"Why Machiavelli Matters Now". Join Stephen Bowd and Alexander Lee, in conversation with Brian Maxson, as they celebrate the publication their new book with friends, colleagues and well-wishers. 18 June 2026, 12:00EDT/17:00BST/18:00CEST #SRSlyGood #Skystorians rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

This delightful map of Dartmoor (showing Ashburton to Buckland-in-the-Moor, featuring Ausewell Rocks) was part of an Exchequer case in 1605, for settling the bounds of Ashburton manor: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3... [MPB 1/7]

I love maps - historic and modern - so Callan Davies’s latest article is a particular delight. shakespearestage.substack.com/p/navigating...

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

Monday 11 May @ 6.30pm online BEFORE THE ROSE: MARLOWE AT THE CURTAIN Dr Callan Davies takes you back to the years around 1587, when The Rose is being built on Bankside and Christopher Marlowe is living up in Shoreditch, close by to The Curtain Playhouse. £8 / £5 www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

“End of the Lutheran chronicle. This book is not worth reading. The quarrels of the vile Luther — suspicious of heresy.” This inscription in a copy of Marcin Bielski’s “Kronika tho iest historya swiata“ (Cracow,1564) absolutely made my day. Early modern readers: never shy with opinions!

If you're interested in #ChristopherMarlowe, you might like to read my new note on Marlowe as an auditor of the ParkerLibrary's collections in Cambridge. Thanks to Tuija @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social for all your help! 🗺️📚🌎 @marlowemightyln.bsky.social @marlowestudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/note...

Does anyone know what might be a realistic weekly rent in London in c1602? I’m thinking Shakespeare with the Mountjoys. Thank you for any leads on this.

This vignette has it all. It's February 1595/6 and Richard Bancroft (yes that Richard Bancroft) is at Fishmongers' Hall about a 'mishapp' over a lease of a property in Pudding Lane. It transpired that 'a mowse hath eaten of the Seale of the Lease' and could he please have another one. 1/2

Today is publication day for ‘Fairies: A History’ - so I’ve written a special free post over on ‘All Old Strange Things’ to celebrate 📚🧚 open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

I have a question for the Bluesky hive-mind: does anyone know which two 'Alchemical' books this inventory is referring to? #earlymodern #palaeography

CSMBR Online Lecture Series 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 (𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞) 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Shahrzad Irannejad To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../between-... #CSMBR #IslamicMedicine #Brainanatomy #Ventricles

Reminder 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐎 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 Deadline: 𝟑𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 ------------------------------ 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/grants.../sa... #CSMBR #SantorioAward #Grants #FundingOpportunities

🚨 Premiere alert! Episode 2 of our series Future Makers is out now. We’re showing how research and innovation are really improving people’s lives. This episode explores how innovators are tackling microplastics in everyday products like paint and skincare: youtu.be/5MSU239d5QM?...

Looking forward to listening to this at 5pm today! Here's the link if anyone fancies joining late: www.rsa.org/news/716279/... 🗺️ 🧭

33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

IO SATURNALIA! It’s time to celebrate this Roman winter festival. Here’s our special episode all about it 🥂🎩 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Excited to be contributing an essay on Byron and Shelley, human potentiality, and the politics of the ocean to this edited collection! 📖🌊

“Many hands make light work” – and many papers make a great conference. CFP now open for Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Hull, 1–3 July 2026. Abstracts due 30 Jan → [email protected] More info: earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...

Pandora’s Jar, now in simplified Chinese! I love seeing my books travel the world. This edition published by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press 📘

There is still time to register for our free lecture this evening on The Devil’s Trill www.history.org.uk/events/calen...

This prosthetic eye made from a mixture of natural tar and animal fat is nearly 5,000 years old. It was found near the city of Zabol in Iran in 2006. Archaeologists believe that the prosthetic eye, which was once painted gold, was worn by an ancient priestess who stood 6’ tall.

Loved this little exploration put on by the V&A - especially Bluemel's dagger message translated as: 'don't have a drag of the vape, you will regret it'. 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-t7...

Interesting note on Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-13 url: academic.oup.com/nq/article-a... Thanks David Urban!👼

Leathercoat Russet apple is mentioned in 1598 by Shakespeare in his play Henry IV when Davy tells Bardolph in Shallow’s Orchard that “There’s a dish of leather-coats for you” #HeritageOrchard #heirloomFruit

Now @rankinmccabe.bsky.social on the heretical cartography of Marlowe's Tamburlaine. I love the mappae mundi, so this one is great fun.

🎤 Looking forward to an early start this Saturday at Perth's Tyrants and Dictators online conference. Here's the link if anyone fancies joining: www.trybooking.com/events/landi... I'll be chatting about Marlowe's Tamburlaine 🍴👑🍴

Workshops: Early Modern Maps #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

Just two weeks until Voices of Thunder is published! If you’re interested in hearing the stories of a dozen radical seventeenth-century women, it can be pre-ordered now ⚡️#earlymodern #womenshistory

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance. muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...

🎉 We’re proud to have launched LUP Open Languages A #SubscribetoOpen initiative aiming to make research in languages, literatures & cultures #OpenAccess. Thanks to partners & editors for their support. Find out more ⬇️ #S2O @frenchstudies.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

Oh my, I think this is the most beautiful book I have bought for a long time. Just come out , #BogFashion by Nicole DeRushie. #IronAge #BronzeAge

Enjoying Elias M. W.'s newest theme - for Brave New World www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-R5...

Slowly making the move over to Bluesky and it has been lovely to see so many names and profile pictures from the twittering olden days! Here's a sunny Melbourne morning at Trinity College for those of you waking up to spring in the northern hemisphere:

This week, the Royal Historical Society issued calls for its next round of research funding. Applications now invited for: - Postgraduate Research Support Grants - Early Career Research Support Grants - Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History Further details bit.ly/3ZnsQhv. #Skystorians

My first article is officially in print! Vol. 39, No. 2 of Renaissance Studies! :)

EXCITEMENT!!! OUR PROGRAMME IS LIVE! Would you look at all these fascinating panels and presentations -- the #EarlyModern continues to fascinate. Have a peak www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial... and get excited for 2-5 July in Bristol for #RenSoc25! #SkyStorians

Caught up with some #MedievalWomen and managed to smell some angels at the BL @britishlibrary.bsky.social before heading back to Oz - what a wonderful collection and curation of works!

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