JUST A WEEK FROM NOW! We'll host the marvellous Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social who will speak about "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule" 6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Upcoming Seminars @ihreurope1500.bsky.social We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

I’m pleased to be taking part in the first seminar in this series, on 6 October 2015, with Margot Finn!!

And very grateful we'll have commentary on these papers by @jhowesuk.bsky.social, Linda Newson, and Toby Green #EarlyModern #SkyStorians @ihr.bsky.social

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World (King's College London): memorients.com/news/lecture...

ANZAMEMS Reading Group #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is! We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

WE ARE OFF! If you're still on commute or school run, you should be able to pick this up later as it's recorded. But always lovely to be able to actually ask questions of our brilliant post-docs. #SkyStorians #EarlyModern

CFP: @rebpaf.bsky.social’s “Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” With keynote speakers @wynkenhimself.bsky.social @renskehoff.bsky.social and Aditi Nafde Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 23-25 June 2026 Deadline: 15 December 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/re-med...

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

📣We're into the FINAL WEEK for applications for two Editorial Fellowship positions 2025-27!📣 Deadline is midnight 15th August (that's this Friday!), and the fellowships are open to any early career historians. See the post below for the full details: www.historyworkshop....

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN! Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library 9–10 Sep UCL @livesandletters.bsky.social This symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives & methodologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week. 25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous" 26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy" Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...

EXCITING WEEK THIS WEEK! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Just over a week until all #EarlyModern ists descend upon Bristol!! Find out who’s joining us at #RenSoc25 and start those conversations ahead of our gathering in person: go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #SkyStorians

We’re all set up! And just for anyone as chaotic as this tweeter: we’re not in the cellar of the @ihr.bsky.social but in Senate House 243. Lovely light room in this lovely spring weather!

If you couldn’t get the official zoom link, we can smuggle you in clandestinely. Just follow us, drop a picture of a cool tree, and we’ll DM. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

TONIGHT! Don’t miss out on hearing this exciting research! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

TOMORROW! Join us in Bloomsbury or online! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

MONDAY!!! Join us for an exciting talk by @michaelaidan.bsky.social on Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the #EarlyModern Iberian Atlantic 28 April, 5:30PM, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...) #SkyStorians

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS ILLUSTRATED INVENTORY. Plus: is a life story: creator notes why he got each cup, so marking each success & reward (and includes cups he no longer has)

Our next seminar is Allison Stielau (@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social) on "Treasure Hoards in the Thirty Years' War" 10 March, 5:30 (UK), @ihr.bsky.social & Zoom All welcome! Register for link: www.history.ac.uk/events/treas... #EarlyModern #Skystorians Image from: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

WE’RE OFF!!!!

TONIGHT! give a yell if you still need the zoom link! If that's past 4pm, yell at @onslies.bsky.social...

5 types of creepy-crawly are hiding in these 17th-century lyrics - can you spot which ones? 🐛 Develop your early modern manuscript skills in our 2 week online course, Reading English Handwriting 1500-1700 (31 March-11 April): tinyurl.com/3axymk62 MS 15117 @britishlibrary.bsky.social

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. Next session is 11 March 2025, 2-3:30pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Our Centre’s Director @samsonaws.bsky.social is giving an inaugural lecture on 28th May, please come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-frame...

Join us this Monday!

We do know how to wipe away that Monday feeling! TREASURE HOARDS!!!!! 💰 Do join us in beautiful Bloomsbury or online!

I have seen a sneak peak of this paper and it is SO GOOD: Treasures, what is treasured, what should be treasured... and all the intimate ways in which early modern people thought about keeping and creating safety in a time of crisis.... Join us on Monday! #EarlyModern 🗃️

MONDAY! Very excited to welcome Allison Stielau (@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social) to the @ihr.bsky.social for a talk about "Treasure Hoards in the Thirty Years' War" All welcome, in the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social or on zoom -- just register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/treas... #EarlyModern

Our project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...

Call for papers! "Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700," to be held in Canberra, Australia on 7 and 8 August 2025. Abstracts due 31 March 2025. #cfp #EarlyModern #nuntastic #16thC #17thC #skystorians #AcademicSky #BookHistory

We're welcoming Heleen Wyffels to the #LowCountries seminar this week! She'll talk about "Women, gender and social status in the #EarlyModern printing house" Join us for #BookHistory #GenderHistory 28 Feb 5:30 @ihr.bsky.social &zoom all welcome, register for zoom www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

In case you missed it this week: the recording is available on the very same link!

Don't miss out on the early bird registration!

We've said goodbye to twitter, as @royalhistsoc.bsky.social is very right in weening #SkyStorians off that platform now it's in the state it's in. We'd still love to rival our followers number that we had on there here though... 🥺

proud to sponsor this roundtable and our continued collaborations across the pond with the Renaissance Society of America.

📢Academic Job Klaxon📢 Our Inventing Futures team is growing - we’re looking for three early career researchers in Early Modern European History, French, and Italian Studies. Could you be one of our new colleagues? Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/4w9ssbxe

🎓 Fully Funded PhD Opportunities 🎓 We're looking for 3 PhD candidates to come on board at IMEMS to work on our flagship research programme, Inventing Futures. 🖌️Framing Gendered Violence 🌎 Utopia in the World ⛪️Wars of Religion Find out more here: tinyurl.com/4w9ssbxe

An Ottoman costume album forms the basis of today's MEMOries post from Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg. Enjoy these visual memories of life in Ottoman Istanbul. memorients.com/articles/vis...

Deadline for expressions of interest this Friday! CEMS First Article Workshop. A workshop designed for PGRs/ECRs looking to publish their first journal articles. A great space to receive and discuss anonymous peer review. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/first...

@isecs-sieds.bsky.social has joined Bluesky! Make sure to follow them for all things ISECS! oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

Very cool! And timely given the recent Eisleben find.

and we're OFF! Do still join us if you can :)

Our next seminar is Allison Stielau (@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social) on "Treasure Hoards in the Thirty Years' War" 10 March, 5:30 (UK), @ihr.bsky.social & Zoom All welcome! Register for link: www.history.ac.uk/events/treas... #EarlyModern #Skystorians Image from: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Thanks to those who have followed us this week. Our channel will provide you with updates on the Society's work to support and advocate for history and historians, as well as the activity of other Uk / RoW organisations who do likewise. They include 120+ networks in our Starter Pack bit.ly/4gLVuj7

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

We're joining the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social in this #Skystorians X-ile and won't be posting on twitter anymore from Friday. Follow us here for updates about our seminar and other #EarlyModern goings-on in London.

The Worth Library Fellowship scheme is now open: edwardworthlibrary.ie/research-fel... Closing date is 4 April 2025. Please retweet @earlymodhistory.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.bsky.social @historyofscience.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social