The BBC is meant to be a public service broadcaster, sharing info with us so we can make good decisions and understand the world around us. Instead, it continues to fail the public, publishing half baked articles which expose people to bad info which leaves them vulnerable to grifters. (1/n)

Honestly this is all so entirely batshit, so it's a little weird that what is really sending me is "It's".

Our next seminar is on Wednesday 15 April. Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature Speaker: Georgina Wilson, University of Oxford 📅 Wednesday 15 April 🕛 5:00pm (for 5:15pm start) 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 More info, or to sign up via Zoom: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Free to join across the UK. Members have access to funding for projects as well as travel to events. If you've gained a PhD or equivalent research experience in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences within the last 10 years (excluding career breaks) check it out. You deserve to be invested in.

At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!

#earlymodern 🗃️

Here is my pride flag everybody! I hung one up yesterday in my office at Boston University, as they seek to enforce and defend a policy of removing them (along with other banners in public view, they say). This is a small act of love for my corner of the world, in a dark time. This flag goes deep.

Greatly looking forward to reading this new article from @fgottmann.bsky.social, Floris van Swet and Rémi Dewière! 🗃️

On Thursday I will be chairing our online session on writing history aimed at a wider audience with guests Elliot Prior and Sabhbh Curran from Curtis Brown Literary Agency. All welcome - sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Call for papers: @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social 🗃️ conference on The Church and Race @royalholloway.bsky.social, 13-15 July 2026. #CFP deadline 15 April. Keynotes from incoming EHS president @mirierubin.bsky.social, Herman Bennett, and Rowan Williams ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

york really yorking today

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨 We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time). Full details at the link: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...

'...a lively, scholarly account, full of bold personalities and surprising connections' Thanks to Neal Ascherson for this generous review of 'The Paris Commune in Britain' in the @lrb.co.uk today Particularly pleased to read that the book took Neal to the Newman Arms in search of the Communards 🍻

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

If you want to hear more about the experience of being a taught postgraduate student here at York, do read the blog written by Grace, one of our Renaissance and #EarlyModern Studies MA students blogs.york.ac.uk/student-voic... 🗃️

Started Gisèle Pelicot's memoir earlier. To say it is affecting would be an understatement. Not sure I can continue honestly but now I've started I feel like I sort of owe it to her to carry on. Anyone else read it? Think I might have to do a chapter at a time and read something silly in between. 😭

Having been treated to a preview of a couple of chapters of this, I can confirm how absolutely brilliant Will's new book will be!! Get your preorders in folks and Roll on September!! 🗃️

ok we've just started watching vladimir #academicsky

Will you be in Bristol on 11 March? Could you be? Well if you are, do come along to @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social's Frenchay Campus at lunchtime to hear me talk all things New Labour. Should be fun!

My special subject is on #earlymodern English nuns in Catholic Europe (it rocks!) This semester I handover to students to come up with a short activity for each seminar. Today we had to make front covers for chronicles! Thought I'd share some of my #nuntastic favourites here. See alt text for deets

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

I can take no credit here - congratulations to @racheljwillie.bsky.social and @spparkle.bsky.social! If you work on #earlymodern sound in any capacity do consider Sonance for your article projects! And if you'd like to review any recent books in the field please do give me a shout! 🗃️

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

#earlymodern talk tomorrow - hybrid and in person with @kyamamoto.bsky.social 🗃️

Our second seminar of the semester is coming up! The Politics of the ‘Essential Work’ under Charles I's Personal Rule, 1629-1641 Speaker: Koji Yamamoto, University of Tokyo 📅 Wednesday 4 March 🕛 5:00-7:00pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 & Zoom 🌐 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

CFP for the SCS conference in Chicago in October. Come join the most collegial gathering of early modernists that I know. #earlymodern 🗃️ sixteenthcentury.org/call-for-pro...

Have seen all the jokes re "Operation epic fury" but they are murdering children. Murdering. Children.

At least 40 children were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran — Israel is now the expert at this

f*ck imperialism.

Colleagues, I'd be delighted if you might encourage your promising UGs to consider our interdisciplinary MA here at York. It's particularly well-suited for joint honours students with a passion for the period 1500-1700. Any QNs please do let them know to reach out to me directly! #earlymodern 🗃️

It's weird that this never really took off.

Join us later today!

Looking forward to my book launch at @ihrlibrary.bsky.social Modern French History seminar on 9 March. I'm honoured to have @alisoncarrol.bsky.social, @vbivar.bsky.social & Sarah Farmer speaking. You can attend in person or online, sign up below: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... 🗃️ #skystorians

New article! Frederick E Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social on 'Nobody Expects the English Inquisition: Mary I’s Persecution of Protestants through European Eyes' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

SCREAMS INTO THE ABYSS RE. THINGS THAT ARE SO ANNOYING WHEN THEY HAD NO NEED TO BE

My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost? uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go... #earlymodern #Tudors

Wondering if there’s a way to mute all content where stably employed academics moan about having to do the nuts and bolts of the job. The poor dears have to teach! And mark! I mean dear god, shall we start a GoFundMe?

🗃️ jobs, jobs, jobs - and one for #medievalsky

🚨Job klaxon 🚨 Come and be my colleague at York! We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Modern British History and Public History. Two year post - apply by 19 March. 🗃️ More details here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO971/a...

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Shout out for the learned societies keeping a beady eye on the state of the disciplines that university senior managers are so swiftly dismantling. Keep an eye on the state of UK university Geography with the help of the @rgs.org 's new report, published this week.

Yesterday the Society visited historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield in the first RHS visit of 2026 bit.ly/4aAw9HH. Many thanks to our hosts and to Prof David Stack (Reading) for his excellent guest lecture: ‘History and Well-being: a Historian’s Perspective’.

What does history have to offer to a world beset by upheaval? @lauracforster.bsky.social, @julialaite.bsky.social, Laura Schwartz, Anne Irfan and Jo Kelcey consider the complexities of this question in our new podcast 🎙️

Cant' wait for @alexbamji.bsky.social's @crems-york.bsky.social seminar today at 1pm (for a 1.15pm start) on 'Ephemeral Print and Lay Religious Experience in #EarlyModern Venice'. All welcome to join us online - register here for the zoom link www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

As @lucypasha.bsky.social says here, many women reading this will have experienced similar. My recent version of this was when a man purposefully stopped to blocked my path, so I accidentally nearly bumped into him... (1/2) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...