It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

Just received this email, and honestly, what hellscape AI slop nightmare is this? Who does not understand who they are academically? What the hell is 'building presence'? It ends: "Places are limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis — we'd encourage you not to sit on this one." 🤮

Very good, if extremely depressing, piece by Stefan Collini to explain what has been and is being done to this country’s universities. If interested to find out, I recommend reading it.

emilie "sunburnt shins" murphy over here as SOMEONE thought marking outside w just my legs out of the shade would be a good idea 🤦‍♀️

If you wish to support our efforts, you can do so here. Any funds donated here will be used to off set any loss income suffered by those of us mabbing. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... You can also donate here: UCU Nottingham LA63 Hardship Fund Account number: 20346359 Sort code: 60-83-01

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

My new blog for the Social History Society on the loss of adult education centres in universities, with particular focus on history and the closure of the Centre for Lifelong Learning at York. 🗃️

Daniel Maudlin, A Night at the Inn: Space, Place, and the Elite Experience of Empire, 1650–1850 - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, June 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

ooh this is nice in the midst of the gloom! mine are 1. teaching my special subject, without doubt the best thing ever to get (usually unsuspecting) students as obsessed with exiled English nuns as i am 2. collaborating with, and learning from, fab colleagues 3. supervising dissertations (BA/MA/PhD)

📣Out now on #firstview! Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social and Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social on 'Anticipating Birth in Early Modern England' #Birth #Motherhood #Pregnancy #Medicine #History 17thc 18thc 👶🌿🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to announce that Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain will be out in paperback on July 16. I’ll be doing a launch event that day with the wonderful people at West Kirby Books. See below for tickets! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/liverpool-...

OK who wants to have a crack at the crossed out lines? TIA! 🙏

"Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where the pieces land is not an education policy worth of the name. It is neglect bordering on vandalism." 🗃️ Solidarity to everyone - something has got to urgently change.

New 'Special Section' in Transactions: 'Legacies of the Imjin War (1592–1598) in and beyond East Asia': bit.ly/4dmUfsh Japan’s invasion of the Korean peninsula was the largest armed conflict of the late C16th. Six articles explore the impact of war in East Asia and into the Hispanic Caribbean 1/2

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

My new article is out today. :-) A Fraught Fanfare: Acoustic Enemies in Ducal Siena* | The Sixteenth Century Journal: Vol 57, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

if any handwriting types want to weigh in on the century of the main hand here (not the annotator) i'd be grateful - not going to say what i think as i don't want to influence anyone! ;-)

absolutely obsessed with the later annotating hand of a member of this convent, who Had Some Views on this historical account of the house #nuntastic 🗃️

I know the AHA did something that had questions on this in 2019/2020 but I'm wondering whether we have any data for the UK? If not... somebody should do that?

Does anybody know of good recent research that has tried to track estimates of how much of people's historical knowledge comes from online sources (whether reading online materials, watching YouTube or listening to podcasts, social media such as TikTok or instagram?).

The Society is pleased to publish today the Shortlist of its 2026 Early Career Article Prize: bit.ly/4wEuVoW This year's list includes eight articles published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two winners for this prize will be announced in July #Skystorians 1/2

if anyone wants to hear @jaimelgoodrich.bsky.social and I talk about how the scandalous disputes at the English convent in Brussels were made visible, then we're talking about this at 3pm TODAY - shout and I'll send a zoom link #earlymodern 🗃️

🚨 Opportunity! 🚨 Want to come to York for up to a month this June, July or August? Apps are now open for our Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowships based in our glorious #earlymodern Heslington Hall (1/2) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Always nice* to read about what chaps in the 60s thought history is** and who historians*** are 🗃️ *jarring **written by men ***men, again, obvs

thoroughly enjoying reading through this new special issue of the the journal of #earlymodern history, which critically reflects on the meaning of early modernity, what it stands for, whether it is inherently eurocentric, and whether multiple views on this are compatible brill.com/view/journal... 🗃️

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundred of thousands ended up as homeless refugees in Gaza

Extremely informative visualisation of how this deeply disappointing Labour government has lost ground on both its left and right, to both Greens and to Reform. It also shows how the shape of British politics can no longer be contained within a First Past the Post system.

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

So Farage is living in luxury and Polanski in insecure rented flat after living in a house boat yet the press seems hell bent on trying to persuade the public that there is some form of equivalent corruption. Clearly @greenparty.org.uk has rattled the billionaire owners.

We're looking for a Lecturer in Global Medieval History (ongoing) to join us in the vibrant School of History @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! Deadline 1 June. Full details jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy #medievalsky #history

Intermittent plug for this! Especially as I'm going to actually have to start training at some point and can barely run 5k atm 😂 Prepare for some spam once I actually do get off my butt!!

Will Labour still be in crisis in a months time? Who knows! Regardless I’ll be taking part in this panel of fantastic historians who will not be short of things to talk about. Do sign up!

Join us at 1pm on Friday 12 June for 'Historical Context: Labour in Crisis': bit.ly/4ns6yGZ Specialist historians set our changing political landscape in historical context. With expert insight from @emilyrobinson.bsky.social, @lisebutler.bsky.social, @gsoh31.bsky.social and Rohan McWilliam 1/2

We’re looking to appoint a fixed-term Lecturer in American History at York St John (0.8fte for 18 months). Deadline 2 June. Please share! For anyone interested, feel free to get in touch with me.

Reform won all 8 Makerfield Wards - as assigned by ONS - at last week’s elections: Reform: 50.4% Labour: 22.7% Green: 10.9% Conservative: 9.9% Lib Dem: 3.8% Other: 2.2%

The Makerfield by election to replace Josh Simons will be a fascinating contest to see how Andy Burnham fares against Reform UK. Nigel Farage: “We look forward to the contest and we will throw absolutely everything at it.”

Early modern & early America colleagues: Can you recommend reading on prisons & incarceration? I am looking for 1 short reading for undergrads in my fall course on witch trials, as well as more reading for myself. (For myself can be in English, French, Italian.) thank you! #earlymodern #skystorians

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

This is a long shot because this isn't the old twitter, but I'm looking for history articles/books that look at cases of British/Irish settlers/squatters being prosecuted for crimes against Indigenous/colonized people. It can be anywhere in the world, but ideally the late C18/early C19.

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

aberystwyth's a bit alright once you get here 😍

This matters. Please co-sign. Managers like to pretend that petitions don't move them, but in reality cannot but answer questions about the numbers, and suddenly things that were deemed inevitable appear to be more-evitably-than-previously-declared.

can confirm that arabic flavour is the best restaurant in Aberystwyth and no i don't need to have been anywhere else to confirm this

when folks ask me why i can't give up spotify 🫶 OG baybeee

Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins

train job is to edit a talk i'm giving w @jaimelgoodrich.bsky.social on how enclosed English nuns in Brussels made their scandalous disputes over spirituality visible internationally, if anyone would like to listen in it's at 3pm BST next Monday 18 May - DM me for a zoom link #earlymodern #nuntastic

my epic journey to aber is underway! really looking forward to meeting everyone tomorrow! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

My book has a cover! 😍 Released Dec 26 and a reasonable £43 - please do buy or order for your library. Worth it, I promise. www.amazon.co.uk/Transactione...

anyone have any experience getting permissions for images (via EEBO) of material held in the BL? Am being a bit ghosted by the BL at the moment and wondering whether to just ditch this particular figure I was hoping to include? Or if I'm missing something obvious? Taaa x