It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

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Programme available: 'Economics & Politics in the Early Modern Epic', 19 June 2026, Sussex An international symposium reevaluating the relationship between the economic & the political in early modern epic poems & their influences. rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModernEvents #ItWillBeEpic

The new BRILL book series keep coming from the brill @erikagaffney.bsky.social! "Genders and Sexualities in the Early Modern World" rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern

Come and ask me questions about Shakespeare in the Kitchen! Really looking forward to this.

Book Launch: join @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, in conversation with @willtosh.bsky.social, in the Kitchen with Shakespeare at Brunch, Lunch, Tea & Suppertime!* 22 June 2026, 9:00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST *other [meal]time zones available rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents

Annual @cemskcl.bsky.social Colloquium: "Periodizing the Early/Modern", 11 June 2026, King's College London rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #EarlyModernEvents #IsItEarlyModernThough

🎶Mm-noom-ba-deh Doom-boom-ba-beh Doo-boo-boom-ba-beh-beh Tension pushin' down on me Pressin' down on yoo--🎶 Oh no, no, no "Under Tension: Reconstructing the Hippocratic Bench from Antiquity to Today", 4 June 2026, online & BSR, 15:00 CET rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #SRSlyGood #EarlyModern

👀 @erikagaffney.bsky.social is launching a new book series: this time it's BRILL* 🥁 'Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures', with Allison Levy as the series editor rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #Skystorians

#CfP: 'Crossing Boundaries, Fostering Dialogue: Humanities, Academia and the City of Rome', Notre Dame Rome Via Ostilia 15, 00184 Roma (RM), Italy. 19 October 2026 – 20 October 2026, Proposals by 30 June 2026 rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents

Book Launch! Join @cemskcl.bsky.social for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s (UC Berkeley) latest book, "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular" (Princeton University Press, 2026), 10 June 2026. #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

#CfP: VAHRG Study Day: New Research on Venetian Art, 24 October 2026, online. Proposals by 30 June 2026 rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians #EarlyModernVirtualEvents #EarlyModern

#CfP: 'Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice', online, 11-12 November 2026. Proposals by 30 Jun3 2026 rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians #EarlyModernVirtualEvents #EarlyModernEvents

*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...

"Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where the pieces land is not an education policy worth of the name. It is neglect bordering on vandalism." 🗃️ Solidarity to everyone - something has got to urgently change.

Come one, come all!

With the plans to retract and close swathes of departments across UKHE, we reaffirm the value of the humanities and other subject areas under threat. A broad and capacious knowledge base is vital for a thriving democracy. rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

Hey global early modernists, the Forum on Early-modern Empires and Global Interactions has joined Bluesky! This lively community of scholars comes together for biennial conferences & awards book & article prizes. Follow @feegiconference.bsky.social & check out feegi.org/index.html. #earlymodern

Whoa! What a generous #earlymodern resource!

Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640 This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers. spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk

📢 Job Opportunity at @durham.ac.uk Bridging Fellow in Early Modern Italian Studies: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... IMEMS seeks to appoint a Bridging Fellow with research interests in the field of early modern Italian studies to the Inventing Futures research programme @languagesdurham.bsky.social

#CfP 📢 Conference: "Freedom of Conscience in the Pre-Enlightenment (1000-1650)", University of Cambridge 🌍Cambridge | 📆June 17, 2026 ⏰Deadline: 28 May 2026 🔗 www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archive... #ReligiousHistory #IntellectualHistory #EarlyModern #FreedomOfConscience #MedievalStudies

#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com

So hyped for this! Eying up that tasty strand on London as a Global City 😍

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Rick-rolled by BL Add. MS 45964 (cc: @stemma.bsky.social)

The countdown is on! Only 2 months until our Summer Conference in London on The Church and Race. Make sure to register your attendance to see our plenary speakers: Prof Miri Rubin, Prof Herman Bennett, Prof David Horrell and the Right Revd Rowan Williams 😎 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

Very excited for the 2027 Society for Renaissance Studies conference, to be held in the city many are calling the Leeds of the south.

Ponders in #EarlyMusic ...

LONDON BABY! Join us for what will undoubtedly be four days of being reminded why it is what we do in the first place. Adore this group of scholars and the conversations they spark. And now with diamond sparkles!

I am gonna draw so many chickens

Very happy to be helping organise the Essential Skills workshops at the 2027 SRS conference! Sessions on palaeography, languages, printing & conservation (and much more!)

(No, you didn't see any post that seemed to imply we have a conference twice a year. You just dreamed we did.) (English is a deeply confusing language for a firebird.)

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Whoops! forgot to post the link...this wing of the phoenix is sub-par at the moment 🫣 🐥🔥🐣 rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

Call for Contributions to an edited collection: “Music, Sound, and Domestic Spaces” Deadline: 1 August 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModern rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

Conference: The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe, 5 June 2026, University of Exeter. Free to attend but register by 16 May #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents

See thread: deadline for submissions 15 June 2026 #Skystorians #LettersGetParatextual

Join us for the EHS Summer Conference! Whether you’re a long-time member of our Society or joining us for the first time, this is a great opportunity to connect with other #historians who share a love of #churchhistory. 📅 13-17 July 2026 📍 Royal Holloway, University of London shorturl.at/5Gi0i

Join UCL's Early Modern Exchanges to celebrate the launch of 'The Radical Spanish Empire' by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters. 13th May @ 6pm. Full details below!

Applications for the inaugural Annual Renaissance PhD Summer School, a collaboration b/w @RenWarwick, the Warburg Institute, & the CESR at L'Université de Tours, w/ support from @NewberryLibrary, close TOMORROW. Apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren...

So excited! 🔥

Hey #earlymodern peeps and #skystorians! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World," and we'd love to see wonderful and brilliant article ideas! Check out the CFP here, and let me know if you have any questions!

AGM NOW! Please join with the link in your inbox!

#CfP: ESRA 2027: "Shakespeare & Form", 27–30 July '27, in the undulating landscape of North Wales! Proposals by 5 June '26 The Triumvirate of Terrific Keynotes are @drsheeha.bsky.social, William E. Engel & Florence March rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents #Shakespeare

Pleased to be editing my absolute favourite weird travel narrative / scam / orientalist fantasy / proto-novel (choose your own description) for @themhra.bsky.social. Soon YOU can inflict on your students too! : www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

DEADLINE TONIGHT (30th April)!!!! The application portal will remain open until the pumpkin hour, so send us your #SRSlyGood postdoctoral fellowship proposals.