I'm at the point where I hate every part of my book. I hope this is a normal feeling and not a sign that my book is, in fact, a complete mess... #earlymodern #amwriting #skystorians #sendchocolate

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Only 2 weeks left to submit your proposal for this year's Medieval Germany Workshop in cooperation with German History Society! 📯 📅 29 May 2026 📍German Historical Institute London ⏰ Deadline: 15 February 2026 1/3

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and it’s too good not to share it.

Please share widely! 3-year Postdoc in Early Christian Studies. Deadline: 8 March. Let me know if you have any questions or want to nominate a colleague.

There have been some fantastic proposals so far! The CFP is open until 13th Feb so there is still time to submit a proposal 😁

How do you become a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society? What kinds of activity lead to Fellowship? RHS Fellows are elected for their 'original contribution to historical scholarship'. We've a new guide to the many ways Fellows achieve and demonstrate this bit.ly/48mpcJa #Skystorians 1/2

The countdown is on for our Winter Meeting 2026! You can check out the speaker lineup on our website: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me... #HistoryConference #EHSWinter26

Grants! We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026. Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/

The Society invites applications for the following three funding programmes, with deadlines 23 to 31 January 2026 bit.ly/3LbxDQb > RHS Workshop Grants > Applied History Fellowships, in association with @ihr.bsky.social > Fellowships, for completion of a History PhD, also with the IHR #Skystorians

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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-...

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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-...