out of office about to be switched on, and i've sent my lil book off into the world AT LAST!! i swear nobody has ever taken this long to write 30,000 words but there we are 🤣 HAPPY HOLIDAYS Y'ALL #earlymodern 🗃️

the historical illiteracy of these comparisons makes people appear profoundly unserious.

Oh no the Governor of the Bank of England compared AI to the Industrial Revolution

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

because i'm a luddite that still does all my referencing manually, a lot of bibliography compilation for me seems to revolve around singing the alphabet to myself... #amwriting #almostdone

Heads up, #earlymodern #skystorians! Get your books in for the next SRS Book Prize. Always a marvel to see the wonderful work being produced by scholars of this period.

Dear past Emilie - WHY do you fail to do your references as you go. WHY. Sincerely, exasperated present Emilie with a deadline in 4 days 🙈

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born

Very excited for this conference next summer! #CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

aaand she has a full first draft! this silly little book has taken me far too long, but i'm finally starting to think it'll be set free soon! huzzah.

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026

Want to understand the relationship between King James VI & I & his favourite, Buckingham, from their own letters? Read all about it in my forthcoming academic book, Exploring Early Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I. Released 2 weeks today! #QueerLit #EarlyModern

*small embarrassed voice* A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s. doi.org/10.1093/libr...

Our special section of the Transactions of the @royalhistsoc.org on 'Parliamentary Culture and Indigenous Traditions of Assembly in the Americas and South and East Asia, c.1500–1700', co-ed with @pseaward.bsky.social & Jim van der Meulen is out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'“During that roundtable, we heard that a provider could collapse before the end of the year,” she [Helen Hayes] said. As the hearing was in late November, this was “essentially a warning of an imminent collapse of a higher education institution”, she added.' 1/3

Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide. We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians

Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Wee Donkey. 🤦‍♀️

The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians

Calling all #nuntastic folks, I just discovered this and WOW I have questions (that will soon be answered with next day delivery.....!) LOL #earlymodern 🗃️

It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!

imagine having so little work you can spend half a day yelling about how you're against a thing nobody even asked you for

it's snowing in york! cue squeals!

The 2026-2028 Strategy of the @royalhistsoc.org was published today! royalhistsoc.org/strategy-202... 🗃️

We are delighted to receive today print copies of the three latest titles in our 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, published with @ihr.bsky.social and @uolpress.bsky.social Each title is available in paperback print and free Open Access: further details bit.ly/4pl2gkA #Skystorians

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

a @crems-york.bsky.social seminar w @nailyas.bsky.social abt her research on #earlymodern library tourism followed by a night out w our amazing early modern grad students has me heading to bed feeling all full of joy and ideas. this is what academia should be folks. wish every day was like this!

very much enjoying evelyn's daughter's new album, and delighted that the @warburginstitute.bsky.social gets a mention too 😂 @evelynwelch.bsky.social #earlymodern 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_mc...

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...

Hope you don’t mind me sharing this again. I’m just so excited to share this brand new podcast series produced by @histfest.bsky.social for @historyextra.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts (here’s the Spotify link spotify.link/hxH97mL4PXb )

🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳 Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform. Are you in? Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️

Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

ah, officially neurospicy it would seem... 🧠 #adhd-er

Prizes for a PTA raffle at a primary school in SE London everyone 🤣 #kindawantatattootho

okay let's go 💚 @greenparty.org.uk

University of Derby proposes more than 200 redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On a packed commuting train and there is a toddler singing unaccompanied nursery rhymes at the top of his lungs (I can only assume he has headphones on or something - i can’t see him) and it is giving me life this morning. Occasionally he breaks up his renditions with loud lion roars. What a guy.

Job Opportunity! University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - UNC-Chapel Hill, Religion and Science Assistant Professor networks.h-net.org/jobs/69302/u...

Exciting! Congrats @musicheritageplace.bsky.social #earlymodern 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

hi folks, not my usual content but one of my best friends is running the london marathon this year to support the alzheimer's society, in honour of her lovely mum. if this is a cause close to your heart as well i know she'd be grateful for any donation - even £1. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Come work with me! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta... Francis Marion University and the History Department invite applications for a tenure-track historian specializing in American History.

As some of you were aware, the name of the IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar was recently attached to a day conference that included David Starkey in its line-up. That will no longer be the case going forward.

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...