Today is the final day to submit proposals for our next conference in May 2026 - email submissions to [email protected] and join us next year in Arizona!

Very excited to be joining this excellent seminar series as a postgraduate co-convener this year! ✨ Register to join us for the first event of the term with Lyndal Roper on 16 October: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... & the full programme here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?' Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England) manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...

Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair... manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/09/t...

One week to go until Lyndal Roper's talk at @ihr.bsky.social! Register for the hybrid event here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... And check out our other talks by @emilymayvine.bsky.social and @nailyas.bsky.social here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

We're super excited to announce the return of the Warwick History PG Work in Progress for 2025/26. Open to all who are interested in hearing about all the fantastic research being done by PG history students at Warwick!

Excited to be co-convening the Warwick WIP along with @annajpravdica.bsky.social and @joseph-price.bsky.social this year!

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...

The CFP deadline for the next @nachemotion.bsky.social has been extended to 15 October! Submit a proposal and join us in Arizona next May 😍

Important news! We have extended our Call for Papers to 15 October - so if you were interested in submitting a proposal but didn't make the first deadline, now is your chance ✨ Email proposals to [email protected] so you can join us for our 4th biennial conference in May 2026 - & please share widely!

The deadline for the CFP for our next conference is in 2 days time on 1 October! Send your proposals through to [email protected] and join us at Arizona State University in May 2026 ✨

The Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions is happily and proudly sponsoring the following session(s) on The Emotional History of the Crusades in the next International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds on 6-9 July 2026. See the attached CFP - deadline for submissions is 15 September!

Submit your proposals and join us for the 4th biennial @nachemotion.bsky.social conference in Phoenix next May - the deadline is 1 October, so you've still got plenty of time to engage in the sacred academic ritual of procrastinating and then sending something in at the last minute. What a thrill!

Read the Dramatic C17th Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story Researchers have digitized all 4 volumes, which offer a compelling window into a tumultuous period in English history by Sonja Anderson for Smithsonian Magazine www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Gain confidence reading Renaissance Italian sources with our intensive 5-day online course. 📅 17–19 & 22–23 Sept 2025 🕒 11am–1pm & 2–3pm daily 💻 Online via Zoom Early booking advised:

🙌Call for Papers🙌 We are excited to invite abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, Identity, at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social on 8-9 Jan 2026 Send abstracts of 300 words to [email protected] by 22 Sep - please circulate among your networks!

Team @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social - we are in the Guardian! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @uoe-llc.bsky.social

Just over two weeks before our CfP closes! Remember to submit your abstracts before Friday 5th September ⚔️

Submit your proposals and join us for the 4th biennial @nachemotion.bsky.social conference in Phoenix next May - the deadline is 1 October, so you've still got plenty of time to engage in the sacred academic ritual of procrastinating and then sending something in at the last minute. What a thrill!

Thrilled to be taking part in this exciting conference in just a few weeks! Join us if you're in the area and looking for a free lunch with a side of nonconformity 😇

📢 Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 is looking for an Associate Editor to join our editorial team. 📢 Deadline is Sept. 5 and more info is linked below. Academic friends please share widely. DM @drerinnerung.bsky.social with questions. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

There is still plenty of time to submit your proposals for our next conference in May 2026 at the University of Arizona! Email us your submissions or get in contact with any questions you might have, and join us in the Phoenix area next year ✨

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar @ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

Honoured to receive the prestigious Waldo Gifford Leland Award from ‪@saa-official.bsky.social‬! t.co/DhF0eJfJ03 Best partner in crime, Valeria Vanesio, inspiring contributors and support ‪@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social‬. Glasses up for further conversations @astonunarchives.bsky.social and beyond!

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

Grateful for the opportunity to present at the wonderful Work, Authenticity and Social Identity Conference at Warwick this week. What an incredible selection of papers! Thank you @annajpravdica.bsky.social and the rest of the @earlymodern2025.bsky.social organisers for a wonderful conference 📜

Two days of 'Work, Authenticity and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain'! Looking forward to seeing some old friends and hearing about exciting new work. Well done to @annajpravdica.bsky.social, Angus Crawford & Daniel Muddimer for such a great programme: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Excited to be co-organising this conference on early modern nonconformity. Please submit an abstract or share with anyone who might be interested in doing so! Open to researchers of all career stages! ✨

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

Join us next Wednesday, 7 May from 5pm to hear third year PhD @global-subterra.bsky.social discuss her latest work in a paper titled 'Percy’s Pyrites: Gold in the Imperial Laboratory'! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

So pleased that this event which I first had the idea for well over a year ago now is so close to coming to fruition 😍 We have a really wonderful programme with an exciting array of speakers whose papers I can't wait to hear in June! Find out more @earlymodern2025.bsky.social

Our jam-packed and very exciting programme is now available on our webpage here ✨ We're hugely grateful to all the excellent speakers who submitted proposals and have agreed to be part of this event, which has been long in the making but is now only a month away! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Pleased to be re-running our FREE Research Workshops: with @lordleycester @WarwickHistory @warwickengages. Training and skills on early modern records, incl. parish registers, legal records, family archives and the early master & brethren. More here: www.lordleycester.com/lord-leycest...

Join us for our Summer Term programme!

Announcing the Summer Term programme for @emeccwarwick.bsky.social. With a fabulous line-up of speakers, including @lsangha.bsky.social, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social, & @lm8son.bsky.social. Also @annajpravdica.bsky.social conference on 'Work and Social Identity' warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Our CfP deadline is 11 April! Submit your abstracts!

The Call for Papers for our next biennial conference is now open! Submit your proposals by 1 October 2025 so you can join us at the University of Arizona in Phoenix/Tempe, Arizona on 22-23 May 2026. More information can be found at the link below ✨ nachemotion.wordpress.com/conference/t...

Grad Student Opportunity!

I'm thrilled to be giving a talk at Hackney Museum about the needlework and other artworks made by girls at female academies in 17th-century Hackney. Please come along if you're in the area!

Consider submitting a proposal to the next @nachemotion.bsky.social conference!

Exciting news! The call for papers for the North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) 2026 Conference is now live! The deadline for proposals is October 1st 2025. Further details are available on the CfP and NACHE website: nachemotion.wordpress.com/conference/t...

Call for papers! "Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700," to be held in Canberra, Australia on 7 and 8 August 2025. Abstracts due 31 March 2025. #cfp #EarlyModern #nuntastic #16thC #17thC #skystorians #AcademicSky #BookHistory

Extended deadline CFP for _Discoveries and Improvements, 1660–1740_ PS "This is an interdisciplinary conference, very much open to all scholars of the period. Papers on Daniel Defoe are welcome, but that is not a requirement." www.defoesociety.org/conference/

FRI 28 FEB: Heleen Wyffels will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “Women, gender and social status in the early modern printing house,” 5:30 pm GMT, online and in person at Wolfson Rm 2, IHR, London. To register and for Zoom link, click here: www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...