Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

Fascinating stuff from the CMS' own Dr Evan Jones!

According to the later Comber, 'The title of this MS is somewhat long, but a part of it is as follows: "A Collection of Almighty God's favours, mercies, and deliverances of myself when I was with Child of my seventh Child, and only surviving Son Robert Thornton" (plus 88 more words!). #EarlyModern

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

This Fri, 19 September: Join Paul Dryburgh, medieval collections specialist @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "England's first colony: medieval Ireland, 1171-1500". An overview of English intervention in Ireland and its role in the political development of the British and Irish isles.

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”' Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

📢 Today the Academy launches a major new report urging action to tackle a growing crisis in our universities. Cuts to courses mean more regions than ever are ‘cold spots’ for access to many SHAPE subjects - with even more at risk. 🧵 📍Read the full report: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

And about time, too - a useful and valuable intervention (because of Radio 4's audience - it's probably too late, but that is what it is).

Cookie cutter consultancy recommendations for all (gut course offerings & programmes, large courses taught by fewer fac, gut research) will not do the trick here. It's kicking the can down the road while making generic universities precisely when unis should be hubs of local/regional innovation.

'Changes to visa rules and a new levy on international student fees threaten to undermine the sector – with alarming knock-on effects in places where universities play an especially important economic and cultural role.' 1/2

🔴 The union said its members had “no choice” but to take industrial action www.scotsman.com/education/ed...

The database from my PhD-dissertation is finally publicly available! Detailed data from 3250 south-Swedish probate records, both urban and rural, from between 1570 and the 1860s, free for anyone to use for your own projects. www.lusem.lu.se/organisation...

Our book isn't quite out yet, but this blog gives a teaser... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social cambridgeblog.org/2025/09/peop...

Have you heard our recent BBC You’re Dead To Me episode about Renaissance Era Beauty Trends? It’s very funny, and I got a historical makeover! My guests are fab comedian Tatty Macleod and brilliant expert historian @jillburke.bsky.social Available on all podcast apps worldwide

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

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The 3rd article for our Creative History in the Classroom is out by laura Harrison & @drrosewallis.bsky.social. It’s a great read on creativity as inclusive community making & #unessay. It’s also a powerful reminder about the current state of HE! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #skyistorians

One month left to submit an abstract for our conference 'Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800', 1-3 July 2026 in Leiden: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... #medieval #earlymodern #bookhistory

“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division." Words that very much need to be said.

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. 😬)

One of our project blog posts but resharing for #WorldLetterWritingDay. 📜 🗃️ #EarlyModern

🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂

The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/

After life as a student, Alice Thornton's son, Robert, was sorely in debt. She wrote a plea to her great-nephew, Abstrupus Danby, for help #OTD 28 Aug. 1688: ‘I am so deeply involved for him already that I am threatened to be clapped in prison’. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

Great to see Alice Thornton's Books featured recently in The Guardian and The Smithsonian Magazine:

Still looking for suggestions of digital editions of #EarlyModern life-writing, diaries, memoirs etc. Is there anything comparable to Alice Thornton's books out there? thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/

Of course I should have made @sharonhoward.bsky.social's Early Modern Resources my first port of call ... 🤦‍♀️ #EarlyModern 🗃️ earlymodernweb.org/resources/pr...

REGISTRATION OPEN! Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade. Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on [email protected] #palaeography #Orkney

Have you seen that our project has had some news coverage over the last few weeks? We've rounded the stories up here: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...

The 1875 autobiography is a composite of three books, predominantly Book 1, put together by a Victorian editor. To read Alice Thornton's 4 separate accounts online, head to our website thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk #books #literature 📚

The BBC is a publicly funded service. Its archive should be open to anyone and researchers should not be beholden to the bbc to choose what we see. And not on only 2 days a week either.

On which ... what are you favourite online collections of early modern letters, diaries/life-writing, and other 'personal documents'? #EarlyModern 🗃️

Thornton in the (US!) news!

Read the Dramatic C17th Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story Researchers have digitized all 4 volumes, which offer a compelling window into a tumultuous period in English history by Sonja Anderson for Smithsonian Magazine www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

#EarlyModern 🗃️ Excellent theme for the EHS Women's Committee workshop this year 👇

For a post on how this turned out for Alice Thornton in 1669, have a read of blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... by @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social for the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. H/t @sharonhoward.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ 📚

A colleague just drew this to my attention! It takes the story back to its origins in 2018 through to the release of our digital edition this year, after #AHRC funding. And the play gets a mention too.

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840? The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners! #SwitchingTheLens

“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements. Read or watch the full talk now buff.ly/2WjzcLG

EXCLUSIVE: The rejected Dundee University recovery plan that proposed 690 job losses in full

Why are so few women found participating in premodern revolts? In this piece from our archives, Shannon McSheffrey uses the Evil May Day riots of 1517 to unpack the patriarchal underpinning of all our political practices. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/womens-histo...

OOOO! The latest special issue for the Journal of #EarlyModern History is on Archives & Objects, a dialogue between the archival and material turn 🤩 Would you look at that ace table of contents 🤩 brill.com/view/journal... #YayArchives! #HistArchives!