Come listen to me talk about religious certificates next week! Featuring a fun mix of stranger churches’, recusant, and Church of England approaches to religious paperwork.

bloody hell i see Tudor/Stuart seminar at the IHR have David Starkey on their line up for a conference.... if I needed a reminder of why I unsubscribed from that mailing list...! lol!

📢 ICYMI: in our new blog post Laura Sangha talks about her collaboration with a musician to explore wills, history and creative approaches 👇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️

This next week! Join Professor Lucy Noakes for her talk 'War and Peace: Mass Observers and the end of the war in Europe, May 1945' & Yves Fradier, Director of Survey and Methods (@veriangroup.com) for his talk 'Living through war: Insights from displaced Ukrainians'. 🗃️

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

the ol' hyper-focus kicked in today and i MANAGED TO WRITE SOME RESEARCHY WORDS. be proud of me folks, be proud.

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

How would this ridiculous process even be any quicker?! Wtf would copilot even be doing that would save you time after you have summarised the essay and then told it which of the criteria were met and to what percentage. Absolute garbage - @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social do better.

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...

lol tube strikes AND there's a tree that has just fallen across both the overground train lines to ours so let's hope that has cleared before i have to be in town tomo 🤣

ok gang - how many different hands would we say are here? could this all be the same one? #paleography #earlymodern #manuscripts #yesiamstilldoingtheresearchforatalkineedtogiveonwednesday

Myself and the amazing @lauracforster.bsky.social are doing a joint event to launch our books in York. Come to learn about Liverpool, the aftershocks of the Paris Commune and the new kinds of histories our present crisis demands! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Me with a baby: the idea of a "secret vegetable" pasta sauce is pointless because they're not actually learning to eat each of those vegetables Me with a three-year-old: if I have to sit by his bedside and drop green beans into his mouth as he sleeps so help me god I will

Timeline cleanse

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern

"I hope this is one piece of the mosaic of evidence to change policies and exert pressure on Israel." International Association of Genocide Scholars' Tim Williams speaks to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the resolution that genocide is happening in Gaza. Read and watch:

hey #bookhistory #earlymodern folks - am looking for anything i can read on the circulation of title pages as advertisements for books ahead of their publication? am particularly interested in english context - ty!

and just so we are clear I have spent the last 1.5 days agonising over these 1000 words, rather than just getting on with the rest of the thing i need to write...

has taken me all day to write 1000 terrible words, folks! just in case this will help anyone else feel better about themselves! 😂

I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.

“Israel is able to kill Palestinian journalists with impunity not just because of the unconditional military support it receives from the US, but also the failure of many western media organizations and journalists to stand up for their Palestinian colleagues” — my oped @theguardian.com

I would be happy to chat privately with any ECRs (esp but not only trans ECRs) who are weighing whether/how to engage with this - being an ECR on the job market is a vulnerable time even without All This and you’re not alone!

If you are a trans academic, or an academic who feels you cannot apply for these fellowships because they are trans-exclusionary, you should consider writing to Newnham College to let them know.

"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter. To insist, against all odds, that Gaza still thinks, still questions, still creates."

back at work, and i have SO MANY EMAILS. SO MANY. THE MANYEST.

out of office is on 👌🏼

IHR Workshop for new history research students - 8 Oct 2025. Learn about the work of the IHR while meeting our friendly staff to learn how we can assist you as a research student in history and/or history-related fields. Free to attend, but booking is required www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

off to trinidad tomorrow (for the first time!) to see my husband's family and i am exciiiiited 🇹🇹☀️🇹🇹☀️🇹🇹

I can't quite believe it, but, it appears that the person responsible for this at the University of Warwick has had a Vogue photoshoot about the rebrand, explaining his 'journey from the world of luxury [goods marketing] into higher education' vogue.sg/university-o...

just seen warwick's new rebrand and i have some questions

Well, I had a very nice morning! I received an honorary doctorate from the University of York, and managed to get through my speech despite getting a bit teary

Any weaponisation of starvation is heinous, but the photo I've just seen of a child the same age as my youngest son where every bone is visible: what the Israeli government are doing in full view of the world is monstrous and unforgivable. That other states are allowing it is beyond an outrage.

Have accidentally not scheduled any male speakers for the first semester of the seminar series I convene... This is fine... right? 😅

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.

So much this.

if one of our students went on to become a lead curator in the Second World War material at the IWM, we would be so proud of them as a department -- and the government would look at the starting salary and concede that we had not really 'added' any 'value' with our degree at all

A reminder that an annual salary on minimum wage is now £25,396.80

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A reminder about the long #16thC starter pack. If you are a scholar of #EarlyModern history who should be on this list and isn't, let me know! There are still a dozen or so spots left ☺️ Also, don't forget that feeds are your friends. Check out #16thC, #17thC , #18thC, etc. #skystorians

can someone please explain why people stick eyelashes on their car headlights. is this just a london thing? a british thing? or are These Kind of People elsewhere?!

hot off the press - yet another email from the school about the wasps - turns out they are BURROWING wasps and so they've cordoned off the massive school field as well as the playground (the bins across the playground being covered was just a precaution apparently).

ok folks, i'm wondering if i should bite the bullet and get some kind of kindle scribe / remarkable situation for reading and annotating PDFs/ebooks. i'd like to go on a big book buying binge and i think i've got to limit myself on buying paper copies because **flaps arms at shelves** thoughts?! 🗃️

Now available in 'Transactions' bit.ly/465CiLC New 'special section' of 4 articles on 'Parliamentary Culture and Indigenous Traditions of Assembly in the Americas and South and East Asia, c.1500–1700', with an Introduction by @paulinakewes.bsky.social, Paul Seaward and Jim Van der Meulen 1/3

Did this job a few years ago, absolutely loved it - and do think the experience here helped me secure my current job because I took over our dept social media/comms, so it's worth it on various levels! If I know you, I would be happy to read your app as a gesture of solidarity for the ECR mines.

hilarious levels of hysteria at my kids' school over a wasp's nest. they've sealed off the entire playground (which is huge because there's 90 kids in each year) like there's an unexploded bomb somewhere... and getting emails from the school to confirm that the borough advised them not to close 😂

"These are exercises in the egotistical delight in the theatrical production of ‘discovery’ devoid of ethical, environmental and cultural considerations. Bring the moa back? To where? To what quality of life? To roam freely?"