Only just saw this: ...'“the best students from such schools arrive at Cambridge with expertise and interests that align well with the intellectual demands” of the subjects.' - That's how self-perpetuating elites work. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cambrid...

South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name

'Mary wrote what is believed to be her last letter at 2am on Wednesday 8 February 1587 when she wrote to her brother-in-law Henri III in France to put her affairs in order. She was executed six hours later at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire.' #Skystorians

PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.

CFP: Truth and Un-Truth in the History of Political Thought https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158929 Naples, 05.10.2026-07.10.2026, European Society for the History of Political Thought & University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.03.2026

'The union said management had "agreed to halt all planned compulsory redundancies for academic staff until at least July 2026".'

CFP: Truth and Un-Truth: Eighth Biennial Conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, 5-7 October 2026. Deadline for proposals is 15 March 2026. Spread the word! europoliticalthought.wordpress.com #HPT #skystorians

ESHPT-Brill First-Book Manuscript Prize in the History of Political Thought, deadline: 31 Dec. The winner receives €500 at our conference in Naples in Oct 26 & a chance to publish their book in the Brill Series History of European Political & Constitutional Thought europoliticalthought.wordpress.com

It's beyond me why interest in #foreign #languages should decline in a globalised world. Stop provincialisation - learn a foreign language! www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026

'...further inquiries suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,” Murphy said, which was “really shocking”. The university denies that the decision was based on commercial interests.' #HE

Look what just arrived in the post! Essays on Sidney in French & English, edited by the wonderful @tomaashby.bsky.social and Christopher Hamel. #earlymodern #republicanism

“Talent can be born anywhere, but opportunities are not,” says Ina Ganguli, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “I think that’s the reason we see so many foreign Nobel laureates.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #history

The Wolfson History Prize shortlist for 2025 is announced. Good reading.

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'A panel of five judges, chaired by O’Farrell, will assess 15,000 words of a novel in progress, and both winner and runner-up will receive not only money, but mentoring from Mantel’s literary agency, AM Heath; the publishing house John Murray; and the creative writing charity Arvon.'

Just finished reading "Regicide in the Family: Finding John Dixwell" (2022) by Sarah Dixwell Brown. Very personal and very moving, combining family history with the history of the English Civil Wars and the fate of the regicides in exile. thehistorywoman.com/2025/09/21/p... #skystorians #earlymodern

1/14 "... [for] their weal, not their woe". Today is the publication date of "Le Républicanisme d'Algernon Sidney" @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social, co-edited by myself and Christopher Hamel (@univrouen.bsky.social). This is the first ever volume on Sidney classiques-garnier.com/le-republica...

Happening today! www.hab.de/event/transl...

Arrived in lovely Wolfenbüttel for our workshop www.hab.de/event/transl... #skystorians

"The reason languages are so desired among employers isn’t just for the words & grammar, but because of the soft skills that come with accumulating them – the resilience, the creative thinking, and the openness to new ideas that is demanded of you when you immerse yourself into different cultures."

Old master painting looted by Nazis disappears from home in Argentina

'It is...a living archaeological, architectural, cultural, historical, human and even scientific laboratory, praised and prized by everyone from medievalists and heritage restoration experts to professionals in the sustainable construction industry.' 1/2

CFP: Truth and Un-Truth in the History of Political Thought. Eighth Biennial Conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, 5-7 October 2026 europoliticalthought.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/h... #skystorians #HPT

And just over a week to go until our next WS at the HAB: "Translating Cultures: Migration, Mobility and Translation in Europe, c1600-1850" with Luc Borot, Alessia Castagnino, Veronika Čapská, Luisa Simonutti, Ariel Hessayon, Ann Thomson, Laszlo Kontler, @matthewcleary.bsky.social 1/3

Only 4 days to go: WS "Republican Translations in the 1790s", organised by @ebuchetmann.bsky.social. Speakers include Mark Philp, Ann Thomson, Sanja Perovic, Erica Mannucci, @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social , @hakonevju.bsky.social and Sylvie Kleinman. www.geschichte.uni-rostock.de/storages/uni...

"Thanks to the new excavations, the picture is now clearer: post-79 Pompeii reemerges, less as a city than as a precarious and grey agglomeration, a kind of camp, a favela among the still-recognisable ruins of the Pompeii that once was," the site's director ... said. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fire-scorched land is less able to handle climate-driven downpours.

Here's my review of Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas, edited by Linda Levy Peck and Adrianna E. Bakos - you can read/ download it for free www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #skystorians #EarlyModernHistory #women #exile

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

Workshop: Translating Cultures: Migration, Mobility and Translation in Europe, c1600-1850, 3/4 September 2025, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. With @rhammersley99.bsky.social @ebuchetmann.bsky.social @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social et al. The programme is now online @ www.hab.de/event/transl...

Wow, The Seventeenth Century is the most efficient journal ever. I submitted a book review on Thursday and received the proofs for checking this morning. #C17th #skystorians #journals www.tandfonline.com/journals/rse...

Deadline late tomorrow! Some bursaries are available for early career scholars -- please do consider applying & share! @christywang.bsky.social @kyamamoto.bsky.social

'"the traditional appeal of working in HE, the collaboration, security, and sense of mission, is fading for some. As a result, more senior professionals are exploring opportunities outside the sector. We’re seeing considerable movement at senior levels, which is unusual and telling.”'

In a new article for the RSA, Will Snell argues that we should bust the myth of meritocracy, and acknowledge the outsized role that luck plays in all of our lives- as well as the impacts of the structural barriers holding people back. Read the full article here: www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...

Of interest to historians. Full time, permanent, £33,000 to £37,000, at Kew. 'The National Archives is looking for two Records Specialist to join our Collections Expertise & Engagement department, where we use our expert knowledge to inspire audiences and make them differently about archives.'

The first ever collection on Sidney. Chapters in French & English. Merci beaucoup: François Quastana, Jamie Wheeler Cessna, Alberto de Barros, Luís Falcão, Cesare Cuttica, @rhammersley99.bsky.social, Jean Terrel, Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq, @thehistorywoman.bsky.social, & my co-ed. Christopher Hamel.

Irish universities are under-funded, recent salary increases were not funded putting more pressure on budgets, there is widespread precarity of employment, research infrastructure is creaking, rarely funding for equipment repair & maintenance, and PhD scholarship stipends are inadequate etc etc

Good leadership www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Well timed. Harvard needs some good news. hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...

„Island of strangers“ - isn’t it nice to feel welcome? #migration

"A new poll by More in Common for University College London found that 51% of British voters think international students staying to work after studying is a good thing for the UK, including 33% of those who voted for Reform in 2024." tinyurl.com/bdhs8smu #HE

Rare PhD funding opportunity @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social The topic of research must relate to themes on European culture, political thought, language and literature. #PhD #Humanities #SocialSciences

Thank you @alcs.co.uk for championing authors’ rights & collecting royalties for us! Just received mine. Always a welcome bit of extra income in uncertain times. Every author should sign up!

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Fully funded AHRC PhD studentship (£21,380 per annum and tuition fees covered) at the Open University & Museum of the Home. Deadline 7 April 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMC556/a...

Awkward: "The report further points out that if charges were to be introduced, The British Museum, for instance, would be placed in the unenviable position of having to charge Nigerian tourists to see the Benin Bronzes, or Egyptians to view the Rosetta Stone." tinyurl.com/4kzwj37r