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! 🗃️

I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.

Another very attractive job offer (only two years, alas) to join the Faculty of History in Cambridge! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Le roman Sévigné D’une grande liberté de ton, ses Lettres, écrites entre 1648 et 1696, nous introduisent tour à tour dans son univers privé et dans la vie de la Cour de Louis XIV. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026 We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 'Gender and Creativity' section of the Gender Justice project for @academic.oup.com. This section is edited by Dr. Paulina Bronfman, with Madelyn Detloff serving as General Editor for the overall project. Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZI-0...

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Late to my own party, but it is wonderful to see my edition of Hortense Mancini’s letters in print, which arrived at the start of the year. If you think your library would benefit from the words of one of the seventeenth-century’s most libertine women, here is the link: iterpress.org/978164959131...

Joan W. Scott calling upon democrats everywhere👇🏽 “The suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself. “Defence of gender studies is… a vital stand (for)…democracy, one based on aspirations for equality and justice for all”.

Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England is out now with Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v... This watery, riotous book has been more than a decade in the making, and I'm delighted to see it out in the world to live its own life!

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts join us in the fight against these cuts!

Jim Ratcliffe, who wants the UK government to fund a new stadium for the football club that he owns (and should pay for himself), says migrants are taking resources from the state. Billionaire logic.

The next @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t

Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Did my duty as #Reformazing lecturer and introduced the First Years to the Luther Insult Generator. So making sure you remember to get your dose of insults in for the day as well, #Skystorians: ergofabulous.org/luther/

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...