📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

EMDG is back, this Thursday (26th Feb, 1-2pm)! Izzy Daltry will be joining us from Hull to present a paper on watery emotion in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Izzy's abstract and the link to join online can both be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

It's set to be a gloomy day tomorrow, so how about some medieval loyalties instead! We have a very promising selection of 20-minute papers and 5-minute presentations, with a general discussion for all to join at the end. Bring a hot drink and join us online 1.30-4.30pm GMT! (zoom link at request)

The Disability History report is out! #DisHist

A great read!

Had a grand time at #nacbs2025 presenting with @baersafari.bsky.social @melissa-glass.bsky.social @brodiewaddell.bsky.social! It was great to talk on Bristol Quakers and their prints as well as attend lots of fascinating papers

TEN DAYS TO GO!

Really looking forward to hearing this fascinating paper today!

This Thursday (9th October) at 1pm, our Early Modern Discussion Group will be recommencing! Our first paper will be presented by our very own Cameron Whiteside on 'The Commission on Fees: its "Recommendations" and "Regulation" of Manuscript Production.' Please see the website for how to join!

Finally made the move over from the cesspit of X, hello everyone! I offer a nice rubricated 'H'enry from my research into the Trésor des Chartes as proof of identity!

Slightly delayed but thank you to the organisers of the @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social colloquium in Reims! Great to hear lots of fascinating papers and present some of my work on ‘riot’!

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026 Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin... #SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

Bamford Edge, #England is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek. Rob Marrs from @liverpooluni.bsky.social is comparing the effectiveness of 3 different #bracken control methods at this #heath site. bit.ly/BamfordEdge Watch his webinar where he talks on the 2 LTEs he manages bit.ly/3kUOhly @leverhulme.ac.uk ‬🌎

The organisers of the UKDHHH outdid themselves today - what a brilliant day of talks, and a masterclass in accessibility

Very much looking forward to speaking on ‘riot’ this evening!

Learn about #earlymodern millers! Millers played a crucial role in the food system, but in popular literature they were plagued by reputations of fraud and lechery. In this short piece, I explore the relationship between reputation and reality and how it changed over time.

An exciting date for your diaries: the first Birkbeck-QMUL Historical Studies Graduate Symposium will take place on 18 June, on the theme of "methodologies in historical research". BBK PhD students @bbkhistorical.bsky.social & @qmul.ac.uk do send your proposals for 5 or 15 minute papers by 30 April!

Venice had another griffin last week. Thanks to the University of Warwick and the organisers for the Cultural Legacies of Corruption in Europe and its Empires, 1500-today, for the invite to give a paper on the 'Corruption Records of the Court of Chancery'.

How did people conceptualize disability in the past? In the latest for Broadsides, Anna Conner explores disability and identity in C17 naval petitions. #skystorians #histmed www.nacbs.org/post/shiftin...

📣Call for participants: History UK is continuing its focus groups on disability and history in HE in April. Any students/staff with experience in teaching disability history OR studying history with a disability, come and talk to us! #DisabilityHistory #DisHist www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

SCEMS Spring 2025 events lineup 👇

Really looking forward to these workshops and events this semester!

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵 Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Delighted to have my paper - ‘Playing fields not battlefields’: pacifism, non-violence and sport in inter-war Britain- published in Sport in History. @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social

Never mind Christmas - it's almost World Braille Day! Excited to be kicking off the new year with the Braillists Foundation down in Worcester #Braille200 www.braillists.org/uncategorise...