10 grants available (up to €300) for travel and expenses to join us in Trento, Italy, 16-18 September, for postgrads and ECRs working on a topic related to 'Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)' deadline 30 April isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta... #earlymodern 🗃️

Please share with any of your students and post-docs folks!

I don't yet have a uni email (working on it), but from today I'm a research fellow at Swansea University working on the medieval and early modern fiefs of Jersey. Please send me Jersey tourist recommendations and any lost court records or copies you may have in your attics.

Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control

Three postdoctoral research positions (35 months each) are available on the project 'Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy' (TRAVEL), working with @toffolosandra.bsky.social at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Apply by 8 May 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModern bit.ly/4djmUPc

Remembering my dear friend Emma on what would have been her birthday yesterday. Nine years now since you left us. Never forgotten.

The latest issue of our #SRSlyGood "Renaissance Studies" is OUT! It's an extra special issue on 'Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print', guest edited by the distinguished duo, Mari-Liisa Varila and Sara Norja. rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...

Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!

📢CFP Deadline Extended! Submissions for the NACBS 2026 call for papers are now due by April 27! You can read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

@pennpress.bsky.social Founders Day 'flash sale' today and tomorrow mailchi.mp/pennpress/fo... @csschmitt.bsky.social @drmishaewen.bsky.social @thehistoriann.bsky.social @drjessecromwell.bsky.social @profjennyshaw.bsky.social @chloeireton.bsky.social @acweimer.bsky.social #earlymodern

Last chance to see! Our current exhibit on 17th century fashion and clothing 'Stitching the Nation' comes to an end on 12 April, so make sure you don't miss it! More details at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/stitc...

One year since this appeared… www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...

24 March - happy (English and Irish) accession day to King James VI & I. #history #Stuarts #otd #Tudors www.routledge.com/James-VI-Bri...

In these difficult times, I am absolutely grateful to receive news about my ALCS distribution. It genuinely means a lot to know that people do read and value the work written by myself but also by others who are in a similar situation to myself.

🎉 2025 Leah Leneman Essay Prize Winner 🎉 We are delighted to announce @historyfinn.bsky.social as the winner of the 2025 Leah Leneman Essay Prize for “In her Tyme”: Temporal-Literacy, Work and Scottish Noblewomen (1630–1710) womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/03/22/2... Congratulations, Finn! 👏

📣 Applications open! Women’s History Scotland Research Bursary Up to £500 is available for Masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians researching women’s and gender history 🗓 Deadline 31 May 2026 Details on how to apply 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Delighted to announce that a 'state of the field' article on royal & court studies which @jspan.bsky.social & I have co-authored has just been published open access! Wonderful to work w/Jonathan to develop this keynote for K&Q into a publication for History! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Do you have published a book or essay that we should include in our “Some Current Publications” section? Please let us know!

Ooh, I've been waiting for someone to publish an article on this! @henryjmiller.bsky.social on 'Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation', including petitioning as a 'technology' and the physicality of gathering subscriptions. #OpenAccess: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

'Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 opened this month at the the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts (MSK), after an earlier run in Washington DC. The exhibition seeks to restore women to one of the most feted periods of art history'.

We are excited to announce the publication of ‘Digitising Death: Benchmarking Genealogical Data and Recovering Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland’. This article examines how benchmarking digital methods can advance historical research by recovering women’s lives from fragmented archives.

Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries for Mid-career Researchers of the British Protestant dissenting traditions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. £3,500 each. #Skystorians

Thank you Reviews in History for this review of Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England! This is an #OpenAccess book by Hannah Jeans, part of our New Historical Perspectives series published with @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org. reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2494/

Just 4 days until my lecture and Q&A with Dr Peter Stiffell for @tudorsdynasty.bsky.social! 🎉 Join us this Sunday at 2pm UK time (10am Eastern) for our 30-minute lectures and Q&A afterwards, all about Mary I and the precedent she set for Elizabeth I 👑 drjohannastrong.ca/2026/03/08/q...

