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...

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 🇹🇹☀️🇹🇹☀️🇹🇹