Win up to £1250 for your essay on travel and/or cultural exchange www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... (in spite of the outdated link summary)

Do say hello if you’re at @srsrensoc.bsky.social Bristol this week! @bhamcrems.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to present at this event a few days ago - my first academic paper delivered 📄😅 Thank you @spparkle.bsky.social and Peter Auger for organising, to the other presenters for some terrific papers, and to those who listened to me and asked questions - very much appreciated!

@crems-york.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social @bhamcrems.bsky.social @emeccwarwick.bsky.social ??

Registration now open! Hybrid study day: Popular Recreations in Early Modern England, 25 June - register now to attend for free! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

Last few days to get in your abstracts! Popular Recreations in Early Modern England with keynote by Prof Christopher Marsh! www.katiebankmusic.com/post/call-fo...

Thanks to the SRS for their contribution to our project via their Public Engagement Grant scheme! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz....

My sixteenth-century nuns knew a thing or two about disease and war and terror. This miniature prayer is rather lovely and poignant. #nuntastic

Same, little pepper, same

The ByrdCentral website will be going soon. As our last farewell, we wanted to share with you some stats from our education outreach project on the life and music of William Byrd, 'Reasons to Sing' 🎊 www.byrdcentral.com/post/project... Thank you for following us on our ByrdNyrd journey!

🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.

Today's office. Rehearsing Lady Rachel Fane's May #Masque at #bostonmanorhouse www.ticketsource.co.uk/boston-manor... #earlymodern #earlymusic @beyondshakes.bsky.social @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social

I guess most grant proposals work out like this

Abstracts! Calling all abstracts!

Christopher Marsh's keynote is called ‘The matter of ballads (and why ballads matter)’ - join us!

We've recently updated our Public Engagement Toolkits. Our free, downloadable PDF guides are full of useful ideas and tips for putting on a successful #PublicEngagement event. Toolkit topics include inclusion, partnerships, formats, budget, audiences and more!

I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much ashamed.

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

See it if you can. It was super fun.

And sometimes I actually get to sing (though I’m only doing the Saturday).

Apply by 19 Feb 2025: Trusts & Foundations Manager, London Youth Choirs, UK @londonyouthchoirs.bsky.social www.chorally.co/c/find-jobs/...

in case you missed it during the work week: registration is now open! 🤗

Puzzling over the meaning of catch lyrics this morning. There are three verses, which in essence are: The jolly old dog as he lay in his den. Scots do you see the sack that hangs on the wall? A jug, bag, purse, sack that hangs on the wall Any ideas #earlymodern?

Early modern English print scholar Malcom Jones has curated some pretty spectacular Pinterest boards of 16-18thC prints: pin.it/7xh2qfOJC Worth checking out if you've not been on that particular platform for a while...

17thC text question: "Let us welcome such a guest with Hosanna" - how common is this idea of Christ as a guest? Yes, some of you will know exactly what this is from...

The Bodleian Library Record 36, 1-2 contains work on amateur musicianship and dance tune collecting & a Hebrew poem by Edward Burdon addressed to Queen Elizabeth I. @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social, @acfranklin.bsky.social, @francescagalligan.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social 🔗bit.ly/BLR36-1-2

EXCITEMENT!!! OUR PROGRAMME IS LIVE! Would you look at all these fascinating panels and presentations -- the #EarlyModern continues to fascinate. Have a peak www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial... and get excited for 2-5 July in Bristol for #RenSoc25! #SkyStorians

Bruckner as well!

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.

📢JANUARY WILL OF THE MONTH📢 Our Zooniverse volunteers flagged the extraordinary will of a Berkshire gentleman. It is 3,000 words long and contains more than 50 bequests, including his cushions decorated with his coat of arms 🛡️📜 🗃️ #EarlyModern sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Don't forget to send in your applications by Friday! #EarlyModern

📢16th-CENTURY WILLS HAVE ARRIVED!📢 You can now help us transcribe wills from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI on our Zooniverse site. I found money being left for the marriage of poor maidens dwelling with honest men - what will you find? www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... #EarlyModern 🗃️

On Wed 12 March, we co-host a hybrid lecture by José Lingna Nafafé (Bristol) presenting his recent book, winner of the African Studies Association UK’s Best Book Award: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

Just over two weeks left to submit an abstract for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social conference 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'!

Sound and the Senses embodied experiences of hearing, listening and voicing With @racheljwillie.bsky.social & @spparkle.bsky.social www.rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-sem...

Who’s going to sign up for “Sound and the Senses” with @spparkle.bsky.social and me? Go on, you know you want to!

I’m looking forward to leading a discussion tomorrow 5pm on inclusivity and diversity in repertoire for @makingmusicuk.bsky.social free to register: www.makingmusic.org.uk/event/conver...

My Bham email is down while they sort out an issue with my contract in case any of you try and get in touch...

Announcing the arrival of @wjbdawes.bsky.social choral folk of Bluesky, rejoice.

Oh, well that's good news! My 2014 book 'The King's Irishmen: The Irish in the Exiled Court of Charles II, 1649-1660' is on sale! Might be of interest to any #earlymodern scholars of exile, mobility, community, and royalism/Civil Wars. It was shortlisted for the RHS's Whitfield Prize in 2014.

📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society Essay ECR Prize 2025 ECRs avast! Essays (6k-8k) are invited on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society. Enter by 1/3/25 1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. ⚓⚓⚓ hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

Calling all women's studies scholars: please spread the word about the bursary from the Women's Studies Group 1558-1837. £750 available to fund research in the field. #funding #ECR #PhD #AcademicWriting Applications open until 15 December. See website for details. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

Wednesday! I'm chairing assuming my internet cooperates! Global Perspectives on Women and the Reformations Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Distinguished Professor Emerita, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) Wednesday 13 November 2024, 16.00-17.15 GMT online (only) Zoom link: bit.ly/Wiesner-Hank...

With brilliant @spparkle.bsky.social, I’m organising a seminar on sound and the senses for #RenSoc25, partly in celebration of the work of the wonderful Bruce Smith, who sadly passed away in the summer.

We are ✨excited✨ about our upcoming conference on #earlymodern 'Interconnections' in Bristol. So we're pulling together all our speakers and Council members in one starter pack to get the conversation already going. Here's what's in store for #RenSoc25: go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt

Election was the last straw eh?

Now with link that works (sorry, didn't realise it was case sentitive)       Global Perspectives on Women and the Reformations       Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks       Wednesday 13 November 2020, 16.00-17.15 GMT online (only)       Zoom link: bit.ly/Wiesner-Hank...

A lovely photo by Rosie Taylor of us at St Mary Magdalen in Oxford, being filmed by Vidda Lefeber. Thanks to @spparkle.bsky.social and Will Dawes for facilitating our time there!

Now that more people are arriving on this page: pulled together some of the #earlymodern centres & journals that already are here into a neat starter pack, for easy following or simply to check those posts as a list. go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians