Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

Looking for a New Year's resolution that is good for your mind and (relatively) easy to keep? Check out the Institute of Historical Research seminars for January 2026. Fourteen seminars in week 1 alone. Free, broad-ranging, open to the public and usually available both in person and online.

I have completely finished one of the harder chapters of my book. It's a Christmas miracle! #ecrchat #skystorians #reformazing #phew

Post-Doc Fellowships at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel 2027 (Lower Saxony) www.hab.de/en/forschung...

all academic applications should have consolation prizes. doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020” or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”

THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary! We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands. 📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... #CFP 🗃️

The CFP for the Society of Reformation Studies' Annual Conference has been released! The theme is 'Lay Relgion in the Reformation' but topics outside this are very welcome. Please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lay-religi... #churchhistory #skystorians #nuntastic #earlymodern #history #theology

There is no netball tonight so I have got dressed in my gym kit as a reminder/motivation to do some exercise at lunch time. Future Ruth is chortling at present Ruth's optimism. #humpday #exercise #wouldratherread

We are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Gibson (Manchester) on Wednesday 12 November, 3.30-5pm in Forum Seminar Room 10 and on Teams for the following CEMS seminar: 'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'. Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social

On the new episode of "Historians & Their Histories," Thomas Lecaque tells us about his current book project on holy war rhetoric in colonial America. Listen on podcast streaming services or the MHS website: www.masshist.org/podcast/hath...

CALL FOR 'SPECIAL ISSUE' PAPERS of high academic quality for the 2027 issue of Fascicle 2 of 'Roczniki Humanistyczne' – History: The urban parish in the pre-industrial era (by 31/1/26); for full details see warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

I went to watch my son's first rugby match today. Only I could go to the wrong field and end up cheering on the wrong game 😳 To be fair, it was pretty dark and I haven't been to the sports pitches before... #excuses #mumfail

Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.

Huge congratulations to @tombhamilton.bsky.social on the launch of his brand new book 'A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender & Justice in Renaissance France.' You can order a copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30. @conteurohistory.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you're attending the "Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade" conference in Antwerp this week and are still looking for something to do on Saturday morning, my workshop has a few spots left: www.eventbrite.nl/e/show-and-t... (The workshop will not be in the Nottebohm Room)

Jennifer Powell Mcnutt and Herman Selderhuis have been awarded with the Sixteenth Century Society’s John Tedeschi Prize for the best reference work: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation. They would like to express their gratitute to all the contributors! @oxunipress.bsky.social

What's Christmas without a twerking Santa?! On display in our local garden centre 🤣 #christmasiscoming

A quick reminder that Dr Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social will be speaking TODAY on 'Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London' from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm in the Wolfson Room (NB02 at the IHR) and online, via Zoom! ✨ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📢 Sangalli Institute Award for Religious History 2025 Just a few days left to apply!⏰Deadline: 1 Nov 2025 An opportunity for scholars to have their monograph on religious history published. 🔗https://www.istitutosangalli.it/en/announcements/sangalli-institute-award-for-the-religious-history-2025/

CfP📢"Manuscript Practices and the Making of Exile Communities in the Early Modern Period", Institutes of Philosophy and History, Czech Academy of Sciences 📆15–16 April 2026 |🌍Prague ⏰Application deadline: 30 October 2025 #Earlymodern @czechacademy.bsky.social

In an environment where it feels like the Humanities are under attack, a new programme in Classics and Ancient History is to be celebrated! 🎉

Winner of best mustache and super smartie Ken Appold joins me on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about his new book: #Luther and the Peasants: #Religion, Ritual and the #Revoltof1525 @oxunipress.bsky.social #Reformation #earlymodern #skystorians newbooksnetwork.com/luther-and-t...

CfP 📣 We are pleased to co-organize the workshop “Indifference: Religious Boundaries in Question, 1650–1750”. 📅 28–29 May 2026 | 🌍 Goethe University Frankfurt We warmly invite you to circulate the call and submit your proposal. ⏰ Application deadline: 10 November 2025 #Earlymodern

Happening next Tuesday! Henrike Lähnemann (@hlaehnemann.bsky.social) will discuss how Latin and German texts written 500 years ago influenced the linguistic and historical development of early modern and modern Germany, looking at examples from nuns’ letters, Reformation pamphlets, and songs. 👇

Find out more about @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social's lecture on Wednesday 22 October 2025. We're thrilled to have her kick off our new Winter Lecture Series with 'Editing the Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' Register below! scottishhistorysociety.com/editing-the-...

Job: Digital Humanities Librarian employment.ku.edu/jobs/faculty...

We are looking forward to our online Winter Meeting on 'Creeds, Councils and Canons' on 10 January 2026. If you would like to present a paper, please make sure to send in your submission application by 31 October: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

Vodafone right now... #outage #wfhdrama #nowifi #vodafone #internet

Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.

Look what we have here then.

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants. Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026

Where did we get the letters of the alphabet from? And why does English use them so strangely? Here’s an excerpt from the new book, “Why Q needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them”, which takes you on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet:

The names of panel members for the criteria-setting phase of REF 2029 have now been announced on our panels pages. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

Really important research from The Policy Institute and the Higher Education Policy Institute: The UK public hugely underestimate both the economic importance of universities to the economy, and the levels of graduate satisfaction with university. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 @kingsmusic.bsky.social is delighted to offer a permanent Lectureship/Senior Lectureship, starting ASAP, in the history of opera and/or music theatre (any timeframe) OR historically European music c. 1780 to1900. SHORT DEADLINE – 31 AUGUST APPLY HERE: tinyurl.com/2t34j665 SHARE!!!

What is that tiny speck I see in the distance? Could it be the book-writing finish line? Yes I think it is! #amwriting #slowprogress #whydidieverstartthis #skystorians #earlymodern

🔔 #theologyjobs Assistant Professor in New Testament at McCormick Theological Seminary: www.mccormick.edu/jobboard #theology #theologie #newtestsment #BibleStudy #ichbinhanna #AcademicChatter

Can someone please point me in the direction of people working on philosophy and religion in the long eighteenth century..? #18thC #18C #C18th #18thCentury

For those who would like to watch the recording of my public talk the other evening on Ballads as News Media in Early Modern Europe, the link is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGVz... Thanks to the @historycouncilvic.bsky.social, University Publishing and the Old Treasury Building Melbourne!

There are three types of library users: the absent-minded dreamer (1), the busy and silent reader (2), and the one looking at the other two types (3). Which one are you? #bookhistory #skystorians

Having a great time at #reforc2025 with a great paper yesterday by @giovannigellera.bsky.social and right now a fascinating one on Osiander by @ruthatherton.bsky.social Looking forward to the rest of it... #earlymodern #skystorians

My article has been published! And it's open access so you can all enjoy reading about Protestant church orders 🤣 #earlymodern #churchhistory #skystorians #history #reformazing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗰. 𝟭𝟰𝟳𝟬-𝟭𝟱𝟱𝟬) By Joanka van der Laan More info: bit.ly/4cSBgnk #Literature #LowCountries #ReligiousStudies #History #Medievalsky #Renaissance #EarlyModern #Historysky

New episode for you today, on Descartes' physics! Given his mathematical theory of body, how could he explain qualitative features like color and heat, or even why things move around? www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-ph... #philsky #descartes #earlymodern

so exciting the Harleian collection will get its historian!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians