What a post! This would be fascinating. Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) - British Library #skystorians 🗃️#earlymodern #c18th www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...

Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History- Faculty of History - Worcester College- University of Oxford #skystorians 🗃️#c18th www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...

📢Joyce Youings Annual Lecture: PROF. JANE WHITTLE📢 Work and gender, status and power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England. - This Weds 28 Jan 3pm - Uni of Exeter & on Zoom - Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/1979987772... #EarlyModern 🗃️ @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

CfP📢The History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland Annual Conference 📆 11-12 June 2026 |🌍Queen Mary University (London) ⏰Deadline: 30 January 2026 🔗 historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap... #HistoryofWomen #ReligiousHistory #CFP #EarlyModern

Great opportunity for PhD students in #premodern architectural history to work with Cammy Brothers in Lausanne. #earlymodern #architecture #arthistory

Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Post-doc position at the University of Warsaw in a project on #earlymodern protestant printing centres operating in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (English version starts at page 7). Applications are accepted until 9 March 2026. #history

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

#Skystorians #History Job opportunity: @histparl.bsky.social are recruiting a Research Fellow for their 1660-1832 House of Lords project; initially for 3 years; would suit historian of long 18th century; deadline 16 Feb, see historyofparliament.com/2026/01/12/v...

#earlymodern #skystorians

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

A good convenient house to rent for particularly Quack doctors or Pawn brokers with two doors in different streets - both professions needed discretion...😉 Daily Post, 19 Aug. 1723

If we thought working from coffee shops was a 21st century invention...the #earlymodern ads show us different. Post Master and Hist. Account, Dec 15 1702.

New podcast for you today: the revival of atomism in the 17th century! We look especially at Gassendi and Basso. www.historyofphilosophy.net/revival-atom... #philsky #atomism #gassendi #philosophy #earlymodern #podcast

We’ve reached day 8 of #ArchiveAdventCalendar and it’s all about #FestiveFood. Thinking of making your own preserves as Christmas gifts this year? Here are a couple of recipes for "Marmlit" and "Jille" from our 18th century herbal notebook

Notre Dame Australia has advertised a new scholarship for postgraduate studies in Jewish history valued at over AU$56,000 per annum. They are particularly interested in students who want to focus on medieval Jewish philosophy or intellectual history. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians

#EarlyModern recipe books reflect collective medical knowledge. Anyone of any gender, ethnicity, or status could practise medicine. But the founding of the RCP in 1518 was an attempt to stamp out this inclusive culture and ensure that only wealthy men could be doctors #ExploreArchives #EYAInclusion

If you have students interested in an extremely trans- and interdisciplinary PhD in humanities, check out our new PhD in Magic: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...

Job announcement: part time, fixed term contract for a research assistant for a global Renaissance exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Suitable for advanced doctoral candidates/early career applicants #earlymodern #16thcentury history.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/ra...

The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference will be at Lancaster in July. Call for papers just released. I'll put putting together a proposal, so hope to see some of you there! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Details here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶 We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!

#earlymodern drama in two ads... One day selling VD medicines💊 then ending his life...😢 Post Boy, 7 Nov. 1717 and Weekly Journal, Saturday's Post, 7 May 1720.

#Earlymodern ads are never boring! One Quack Doctor, Jackson, and one Rowe, Exciseman, to be hanged in chains for robbing a mail coach... quite a career change...🤔

@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus. Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... #history #envhistory #earlymodern

Deadline for HEI supervisor applications THIS FRIDAY 5pm: - 'Dispersal of Manuscripts From the Cotton Library' - 'Libraries, Literacy, and Learning in Leeds' - 'New Sources & Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - 'Cold-War Socialism, Non-Alignment & Anti-Colonialism in Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979'

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh (School of History, Classics and Archaeology): memorients.com/news/postdoc...

The Apothecary's Wife @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social #earlymodern ads are never boring! The widow and daughter of famous Pox-doctor Kirleus (continuing his trade) in King's Bench for 'Assault, Battery, and false Imprisonment'. The jury didn't think much of the charge...😉 Applebee’s, 17 Feb 1722

People on the bus looking strangely at me again…😂

1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖

In 1700s Britain tea was in such high demand it was often counterfeited - with local plants mixed with turpentine, paint and sheep dung. This book shows an authentic Chinese tea leaf (bottom left) in comparison with 'spurious' substitute leaves Find out more in Hooked www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

The useless AI Overview strikes again... this gem appeared when I wanted to check who the guest was while actually watching the programme...😂

The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research. The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.

Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern

And here's the baptism record of 'Guye Fawxe', son to Edward Fawxe. Taken from the parish register of St Michael le Belfrey which is held here at the Borthwick. He was baptised on the 16th April 1570. Fun fact: the entry below Guy's is a little faded from all the fingers run across it!

🎆 It's Bonfire Night🎆 To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).

EARLY MODERN PHDs!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Oooh...China Root (used in Consumption broths and VD-cures...), arriving in big quantities! 😍 #earlymodern Daily Courant, Aug 5, 1714.

Could do with some of this: Memory and Forgetfulness Electuary...but I would never buy from Mr Payn, the archenemy of my fave medicine seller Mrs Garway. I will tell all at #BSECS in January! Daily Courant, July 2, 2014.

How interesting! Sale of a druggists stock. Druggists are rarely visible as they dealt mainly B2B and were just becoming sizeable businesses. #earlymodern Daily Courant, Aug 3, 1714.

📢This Sunday in #Exeter! Historical reenactment based on historical research, in a former priory, converted to a domestic dwelling during the reformation. 'my perfect Sunday ... ' #EarlyModern 🗃️

#earlymodern ads are never boring! Blackmail and death threats - and the King's pardon for convicting information...😬 Post Man, Jan 23, 1725.

#earlymodern ads are never boring! An ox on the way to slaughter ran into a house... created a mess! Good on you Mr Ox! 🐂 🩲👖👗🧦🪟 St James's evening Post, May 6, 1729.

#earlymodern ads are never boring! Is this the worlds first 'business school'? Post Boy Jan 7, 1725.

The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM sshm.org/sshm-2026/

#earlymodern ads are never boring! Diana Maccartney dismissed servant taking revenge pretending be the wife of her former employer and running him into debt! Post Boy, May 7, 1720.