Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO

Fascinating to see this 800 year old sealskin binding - with fur intact!

Book launch October 23rd! Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

Suitably spooky for our online Oct talk. Sign up now, it's free! #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Execution #Death #Crime

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators www.972mag.com/israeli-army... @972mag.com

It was two OUP books.

Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!

I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London* The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

29 September 1582: As it's Michaelmas, presumably everyone is having to pay their rents and other such tiresome admin and is generally in a bad mood. Unless of course they're landlords, like Elizabeth I, who, it appears by a paper today, has spent £881 23d on embroidery this year. 1/ #earlymodern

3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me! www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...

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

This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!

Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!

talking of Lynchian, here is a barber shaving an owl THE/ Sale of Esau's Birth-right;/ OR,/ The New Buckingham Ballad. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 🦉

Boston, what a joy. Thank you to RSA for welcoming me back into the fold, and to the entire SAA community. Receiving the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize was a completely unexpected honour (so much so, I temporarily forgot to stand up) and one I'll always be grateful for @saaupdates.bsky.social

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I'm looking for any historians of medicine or early modernists who might be willing to read and comment on a draft of a piece I'm currently writing on the experiences of men with cancer in early modern England. Lots of references to the senses, masculinity, and genitalia... Please share!

I'm involved in this programme with a project on 'Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars', which is recruiting a Career Development Fellow and funding a PhD candidate in early modern European history – please share widely! I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying #earlymodern

In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Some much needed inspiration from Grimsby on this rather damp Thursday morning. “Trees are just better for our streets and communities.” “No one else is going to do it... so we might as well crack on.”

One of my brilliant colleagues,Rob Waters, wrote this blog+ a longer HWJ article on a British history of boat crossings. Both are brilliant reads, I do recommend!

NEXT WEEK! The #EarlyModern takes Mile End.

This impressive table, now installed at Ely Cathedral, was made from 13-metre (44 ft) planks, cut from a massive trunk of Black Oak which had been preserved for 5,000 years in a Cambridgeshire peat blog before its discovery during ploughing in 2012 thefenlandblackoakproject.co.uk/our-story

'a demented accumulation' ... 'Add together everything owned by the Louvre, the National Gallery and the V&A, and you still have fewer than half the objects possessed by the British Museum.' www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

One of the loveliest drawings out there. Anonymous, French, 16th century, Interior with a Man Writing on a Long Table, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over faint sketch in graphite, 19.2 x 14.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) #earlymodern #skystorians

Happy Chicken Smoking Hat Day!

A stray line about 'wheeling poles' in my head this week led me back to its source: a nineteen-year-old John Milton, shifting from Latin prose to English verse in a college exercise. Surely, one of the most stylish breakings of university statutes there is www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44729/...

Online #earlymodern talk from Stephanie Shirilan looks 🔥 🗃️

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

As one of the key participants in this cheese's 'joyful demise', I can't emphasize enough how delicious (and impressive!) this was. Huge thanks to the amazingly talented Alasdair @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, and to Anna @annacusack.bsky.social for a heroic four years of pub night hosting

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If you're interested in learning more about skin studies, you can read my review of 'Stigma', edited by Katherine Dauge-Roth and Craig Koslofksy here, which came out one week ago in Cultural and Social History!

Hello! Finally joined here, almost exactly four years after I set up a Twitter for my PhD. I'm a researcher in material culture and early modern performance, with a particular interest in skin and the senses. Here's to a fresh new timeline full of research events, old books, and beautiful buildings📖