I had a brilliant set of UG dissertation students last year. One wrote an excellent blog on counterfactual history and the North Berwick witch-hunt: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-supe... Have a read! I think counterfactual history is a tool that #earlymodern #hextag peeps should use more often. 😊

And they have let me in for another year! 🎉 #earlymodern

Something really poignant about a small(ish) child sarcophagus.

A sacrifice to the god Hercules. Probably so he doesn't hit you with his big stick? 😅 Museum of Ostia Antica, 2nd Century CE

My home for the next three months. 😊 So happy be back in my happy place! If anyone is passing through Rome this autumn drop me a line!

Spotted online. The perfect academic book cover doesn't exist...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Is this a BBC journalist trolling they boss? Eurovision has always been political. What rose tinted planet are they living on?

Since games are not my specialty, #EarlyModern #Skystorians does anyone know anything about historical eight-sided dice and might have an idea where these are from and what game they were for?

Application deadline for these @rsaorg.bsky.social fellowships coming up next week! 👇 #Renaissance #earlymodern

I should have expected to see this in the gents at Brussels Midi station, but I didn't. Inspiring. 😅

One month left to apply for our travel fund! Are you doing research in #earlymodern #bookhistory or print culture? The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum offer a Nottebohm Fellowship. Apply before Oct. 1st! Details: consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Opened this new book in the Blackwell History of the World series and it's a total typographical horror show. There are at least three errors in this list (including a line that's dropped off the page) and they seem blissfully unaware of the fact that the series editor has passed away. 🤯

New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' 'Pan-African Print in Interwar Britain: Ras T Makonnen and International African Opinion', by Jack Bowman bit.ly/3Hu0bCI How did interwar Pan-Africanism encompass different anti-colonial groups. How was print publishing used in campaigning? 1/2

‘The otherness of the Other’: thank you to @janmachielsen.bsky.social for his review of ‘Silence of the Gods’ in the latest @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/religion/rel... 📚

October is coming up and we would very much love to find an online speaker who works in premodern #death or the #supernatural. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

In the Netherlands, even witchcraft is made better with cheese. 😝

📢Good morning and long time no see! Our second blog post about the Witch Map Project has just been uploaded. Please consider taking a look if you're interested in learning more about the conclusions we drew from our research. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-supe...

#CFP #CallforPapers Still seeking a third panelist for "Women’s Cross-Border Networks in the Renaissance World" panel for #RenSA2026. Networks broadly defined: patronage, material, economic, social, political, etc. DM if interested. #womenshistory #medieval #earlymodern #Renaissance #skystorians

I just noticed that Metropolitan Science will be out in paperback - exciting news! Not available until next year, but can be pre-ordered for a relatively affordable £26.09 @jasminekt.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM 🗃️

📢#Job announcement: Lectureship in Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) at my Department, at the University of Cyprus; tenure-track; please repost www.ucy.ac.cy/hr/wp-conten...

The #earlymodern shrine of Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel, founded by the Archdukes in the early 17th century. A good outing for my mum and me after a horrid month. Got myself a commemorative beer mug. Only in Belgium? 😅

📢We would like to thank all 100 of you who have supported our project for the past few weeks. Sadly, today is the last day that it will be active, but this isn't the end of us yet! Another blog post will go up in a week's time that we'll let you know about, and our map will remain available.

The Netherlands in a nutshell. (For the non-Dutchies, the sign says no bikes at this bus stop.)

Also known as "bringing the institution into disrepute" in UKHE speak.

Took my partner to Madurodam and couldn't resist "The rise of a nation" (sic) attraction. Five minutes of drivel about Spanish cruelty and the freedom to think that doesn't once mention religion. 🙄 Disappointing that we still have to listen to this stuff even in 2025. #earlymodern

And I - a University employee - am "worried" Universities' cost-cutting actions "will impact" students and the entire UKHEI sector NB: I'm still furious that employers are defined as 'The University' #WeAreTheUniversity share.google/IrkzUN4CUvnt...

"Problem with cow? Take a picture and send with location to..." An amusing sign on an otherwise dismal day. Only well behaved cows on this walk though.

☀️ Memorial Of The Day (MOTD): The Steilneset Memorial Site in Vardø, Norway. This beautiful structure opened in 2011 after a collaboration between artist Louise Bourgeois and architect Peter Zumthor. It honours the 91 people executed for witchcraft during the 1600-1692 Finnmark Witch Trials.

Welcome to Bluesky @witchmapproject.bsky.social Well worth a follow for our student led project here @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social mapping witchcraft memorials across the world. #medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag @janmachielsen.bsky.social

👇👇👇 Please follow this account! These students have found some amazing #earlymodern #hextag memorials! Exciting 🧙 stuff coming soon. 😊

Stop using WeTransfer right now.

Continue to be amused by the English translation in Vienna. Big breakfasts are for (big?) Americans?

In Vienna only the women go to Paradise. 😂

Move over Waitrose. This Spar in Vienna is where it's at. 😝

Apply for a Radcliffe Fellowship! Applications in humanities, social sciences, & creative arts are due Sept 11, 2025 Applications in science, engineering, & math due Sept 30, 2025 www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/radcliffe-fe... (I hear they'd especially welcome projects related to climate change) #HPS ⚒️

Well goodmorning Antwerp! Ready for day 2 of our #TudorAntwerp conference with sessions on English bibles circulating in 16th-century Antwerp #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊

Does anybody happen to have access to: Weiss, Robert. 1949. "Cinque lettere inedite del Cardinale Benedetto Gaetani (Bonifacio VIII)." Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia, 3:162–168. TIA! #MedievalSky #ICanHazPDF

Apologies to everyone. BlueSkyFeeds which hosted #earlymodern is being shut down and I had my head in the sand. It should have successfully moved across to BlueFacts now.

My favourite place in the woods near my parents. If anyone needs a moment of zen?

I choose to believe that this is about the time Erasmus, More, Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, and Lucrezia Borgia all got trapped on an island full of dinosaurs and had to ad fontes their way out of it using their unique skill sets.

What can historians bring to policy work on drug use? In this new post for the RHS blog bit.ly/4lBdak9, Virginia Berridge ‪@lshtm.bsky.social‬ describes her experience as deputy chair of the London Drugs Commission. The commission's report, 'The Cannabis Conundrum', appeared in May #Skystorians

Still looking for submissions for the @rsaorg.bsky.social panel "Living with Demons: Emotions, Encounters, Experiences". Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Any #earlymodern English historians help me with information on Sir Thomas Wortley knt. shot in an affray in St Martin’s in the Field, 1656?

🎓The Chair of #EarlyModern History at the University of Trier is hiring a doctoral researcher!🎓 NB: German is nice to have, but not required! - Starting October 2025 for 3 years - Deadline: July 7, 2025 #PHD www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...

🚨 CFP 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹 Conference "Forced Mobilities and the Making of Knowledge about the World in 16th-Century Naples, Rome, and Venice" 📍 Paris-Aubervilliers | 🗓️ March 3–6, 2025 🔗 CFP (deadline: July 1): ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mobilites-co... #CFP #EarlyModern #Venice #Naples #Rome #skystorians #academicsky #16thC

📣 We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.1) has officially been published online! Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance

Attention all #earlymodern #skystorians! The Hakluyt Society is now on BSky. Follow for all things relating to the History of Travel and Exploration @hakluytsociety.bsky.social