We're very pleased to welcome @themakingofmaidstone.org, a Victoria County History project working on the development of Maidstone in the 16th and 17th centuries. Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more: #Skystorians #LocalHistory

🎉 Congratulations to John Bulaitis joint winner of this year's British Agricultural History Society Thirsk Prize for the Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History with his book, The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936! @braghs.bsky.social buff.ly/s4AUf6P

Job! Fixed-term, 1 year lecturer in Med/Ren Lit at UEA (covering the fellowship of @satyrane.bsky.social) ... it's a lovely, friendly School ... vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...

Call for Applications: Oxford Centre for Life-Writing - Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers’ Programme The call is now open! Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) invites applications for its 2025-26 programme. Deadline: 16th June

You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world. Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/

Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July! See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social

Our CFP has been extended - there are just a handful of places left, so please get in touch if you'd like to be part of our seminar programme. We provide an especially good space for PhD students and early career researchers!

Exciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...

Our new annual conference in support of the humanities and social sciences is on Wednesday 2 April. Book your place at the conversation with leading voices in the education and research sector, in person at The British Academy, London: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...

Join us online or face 2 face this Wednesday (5.30-7pm GMT) for a three-cornered exploration of disorientation in time and of the role that history education might play in addressing it. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/hie-sig/2025... #historyeducation @1972shp.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar this Tuesday (17:30 UK time in person and online) for our Postgraduate Panel, with papers on Named Entity Recognition for historical documents and on Hans Sloanes' plant collections ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... #dhist

THIS FRIDAY! Excited to welcome @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social to the #LowCountries seminar with a talk on "The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries" 28 March, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar... #EarlyModern

If anyone is attending this international Aphra Behn conference this week, and would like to write a review for the WSG website, please get in touch! womensstudiesgroup.org/2025/03/14/w...

This Friday (21st March), Sheffield will be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop on beer! Topics of discussion include the politics of brewing, how to make beer more sustainably, and the globalisation of the drink! To join, get in touch!

This blog casts some light on the mysterious (to most people, including all the authors of this particular work), process of writing a book of readable, attractive - and, whisper it, peer reviewed - history. The resulting book is a wonderful insight into the Victorian seaside - do take a look. 🗃️

A month on: DID YOU SEE OUR PROGRAMME YET?? It's ✨fabulous✨. Come and join us in Bristol in July! (early bird rate until the end of the month)

Still time to send us an application for a new IHR seminar series.

A 3-year medieval history teaching post @uclhistory.bsky.social to replace me during maternity and research leave. A wonderful place to work. I’m happy to talk to anyone interested in applying. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

postdoctoral research fellow for Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p... #AcademicJobs

Join Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group for the online launch event for the groundbreaking new book "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press): Tuesday, March 4, 6pm EST. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jana-dambr... #earlymodern 🗃️

Lovely Aphra Behn, can you see her? What a marvellous day for Canterbury's literary heritage!

📢FEBRUARY WILL OF THE MONTH📢 What happens when you reimagine John Pooke's 1607 will as his life story, complete with love interest & a mysterious character called 'Mother Sibill'? #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Skystorians @leverhulme.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Prof Richard Cust (Birmingham) specialises in the political and cultural history of late 16th and early 17th century England. In this talk, he will examine Charles I’s responsibility for the political crises of his reign. Recommended for any students of the period.

On 21st Feb I'll be talking about Why Making Books Means Reading Differently at York's Thin Ice Press - come along to hear about books familiar and curious, amid our printing presses, ink, and type www.thinicepress.org/events/why-m...

Great talk coming up this Thursday by my fellow CKHH co-director. New to his platform so please share!

Deadline extended until end of February - looking for a fully funded PhD with a focus on aural diversity? Please apply! #joinus #fundedphd #acoustics #research #uniofsalford #salford #leverhulme

Come and join us at this #free #online #training session on 27 February! #KnowledgeExchange and #Impact: How, What, Why? We'll explore toolkits, resources & case studies, and will think critically and reflectively, beyond REF and KEF... Sign up via link below 👇

Our next talk: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh is co-director of the Centre for Kent History and Heritage. She writes a highly acclaimed blog, organises annual History Weekends and has contributed to numerous local history publications.

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) this Thursday (23 Jan). We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella, Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email [email protected] for the link. All welcome!

Just wanted to draw people's attention to the Fellowship programme at the Greenwich Maritime Museum - it looks like a lot of fun to me. www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

Check out the #CHW2025 Tudors & Stuarts events, speakers and all the books here: bookshop.canterbury.ac.uk/tudors-and-s... @medievalcanter.bsky.social @lvhicks.bsky.social @drcbartram.bsky.social @davehitchcock.bsky.social @drjoannepaul.bsky.social @amylicence.bsky.social @jackieeales.bsky.social

We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR. Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

I’ll be speaking about Honor Lisle at the CKHH weekend. Come along for some great lectures.

This should be another wonderful celebration of the richness of English language, literature, and creative writing. And it will be all the better for YOUR being there

The CKHH Canterbury History Weekend is now available to book via www.ckhh.org.uk/tudors-stuarts Do join us for a long weekend of great public lectures. Please help us share this on this new platform.

“For nor in nothing, nor in things Extreme and skattering bright, can love inhere”. ‘Air and Angels’ in the Leconfield Manuscript of John Donne’s poems, written (beautifully) between ca 1620 and 1632. MS Add. 8467 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Retired but yet to complete your research? Apply for the Trust's Emeritus Fellowship: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/emeritus-fellowships Closing date: 30 January 2025. Check out projects from successful applicants here: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/grants-in-focus?nid=4

Join us next week for our Dymond Lecture! We will be joined by Professors Craig Lambert and John McAleer, who will discuss English merchant shipping and early modern maritime communities. Find out more: ow.ly/JOBZ50SE3NC #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

I'm organising small reading groups to give and receive writing feedback for anyone working on premodern print and book culture (generously defined). Drop an email to [email protected] by Friday 13th December to register your interest! printexchanges.wordpress.com