Excited to start today in my new role as Collections and Archives Manager at @rialibrary.bsky.social! Looking forward to working with my colleagues and fun projects! 🤗📖🎉

Our extraordinary winter offer is live - get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage! Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25 Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ #booksale #universitypress

Just over a week to go until the first of our autumn online lecture series; 4 top historians on aspects of the 1600s, including a forgotten general, a dashing cavalier, slavery in 1600s art & Cromwell in the movies. Talks are recorded for ticket holders! cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @witchykallestrup.bsky.social about The Construction of #Witchcraft in #EarlyModern #Denmark @routledgebooks.bsky.social #skystorians This is how you write a book and take an interview! #BookSky📚💙 newbooksnetwork.com/the-construc...

New podcast episode available, hosted by @susannah-lw.bsky.social who interviews Lorinda Cramer. They discuss Queen Charlotte's relationship with Britain's global empire, and the queen's deep interest in the flora and fauna of the colonies. see also: www.routledge.com/Queens-Queen...

1 Nov 1584: William Bedell the future Bishop of Kilmore & translator of the Old Testament to #Gaelic #Gaeilge admitted to Emmanuel College #Cambridge #otd

Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University and Convenor for Religious of Britain, 1500-1800 IHR Seminar. Early modern British historian. My publications include Catholics during the English Revolution t.co/x2ReoS7inS and Later Stuart Queens link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

oday marks my last day as the Little Company of Mary Research Associate at @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social. . It has been a three years that I will not forget. As a precarious early career researcher, I never thought that I would have the opportunity to be 1/

Do you have an essay that contribute to our understanding of Anglophone literature/history/culture,1660-1700 or explores how the Restoration impacts other periods, including our current moment? We encourage submissions from scholars at any career stage, with or without university affiliation.

Enjoying this free live online mapping course offered by the IHR in preparation for mapping the movement of my LCM sisters for book manuscript.

Bookpeople! Does anyone know where I can buy uncut printed sheets to teach basic imposition and format (rather than the DIY sheets I typically print off on 8.5x11)? The Rare Book School's bibliographic format kits appear to be out of stock.

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26! Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions! 📆Key dates: - Abstracts due on 28th November - Notifications on 19th December - 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb (1/3)

📢 Call for Contributions 📢 The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”

Very shortly, my current role ends: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or any freelance research work done please do drop me a message. I have over a decade's experience in teaching and in archival research.

CfP📢"Manuscript Practices and the Making of Exile Communities in the Early Modern Period", Institutes of Philosophy and History, Czech Academy of Sciences 📆15–16 April 2026 |🌍Prague ⏰Application deadline: 30 October 2025 #Earlymodern @czechacademy.bsky.social

What was a bear worth in Elizabethan England? Well, thanks to a deed held at The National Archives [TNA C 146/8581], we at least know a few specifics, like Nan, the old she bear, valued at 30s in 1590. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Just your periodic reminder that there is an early modern pub night once a month for PhDs and ECRs and anyone else who'd like to join in London. If you'd like to be added to the mailing list please DM me.

Very shortly, my current role ends: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or any freelance research work done please do drop me a message. I have over a decade's experience in teaching and in archival research.

Tonight, 9pm on BBC Scotland & Monday 20/10, 9pm on BBC Two: ‘The Secret Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots’. Featuring some lovely shots of @selwyn1882.bsky.social and a word or two from me about my friends George, Norbert and Satoshi’s phenomenal discovery. #StuartSaturday #earlymodern

A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500) The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this #Romanticism www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

Rejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself). Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:

A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping.... 🗃️

Arrived in Durham for final few days as research fellow.

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v #Skystorians

We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

In our first session of the year we will hear from Elizabeth Norton, speaking about Jane Seymour. Monday at 4:30, Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome.

'So, what do you actually do?' We get asked this question a lot. Now, we're going to try and answer it in this free online talk about how archives work, and what we actually do! Secure your spot by emailing us at [email protected] Head to histfestbucks.co.uk for more information.

I recently finished reading Mayu Fujikawa’s new exceptional book for an upcoming review. She expertly analyzes a wide variety of visual and material sources to reconstruct and decode the diverse representations of Japanese embassies in premodern Europe.

'The union said new data reveals a “worrying escalation” in the rate of job losses since March this year, when UCU said there had been around 5,000 proposed job cuts.'

Don't miss this year's Holden Lecture by Prof Jason Peacey at Senate House Library, University of London, 30 October at 6PM. It's inspired by Senate House Library's Spineless Wonders Exhibition. 1/2 @uclhistory.bsky.social

I’m no Tudor nerd but this is a biggie. Of course note the ‘public’ - scholars have undoubtedly engaged with it for a long time. But this is the sort of stuff that really should be easily accessible, so it’s good news.

This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v #Skystorians

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...

RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants. Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Symposium CFP on the topic of 'Showtime’s The Tudors: A Twenty-Year Retrospective'. Send abstracts of 150 words and a brief bio to both Bill Robison ([email protected]) and Valerie Schutte ([email protected]) by 1 February 2026.

30 Sept 1515: Margaret Tudor Queen of #Scots & widow of James IV flees to #England otd (NPG) She was the mother of James V, sister of Henry VIII. #TudorStuart

Position still stands so please do let me know if you or anyone needs a temporary tutor or freelance researcher after October.

'History and Archives in Practice, 2026': call for participation now open bit.ly/4pITZrs HAP26 takes place @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social on the theme of 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives & Historical Research'. With @ihr.bsky.social & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Recently I conducted a survey of Catholic religious archives in Ireland and wrote a report for the Association of Leaders of Religious and Missionaries in Ireland (AMRI). Recently the report I submitted was published and accessible at this link www.amri.ie/wp-content/u...

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

OPPORTUNITY: applications are open for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies

'Counting the Stakes: A Reassessment of Vlad III Dracula': new in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/46iJfIU In this new article, Dénes Harai reconsiders the victims of 'Vlad the Impaler' (c.1431-76), the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula #Skystorians 1/2

22 Sept 1633: Bishop Willam Bedell ordains his co-translator of the Bible to #Gaeilge #Irish that is Muircheartach Ó Cionga [or Murtagh King in English] #otd Later, in a case involving his own son, Ó Cionga would be accused of conforming just for an income.

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

WSG member Karen Hearn is taking part in the George Villiers Study Day at Melton Carnegie Museum this Thursday 18 September. She will be one of five leading authors & academics discussing the eventful life & portraiture of the 1st Duke of Buckingham. leicestershirecollections.org.uk/villiers-rev...

My current role ends in October: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or as a freelance researcher please do drop me a line! I have over 10 years experience in teaching and a wide practical knowledge of working in archives in the UK and abroad.

New article! Stefan G. Holz on 'Innovative Accounting at the Exchequer and Wardrobe, c.1300: The Jornalia Bills, Books and Rolls under Edward I and Edward II' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #medieval