The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025. www.rsa.org/general/cust...

One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Applications for the Caird Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich are now open - www.rmg.co.uk/collections/... It looks like a great opportunity to work on a fantastic collection and collaborate with some brilliant staff.

Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!

Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians

Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern

The great thing about working on early modern academia is you never know if the archive will a) overturn everything we thought we knew about early modern philosophy or b) be nothing but complaints about low pay

Speaking of new books, I’m so excited to get my hands on Erin Griffey’s new book, FACING DECAY: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe. I’ve heard Erin give talks about her research and it is truly fascinating!! www.psupress.org/books/titles...

Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research. So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again? (It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)

My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee! www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...

Timeline cleanse! The @rijksmuseum.bsky.social has put out a banger of a voyage round Petronella Oortman's dollshouse. Not to be missed. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/dollshouse

🚨 Job alert: Two 2-year post doctor fellowships in history at UNSW Sydney. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Our next Digital Seminar Series seminar is TOMORROW at 6pm UK time. Join Julia Hamilton’s talk on ‘All that’s Rich’: The Intended Meanings of Luxury Goods in Stuart Interiors. To attend, you must register before TONIGHT via the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-octobe...

#JobFairy because I’ve not seen this come up on the usual international job sites & the deadline’s quite soon #HistSTM -unclear if it will sponsor overseas applicants. (Let us know if you find out) 🗃️

#SkyStorians, question: are there small pots of money out there for non-affiliated historians to apply to to support their research project? Most of what I can find are full postdocs or small grants for people in a post to buy them out a bit. With jobs going, some more of those funds would be good?

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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!

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.

Postdoc job in fashion just published at my department! Talk to Tommy about it @tommytse.bsky.social

Calling #earlymodern and historians of religion! I'm looking for work on food, eating and fasting among religious radicals around 1700. I've found some work on Jansenists and Pietists, but would love to know more about all the other groups out there. Very grateful for any ideas! #foodhistory

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Proofs are here!! 🖋️📚 @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social

Is the abundance of East Asian lacquers, Indian textiles, and chinoiserie furnishings the product of a woman's taste? Or something else? A joint enterprise between a politically powerful couple in a court marked by colonial/global ambition? I lean towards the latter.

Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance. muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...

Very much enjoyed this blog and recommended it to volunteers on the KTP: sarahabendall.com/2020/04/03/t...

The Kirkwall Tailors Project begins!

Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com #medievalsky #skystorians

A few years ago I recreated a pair of 1780s stays which we suspected were used for pregnancy. Well, in true dedication to embodied research (& a handy way to bypass ethics application‼️) I’ve been trialling them during my own pregnancy. Initial thoughts in this video: youtube.com/shorts/4NGwF...

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

Very excited to have received my copy of Breeze Barrington’s new book “The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court"! www.breezebarrington.com/the-graces Bloomsbury Publishing UK, 2025

Fantastic and really interesting results. Implications for how people moved around, trade networks, cosmopolitan nature of settlements here in the uk in the Early Middle Ages. Wow wow wow 🏺

We’ve long known Samuel Pepys was a sleazebag, but Guy de la Bedoyere’s new edition of his journal reveals it was way worse than that — he was a relentless sexual predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Seminar: Wonder, Mourning, and Pious Materiality – Albrecht Dürer’s 1503 Record of Blood Rain #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

@uchicagopress.bsky.social 75% of all ebooks with University of Chicago Press until 17 August - use code EBOOK75 press.uchicago.edu/index.html

#MedievalSky #EarlyModern If you're working on any aspect of the life-cycle (eg birth, marriage, baptism, leaving home, death, childbearing, etc) and want to present at the Life Cycles Seminar at IHR I'd be keen to hear from you! Echo chambers are never good, so it's always worth casting the net.

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The next seminar in the Early Modern Circle is on Tuesday 19 August at 6pm at UniMelb ✨ Professor Timothy McCall from Villanova University will be presenting on the topic ‘Fighting for Anghiari’s Standards: Leonardo da Vinci and the Material Culture of War’ ⚔️ We hope to see you there!

Issue 42.1 is in press! Cosimo I de' Medici graces the cover in full armour, giving some side eye. This is an open issue so there are great articles on a range of topics. Follow the link for the TOC and book reviews. We'll feature each article over the coming month. www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...

Star-studded cast at the Masculinities, Fashion and Art symposium at University of Melbourne today - @melissabellanta.bsky.social @sarahabendall.bsky.social Peter McNeil and John Gagne with Louise Voll Box from the Johnston Collection. Great event.

📖I'm having an online book launch with @ewoodacre.bsky.social and @srsrensoc.bsky.social for my @royalhistsoc.org Camden Edition of 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' (out 8 Aug). 🗓️10 Sept 2025 ⏰17.00BST/12.00EDT/18.00CEST Register here: shorturl.at/Z6zfN Please join us!

I might shamelessly steal this assessment idea, it sounds fantastic.

Can report that I have entries for every play by Shakespeare (and many others besides) & at least one entry for every letter of the alphabet😎(xylographic printing; yard; Yarington, Robert; Zeuxis; Ziegler, Georgianna) & still within 3-5% of total page length. Now for some refinements & formatting

Check out my short article in the June issue of BBC History exploring how 17th-century women found out about new plants growing overseas 🌺🌷🌻 pocketmags.com/bbc-history-...

(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2

Job at Victoria University in Melbourne! The Senior Lecturer in Arts & Humanities within the Bachelor of Arts program, focusing upon Gender Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, while also considering other disciplines. www.seek.com.au/job/85535627...

Going to be co-editing a book series for Boydell&Brewer on "The Medieval Urban World." Open to proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, and/or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, and/or Islamic world. For more info, plz email [email protected]. Happy to hear from first-time authors.

Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

20-30% off Shaping Femininity and other great fashion history books until 20 July on the @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social website! 📚 www.bloomsbury.com/au/shaping-f...