So excited about this - my book on ghosts will be published with this series in the not-too-distant future. Such a fabulous team to be working with!

Alice! Top work @hagenilda.bsky.social @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social @sharonhoward.bsky.social et al! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

After a mere seven years in the making, The Cultural History of Magic is finally here!!

Historians with research interests in magic and witchcraft are especially encouraged to apply for this position covering Dr Andrew Sneddon for 12 months www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU353/l...

Just over two weeks to go to our ghosts 👻 in Britain and Ireland, 1500-1950 conference in Mary Immaculate College Limerick! Places available - programme and registration at www.mic.ul.ie/Ghosts-Confe...

Time is running out to register for our Ghosts in Britain and Ireland Conference! WHEN: 26-27 June WHERE: University of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick We have an amazing line up - see the program and register here! www.eventbrite.ie/e/ghosts-in-...

Registration is now open for our ghost conference at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick this June! If you'd like to come along and listen to our wonderful line up of talks please sign up below - note that we are an in-person only event. www.eventbrite.ie/e/ghosts-in-...

Congratulations to all of the Thornton's Books team. I loved being part of this wonderful and fascinating project and discovering the 17th-century life wrintings of Alice Thornton. #writers #authors I highly recommend delving into this fantastic free resource.

🌟 We are delighted to announce the Early Modern Circle seminar programme for 2025 🌟 First in the line-up is the fabulous Dr Sarah Bendall (@sarahabendall.bsky.social) presenting research on her female milliners in 17th ce London 👒🎩 Students and researchers in Melbourne all welcome to attend!

My book on interracial marriage in the Jim Crow South is out January 28! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathr...

Happy New Year fellow ghost enthusiasts! Only 8 days left to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference in Limerick this June. 🏃‍♂️ 👻

🗃️ #C19th #Genealogy #LocalHistory A reminder that if you need an excel calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, I have one you can download and use freely. Please share… chartistancestors.blog/2023/07/12/n...

Worth sharing this starter pack again for all the Taphophiles and anyone interested in Graveyards, memorialisation or funerary practices #TaphophileTuesday #MementoMori #12DaysofGraves #Skystorians #EarlyModern go.bsky.app/KGLpmwp

It’s almost here!! Get your pre orders in now. My volume has eight wonderful essays including one from the late Jim Sharpe.

We're loving seeing the abstracts coming in for our ghost conference in June next year! Just three weeks left to get your abstracts in. 👻

Come and work on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project about the history of ‘hurt feelings’ & the law with @katieebarclay.bsky.social Alice Krzanich and me! We’re looking for a historian of medicine (or similar) for a 4 yr postdoctoral research fellow position elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Come join us in Melbourne!

Delighted to be part of this forum on emotions and imagination. My piece on ghosts and the spectral imagination is out now and open access. brill.com/view/journal...

Come join us, we advocate for history and historians and your membership fee allows us to continue to do that (and gives you opportunities for networking, funding, discounts, events, general kudos etc 😜) 🗃️

Don't forget to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference! We will have two keynotes: Prof. Sasha Handley (Manchester) and Dr. Shane McCorristine (Newcastle). It's going to be spooktacular!

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Are you a PhD student at a UK/Irish uni, or are you within 3 yrs of award? Did you publish your first academic journal article this year (2024)? Please consider applying for the RHS Early Career Article Prize. Nominations open Mon 2 Dec 24 and close Fri 31 Jan 25: royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal... 🗃️

How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half. @camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️ www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...

100 new followers in 12 hours! What just happened??

Ghost Conference Alert!! 👻 We are organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I am now a permanent lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne. I'm still in a bit of shock and feeling very lucky, very grateful, and oh so happy.

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!