Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work! Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching. I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums

The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...

New #CFP on 'Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World', to be held in June 2026 at the University of Amsterdam Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026 #18thc #skystorians 🗃️

Junior Research Fellowships 2026/27 (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences) University of Oxford - Christ Church www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG873/j... #skystorians 🗃️

Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

Today, Sid and I are attempting a recipe for “roy marmelaede” with quinces from the Antwerp Annunciates’ recipe book (first half 17th century, with some later additions - @kbrbe.bsky.social). Quite curious as to how this will go (1/?) #earlyModern #bookhistory #womenshistory #foodhistory

Such empathy with these huddled beasts on a 10th/11thC whalebone chesspiece, perhaps a rook or a bishop, snuggling up against cold and damp autumn days… www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Portrait of a goldsmith, 1580. By Hans Hoffmann. It's his day today.

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️ We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

I will use any excuse to bring up Dürer's self-portrait again when talking about his drawings.

See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #WorldMentalHealthDay

Happy to learn that USC has declined to join the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.

GET READY FOR FRIDAY! Make plans to get to lovely Bloomsbury if you're in the neighbourhood, or sign up for the zoom link by Thursday evening. (or, if you like to live on the edge, get a picture of a Good Tree ready to bribe me for the clandestine zoom link on Friday) #LowCountries #ArtHistory

Excited to read this new book by Martha Howell!

#Job opportunity Lecturer in early modern history Full time - permanent

Seems like we're getting another influx of new users, so for all those interested in art and art history I'd highly recommend the Bluesky for Art History starter pack created by @joshuajfriedman.com go.bsky.app/NKHmh87

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book launch October 23rd! Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

Congratulations to @judithpollmann.bsky.social on the Spinoza Prize!

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

What should I read first by László Krasznahorkai?

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?' Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England) manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills. So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions. Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately: 1/2

Exceptionnaly a #asiteoftheweek in Dutch. The Folktale Database of the Low Countries at the Meertens Institute contains over 100,000 stories from the past and present. All genres are represented: fairy tales, sagas, legends, riddles, jokes, urban myths and the like.

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

Full program for 2025-6 for the IHR Low Countries Seminar. All meetings both in person and online. To register for any session, go to www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

The Manchester attack on a synagogue has been enabled weekly, daily, since October 7th by the actions and attitudes of the British government in allowing antisemitism to flourish in the UK. Jews being arrested for observing hate marches in case they offend those calling for their death says it all.

Job at UC-Berkeley: Asst. Prof. in Global History of Technology, apps due 10/10 (so soon). #history #histSTM #histsci #histphilsci aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065

welcome @drlaurakounine.bsky.social, historian of early modern german witches, emotions, subjectivity and much else to blue sky! 🗃️

PROGRAMME! Excited to be welcoming Alexander Marr, Dirk van Miert, and @ebenbow.bsky.social this term -- and David Hopkin, Jeroen Puttevils, Feike Dietz, Sam Geens, Valika Smeulders, and Gloria Moorman in Spring. All welcome @ihr.bsky.social or zoom! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Institute of Historical Research Low Countries Seminar program for this autumn! All seminars 5:30 Fridays, IHR and online.

We're accepting applications for our fall online course, A Bibliographical Introduction to the Hand-Press Period. The course, taught by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, runs Sundays, 10/19-12/14. Application deadline is Fri 10/10. More at rarebookschool.org/fall-online-course-thinking-bibliographically

Printed copies of Everlasting Flowers are gorgeous! But the digital version is #openaccess for anyone to read: brill.com/display/titl.... A book presentation takes place at the KB in The Hague on 3 December. You are warmly invited! To register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D... Please share!

🚨Don't miss our workshop "Political Economies of Mining in the Early Modern World" @univie.ac.at organised by @eclaaire.bsky.social and @gbba.bsky.social. 📅 25–26 September 2025 !Please register! 📃 Program & info: bit.ly/4pslQfs #Scarce #histsci #histeco #mining

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Philipp von Pfalz-Neuburg. Not sure he wants to know you. By Hans Baldung Grien, whose day was today.

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

Very happy to announce that the @jhokjournal.bsky.social special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World," edited by Vera Keller, Kelly Whitmer, and me, is starting to be published: the first three articles are here, the rest to follow. journalhistoryknowledge.org/Knowledge_an...

📚 I cannot keep up with all the interesting books being published lately. Here's another one: "Cultivating & Communicating Natural & Technical Knowledge around 1800. Devotees of Science." By Nikolaj Bijleveld, Arjen Dijkstra, & Samuel Gessner. tinyurl.com/4kr2tssn #HistSci #HistSTM #HistTech 🗃️

Marketplace in Bergen op Zoom, 1590, by Abel Grimmer. Truly one of best early modern cityscapes, with many wonderful incidental details showing urban life in my youth!

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ? Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia 📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...