Interested in fifteenth-century Scotland, England, Atlantic voyages, or whether Scottish women had the most beautiful headdresses in the world? Then this new edition of Pedro de Ayala's letter from 1498 could be for you! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese... #skystorians 🗃️

✨OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS✨ UIP and the @theenwsa.bsky.social are pleased to continue the annual competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in the field of women's and gender studies! Prize details here⤵️ www.press.uillinois.edu/books/NWSAPr...

#StPatricksDay is an appropriate time to issue a call for expressions of interest in my latest book project, with working title “Im/migration and the Irish”. This will chart BOTH the experiences of Irish migrants abroad over 1,500 years AND those who have migrated…

*Women’s History Month book giveaway* #ZadieSmith has reshaped contemporary literature with her uncompromising explorations of identity, creativity, and womanhood. Zadie Smith - New perspectives explores the work of one of Britain’s most influential writers. Publishing April 2026!

As the job applications continue, I am enjoying also writing about the Little Company of Mary's spirituality about their celebration of St Patrick's Day in Rome in 1914: 'Several Sister's have visited the different Churches & the Irish College where the Feast is being kept'.☘️☘️☘️☘️

Saint Gertrude of Nivelles and an Augustinian Canoness c. 1525, Unknown Artist. She died on 17 Mar 659 - and so shares the feast with St. Patrick (Art Institute Chicago) Her Life notes that she made #Irish monks especially welcome at the abbey she founded with her mother Itta

Interested in environmental history? The IHR is offering a summer 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). Apply by 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST. More details at: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3.

Thinking of my friends at the University of Kent right now

Two die and 11 seriously ill in meningitis outbreak at University of Kent

A giant whose work has shaped generations of scholarship. No doubt many of us benefit from Habermas’ work and from the contributions of those who respond to it— especially with regard to the “public sphere.”

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

13 Mar 1624: George Abbot Archbishop #Canterbury presents James VI & I with a petition from both Houses of #Parliament promising supply if he made war on Spain #otd (Balliol College Oxford)

The only woman in the 17th century who received a Bishop’s surgeon’s licence was Mistress Isabel Davies in Gravel Lane, Aldgate. In 1663 she receive a license for ‘curing Sore breasts and other infirmities in women’. Lambeth Palace. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern

Currently setting up our new exhibition on #Swift and #GulliversTravels to mark 300 years since its publication. We're particularly happy with this staging of A Modest Proposal (1729), for which thanks to Joan Moynihan.

Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

Hear ye, hear ye! My book is in production! www.routledge.com/Unconventual...

The @scotchurchhist.bsky.social essay prize is open! All entries will be considered for publication in the Society’s journal and the winning author will be awarded £500 This year's deadline is 30 July 2026. Full details here www.scottishchurchhistory.org/prize Please share widely :)

Find it deeply odd that there are a couple of schemes in which I have aged OUT of being considered mid-career in my early 40s (because it's based on time post-PhD). Given how long it takes to get an academic career up & running & how late we retire, mid-career should be... the bulk of your career.

🎉 Book launch! Join Stephen M. Hart as he discusses his new book, The Life of St Rose of Lima (1586-1617). ➡️ University College London - Cruciform B4.04, Lecture Theatre 2 📆 19 March - 6.30pm #skystorians @ucl.ac.uk

Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Happy International Women’s Day! It’s particularly satisfying to find new information on the overlooked or the unloved, such as Jane Seymour, who is usually considered the least interesting of Henry VIII’s wives. My new book on her is out in July #internationalwomensday #janeseymour

Delighted to find in the mail today my hard copy of Sonia Tycko's 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700' -- an outstanding book that warrants a wide readership. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA. I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation! #18thc #17thc #earlymodern onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In 2006 I told the late (great) Prof. Ray Gillespie that I wanted to publish every surviving scrap from the 1766 religious census, by 2016. I missed the 🎯by 10 yrs, but 😃 to report that on the 260th anniv. it's done. Everything, >50k names & population details, now online. @maynoothuniversity.ie