Another useful #EarlyModern resource 🗃️ #DigiHums

Today's the birthday of Alice Thornton's great nephew, Abstrupus Danby 🎁 #EarlyModern 🗃️

The last blog I wrote on Alice this time last year. Have just drafted a chapter expanding on this for the proceedings of a conference held at Helsinki last October. #EarlyModern

We are pleased to say that our latest Special Issue, titled Gender and Segregation, is out! This Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Did medieval people buy each other Christmas gifts? New Year's Day was the main gifting day, but little is known about everyday people's present giving. Our project on London's customs records has uncovered a wealth of affordable items imported around this time: gloves and hats to toys and rattles🧵

🎅🎄🎁 or 🍞🍷🗡️? #EarlyModern #Christmas

oh! The latest issue of Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis 🥰 and what a wonderful-looking tribute it is: contributions from @vreinburg.bsky.social @anakroniks.bsky.social, Penny Roberts, Hilary Bernstein, @paulecohen.bsky.social, & many more! #NZD4Eva #EarlyModern

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Our Special Issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now out!! Many congrats and thanks to stellar co-editors @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and to all our fabulous authors. Fab seeing all 140,000 words brought together! 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Very rarely does a post warrant all caps, but: SEARCHABLE INTERIM MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUE. At long last! searcharchives.bl.uk

In Alice's will, made in 1705, she left her wedding ring to her oldest daughter with the stipulation that it should then be passed down the Comber line with other Wandesford family heirlooms. Her younger daughter received her 'wedding bodice and crimson stomacher of flowered satin'. #EarlyModern 🗃️

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians

HWJ is 50 years old next year and we're about to launch a fab new series of articles and podcasts all in celebration of the 100th issue! Come along in January and wish us a Happy Birthday 🥳

Just over two weeks to get an entry submitted for the Leah Leneman Essay Prize 🗓 Please share widely!

"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."

Addendum: here's @npr.org, in 2017, confessing to their sins (and including other misused images that Jones & Nevell had collected): www.npr.org/sections/goa...

#EarlyModern recipe books reflect collective medical knowledge. Anyone of any gender, ethnicity, or status could practise medicine. But the founding of the RCP in 1518 was an attempt to stamp out this inclusive culture and ensure that only wealthy men could be doctors #ExploreArchives #EYAInclusion

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72 Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Mmm, toast!

In this #OpenAccess article, Jordi Mas Grau and Rafael Cáceres-Feria examine case files relating to convictions of homosexuality in Barcelona, revealing a bias in Francoist justice yet also spheres of homosexual sociability transgressing dominant moral norms. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary! We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands. 📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... #CFP 🗃️

Don't miss this opportunity: As 2025 comes to a close, Taylor and Francis are featuring all our past Humanities & Social Sciences collections in one place. Revisit more than 90+ articles spanning across 30 journals, made free until 31 December 2025!

Wonderful to see latest in Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social edited @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! Christina Thomas on educator Geraldine Wilson: "A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

House of Commons Education Committee on Universities and the threat of insolvency starts its last session at 10:00.

Scotland's first ‘Stolperstein’ memorial for a Scottish Holocaust victim has been unveiled in Edinburgh to Jane Haining who was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Thanks to Haining family, faith leaders, civic representatives, diplomats and all who attended. #Stolperstein

Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have. Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb... Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.

📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

We are very pleased to announce that “Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive" by Jamey Jesperson was selected for the 2025 Jensen-Miller Award for best article on women and gender in the North American West from the Western History Association!

Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.

Don't cross the picket line! We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff. We are striking for a better university, join us! #StopTheCuts

"Edinburgh university staff walk out in latest strikes over £140m cuts"

This explains why British Library staff are on strike The union says - managers take home up to £170k with £15k bonuses, while staff offered below-inflation pay rise Meanwhile, frontline staff take abuse for the massive data breach - which managers failed to foresee @pcsunion.bsky.social

There was moment I thought perhaps we had movement here, but the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social strike is on. You can read more about why here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423... Please write and call your MSPs on Monday: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp

I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

Not to mention the effects of 2 local universities making staff redundant, closing taught programmes and reducing their research and civic engagement capacities (in response to government policies).

A chance to see a well-used, 3m long, birth scroll made in England c.1500. Covered in prayers & illustrations, in Latin & English, invoking Sts Quiricus & Julitta, it's worn from use, engrained with vaginal fluid, imbued with love, pain, fear, hope & life. 🧵👇 wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...

Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.

It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3

"Medieval women's legacies live on in Britain's towns and cities" In a short article for 'The Conversation' historian Rachel Delman explores some of the legacies of Medieval women that are still extant on these islands today She includes Edinburgh's Magdalen Chapel and the Trinity Apse as examples

Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026

"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."

Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social and I are delighted to see Husseina Dinani's @genderandhistory.bsky.social article out investigating Ithna Asheri girls experiences of school in Dar es Salaam c.1980s-2000s🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

And also Early View from @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & my Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social, Meghan Healy-Clancy explores the life of South African activist Bertha Mkhize (1889–1981) doi.org/10.1111/1468...