Next Thursday, 19 February 2026, 5:30pm London (12:30pm NYC/6:30pm Brussels), Kate Travers (Warwick) will speak about ‘The Face in the Tower: Reading Petrarch in the Early Fifteenth Century’. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR London. To register: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

Free on Zoom! Suitner on "Venice and the Radical Reformation: An Italian Republic in European Context" www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... 22 Jan 2026, 5.30 UK Time

Gift idea: Surprise Alarm Clock

On Thursday, 11 Dec, 5:30pm London time (12:30pm New York/6:30 Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’. Online-via Zoom ONLY. All welcome - Please share. To register, see www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I was pleased to name my "Books of the Year" for History Today magazine: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi... @historytoday.com

I was pleased to name my "Books of the Year" for readers of History Today magazine: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Caravaggio's Cupid - painted in 1602, censored on public transport in 2025

Modest goal of the day - "skimmed that tastes like semi-skimmed"

On Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, 5:30pm London time, Antonio Pattori (Oxford) will speak about ‘An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy’. Via Zoom & IHR London All welcome - Please share invitation To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

On Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, 5:30pm London time, Antonio Pattori (Oxford) will speak about ‘An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy’. Via Zoom & IHR London All welcome - Please share invitation To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

NEXT MONTH: The Baptistery in Florence and its Bronze Doors at the British Museum in London (study session), Wednesday, 3 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00 London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #florencebaptistery #britishmuseum

On Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, 5:30pm London time (1:30pm New York/6:30pm Brussels), Alex Lee (NYU London) will speak about ‘Disability and Community: Healing Miracles and the Bianchi of 1399’. Free! Online-via Zoom & IHR Senate House, London To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians

See here: pureinfotech.com/disable-ai-o... However, one of the steps didn't work and I had to modify it. In Step 11, for the Edge browser, I had to add "https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s" rather than the recommended "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" in the URL setting. Works now.

In the latest issue Historische Zeitschrift, there is only 1 single review on early modern history. And that one's on Goethe. What happened to German historical "science"? www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

Managed to switch off the AI answer box on my Google search -- happy days!

I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians

Many thoughtful articles on Artificial Intelligence in the autumn issue of the @indexoncensorship.org Magazine - including a piece by King's very own @drkatedevlin.bsky.social www.indexoncensorship.org/events/truth...

The IHR Italy 1200-1700 (London and online) seminar programme has been published: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices #AcademicPublishing #Science #AcademicJournals #WCRI2026 #WCRI www.science.org/content/arti....

For those interested in news in Early Modern Europe, this has just landed on my desk from Penguin #skystorians #16thC #EarlyModern

The new Society for the Study of the Past now has socials! 🥳🍉 You can find us on Insta or here on Bluesky: @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social Or check out the website here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Reminder: submit to the Historical Materialism London Conference! From 6-9th of November - with a Postgrad pre day on the 5th. We're running a stream with Notes from Below on Workers and Capital! Get in touch for more info and submit here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

Would you like to become a KCL UCU caseworker? The branch is hosting a training session on casework on 19 May 2-5pm followed by a social event. Sign up here: forms.office.com/pages/respon... We are each other’s strength

This morning’s Gmail inbox counter was a monument to the endless tide of either empty or strictly functional words - or both.

As someone who's spent many years studying an Augustinian who wrote about the lives of the popes, I’m really happy to see an Augustinian become pope.

A propos of the conclave, here is a review I wrote a few years ago on a book about the 1559 conclave www.academia.edu/61052515/Wai... #conclave

For those interested in news in Early Modern Europe, this has just landed on my desk from Penguin #skystorians #16thC #EarlyModern

*Branch anti-casualisation workshop* Join us on Friday 2nd of May for a workshop on anti-casualisation (2-4pm) ❔Open to all members on a precarious contract or an open ended contract who want to support the campaign. 📝 Register here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

You can now order 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘪 𝘵𝘰 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 in paperback 📖🤓 www.routledge.com/Reading-and-... #EarlyModern #history #Renaissance #Machiavelli #GeorgCalixtus #ChristianThomasius #LeonardoBruni #RobertGraves #biography #translation #NaturalLaw #humanism #books

The journal "Annali d'Italianistica" has received a review copy of "L'Invenzione della storia papi" and are looking for a reviewer. Scholars interested in reviewing the book should contact them at [email protected] www.academia.edu/128322571/Bo... #skystorians #16thC #EarlyModern #reformazing

At first, I thought how thoughtful of Waterstones to pair "Smart Thinking" with "History". Then it occurred to me - what if they’re actually contrasting the two?

Nice to be featured in King's Essentials today, though my light blue folder on the table is featured more prominently than my face

Way to go Guardian, this catchphrase is just so mellifluous

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has used LibGen, a vast database of illegally pirated material, to train its AI models. This includes most of our academic books. www.alcs.co.uk/news/alcs-co...

this event is now CANCELLED and will be rescheduled for next academic year

On Thursday, 27 March, 6:00pm London time (2:00pm New York/7:00pm Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’. ONLINE ONLY ZOOM. Please share www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

On Thursday, 27 March, 6:00pm London time (2:00pm New York/7:00pm Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’. ONLINE ONLY ZOOM. Please share www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned here and on our website for the upcoming 5th MAMO conference, at King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. See you at MAMO number 5! themamo.org

Interested to hear about ChatGTP Edu - www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

Free seminar! On Thu, 27 Feb, 5:30pm UK time (12:30pm New York/18:30 Brussels), Saida Bondini (Zurich & Florence) will speak about ‘Earthquake Hazards and Art Making in Early Modern Italy: Novelty, Memory, and Cyclicity’. Hybrid: On Zoom & in person at IHR London www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

Cappuccinos now to be drunk from this odd contraption at King's.

🔨 Why does Germany's far right hate #Bauhaus? Ahead of the German #elections, Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social interrogates how opinions on Bauhaus have reignited a historical culture war over German national identity and social anxieties. 🔗 Read more ⤵️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/comment...

#earlymodern 🗃️

When you discover your book in the official Vatican bookshop on Saint Peter's Square

"Mamma Mia, here I go again" Looks like we're in need of a second #ResearchIntegrity Starter Pack as the first one is full! Please let me know if you'd like to be added, or have suggestions (particularly ECRs) to add: go.bsky.app/QN5upY5 (Some overlaps with the 1st pack may happen at the start)