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...

For those interested in writers' lives (and particularly their tribulations), the Royal Literary Fund has now made available an index covering over 3,600 case files for authors who first applied between 1790 and 1939, based on my catalogue for the British Library: www.rlfarchive.org.uk.

Hugely long shot! If anyone happens to be at the Archives Nationales (Marais site) this week & would do me the enormous favour of taking a photo of a document, please let me know! 🤓😘

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

The resource that I've been working on for the past year has recently been released. It gathers the lost debates of the Irish Parliament from 1776-1801 - a period of deep upheaval in Ireland and the Atlantic world. Please explore at: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/i...

when your boss throws a pizza party and it's the fourth century

A couple of present and former ANU Archaeology students have been working to develop a board game inspired by the Deep Past called Cultivaria. They've (quite literally) just launched their kickstarter and I know a few of you love games so... #archaeogaming 🏺

A good day to tell everyone about one of my favorite websites: the Commercial Pattern Archive: copa.apps.uri.edu Vintage patterns all the way back to 1857, for personal research and reference.

AUP was sold by UvA back in 2019 so this is simply a purchase transaction between two commercial companies. If you have missed all this detail then I’d point you at this excellent article by Guy Geltner: www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019...

I'm curating a collection of good reads on the horrors of AI that I can assign to students. So far I've got Teen Vogue on the environment, and the @guinz.bsky.social Substack piece. Any other recs? Needs to be short so that students will actually read it.

Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access! Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians

Amsterdam University Press is sending out letters today notifying series editors and authors that they have been taken over – or shall we say: annexed? – by Taylor & Francis. Not a good day. The evil empire of academic publishing is growing.

Just got an email from Amsterdam uni press saying it (and thus my book) has been acquired by Taylor & Francis?? I’m confused, has it been acquired or is T&R just the distributor now? It seems like all the new editorial contacts are not AUP…

side effect of AI-in-higher-ed: having to spend my ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE googling footnotes for articles that I can't believe I missed off my reading lists only to discover that they aren't, in fact, real articles

From Arts & Crafts patterns to medieval archaeology. These biscuits recreate stained glass fragments found a few years ago in the triforium of Westminster Abbey.