I'm in the new issue of @historytoday.com with a review of Penny Roberts's latest, an honest to god archival detective story which reconstructs sixteenth-century Huguenot networks from a bag of letters seized at the port of Dieppe. www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640 This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers. spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk

Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

In both the US and UK, we will soon have higher ed institutions with hundreds of managers who have never stood in the classroom and no faculty.

Got an email this morning to say a piece I co-authored with Christophe Gillain is one of the most viewed articles published by Renaissance Studies. It feels hard being an ECR right now but news like this is a real boost to morale ✨. It’s open access - link below

So hyped for this! Eying up that tasty strand on London as a Global City 😍

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

Overhaul of my blog on Anna of Denmark's household servants and expenses in Scotland, with new and better references: vanishedcomforts.org/2019/05/20/v...

Pleased to say that this volume on 17th-century composer and singer Barbara Strozzi and her world, “Barbara Strozzi in Context,” is finally out. I have a small essay in it, “Artemisia Gentileschi, Padovanino, and the Venetian Academies” www.cambridge.org/us/universit... #musichistory #earlymodern

So excited to announce our next conference: The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe (4-5th June) Please do join us in Exeter to hear our fantastic speakers explore this fascinating topic Attendance is free but very limited forms.office.com/e/shHr43XuHf #womenshist #philsky

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Our spring 2026 issue is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Ouverture au public, dès demain, d'une grande exposition organisée à l'occasion des 400 ans de la naissance de la marquise de Sevigné au @museecarnavalet.bsky.social !

Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control

assumed this was a sophisticated april fools at first

Happy to see there is a whole book out in May on Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Albemarle, which looks like it takes a fresh approach to her illnesses and finally addresses those awful marriages www.blackwaterpress.com/product/an-a...

Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama. bit.ly/4bEeH7a Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

Greatly looking forward to reading this new article from @fgottmann.bsky.social, Floris van Swet and Rémi Dewière! 🗃️

When I was living in Kazan, my host struggled to understand what I ate as a vegetarian and once gave me a sandwich filled with a slab of butter and a huge heap of dill. (I’ve barely been able to smell dill, let alone taste it, since.)

"Polwhele is notable among her predecessors and contemporaries not only because she privileges homoeroticism and homosociality, but also due to her subversive use of cross-dressing." Jordan Ivie's “Sexual Subversion and Homoerotic Sanction in Elizabeth Polwhele’s The Faithfull Virgins" link below

David van der Linden - Remembering the Wars of Religion Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France À paraître en juin aux Oxford UP

Hear ye, hear ye! My book is in production! www.routledge.com/Unconventual...

Mo Chara is free! The case has been dismissed on a technicality but every one of us who went to that Kentish Town gig knows he didn’t “display a flag in support of Hezbollah”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That last bit hits hard. I spent last summer (heavily pregnant) undoing terrible copyedits for my book that I'm sure were done by AI. They tell us AI will save us time, make things more efficient, and yet...

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.

It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Explore our job opportunities focused on the Medieval and Early Modern periods (thread 🧵): 1. Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History, University of Warwick memorients.com/news/assista...

The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green - an incredible microhistory of Crispina Peres and her travails with the inquisition www.penguin.co.uk/books/453870...

Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Ugly to see ECRs pitted against established scholars. No doubt what IS imperilling disciplines is years of under-investment in universities, the huge waste of time and resources that goes into the REF, and the government's xenophobic attitude towards international students and scholars.

It’s #WomensHistoryMonth and to celebrate we’re offering you the chance to take part in a special Transcribathon with @factsandfiles.bsky.social. Transcribe and enrich letters, diaries and documents written by women. There are prizes for participants who transcribe the most! ➡️ bit.ly/4tZyxAL

Next Thursday (March 5th) @ihrscb.bsky.social we are hosting the Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in #EarlyModern England. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Deadline tomorrow! Send in your expressions of interest.

What if the Jacobite cause had a queer history we were never told about? 🌈 In our new long-read, researcher and writer Indigo Dunphy-Smith takes us on a journey from Aberdeenshire’s estates to the art circles of Rome.

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

A new issue of HLQ is out - see more via Project Muse. It's really exciting to see the directions the journal is taking with @brettrushforth.bsky.social as editor. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56420

So excited for this 😍

Proofs just in for A Golden World, featuring our glorious cover artwork ✨ A glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social, A Golden World is out 18 June and available to pre-order now. linktr.ee/agoldenworld

Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of literature, history, or culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? We’re open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

📣 3-year early modern French job at Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Had the most wonderful evening back in Oxford last night with my PhDay 1 Marina Perkins celebrating the publication of our books. Thanks to all who joined us (didn’t get enough photos bc I was having too much fun/wine) ❤️

Sean Heath on Parisian street songs and the Sorbonne Chinese censure of 1700 doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️ (2/7)

It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️