Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

Congratulations to the volume editors, contributors and series editors on the publication of - Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Edited by Anni Hella, Anu Korhonen Blurb and table of contents: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Per...

All about Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin: "The image of him is everywhere but no one seems to hear or read his own voice.” (Salad Hilowle)

What do the #earlymodern chess-playing automaton, the "Mechanical Turk" from 1770, and today’s AI have in common? There’s still more of a human touch to AI than you might think or expect. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-menschlic...

It's no secret! Arno Strohmeyer's new article about Habsburg-Ottoman espionage practices is now available online. Read it in public or private on FirstView! #History #AcademicSky #Ottoman #Habsburg #Austria #Diplomacy #EarlyModern #Skystorians tinyurl.com/H-O-secrecy

Working on the history of hair? Or just found a hairy case study you would like to explore? We are looking forward to it! Please answer our CfP on „Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026“ and join us in Lucerne this October! #skystorians #earlymodern

#CfP 📢 "Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies", eds. Mary Katherine Newman and Rana Banna Seeking chapter proposals on how language and the senses shaped evidence in the #earlymodern world (c.1492–1700). ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 12 April 2026 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #HistoryOfKnowledge

If you're new to our service you should know that we are more than just St Bartholomew’s. We hold over 145 collections, including over 35 hospitals as well as NHS authorities, medical & nursing schools, charities, and much more You can find a list of collections we hold here - tinyurl.com/d9ds6nhv

It's happening. european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...

Mark Watkins of the Chronicle of Higher Ed says faculty should spend 90 mins a week to teach ourselves about AI & unis are now sending out emails w his recommendation. I write here about the gift of having someone admit that automation intensifies labor sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2026/...

The Church of England might seem an unusual source for info about female medical practitioners in the years 1500-1800. But it is where this story of a brief period of opportunity is set. . . Read the full blog👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/archbis... #WomensHistoryMonth @rcphysicians.bsky.social #histmed

I enjoyed visiting the exhibition at the KHM in Vienna. The teasers about her rediscovery intrigued me. I am delighted to be able to read more about it and this #earlymodern artist. www.khm.at/en/artists/m...

Hear ye, hear ye! My book is in production! www.routledge.com/Unconventual...

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Two historians on Spanish-speaking women in Early America

Delighted my collaboration with Industrial Museums Scotland @shacklington.bsky.social ‘Sniffers in Residence: Using Smell to Engage Intergenerational Audiences with Industrial Heritage' is one of the projects to be funded under this scheme! Look out for industrial smelly things from April onwards!

My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern

20 February 1583: Ambassador Mendoza writes home about a picture sent from Flanders featuring the Netherlands depicted as a cow an early version of this 1630s painting. It features Philip II trying to control the cow, his spurs drawing blood; William of Orange milking it, a sign ... 1/ #earlymodern

Ein paar Plätze sind noch frei und noch nehme ich Anmeldungen entgegen: turns.hypotheses.org/2356

Dank der Gemälde von Sascha Schneider gilt mein erster Post hierzu noch nicht mal als jugendfrei. Man lernt nie aus 🤷. Zu sehen übrigens: Gefühl der Abhängigkeit (li), Lichtsieg (re), beide ca. 1920.

Liebe #skystorians: 🤫 so unter uns, noch 5mal schlafen, dann ist es schon so weit: meine Experimentierwerkstatt zu #Bias in der #Geschichte an der @univie.ac.at, organisiert am @ihb-oeaw.bsky.social und gefördert vom @fwf-at.bsky.social . Noch nehme ich Anmeldungen entgegen 🤗 (1/2)

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three! Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Open letter @arolsenarchives.bsky.social: Consistent Action Against AI-generated Holocaust Distortions on Social Media Platforms

Ein Friendly Reminder für alle #skystorians, die Lust und Zeit auf eine Experimentierwerkstatt zu #Bias und #Herrschaft haben. Bis zum 10.01.2026 habt ihr noch Zeit, eure Ideen bei mir einzureichen. Ich bin schon gespannt. Alle Infos findet ihr im Link:

Liebe #earlymodern #skystorians, kurz vor der Zeit zwischen den Jahren habe ich mir mit einer für Februar geplanten Experimentierwerkstatt zu #Bias und #Herrschaft ein kleines Geschenk an mich selbst gemacht. Frist des Calls 10.01.2026, alle Infos: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

www.derstandard.at/story/300000... Sie entwickelte eine bahnbrechende Methode der Teilchenphysik und machte Kernreaktionen sichtbar. In Wien erhielt sie nicht einmal eine bezahlte Stelle.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

OMG OMG OMG! Belgian universities ARE SPEAKING OUT! And brilliantly collectively. LOOK! hogeronderwijsinopstand.be Belgian unis are also facing drastic cuts that will change what universities are. It's so hopeful to see staff pulling together so thoughtfully. Let's protect what we know to matter.

And here's the essay part of that post. sharedhistoryproject.org/essay/few-ex...

We are excited to welcome @wedgie-bce.bsky.social on November 30th for our online speaker series! #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #witchcraft

Antonio Pérez de Aguilar, Artist's Cupboard, c. 1769 (Museo Nacional de Arte INBA, Mexico City)

I'm honored to have been invited to contribute to the "AGENART: La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria, 1532-1700" blog. Please do check out their website & all of the project's wonderful scholarly contributions! #FlemishArt #WomensHistory #ArtHistory agenart.org/the-infanta-...

Our latest issue of #Diplomatica is out ! Volume 7.2 is here, with great contributions on topics such as Ferrante I of Naples, and Chinese literary diplomacy. It includes a debate around a manifesto for new diplomatic history written by some of our members. Check it out here: tinyurl.com/Diplomatica

Die #Hofzwergin Luisa wendet sich im 16. Jh. an die spanische Königin: Ihr Bruder durfte wegen seiner Größe nicht dem #Franziskanerorden beitreten. @juliagebke.bsky.social über die Verhandlung von körperlichen Normvorstellungen & sozialen Grenzen. habsmon.hypotheses.o...#Hofzwergin#Franziskanerordenihb-oeaw.bsky.social

Liebe #earlymodern #skystorians, habt ihr Lust auf eine kleine Zeitreise an den spanischen Königshof im 16. Jahrhundert? Und wollt ihr wissen, was Luisa, die "Hofzwergin", und die spanische Königin, Anna von Österreich, umtrieb? Dann schaut mal hier👇 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

📯 Netzwerke der Nonnen are a material object AND open access available! www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/netzwer...

Francisco Ortiz, originally from Santoña, was appointed as shipmaster of the Fort de Nantes by the Spanish charterer, Francisco Sánchez de Madrid. His personal archive, comprising more than 500 documents, reveals many details about his personal life and his social relationships.

Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool. #earlymodern #witches #halloween #scholar #academic #gothic #horror #history britishonlinearchives.com/collections/...

#earlymodern ads are never boring! An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟 St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.

How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680? His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians

A great presentation from Lyndal Roper, now Q&A time. Did you know that between 70,000 and 100,000 people died in just two to three months during the German Peasants' War? This map shows the extent of the destruction - hundreds of castles, convents, and monastaries were attacked #16thC #EarlyModern

Whoop, Whoop! Verrückt und freudig! doi.org/10.24894/978...

OA, #earlymodern #bookhistory: Visuelle Geschichtsvermittlung Zur Medialität historischer Lehrwerke für Kinder und Jugendliche im langen 18. Jahrhundert. Von @tinahartfiel.bsky.social