Ok folks, I've decided to run the Royal Parks half marathon in October to raise money for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social. If all my followers gave just 10p I'd exceed my target, and together we will help fight this devastating disease. Please consider supporting here: www.justgiving.com/page/emilie-...

'Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.' Cheery news from Columbia University's Dean of AI. 1/3

@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.

JOB! Come and be my colleague! Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford. Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...

Our first seminar of the semester is coming up! Ephemeral Print and Lay Religious Experience in Early Modern Venice Speaker: Alex Bamji (University of Leeds) 📅 Wednesday 18 February 🕛 1:00-3:00pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 & Zoom 🌐 Registration & further details: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

Uh oh 👀 😂

Somehow missed that my article "Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies" is the PMLA paper of the month, available for free access until February 24th! cup.org/465OPxz

A nun spots a courting couple, Jacob van der Heyden, 1608 (Rijksmuseum)

Just a few days left to apply for the Yuck workshop organised in collaboration with @northernenvhistory.bsky.social! Come talk about all that wriggles, invades, infects, disgusts and/or steals in York!

If you’re planning to be in Sheffield in April, @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org and @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy are hosting the annual History & Archives in Practice conference, registration now open! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more! www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...

#earlymodern talk next week - in person and online - all welcome! 🗃️

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

absolutely wonderful catch up with my old colleague Bill Sherman at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social this morning, incl a tour of all the phenomenal renovations that have taken place over the last few years. what a glorious space it is! came away filled with inspiration and ideas for various things

We are organising a big "Festival of Social History" at the IHR, Friday April 24. The ticket price is an absolute steal for SHS members (join!). Trust me when I say this one's built different, it will be a hands-on day demonstrating how vibrant and engaged UK social history is. ONLY £10!

This May, I step down from UCU's NEC as Women's Rep (HE) after six years' service (as is mandatory). I can't think of anyone better to hand the baton to as women's reps than @drgillhistory.bsky.social and Poppy Gerrard-Abbott, both of whom have been fab on our Women Members' Standing Committee. /1

Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!

Congratulations @janmachielsen.bsky.social on the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Counter Reformation Sanctity! Great to see this come out! #earlymodern #history #skystorians

#earlymodern #17thC I'm not on here often, but...my first ever history article is out! It's about the goings-on in 17th C Ashton-under-Lyne. I've been passionate about 17th C history for decades, but it's not my official academic field so I'm very excited :) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZICG...

Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30

Postdoc Opportunity! The History Department at Binghamton University (SUNY) seeks a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American History who considers spatial dimensions in their work. 2-year contract, $60k binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Lunch and pub recommendations for Stratford-upon-Avon PLEASE x

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

My department at Florida State is hiring a postdoc in public history! I’m not on the search committee, but please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69772/f...

Last week I completed my perambulation of the parish boundaries of Portishead, my hometown and main case study in my ongoing book project on 'Everyday Life in a 17thC Village'. I started by going back up the down to the Windmill Inn where I left off last time - and spotted a ship in the channel...

Beyond a tiny hardcore of rich universities, if you are an employee in UK Higher Ed you will be somewhere on the treadmill/ slippery slope below. You'll recognise exactly which step you are on at this moment. Take a look. 👇

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Only 2 x 4000 word essays left to go of this marking season everyone! Eeee!

‘Tasting History: Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade’, with @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Feb 24th! Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

to try help our very energetic neurospicy 6 year old my partner has dragged both of the kids out for a walk at 6.30am this morning. i politely declined to join them because gawd is there anything more blissful than a coffee in bed on your own first thing?

Current calls for RHS funding (closing 6 March) bit.ly/4tdarCb: > David Berry Fellowship in History of Scotland, for all career stages > Early Career Fellowships Grants > Open Research Support Grants, for mid-career historians Applications from current RHS Fellows / Members now invited 1/2

rest in power queen 👑 😭

Published a book on transnational women's or gender history 2020-25? 🚨Submissions to the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Book Prize in Transnational Women's & Gender History now open🚨You can see the full details on our website: www.ifrwh.com Closing date is 28 February 2026! #WomensHist #GenderHist

This is such sad news. #earlymodern 🗃️

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

#UCU members: NEC ballot papers drop TODAY. Please, please don't ignore these when they arrive. Our sectors' future viability depends on you having your say. I can recommend a vote for the candidates listed below. If you want to chat to me about this, my DMs are open.

full of cold, so behind on marking, have taken dramatically to my bed and have cancelled all my meetings. please enjoy this live footage of me.

Great to see that Mark Pendleton is running for UCU VP (Higher Education). Worked with him on the RHS LGBT+ report and he was consistently, insistently and cheerfully simply ace. Learn more from ucucommons.org/about-mark/ . And regardless, don't ignore your ballot.

This sounds great! #histchild #skystorians royalhistsoc.org/calendar/gen...

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

London folks and folks who can travel there: upcoming events and an exhibition on WONDER at the Linnean Society - including an evening book talk on Thursday 5th March about... monsters! #histsci #histmed #ecology 💙📚 🧪 🗃

£42k for a lead (I.e. extensive experience) curatorial post - with management responsibilities - at a national library in one of the most expensive cities in the world? no wonder they’ve been on strike!

We are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Do you have thoughts about peer review in humanities? CELJ is conducting a survey on journal-based peer review to establish a better understanding of how stakeholders view different peer-review models and methods. More info & link to survey at www.celj.org/mellon-project

ok i have spent bloody ages trying to fix this, and am back on track somewhat - do carry on giving me prods if you notice that i have abandoned you!!

My article, "Divided by a Common Auditory Landscape: The Local Resonance of Sound and Rebellion in Fourteenth-Century St. Albans" is published now in Viator @brepols.net! About a medieval town and its bells close to my heart doi.org/10.1484/J.VI...

The Senses and Medical Humanities – 24 February A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities, organised by @claireturner.bsky.social with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

really appreciate the engagement w this from anyone i have accidentally unfollowed!!

Downloaded some new third party software for bluesky stuff and have accidentally unfollowed a load of mutuals - apologies if this is you! Working to correct it now!