#onmydesktoday is a big and timely book about European communication by the great Joad Raymond Wren. Exploring a world of #earlymodern newsmongers, translators and postmasters, Joad highlights that news moved and were shared, and that news binds us together. Good news for #skystorians.

Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Happy pub day to The Island of Hermaphrodites, translated by Kathleen P. long. Long offers new audiences a satirical romp through a world of absurdist power—one that feels politically salient today. Access the full text for free online asu.pressbooks.pub/the-island-o...

Little girl wreaks havoc in parents' cabinet. And she's got a pretzel! And a dog! Can't help loving this painting by Sebastian Stosskopf of Strasbourg.

YES! Always very proud about the extraordinary scholarship AS WELL AS the extraordinary collegiality of the @srsrensoc.bsky.social gang. #RenSoc25

Congratulations @craigclunas.bsky.social! So glad you got the grant to support images - it does seem that we have moved away from the movement of a few years ago to make images free for academic books.

Excited to set up tents in Bristol for a week, as @evelynwelch.bsky.social’s wonderful welcome made clear: a fascinating town in the #earlymodern as well as modern period! #RenSoc25

A privilege to introduce Professor Bronwyn Wilson's keynote lecture on 'Mediterranean Itineraries' for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social. A brilliant start to four days of things #Renaissance and #earlymodern in Bristol @bristoluni.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓 Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions. A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... #Renaissance #OpenAccess

And it's out! Open access and free to download. Thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social. Excited to see it out in the world (and sure that despite all the proof reading, I will find typos) @hsmurphy.bsky.social @historyelaine.bsky.social @medievalbadger.bsky.social

Thanks Hester! Am already blown away by dog earrings on p.5!

Sometimes a book comes along that you just know is going to transform how you think about the world: this is one of them @manchesterup.bsky.social

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week. 25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous" 26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy" Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...

It is Insect Week, which seems like a good time to mention a forthcoming book about an important entomologist's art & art-historical significance: Maria Sibylla Merian by Catherine Powell-Warren www.lundhumphries.com/products/mar... @lhartbooks.bsky.social & Getty Pubs, Sept 1, 2025 #womenartists

@medievalbadger.bsky.social - one for you!

At the University of Bologna today for a meeting of the Coimbra group of European Universities. Great talks and a sharing of challenges and perspectives. But best of all...the Rector has a 16thc portrait of Gaspare Tagliacozzi in his office, which features his treatise on rhinoplasty. #earlymodern

And in other news...the rambling rector roses are spectacular this year!

Freelance opportunity: Are you Hampshire-based? A good hands-on administrator, with experience of facilities management or storage of objects? Check out this freelance role helping a growing architectural heritage charity. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Classic headline: “Art History beats finance”! www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

If you have an extra €700,000, you should buy this signed and dated work by Louyse Moillon (1610-1696), painted when she was just 19. The figure is ok, but the fruit - her real specialty - is exquisite www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...

Lecturer in Medieval History of Art University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND415/l...

Amazingly, my book is ready and will be out soon! I am so excited and so grateful to everyone who has made it possible. Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social it will be open access as well as a beautiful paperback. Thanks as well to @hsmurphy.bsky.social @jillburke.bsky.social and many others.

Amazingly, my book is ready and will be out soon! I am so excited and so grateful to everyone who has made it possible. Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social it will be open access as well as a beautiful paperback. Thanks as well to @hsmurphy.bsky.social @jillburke.bsky.social and many others.

Le Colporteur vers 1623 Anonyme France, École de (Musée du Louvre)

Doll, of nursemaid and infant, c. 1676, Dutch (Rijksmuseum)

Congratulations @isabellarosner.bsky.social! We want to see lots more wedding pics please....!

Reminder that Exeter are currently advertising a 1 year post for an #EarlyModern #History lecturer to cover teaching while my colleague and I are on research leave during year 3 of our Leverhulme project:

So glad to see a bit of Bristol on @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social's dining table! Come back soon for Shaun the Sheep!

Fully funded PhD project researching #earlymodern Netherlandish objects at the Museum of the Home - looks like a really interesting project.

Couldn't agree more! Stunning.

The Siena show at the @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social deserves all the praise it is currently receiving. A stunning array of paintings, sculpture, textiles, and gold work, it makes the argument for this small city as the launchpad for a new approach to the visual and material arts in the 1300s.

Two extraordinary horses, a parrot, and a cockatoo, all belonging to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague & painted by Roelant Savery (d. OTD 1639).

A little reminder about the realities of life in the 17th century. Boy picking off Fleas, half length, Cornelis Saftleven, 1626 (Rijksmuseum)

This week we launched the latest of our interactive maps tracking changes in SHAPE provision across the UK. The maps show us what and where students can study and how this has changed in a pivotal decade for UK universities. Explore here: https://buff.ly/3QsxNl1

Be still, my heart!

A stunning day out yesterday at the Bath Fashion Museum stores. They hold an exceptional collection of 17th-century gloves and other embroidered items. You can really follow a shift from metal thread to ribbons and appreciate the meticulous stitches that gave each glove their shape. #earlymodern

Just arrived in the post (had to queue up at the post office depot but it was worth it!)...a privilege to be part of this book which packs in so much information and examples of how you learn from materials and remaking. Congratulations, @sarahabendall.bsky.social and @serenadyer.bsky.social.

Being the Lady of the Manor wasn't all flower arranging and dinner parties for the King. Lady Johanna St.John worked hard as a clinician for her household and community, and left letters and recipes to prove it. #EarlyModern #Medicine #17thC #HistoricaFiction www.elizabethjstjohn.com/updates/wome...

Mother and child at a toy stall. A scene familiar to pretty much everybody. (From Jacob Cats' "Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwe Tijd", first edition published in The Hague: 1632. British Museum)

Drama of a vase of flowers from Elias van den Broeck. Today is his day.

Elias van den Broeck tries some fruit & oysters along with the flowers. Looks good! Lemon peel curled around the wine glass is also a nice touch. Today is his day.

Portrait of a young man, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645 (Rijksmuseum)

In a moment of deep geopolitical divisions city diplomacy is more urgent than ever, especially in global health. Thanks to the @cfr.org team at Think Global Health for the chase to make the case for investing in networked #cityleadership 🤝🌏

4 Feb. 1667 #OTD Alice Thornton's daughter Nally's smallpox improved further and her eyes began to open. #EarlyModern 🗃️ Image: Jan Steen, The Sick Girl (1663), Wikimedia Commons.

Sarah A. Bendall & Serena Dyer's edited volume, 'Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe' it out now! The volume focuses on #embodied knowledge to ask how processes of making illuminate #earlymodern understandings of #material life. 📚🪡✍️ www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Alexandria, Ceuta, Tangiers, Tripoli, c. 1665 Published in Antwerp (British Museum)