How long is her neck? Think about it. Young woman (& her ruff) painted in 1630 by Michiel van Mierevelt.

A man, his tulip, its bulb, his shells, and oh yes, his long-suffering wife. Priorities! Painted by Michiel van Mierevelt.

Postodoc position open at UCLA on European early modern art and ecological questions ! https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10988 Project: https://www.makinggreenworlds.net/

JOB: early modern global history jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Wild strawberries in a wan-li bowl, 1704. By Adriaen Coorte, wonderfully still painter of lifes.

Drowsy dog, 1650, by Gerrit Dou. Today was his day.

Just published by Brill. A long-awaited, important work on reformation, revolt and the material culture of religion in the Low Countries by a distinguished scholar. #reformationinthelowcountries

#jobopportunities #earlymodern at Fondazione Bruno Kessler #Trento 3 Postdoctoral Researchers in the field of Early Modern History jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...

#earlymodern #art #French #C18th Fantastic research opportunity: Burlington Magazine Scholarship | French 18th-Century Art enfilade18thc.com/2026/03/24/b...

Spanish iris, morning glory, cherries. Promises of spring (it's coming, truly!) from Georg Flegel, whose day is today.

'Courtesy of the Trust, a bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis.' #Skystorians

It's Friday! You made it through the week. Go ahead...take an interlinear eel. You deserve it. 🗃️🧪

NEW ESSAY — “Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History” — In early modern Europe, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief that they were made of glass. Tamara Sanderson explores: publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-a...

At the #ETH Zurich! #histsci #histSTEM

Congratulations to Lyndal Roper for winning the Holberg Prize! holbergprize.org/laureates/ho...

Absolute DREAM of a PhD position! Four years getting lost in the Plantin Press 🤩 #BookHistory #EarlyModern #Skystorians

📣 New internship 📣 An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO). Applications close 1 April 2026. For more details, please see: shorturl.at/pdO1r #18thcentury #eighteenthcentury

I've put online a #c18th side project on Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies that uses data extraction for mapping & network analysis, exploring questions of urban history, genre and print culture, geography, and social worlds across editions: harrisslist.prisms.digital #HarrissList #DH #WIP

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer... #medievalsky

Friday 13 March 5:30 pm London time Sam Geens (Antwerp) will be speaking to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries.” In person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This Friday at noon: come hear Kate Norberg speak on 18th-century Parisian brothels at the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute’s Europe seminar. No need to register. calendar.usc.edu/event/emsi-e...

Still life minimalism: one single striped tulip in a glass vase, 1625, by Balthasar van der Ast of Middleburg. It's his day today.

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.' www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

📣Interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in the history of STM? Wishing to apply to our Hans Rausing Scholarship? Then this webinar is for you! Pursuing a research degree in the history of STM Thursday 12 March 17.00-18.00 (GMT) Register via Eventbrite ⬇️ #histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm

CFP for the SCS conference in Chicago in October. Come join the most collegial gathering of early modernists that I know. #earlymodern 🗃️ sixteenthcentury.org/call-for-pro...

BREAKING: Trump has nominated Bradford P. Wilson, of the conservative, anti-LGBTQ+ and Opus Dei-tied Witherspoon Institute and the charter school organization Great Hearts Institute (and formerly Exec Director of Princeton's James Madison Program) to be Archivist of the United States. 🧵

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting. Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

For all the @warburginstitute.bsky.social fans out there, this summer the Renaissance Book returns to London Rare Books School #LRBS 📚📖👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/book-renaiss...

Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Erg blij met dit mooie interview door @nrc.nl over mijn onderzoek naar Galileo. En voor wie na afloop meer wil lezen over roddels, roem, en reputatie(schade): Galileo's Fame is verkrijgbaar bij de betere boekhandel en natuurlijk via @upittpress.bsky.social

Excited to see Maurits den Hollander’s Court, Credit, and Capital in print with Studies in Legal History at CUP. Court, Credit, and Capital uncovers how Amsterdam’s 17th-century insolvency court transformed insolvency law—from punishment to rehabilitation 1/3

As promised to his is my list of my favorite restaurants/bars in downtown SF (including Chinatown and North Beach) that won't break the bank for #rensa26. #earlymodern

FRIDAY FEB 13: Jeroen Puttevils on “Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries.” 5:30 pm London time, IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

FRIDAY FEB 13: Jeroen Puttevils on “Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries.” 5:30 pm London time, IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

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[STUDY] Our Hans Rausing Scholarship fully funds Home and International students to study the history of science and technology at MA and PhD level. Contact a prospective supervisor ➡️ tinyurl.com/4ftpvrcj tinyurl.com/m4u52ech @kingshistory.bsky.social #histsci #histtech #histstm

How better to put off bad luck on Friday the 13th 😱 than by discussing all things future-thinking with @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social? Friday, 13 FEB, 17:30. Join us @ihr.bsky.social, or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

FRIDAY FEB 13: Jeroen Puttevils on “Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries.” 5:30 pm London time, IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

All going well w winter weather, etc., next week I'll be presenting new research at the Huntington: some material #maritimehistory that inverts our view of European-Asian trade. If you'd like to attend in person on Feb. 6, rsvp by tomorrow! calendar.usc.edu/event/emsi-e... #18c

JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...

JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

Hear all about lace-makers @ihr.bsky.social on 30 January! We'll hear from David Hopkin ( @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) about "Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion" Everybody welcome, sign up for the zoom link or join us in Bloomsbury! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

FRIDAY 30 JAN! David Hopkin (Oxford) will speak on “Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar 5 pm London time. In person (IHR Wolfson Rm 2) and online. To register click here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A nice seminar organized in Venice/online - it remains difficult to discuss about mechanization and mechanical philosophy in the early modern period, and perhaps it is no more possible to do it with Descartes/Cartesian philo, but this is a great lineup of scholars #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo