As Francois Verges compels us to ask: who cleans (and cares for) the world? The answer is pretty clear. Sending out my own personal thanks to the many migrants who have cared for me and my family in the NHS on this #InternationalMigrantsDay

I'm quite dispirited about heritage colleagues refusal to use alt text. Baffled, since accessibility and inclusion ought to be at the heart of heritage communication. Frustrated because it's getting worse. What to do? (Please don't explain about folks who struggle with it, I know & that's not it)

This book was incredible!!! Riveting, brilliant, funny, moving, relatable, all of it. I have rarely read a non-fiction book so fast and happily. Cannot recommend it enough to my humanist friends

Teaching students to read auction catalogues, for the MA Art & Business today @courtauld.bsky.social They hunted for annotations and compared frontispiece - so satisfying to be able to pour over the primary sources for a hands on session! At senate house library

Le colloque commence jeudi ! 'Mapping fashion savoir faire:craft, space and scale 16th-21st centuries' 11-13 dec. sorbonne-alliance.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/m...

Teaching students to read auction catalogues, for the MA Art & Business today @courtauld.bsky.social They hunted for annotations and compared frontispiece - so satisfying to be able to pour over the primary sources for a hands on session! At senate house library

Journal of European Periodical Studies 17th-present is now on Bluesky!

A few places left for non-members! Come and meet us! 👇

Feeling like things are tipping you over the edge? Look at this gorgeous detail from Quentin Pierre Chedel's book of prints, with fisherman falling out of the page...

Every time someone asks me if nails existed in the 18th cent, I lose an hour off my life. Every time someone INSISTS that nails didnt exist in the 18c, I lose 2 years. Why do so many people think that nail making is some insane modern marvel?

Feeling like things are tipping you over the edge? Look at this gorgeous detail from Quentin Pierre Chedel's book of prints, with fisherman falling out of the page...

*small embarrassed voice* A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s. doi.org/10.1093/libr...

Rejoignez la Société de l'Histoire des Collections! Retrouvez nous le 5 décembre 2025 Visite guidée du musée de Cluny "Le Moyen Âge du XIXe siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux" avec le commissaire F. Tixier. Inscription thesocietyforthehistoryofcollecting.wildapricot.org/event-6430785

Rejoignez la Société de l'Histoire des Collections! Retrouvez nous le 5 décembre 2025 Visite guidée du musée de Cluny "Le Moyen Âge du XIXe siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux" avec le commissaire F. Tixier. Inscription thesocietyforthehistoryofcollecting.wildapricot.org/event-6430785

Retrouvailles 💑 Ces deux bustes sont réunis pour la première fois depuis leur séparation en 1893 ! Ils étaient alors présentés comme les chefs-reliquaires médiévaux de Ferdinand d’Aragon et Isabelle la Catholique. 👑 En réalité, il s'agit de créations du 19e siècle.

NEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Very pleased to be hosting the 13th Sammelband 15-16 event in Nicosia from tomorrow, co-organised with @lankian.bsky.social You can take a look at the programme here: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2810

Anyone identifies this french currency?

#Slop meant liquid mud or slush in the eighteenth century. If we're all going to drown in it, let's at least do it the #18thc way!

Besides meaning liquid mud, the etymology of the word “slop” literally comes from old english for “(cow) dung”, so it feels like an appropriate modern day re-usage for bullshit.

#Slop meant liquid mud or slush in the eighteenth century. If we're all going to drown in it, let's at least do it the #18thc way!

The way the word “slop” has re-entered the lexicon as a general purpose word describing “someone’s made-up bullshit that’s being forced on people” (even outside of AI contexts) is good because it feels like we didn’t have a simple way to point out how common that is aside from domain-specific jargon

When you really need to stress where the most important bit of the text is - 15th century, Avignon,  Bibliothèque Ceccano - 1094, f. 195v

Are you up for some more palaeographical excitement? Then ready yourself for next Tuesday's seminar in London's Senate House where we can offer you not one but two scintillating papers featuring new research from early career scholars. Register here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Hone your secretary!

Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures: Nottingham · Change.org Leicester · Change.org #edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

An RQ&R should be a moral obligation to review the resubmit paper. Take less reviews, do it better.

I'm both an author & an associate editor & in both roles a hill on which I will die is that attaching a new reviewer at R&R is bad practice at best & often unfair. That said, given how often original reviewers refuse to review a R&R (no shade), editors are often stuck with how to evaluate a R&R.

New acquisition for the Cromwell Museum… this ‘pocket’ road map of Huntingdonshire by Thomas Jenner. In 1643 Jenner republished Matthew Simmon's book 'A Direction for the English Traveller' which had 37 county maps accompanied by a distance table.

Link to the students' petition: c.org/CqGHZq6tbW

www.bbc.com/news/article... Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia. Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Nottingham university is where I taught my first ever course, as French lectrice in Trent Building ... from day one I was hooked, and loved Academia. Oh Academia, you never love us back. Such cruel news.

The great collective rebellions of nineteenth-century Wales. The Merthyr Rising. The Rebecca Riots. The time when Lady Llanover's friends all refused to wear her awful Welsh costumes at the eisteddfod

Une tribune importante de @monniauxd.bsky.social : Que se passerait-il si Trump ordonnait aux GAFAM de cesser leurs services cloud à l'égard de nos gouvernements ? www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

[🎆 !!! BIG REVEAL !!! 🎆] Aliénor l'a décrété : le 65e congrès de la SAES aura lieu à #Poitiers, ville aux 100 clochers ⛪ (et bientôt aux 1000 spécialistes d'études anglophones). ✨ Le thème de l'année 2026 est l'ÉMANCIPATION. ✨

November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory I look very forward to this! I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!

Great thread for my course on museum, labels and public access!

hot take: the social norm that "cool" people don’t talk about their jobs is bad for labour organizing because it perpetuates the idea that our work selves are severed from and unrelated to our true selves and it prevents the deepening of community relationships around labour

How your email finds me. Alexander Browne, compendious Drawing Book, London : Austin Holdisworth 1677

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh. (If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

Dealer networks/rings and fragment strategy 👇

French Revolution document rifle continues! Let’s just not think too much about what these personal papers might be stained with eh 😬😬😬

Me whenever I watch a piece of media where people have archival materials or records and there's nary an #archivist nor records manager to be seen. 📜 #GLAMS #archives

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) memorients.com/events/cfp-b... #CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology

I love chairing panels at academic conferences and I Have Thoughts about it! I think it’s a really important service role AND you can create the conditions for everyone in the panel to have a good time AND it can be fun! A 🧵👇 1/9

Officially endorsed by me on behalf of #linguistics Only missing tip in @hormiga.bsky.social 's post: Please, never write in your review "This paper should be edited by a native English speaker." You mean, "This paper needs edits for [grammar/style/voice/insert specific problem here]."

A good archivist is an archivist who knows what to keep. An excellent archivist knows what to discard. Is #Deaccession still controversial?

[Accompagnement de la #Recherche] 💡Découvrez les entrepôts de données #SHS et comment y valoriser vos recherches, avec un focus sur Nakala d'@huma-num.bsky.social 📅 webinaire lundi 7/07 11h Inscription ➡️ tinyurl.com/yywfj3c4 1 évt Printemps de la Donnée 2025 #FAIRdata #nakala #PDLD2025 #openscience