A little plug for the Adornes book, posted on another site by Brepols, so I will add it here! Brepols publishers Now Available 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗺 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲, 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺 Edited by Bryony Coombs, Jill Harrison and Giovanna Guidicini

Fantastic blogpost by @patthomson.bsky.social on productive discomfort 👏 ‘Academic writing is a form of thinking. It’s not the transcription of thoughts already completed, but a process of thinking itself.’ patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

This letter, addressed to a spice merchant in Montpellier, is dated to the 1250s and written mostly in medieval Occitan. The most compelling part to me is that it's written on paper rather than parchment. Remarkably early example of paper in this region, especially among merchants! #medievalsky

Remarkably, some original census covers survive! A red wax seal is still visible on this return for Clonbeg, sent from Tipperary Town to Henry Baker Sterne, Parliament House, Dublin on 28 April 1766. Ironically, Baker Sterne had died a fortnight previously. virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP... 👀 ALT

Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June? Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

We've got a new episode coming very soon and it's a really special one that has been kicked off and then carried out by two A level Eng Lang students. It's all about the language of & about neurodiversity, especially autism, and it features an interview with @jessaiston.bsky.social Coming soon!

'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England' Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Ever wondered what it’s like to open a real historical time capsule? Join our online roundtable “Letters and Artefacts from the Captured Ship Anne Marie (1807)” on 2 March, 1 pm CET! Life, loss & connection at sea: eventbrite.com/e/ships-seafaring-15001800-tickets-1931080938069 #earlymodern #history

📢 NEW Will of the Month Post! 📢 This is for everyone who followed our 'Eyrie of Swans' discussion last week, and with particular thanks to @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social , @lostplayhouse.bsky.social and @tracelarkhall.bsky.social who helped us identify it! 🦢 1/3🧵 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Really important research findings here

'Early findings from the first National Disabled Staff Survey (NDSS), completed by 837 disabled staff across 127 institutions in 2025, expose deep structural barriers that undermine wellbeing, career progression, and retention.' 1/2

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

This tiny clay tablet from around 1500 BCE gives a curious account of two medical problems that struck people in their sleep. The first is a mid-sleep nosebleed on the 25th day of the month Ayyāru (around April/May). “During my sleep, blood ran out of my nose.” 📷 K. Wagensonner

Some linguistic fun for a Sunday morning.

The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD. Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians

New Heritage Spotlight ✨ The late 15th-century chandelier in St John’s, Perth survived the Reformation - and turns out to be a fascinating composite reconstruction

I wrote a thing with Mark Hall on the wonderful late medieval chandelier in St John’s, Perth. Many simply do not know that Scotland has such ecclesiastical treasures and it’s more important than ever that we celebrate them at this time of mass church closures.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Missed this 3 days ago, but we're thrilled this is out. @ruthahnert.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social & I wrote this after 6 years of collaboration + discussions about - what "data" and "digitization" mean [in History] - what we need to do to ensure data is findable & accessible

We're hiring at Birkbeck! Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics, full-time and open-ended. Closing date March 18th. Details here: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Late to my own party, but it is wonderful to see my edition of Hortense Mancini’s letters in print, which arrived at the start of the year. If you think your library would benefit from the words of one of the seventeenth-century’s most libertine women, here is the link: iterpress.org/978164959131...

Just in time for reading week, in the Transactions of the @royalhistsoc.org: historians and our uses of data; sources, GLAM collections, newspapers, access and more... #dh 🗃️ A pleasure thinking and writing with @ruthahnert.bsky.social and @kmcdono.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

On Thursday 26 March, the Royal Historical Society will be holding an online meeting for Directors of Research / REF Leads to discuss preparations by historians for the REF. Contact [email protected] to participate.

Applications of Corpus Linguistics by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry and Robbie Love With case studies from diverse contexts, this book shows and critically reflects on applications of corpus linguistics research and methods. 📚 https://cup.org/3NZeaTI

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Video and audio recordings are now available of the Society's latest lecture (6 February): ‘Alike in Appearance but not in Scope’: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe' with Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) bit.ly/46j42f5 @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences? Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant! Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com lingcomm.org/grants/

Excited to share the CfP for @amendproject.bsky.social ‘s Early Modern European Neurodivergence conference happening in Swansea this August! Info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TQpB...

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly. @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Should anyone be at a loose end tomorrow evening.

Talking about some of the amazing letters from the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project next week for @ihrlibrary.bsky.social 17th Century Seminar. Join us! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

We're hiring! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Latest issue of Potestas available via the link: e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/po... This monograph offers a rich, coherent, and stimulating exploration of the female networks of power

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

My latest piece for @uk.theconversation.com, inspired by my research on medieval women and falconry, and two recent trips to the movies 🍿 🦅

Early Modernists on Bluesky! Can someone provide me with bibliographical indications on fur trade in Central- and Eastern Europe in the sixteenth century?

Literature/Writer folk: do you have a go-to essay on the craft of writing, or an essay about essays? I'm brainstorming activities for my L1 writing class this term and my temptation is to bang on about Orwell all term.

Need some help accessing medieval documents? I am available for freelance work in archives! I have extensive experience transcribing medieval documents in Latin, Middle French, Middle English and Italian from 1200 to 1500.

Registration for this year's Corpora and Discourse conference, at Lancaster University, is now live!

The octopus conference is back! 🐙 "Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland #LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf

Letter & ‘ahu ‘ula (cloak) sent by King Kamehameha I of Hawai’i to George III in 1810. Letter requests protection for Hawai’i & reminded George of agreements made between the two kingdom 17 yrs earlier. On display @britishmuseum.bsky.social Hawai’i exhibition #hawaii #kamehamehai #hawaiiexhibition

Still a few days left to apply for the next colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern cities. 🙂 Please do get in touch with any questions.

#DH colleagues - does anyone know of live/participatory training courses in SNA softwares such as Gephi/nodeXL for humanities data, online or in person? Thinking summer schools, multi-day courses rather than brief intro @ukiedh.bsky.social

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

The tickets for my philosophical fiction writing workshop at York Literary Festival in March have just been released! I am *so* excited for this! www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/lets-ge... Sharing this post would be much appreciated! 🙏

Details of Steve Boardman's forthcoming *The First Stewart Dynasty: Scotland, 1371–1488*, the long awaited Late Middle Ages volume in the New Edinburgh History of Scotland. Discount code from EUP on flyer.