Important essay by @danvitkus.bsky.social “The Weight of this Sad Time”: Presentism, Eco-Politics, and Early Modern Studies | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 1 share.google/BXlDZ1n3JmmJ...

1 week left to apply! Postdoc on history of educational experiences linked to migration of Asian immigrants within East and Southeast #Asia over longue durée + contemporary knowledge dynamics of Asian diasporas in Europe. #migration #DisasterSTS #EconomicMobility #gender www.mpg.de/26445995/one...

kick out the UK billionaire media petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (link in bio) in the wild! The English Bookshop in central Den Haag, the Netherlands (just re-housed in De Passage 11, the upstairs bit of De Vries Van Stockum).

Super excited to have @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social join us at the Ri! Book your tickets* here👇 *big discounts for members, students etc. #histsci #science #scicomm 🧪 🦋

Every so often, it appears, people do indeed need to be reminded that, because the enslavement of people was the foundation of the Roman-era economy, the foundation of the Roman-era economy was the enslavement of people.

Congradulations to @gianamar97.bsky.social on being shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026 for his article in Past & Present No. 268 pastandpresent.org.uk/gianamar-gio...

I'm signed up with Chartwell Speakers! If you’d like to invite me to speak at your organization, give a keynote lecture or a conference presentation, or to arrange a corporate or policy talk, check out my speaker page to learn more. 🧵/1 💙📚 🧪🗃 #politics www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/sure...

We're working with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson to run a new 'Applied History Fellowships' scheme. We are pleased to announce the appointment of two Fellows this month bit.ly/3RjmSOw Fellowships provide recent PhDs with experience of working, with #history, outside HE #Skystorians 1/2

Really delighted that my article '‘Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship' has been shortlisted for this prize! (Also thank you, I guess, to Donald Trump for making it super relevant): tinyurl.com/5235jvy6

So pleased/grateful that my HJ article has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Early Career Article Prize alongside such fantastic pieces from last year!

Honoured that my paper ‘Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park’ published in @jich.bsky.social has been nominated for the @royalhistsoc.org’s Early Career Article Prize. Published open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Feeling very honoured that my @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article has been shortlisted alongside so many other amazing pieces of research! 😊

Really pleased that my @plantperspectives.bsky.social article has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org early career article prize! doi.org/10.3197/WHPP...

Super excited to see my article on this list!! 🤩💃🏿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Release of the 2026 Early Career Article Prize Shortlist follows that, yesterday, for the Society's First Book Prize: bit.ly/4dARJO1 Final winners for both prizes will be announced in July. Congratulations to all 16 shortlisted authors, 2/2

The Society is pleased to publish today the Shortlist of its 2026 Early Career Article Prize: bit.ly/4wEuVoW This year's list includes eight articles published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two winners for this prize will be announced in July #Skystorians 1/2

A history article prize shortlist! Congrats all round. #earlymodern #histsci 🗃

Delighted that my article on early modern global knowledges at the Cape of Good Hope in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize! Flattered to be in such amazing company! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/05/18/r... doi.org/10.1093/past...

Delighted that my article on early modern global knowledges at the Cape of Good Hope in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize! Flattered to be in such amazing company! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2026/05/18/r... doi.org/10.1093/past...

Announcing a new De Gruyter Brill book series - Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures Series Editor: Allison Levy, Brown University brill.com/page/forthco... We welcome your book proposals! Feel free to DM me for more info, or email me at [email protected]

WORKSHOP TODAY 👉 As part of a larger project on a Global Black Atlantic family, Professor Nemata Blyden (University of Virginia) will look at members of the family who settled in Liberia in the 19th century. 🔎 How can we understand their experience if looked at through the lens of marronage?

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...

📣Join us for the 3rd History of Knowledge Conference, "Decentering the History of Knowledge"! The event will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027. 📝A call for papers will follow in Fall 2026. For more information: 1) Register with "[email protected]" 2) Visit: www.uu.nl/en/news/thir....

On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope" by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

I am beginning to see people write like LLMs. There are tics of rhetorical pointing in social and news media slops that are characteristic of these models. I think that this is a deeper problem of human-generated text than we have figured out how to solve, yet.

Vacancy for a fully funded 4-year PhD at @uvahumanities.bsky.social on the key roles played by social science, demography, and nutritional science during the blockades of the First and Second World Wars, especially where they related to food.

Join Environment & Society's @uvahumanities.bsky.social book preview tomorrow at midday in the Bushuis, room E1.01E. Patrick Anthony (Uppsala) will present his forthcoming book, Unearthed: Science and Environment across Mineral Frontiers, with commentary by @mathijsboom.bsky.social Boom (IISG)

We’re building 100,000 voices against mass deportations in Europe. Sign now - and help us get there. Let’s stop this together! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Nearly 30 years after opening the original 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣 album, Oasis stand with War Child once again: ‘Acquiesce (Live from Wembley Stadium, 28 September ’25)’ - bonus 7” single inside the gatefold vinyl of 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣(𝟮) and a hidden track on the double CD. Stream & download Friday: warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

New on advance access: "Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions" by Katlyn Marie Carter (‪@notredame.bsky.social‬) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Join us for today's Environment & Society Research Seminar presentation by Daniel Margocsy on "Deforestation in Indonesia, 1678", with a commentary by Tristan Mostert, at midday in E1.01D at the Bushuis @uvahumanities.bsky.social

'The Crown’s Silence, a book published this week, details how monarchs from Queen Elizabeth I to George IV used the trade in enslaved people to boost crown revenues and defend the British empire.'

Join us for today's Environment & Society Research Seminar presentation by Daniel Margocsy on "Deforestation in Indonesia, 1678", with a commentary by Tristan Mostert, at midday in E1.01D at the Bushuis @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries! Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

From the current issue: “Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic” by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

As much of the US gets ready for a weekend of brutal cold and snow, we recommend brightening your wintry day with this gallery of beautiful images from GEMS AND THE NEW SCIENCE by Michael Bycroft, the first book-length history of gems in early modern science. Bask in the glow: buff.ly/zZGBXy3

Have an unpublished essay on science, medicine, technology, or natural knowledge before 1800, from anywhere in the world? Consider submitting it to the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize by 15 February. Full details here: brill.com/view/journal...

Have an unpublished essay on science, medicine, technology, or natural knowledge before 1800, from anywhere in the world? Consider submitting it to the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize by 15 February. Full details here: brill.com/view/journal...

spreading the news about the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize 2026 Competition! Early Science and Medicine and the Early Sciences Forum of the History of Science Society's prize competition for the best essay...

On advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope" by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @contingent-mag.bsky.social, and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me! The audio version: 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #maps #cartography 1/2

Becca Good, the wife of Renee Good, has released her first public statement since the shooting “We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”

wait, is this the origin of tomacco from The Simpsons? from a 1981 article in the Globe and Mail. could anyone send me a copy of the original? and does anyone know if this claim is serious? the entrepreneur quoted was known for exaggeration, so I'm not sure IPRI actually tried making tomacco.