my forthcoming poetry book, *Sailing without Ahab* - plus a few notes on the wayward origins of this strange project! stevementz.com/sailing-with...